I know right? We have some of their CD's. They're just so quality.

 

My dad has great taste in jazzy fusiony stuff. Because that's also where I got Remember Shakti from, is my dad's CD library. Also, he has steel drum music from Burma. SO GOOD. GOD.

I assure you, you'll never ever listen to anything like this again; never ever.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ktc-8zagd0&feature=fvwrel]YouTube - ‪Delfín Hasta El Fin, La Tigresa Del Oriente y Wendy Sulca - En Tus Tierras Bailaré (Video Oficial)‬‏[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAN7Ts0xBo&feature=related]YouTube - ‪Tunak Tunak Tun (Best Copy)‬‏[/ame]

 

and your ears will bleed

 

Now in all seriousness I get what you mean, but I guess there hasn't been anything revolutionary since atonality. Music is just based around tonality, harmony, ryhtm and melody. Every musician targets these characteristics but approaches to them differently. That's why I don't find anything revolutionary, nor pink floyd, the beatles, joy division or whatever. They changed the way to approach to these musical values, but not music itself. Take any song and you'll get what I mean, the structure reamins the same, just the instruments, the tempo (rare times) and the combination of sounds change, but it's basically the same. Of course some stuff like the dubstep scene and all avante-garde rock (art rock, math rock, post rock) can't be reduced to 3 4 chords but still their structure can be reduced to basics.

Anyway these are songs that go off the beaten path:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztvr09J7KK4&NR=1]YouTube - ‪Animal Collective - 'Fireworks' (2007)‬‏[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IddDWBpkzYg]YouTube - ‪Eskmo - Cloudlight (Official Video) HD‬‏[/ame]

well this one is very rockish but has an innovative sound

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoH5MPIgM7c]YouTube - ‪Good morning, captain - Slint‬‏[/ame]

The Knife is even more unique than Animal Collective

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAptF-EN5PI]YouTube - ‪The Knife - Na Na Na‬‏[/ame]

And why not some old stuff like Genesis or Roxy Music? Innovative instrumentation and progressions, yet still chord based.

Music needs a great change and it's not about the sound, atonality and [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF50so3nWJk]Sonido Trece[/ame] have already been explored but what needs to be changed is structure, if they want something trully revolutionary they need to creat new musical values, not innovate the ones that exist. Of course we can stick to what we have and get beautiful stuff and just for the record, I know you did not ask for classical, but this piece is different to everything you've heard before

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOTQ9TVkG98]YouTube - ‪Penderecki: "The Dream of Jacob"‬‏[/ame]

Nevertheless, it still bears resemblance to Stravinski, Schoenberg, Wagner and being strict Bach (BWV 565?)