Music Appreciation

(Or, more pedantically, a minor 7add11 aka 7/11, since "minor 11" typically implies the 9th is present, which it isn't here). That was certainly a new sound to me as a kid at the time, though I'm sure chords like that were used previously by Steely Dan et al. But that was unique for a new wave band. And that guitar tone--the brickwall-compressed clean guitar with chorus and delay--it set the standard for what guitars would sound like in the '80s.

BTW, if you want to hear chords like this in classical music, check out Vaughan Willams' "Bredon Hill" from his song cycle On Wenlock Edge. You can also hear these kinds of harmonies in the music of Impressionist composers like Debussy and Ravel, but never in such an obvious way as this piece.

Here is a YouTube link. Note that this is the chamber orchestra version (1909). I prefer the larger orchestration (1924), but this version includes the score so you can read along.