Top 50 Most Overrated Electronic Albums

1 Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk
2 Blue Lines - Massive Attack
3 Selected Ambient Works: 85-92 - Aphex Twin
4 Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld - The Orb
5 Dummy - Portishead
6 Ambient 1: Music For Airports - Brian Eno
7 Endtroducing... - DJ Shadow
8 Exit Planet Dust - The Chemical Brothers
9 Dig Your Own Hole - The Chemical Brothers
10 Homogenic - Bjork
11 Orbital 2 - Orbital
12 Substance - New Order
13 dubnobasswithmyheadman - Underworld
14 Innovator - Derrick May
15 76:14 - Global Communication
16 (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art of Noise - Art of Noise
17 Utd State 90 - 808 State
18 Homework - Daft Punk
19 Leftism - Leftfield
20 Music For The Masses - Depeche Mode
21 Maxinquaye - Tricky
22 Music Has The Right To Children - Boards of Canada
23 Bytes - Black Dog Productions
24 Everything Is Wrong - Moby
25 The White Room - KLF

So apparently to be overrated you must be
- British
- Ambient/IDM

49. The Stooges - Fun House
50. Nirvana - Nevermind

well they use electricity to power their amps, so counts!

revive

I feel like you could really go to town on some of the electronic albums of the intervening years - Burial, Darkstar, Forest Swords, Actress, Galcher Lustwerk, Andy Stott, Jam City etc but it's like shooting fish in a barrel at this stage.

let’s do it

let’s go to town

i agree w 6 of those 7 btw

galcher lustwerk has an album?

i think he has like five at this point if you count the side projects

http://galcherlustwerk.bandcamp.com/album/dark-bliss

i was into the first few singles (esp i neva seen and the one w “tape 22” on it) but i’m pretty over it now

Arca - literally everything he's recorded that hasn't been with Bjork, and at least half of the Bjork stuff as well

my feeling about arca has always been a very strong sense of idgi

galcher lustwerk is from my hometown so i'll have time for him, though i guess not enough to know he put out an album

the burial debut was interesting but i'm amazing anyone cared after that

i also don't get arca, borderline unlistenable imo

Logos - Cold Mission
Mumdance - Twists & Turns

Hell, anything they briefly tried to sell as 'grime' before everyone remembered what it was.

The entire discography of Jon Hopkins, Daniel Avery, most of Caribou etc.

burial had a hot streak until 2013 when it all started to sound rather samey

omg matt i revived this with hopkins and avery in mind!!!

CLARK

all of it

This is making me sound crankier than I am and tbh I like pretty much everything that isn't tepid 6music indietronica and screwfacey IDMised versions of actually exciting genres.

also uh

boards of canada - campfire headphase
boards of canada - tomorrow's harvest

prob the rest of them too but whatever

tepid 6music indietronica and screwfacey IDMised versions of actually exciting genres

first one has a place, i don't mind easy listening it just depends how indie i guess, second one is v v v v v otm

"it's like dancehall but shit!"

there is a lot of bad mumdance and the grime angle of logos is definitely oversold

but i will go to bat for mumdance & logos “different circles” mix

it is on apple music and spotify, give it a listen if you like heavy ambient, you won’t be dissapointed

only one mention of the orb in the original thread, smdh

i heard this new Orb single the other day and jfc my toes haven't uncurled yet

i thought of clark too ... he reminds me of that part in amadeus ... “too many notes”

I don't mind Hopkins, but the only thing he did I love was the King Creosote collaboration.

a lot of the idea of overrated is about being annoyed by the garrulous "seen the light" hypecitement of people first jumping onto a perceived new thing whereas when you come across stuff in the middle of a big mix of all sorts of other stuff it can be perfectly pleasant and enjoyable

I don't mind Hopkins, but the only thing he did I love was the King Creosote collaboration.

still not entirely sure what his contribution was there.

avery is pretty popular right? "song for alpha" what a terrible album name.

i'm gonna say the new errorsmith album. i want to hear the influences more than the cerebral take on them.

Jon Hopkins is fine and perfectly enjoyable as a sort of candyfloss background music but it's a mystery how he got so big (massive adverts on the Tube, glowing broadsheet reviews) when he's essentially rehashing the sort of thing Stefan Bodzin was rehashing from James Holden over a decade ago.

YES

I agree with the Jon Hopkins thing, it's good but I'm surprised it's so huge.

Logos - Cold Mission

This still sounds great imo. And Jam City. And Forest Swords. And Burial for that matter, even if he's influenced a lot of questionable stuff.

Arca's recent s/t is my favorite thing of his since his early EPs/mixtapes.

a lot of the idea of overrated is about being annoyed by the garrulous "seen the light" hypecitement of people first jumping onto a perceived new thing whereas when you come across stuff in the middle of a big mix of all sorts of other stuff it can be perfectly pleasant and enjoyable

― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, May 10, 2018 3:38 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea otm

im also going to put flying lotus' entire discography here

mmm i like cosmogramma and you’re dead! but he seems like an ass and there’s a ton of equally good or better LA beatmakers

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you're dead is ok. there are some incredible moments on a few of those records. but the rest ehhh

idk y’all galcher lustwerk has been pretty reliably good ime

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nicolas jaar

yea I don't think I've ever really liked a FlyLo album. god knows I've tried

BOC seem like the right answer here, ooooh its fuzzed out and creepy and I guess that's kinda neat but I gotta go with the normie opinion that it's all about "Roygbiv"

boc are good if the idea of the soundtrack to "the changes" played backwards and combined with numbers stations sounds like a good idea to you

it sounds like a good idea to me

the caretaker
nicolas jaar

Good ones.

I still think FlyLo has a distinctive thing and makes records worth listening to, but yeah his persona has been a bummer.

I've never heard of Galcher Lustwerk.

BoC never really did it for me.

I like Tomorrow's Harvest, but it's fair to put it on here. It evokes very specific emotions for me, even though it doesn't really have a lot going on.

Fennesz - Endless Summer. Just never saw the appeal even tho the descriptions of it sounded all up in my alley.

is Tomorrow's Harvest overrated? apart from the publicity launch hoohah i thought it was poorly regarded by BOC fans and kind of indifferently received by the real world

for me it's a classic and possibly their best LP? as moodles says, "evokes very specific emotions", might not be technically that innovative but has a great deal of conceptual and emotional clout

i like that one Jon Hopkins song a lot, Open Eye Signal. The music video probably makes it work for me a lot better though tbh.

tomorrow's harvest does indeed evoke very specific emotions for me. mostly listening to it makes me want to kill myself.