POLL: Mojo's 50 Greatest Electronic Records

Many available here:
http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2012/08/listen_to_mojos_50_greatest_el.html

Annette Peacock > Stockhausen

apples and tomatoes and tangerines and potatoes, but all ilx loves dr who

*looks at list*
*barfs*

EMI Music’s consumer research shows dance/electronic music to be the third most popular music genre globally with particularly high interest amongst 16-34 year olds, and Electrospective will encourage electronic music fans to engage with and delve deeper into the genre as well as appealing to music fans in general. 

http://www.djvibe.com/2012/06/emi-launchs-electrospective/

CD1 Track Listing

BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP - DOCTOR WHO THEME
ROXY MUSIC - VIRGINIA PLAIN
BRIAN ENO - HERE COME THE WARM JETS
TANGERINE DREAM - RUBYCON
CAN - I WANT MORE
THE NORMAL - WARM LEATHERETTE
CABARET VOLTAIRE - NAG NAG NAG
TELEX - MOSKOW DISKOW (ENGLISH VERSION)
SIMPLE MINDS - I TRAVEL
ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK - MESSAGES
ULTRAVOX - SLEEPWALK (EARLY VERSION)
THE HUMAN LEAGUE - THE THINGS THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF
DURAN DURAN - PLANET EARTH
HEAVEN 17 - I'M YOUR MONEY (12'' EXTENDED VERSION)
YAZOO - DON'T GO (REMIX)
GIORGIO MORODER AND PHILIP OAKEY - TOGETHER IN ELECTRIC DREAMS
PET SHOP BOYS - WEST END GIRLS
ERASURE - WHO NEEDS LOVE (LIKE THAT)
MANTRONIX - KING OF THE BEATS
NITZER EBB - CONTROL I'M HERE

CD2 Track Listing

INNER CITY - BIG FUN
SOUL II SOUL FEAT. CARON WHEELER - BACK TO LIFE (HOWEVER DO YOU WANT ME)
RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE - WOMEN RESPOND TO BASS
DEPECHE MODE - ENJOY THE SILENCE
MOBY - GO
THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON - LIFEFORMS
DAFT PUNK - AROUND THE WORLD
ADAM F - CIRCLES
MASSIVE ATTACK - INERTIA CREEPS
AIR - KELLY WATCH THE STARS
ST GERMAIN - ROSE ROUGE
RADIOHEAD - EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE
THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS - STAR GUITAR
GOLDFRAPP - STRICT MACHINE
GORILLAZ - DARE
ERIC PRYDZ VS FLOYD - PROPER EDUCATION

E2-E4

Augustus Pablo, King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown

Neu!, Neu! LP, 1972

in what sense is this an electronic record?

mojo sense

voted dr who

The most rockist list of electronic music I have ever read. Some prejudices are harder to shake than others, huh?

there's a lot of great stuff on this list so I can't complain.

these were the ones that I was seriously tempted to vote for:

Louis and Bebe Barron, Forbidden Planet LP, 1956
Kraftwerk, Autobahn LP, 1974
Brian Eno, Discreet Music LP, 1975
Donna Summer, I Feel Love 12-inch, 1977
Suicide, Suicide LP, 1977
Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works Vol. II LP, 1994

I'm going with Forbidden Planet.

Radiophonic Workshop, Doctor Who 7-inch, 1964
White Noise, An Electric Storm LP, 1969
Donna Summer, I Feel Love 12-inch, 1977
Yellow Magic Orchestra, Solid State Survivor LP, 1979
New Order, Blue Monday 12-inch, 1983
Mr Fingers, Can You Feel It EP, 1986
Phuture, Acid Trax 12-inch, 1987

^^^^things I could realistically see myself voting for.

There are other artists on there that I love, obviously, but weird, weird choices for the record they chose. Could happily vote for other Kraftwerk or Aphex or KLF albums, just don't even feel that those are the best of that artist, let alone on that list.

And obv there are some artists I would totally be KMT at, if I hadn't broken my tooth this weekend.

only fucking mojo could put a list of key electronic albums together and still have 90% of it from before 2000

dreadful

the 00s records they chose are probably the biggest indictment of the whole sorry enterprise though

gonna vote either donna summer or massive attack

Yeah, it's like there are whole decades they just completely ignored in favour of rock groups that used "electronic elements."

I'm tempted to vote for Can You Feel It but the idea of voting for anything that isn't I Feel Love is just absurd.

Arthur Russell, World of Echo LP, 1986

I love this but, uh, it's just a bloke with a cello really

How can someone write this with a straight face?

tracks selected for their impact and influence

...and then have Hot Fucking Chip on the list?

But Hot Chip invented the dance / pop-rock crossover! Without them, we wouldn't have such luminaries as... Delphic?

What a fucking bizarre list.

Some Bizarre?

no.

Anyway, this reminds me, I picked up a copy of "Son Of My Father" by Giorgio last week!

Suuuuuuuun of MaFather! Moving I was grooving I was wig Wam Bam!

Yeah, it's like there are whole decades they just completely ignored in favour of rock groups that used "electronic elements."

This is the most frustrating thing ever. Not so much in terms of this list since a) seems like they're going for an earlier focus, b) it's fucking mojo, it's not like I got my hopes up when I read the thread title. But it makes me think, for instance, of an "electronic" music "festival" that used to be annual in Toronto that was essential a series of daytime/evening sit-down/stage concerts by rock bands that incorporate a keyboard or a drum machine. bane of my fucking existence.

I'm not getting the 'rock bands that use a keyboard a bit' on the list really.

I do see a bunch of reggae, hip hop, etc.

And a majority of actual electronic albums.

Sure, a whole host of stuff is missing, but. And really, was there no more than four *influential* albums after 2000?

Before you all waste a lot of energy handwringing please remember this is a list in MOJO MAGAZINE.

in favour of rock groups that used "electronic elements."

Really? Considering this Mojo and not Mixmag or The Wire, there are surprisingly few: Radiohead, NIN, New Order, Bowie, Roxy, Neu!

Though I'm less interested in defending or criticising the list than wondering what other people would have put in there. "Influence" is a tricky one because it pretends to at least some objectivity. By that reckoning I'm not sure how you could omit Daft Punk.

(Re: Rock bands, I only just clocked Animal Collective at the end - that's an odd choice - the 00s in general is a weak spot)

Gotta say those early 21C choices are pretty terrible. I don't consider Merriweather Post Pavilion to be an "electronic" album really.

xpost

Mike Oldfield will be furious.

Lennie De Ice, We Are I.E. 12-inch, 1991

^^ this is the only thing i've never heard of at all. what is it?

It's an early jungle record - arguably the first, though these things are always arguable especially the rave-to-jungle transition.

Augustus Pablo, King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown LP, 1976

?? electronic?

I know, I know it's Mojo, but unless you count a tape delay as electronic, I'm not understanding.

went for the Prodigy. Much of this list is either incredibly stuffy, boring or just not electronic enough

seems like a pretty well-plotted midpoint between 'stuff that won't scare the regular reader horses' and 'stuff that will get people jawing about it on msgboards etc, even if it's to say it's shit and our mgazine is stupid' (cf Whiney's "Skrillex is one of the best guitarists of all time" thing)

No one has danced since 1991.

DL, it was a complaint specifically about the representation of the entire decade of the 00s':

Burial, Burial LP, 2006
Radiohead, Kid A LP, 2000
LCD Soundsystem, Losing My Edge 12-inch, 2002
Hot Chip, The Warning LP, 2006
Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion LP, 2009

That is basically 80% rock bands with electronic bits. And considering what happened during the 00s, that's just bizarre. But point taken that Mojo writers are unable to grasp the concept of even addressing any music recorded within (now) - 20years no matter what the genre.

(Yes, I know LCD Soundsystem is a bloke, but I pretty much consider him a rock band with electronic bits. That may be unfair.)

Oh right I see what you were saying. Yeah the 00s bit is weak. No need for both LCD and Hot Chip, who are working in the same area, and no need for AC at all. Trying to think what the best options for that decade would be.

oh that's definitely what he is, to his detriment, though at least they've chosen an early single when this wasn't so much the case

xp

i don't even know where to start with the best 00s options because there are so many

pretty much anything except those choices really.

xp Oh go on. Off the top of my head I can think of tons I like but not a watertight "influential" record - I'm sure I'm forgetting something obvious.

I mean obviously the most Mojo-friendly artist that had the most influence over "stuff I actually listened to" was The Knife. But that's my prejudices showing, I could easily complain about the lack of Lindstrom if we're noting the complete absence of the scando-scene here. I mean, WYGIGT is totally Mojo-friendly! It's practically prog!

It's just hard to think of stuff that would pass the "wouldn't want to scare the horses" WRT Mojo readers. It's hard to think in Mojo-speak.

felix da housecat
ricardo villalobos
ellen allien
michael mayer
lindstrøm
basement jaxx
sweet female attitude
dizzee rascal
the knife
booka shade

etc

ha xp

Okay, the Knife is good. What about mix CDs? I could just about imagine 2ManyDJs or even Immer being good choices for this.

xposts

never heard White Noise till now, holy shit

― Gurdas Mane (crüt), Tuesday, August 14, 2012 6:52 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This poll is forgiven. Seriously, crüt, never before?? It's so your thing.

It's kind of the perfect album

Kenny Everett used to use bits of it as jingles

Pretty useless list.

Double Dee & Steinski are "electronic" in the same way Gene Vincent was "electronic."

also Augustus Pablo "electronic" wtf where's Buchanan and Goodman when you need them?

No Stockhausen, no Laurie Spiegel, no Sun Ra, no Art of Noise...

that Pablo record is their arbitrary dub reggae record because, y'know, dub is electronic, right?

...no Can, no Beaver and Krause, no Laurie Anderson IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT MAKE YOUR OWN LIST but anyway

...no Xenakis, no Lee Perry (if you want dub), no Miles Davis or Gil Evans (whaddya mean, Gil Evans? Check out There Comes A Time)...

No Hawkwind...

No Alice Deejay...

No Country Joe & the Fish

No Republica????

Stevie Wonder is another. I mean, Stevie's great and he plays the keyboard, but electronic?

― sorry for asshole (dog latin), Monday, August 13, 2012 3:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonto%27s_Expanding_Head_Band#The_TONTO_synthesizer

No Bjork is slightly surprising given Mojo's general bent.

Not arguing for her inclusion btw but she is kind of the acceptable 6 Music-friendly face of that kind of thing.

TERRY FUCKING RILEY

It's not even the correct TERRY FUCKING RILEY record either.

He was so much better when he worked with Guy and Bobby Brown I'LL GET MY COAT

Scooter was robbed.

Amazing restraint in not including the Beachy Boys and the Beatles band.

It's not even the correct TERRY FUCKING RILEY record either.

Which would you prefer? I think Rainbow is my favourite.

I like "In C" best, because I have one and I have not heard the others.

It's not electronic though.

lol sund4ar read the next line of that post

Oh ha, I didn't remember who Teddy Riley was tbh. Had to look up the reference.

And, yeah, In C is acoustic.

tbf I thought MC was making a sincere statement but then went for the dadjoek anyway, to get max value from the post

This poll is forgiven. Seriously, crüt, never before?? It's so your thing.

― emil.y, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 7:59 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's kind of the perfect album

― drawings by teen cultists (Crabbits), Tuesday, August 14, 2012 8:49 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

both OTM

music is a retrograde, obsolete "art" form to begin with, but any of you who vote for a recording on this list that has even a single non-electronic instrument on it (even in "samples") should immediately be erased.

Remember when Skrillex was named one of the best guitarists of all time by Spin magazine

Skrillex is superior to any music featuring a guitar. That said, he should be killed.

Harsh but fair

i almost feel like it is my duty to make that the board descrip

Presumably intended to distract from issue 1 of "Electronic" magazine.

Skrillex is superior to any music featuring a guitar. That said, he should be killed.

― Banaka™ (banaka), Wednesday, August 15, 2012 4:33 PM (4 hours ago)

Harsh but fair

― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, August 15, 2012 4:34 PM (4 hours ago)

i have no idea why, but this just about killed me

if only

― r|t|c, Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:05 AM (51 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

banaka <3 <3

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Scooter was robbed.

Yes, but at the end of the day, it's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

oxygene was robbed -- then again i don't have a dog in this fight because i didn't vote.

eh

woah this is weirder than the poll

id listen to a cassette of "blue lines" "world of echo" and phuture back-toback right now. everything else still would cause me to throw up.

N.b i would begin with Phuture

Skrillex is superior to any music featuring a guitar. That said, he should be killed.

― Banaka™ (banaka), Wednesday, August 15, 2012 7:33 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Would have voted Bambaataa or Silver Apples.

Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion LP, 2009 3

Fuck off.

Funniest thing must be Neu! s/t finishing second in a poll on electronic records when it isn't an electronic record.

Stupidest list ever? Where are Boards of Canada, where are Autechre? Half of those albums have hardly anything to do with electronic music. Low? Roxy Music?