Top 50 Most Overrated Electronic Albums

maybe not but the early shadow singles r still dope imo

Agreed but Private Press has aged surprisingly well imo

Endtroducing has not aged well.

Agreed but Private Press has aged surprisingly well imo

Couldn't disagree more with both of these statements!

yup

agree (with Against The 80s)

but i'm so not against the 80s

best herbert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FNi8kQwAY

I'm not saying it's bad, just that it feels like a time capsule.

pop herbert

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, May 14, 2018 2:36 AM (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so?

Trans Canada Highway is what Campfire Headphase should've been.

the cool thing about Tomorrow's Harvest and Dead Cities is that you could swap their track titles and they'd still be appropriate!

JIV that is some generic fast fashion bullshit house Herbert and you should know better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjUnO0BKZMA

Pick something that at least exhibits his trivial experiments in kitchen-tools-as-sample-fodder

Actress wins this hands down just based on this decade and I love a bunch of his tracks. Ditto Laurel Halo - found her last three albums mostly dud.

Oh and def. Bicep.

Another electronic movement that seemed really cool back in the 90’s but sounds lame in retrospective is Big Beat. It’s most respected album might be Dig your own hole by Chemical Brothers and that one is mostly duds and two or three decent songs, definitely overrated.

That scene was never really intellectualised though (as opposed to D&B or 'Trip hop') which always made it harder (for me at least) to think of any albums from it as over-rated as opposed to just dated within a few years.

yea even when Dig Your Own Hole came out I think most people knew it was a passing fad. album still bangs though. sounds better than all the stuff inspired by it

Also: Their trick to stretch out a song for two or eight more minutes is to add an annoying flanger effect to the loop.

Actress this decade has been amazing imo

Thanks for putting 'Song To The Siren' back in my head for the first time in a while :) xp

endtroducing is not overrated imo

lots of kompakt was overrated

the field especially

yea I never got the fawning over the first Field record. a lot of people's minds were blown that he sampled Lionel Richie, I guess. I feel like people are doing way more interesting stuff in the vaporwave space these days.

this thread is deeply lame

kompakt ughghghugh stop calling dry dance music overrated godammit

they do put out pop stuff like the field sometimes yes

big beat owns

Endtroducing is weird record for me cause I really like it to this day but never got why it caught on like it did and got hailed as a masterpiece.

brimstead otm

also not really an albums genre, Chems and How To Operate With A Blown Mind aside

isolee 'wearemonster' got overrated imo, 'rest' was way better but critical attention was inversely proportionate

Nicolas Jaar, Ricardo Villalobos, Actress, and early Isolee is incredibly overrated. Still really enjoy some stuff from all these guys though.

Oval, Pole, ~scape records, and Clicks'n'Cuts (early 2000's glitch) scene was so overrated I kinda swore off of electronic/IDM for a half decade and listened to a ton of indie rap and electro instead.

I still rep for Pole's 1/2/3 because I had surgery and was laid up for a week and mildly drugged up and I just sat around listening to all of them on a loop and staring at a textured wall and intermittently napping

you know what was good was snd's first album

even the good posts in this thread are marred by the premise of it. i feel like "overrated" is such a one-dimensional concept especially when applied to electronic music where the ratedness is so marginal and in-the-moment in the first place. when it arises it comes from a rock perspective which is just deeply lame. and the less serious variety is like cyclical revulsion/nostalgia, "what were people thinking from 2003-2007" or w/e.

it makes me think of the pipecock era, or when i was just getting into dancier and blacker music and sort of trying to digest the history of it, when it was like there were these gradients of what is and isn't ok to like among different types of fans. i know a little bit more now and have a better sense of what kind of fan i am and i can think of a bunch of more rewarding ways to engage with what people think about electronic music from their past than "overrated" ffs.

this guy, yeah

I love Pole 1,2, 3

I think the problem is that in electronic music overated and dated go hand in hand and it’s almost impossible for electronic-based music not too sound dated a few months after release because it’s one of the first genres to take risks gear-wise and to create production tricks that tend to permeate and influence every other genre when succesful.

Per example a genre like rock is very backwards-thinking and your casual rock listener basically treats classic rock as a noble class. In which every new rock band has to know precisely where they come from and they are expected
to tribute (or shamelessly steal from) the gods that came before them.

electronic music doesn’t have a fetish with influences and roots but with technology. It’s almost designed to keep looking forward, everytime new experimental music software and hardware is created the first genre that is assumed will raise its hand is electronica. This ultimately results in loads of novelty music and effects that sound mindblowing when premiered but sound dated soon when every act (even outside electronica) starts using the same software presets.

a record with a friendly feeling and serene vibes that decrees a bank holiday for the receptors in the brain, that is never dated! especially if there is a miscreant glint in its eye, that is eternal!

Pole 2 is okay, 1 and 3 were just felt like relatively lazy creative efforts with few if any tunes leaving any memorable impact. I will confess more than a few songs on 2 felt interesting and memorable, and blended rhythm and melody better than the others. However, the overall style and quality of the 3 albums could be expressed in an EP to satisfaction. That's all well and good, many artists put out samey albums with minimal creative development among them and rehash ideas in unexciting ways. But damn, the press those records got at the time far exceeded the quality of what was actually on wax for my ears. Which is why I brought them up.

But I will agree that this thread is an unproductive one. Most music could be construed "overrated" regardless of genre. Where's the "underrated" thread?

Also: Their trick to stretch out a song for two or eight more minutes is to add an annoying flanger effect to the loop.

ha, all my failed 90s attempts to make music do this trick too

not sure if I got it from them or if it's just because (unlike many other effects) flanging a drum loop is easy and fun to play with in 90s tracker software

I still rep for Pole's 1/2/3 because I had surgery and was laid up for a week and mildly drugged up and I just sat around listening to all of them on a loop and staring at a textured wall and intermittently napping

this is a v good way to listen to records ime

(not electronic but) my maybe-favourite Oneida record "The Wedding" isn't anyone else's favourite Oneida record iirc, but it is the one that was on the 3-disc changer during my week off after surgery, drifting in and out of awakeness/awareness, dosed up with a big bag of synthetic opiates

even the good posts in this thread are marred by the premise of it. i feel like "overrated" is such a one-dimensional concept especially when applied to electronic music where the ratedness is so marginal and in-the-moment in the first place. when it arises it comes from a rock perspective which is just deeply lame. and the less serious variety is like cyclical revulsion/nostalgia, "what were people thinking from 2003-2007" or w/e.

― you bet, nancy (map)

like i said in the other thread, most of the stuff in this thread, including stuff i've contributed, is stuff i enjoy and think is good. when i talk about "overrated" i do talk about it from a rock perspective because, one, i come from a rock background, and two, most of the "overrating" does seem to come from a rock mindset - favoring albums, etc. you know what it reminds me of, actually? people who will insist with a straight face that frank zappa is the best 20th century composer. most of the people who say that haven't heard very many 20th century composers!

But I will agree that this thread is an unproductive one. Most music could be construed "overrated" regardless of genre. Where's the "underrated" thread?

― octobeard

it's called "house and techno bobbins 2018", it's full of great stuff, check it out

there are others as well, techno/house bobbins of the past, basically anything saer posts

they're not called "underrated" but i think that's probably for the best

you know what was good was snd's first album

― you bet, nancy (map), Wednesday, May 16, 2018 8:21 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck yeah

the worst thing about this thread is people shitting on whole artists for not producing albums that sound like Discovery or something

the thread is for ALBUMS