Top 50 Most Overrated Electronic Albums

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1. portishead - dummy

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe jess is right and it's the Englishman in me that can't take some of these posts.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I just put on Sub Rosa vs Kompakt to spite you. (5 xposts)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I was thinking "Blue Lines" might be a Top 5....

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

blue lines should really be number one

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link

1. portishead - dummy

AARRGH.

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, I think Dummy was spot on. And I like some of Dummy.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh wait, jess is right.

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I was hoping for a stunning more overrated last second record to beat it, jess.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I actually agree about Blue Lines though. Mezzanine is a masterpiece but BL gets so dull, esp that 'hymn' at the end. Dummy, however, = undisputably classic. "Wandering Star" is great.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

...but the only Portishead album to qualify here would be the live one, because the atmosphere at Roseland was just so......Ikea.

.....and don't say "like their music"!

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

okay, i'll start you off..

K.....

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

...i.....

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Dummy!?!? B-b-b-b-but

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

-1. Global Communication - 76:14

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

...d...oh, i give up.

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Music is appalling when you really think about it.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

the only thing i hate about 'Dummy' is the ORDER - i always listened to it this way:

Mysterons
Sour Times
Strangers
It Could Be Sweet
It's A Fire
Numb
Biscuit
Pedestal
Roads
Glory Box

makes more sense afaiac

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

the eponymous sophomore is kinda under-rated actually

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't tell me you don't listen to "Wandering Star"...

otm mark w/ s/t though

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link

(i kind of feel like naming stereolab in tom's absence, but "emperor tomato ketchup" started sounding great to me a couple months ago)

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't mind Jess including Dummy because it probably is shitty "electronic" music (if great pop).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

and while I think the follow-up was overrated at the time, I think there's some cool shit on that. For some reason it makes me imagine a black-and-white video of the Wu-Tang chopping off heads with those scythes.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

You do know that "Elysium" is Geoff Barrow's not so veiled tribute to the RZA?

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

that might explain where I started to associate the two together. Actually, I think it was more about how the album sounded like reviews of Wu solo albums I was reading at the time.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Exit Planet Dust
Endless Summer
As Heard On Radio Soulwax pt 2

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Junior Boys-Last Exit

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I'n surprised nobody mentioned Photek.

― BanjoMania (Brilhante), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Nobody better be hatin' on Modus Operandi, y'hear?

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Who likes arid d'n'b?

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

The arid-er, the better. I am soulless.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

these threads seem interchangable

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

pong

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

fuck this thread

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

51-20000 Any electronic album that I don't like

― Stacey Pollen (Andy K), Thursday, 3 June 2004 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

"nobody listens to techno"

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Thursday, 3 June 2004 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link

you don't know how much I love that line.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 3 June 2004 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link

or the tears of joy the headline "MOBY: STOMPED BY OBIE" would inspire

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 3 June 2004 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link

manitoba - up in flames

PLEASE

― jwd, Thursday, 3 June 2004 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link

A lot of these thread choices *are* out of date I reckon - in the "once overrated, now underrated" sense. Like, the only reason no-one actually put 808 State albums down is that now nobody can *remember* the time when they were overrated.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 3 June 2004 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link

The only reason nobody put up an 808 State album is because I wasn't participating on this thread. I would have mentioned _Utd. State 90_ and _Ex:El_ even though I love them both.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:26 (nineteen years ago) link

"scorpio rising" is about as electronic as i am

― the surface noise for the sake of noise (electricsound), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link

tim finney = genius, OTM, etc etc

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link

the ONLY reason Strongo got to the ones I'd have picked (i.e. 99% of 'em) is that I wasn't here to do it first. Aphex Twin = most overrated electronic artist EVAH (who isn't from Detroit)

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link

HOLY FUCK how did we get this far w/o mentioning the DJ FUCKING SPOOKY?!?!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I feel bad for Spooky. I bought a copy of Nest magazine that came with a Spooky cd years ago and I STILL haven't listened to it. And I'll listen to anything.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Is DJ Olive still around?

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, just put out a new album. also, Gold Teeth Thief was overrated by, what, five people, including Jess?

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Wait, no one said THE PRODIGY???????

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

there are sacreder cows to slaughter

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

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