Top 50 Most Overrated Electronic Albums

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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A lot of these thread choices *are* out of date I reckon - in the "once overrated, now underrated" sense.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

right. please replace my vote for oval with 'songs for a dead dreamer'.

― (Jon L), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Where's Scanner on this list? He was just on NPR last week.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link

And he was still telling the same sad story about the first time he bought a scanner!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:01 (nineteen years ago) link

what pants was he wearing?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link

That I couldn't tell you. It was on the radio.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link

ah, sorry, not in US

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link

fuck this thread
Yep. Sundar was totally otm about non-dancefloor oriented music upthread.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

What does it say about me that this thread is making my blood boil? And why hasn't anyone mentioned Kid 606's Down With the Scene?

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link

It was doomed from the get-go, dissing SAW II like that. This thread has savagely dismissed like ten of my favorite records in the world!

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link

You don't like Radio-Activity = you are soulless

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:31 (nineteen years ago) link

in response to Alex in SF and Strongo, I don't necessarily disagree with saying that Basic Channel stuff is overrated. I'm just saying you've got balls saying it ;) And apparently those balls are overrated by my mom, right?

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 4 June 2004 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Jess just means that the Basic Channel singles are better than the CD... right? ;-)

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 4 June 2004 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link

i think fridge/fourtet don't belong above. they were significantly ahead of the game. same with pole. anyone that was making idm before the phrase was coined deserves a little credit. it's easy to wag your ass at that stuff now with the legions of ibooks and freeware about... but something else to consider is that most of the above sold themselves on 12 inch singles, not full lengths.

for example, photek's "seven samauri" was awesome but form and function was less so.
m.

― msp, Friday, 4 June 2004 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link

One interesting thing about dance music as whole is that there's a sense in which each scene chronically underrates everything that comes out of each other scene. I can't think of many dance albums that are across-the-board canonical choices for dance fans which aren't also canonical choices for rock fans (ie. what annoys about "best ever electronic album" lists in dance mags is not the over-represented house classics you get in the corresponding 12" lists - and even that decreases by the year - but rather the fact that they list the same stuff that rock mags do in their own best albums ever threads, except, like, minus The Beatles).

For some reason rock tends to go in for that syncretist "I love my metal and my post-punk but y'know Radiohead and Outkast are definitely the geniuses right about now" approach much more. Perhaps they feel more of a responsibility to be broad-minded and representative (even if their representativeness is seriously flawed!).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:17 (nineteen years ago) link

This thread is so provocative. Isn't it fun to piss on records that nerds like?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:24 (nineteen years ago) link

haha "nerds"--look who was doing the debunking, for fuck's sake! the biggest nerds EVAH!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:27 (nineteen years ago) link

(I include myself in absentia there, too, btw)

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:31 (nineteen years ago) link

exactly! you can almost see them trying to distance themselves from nerdom.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes Oops, but that doesn't mean that as nerds we all secretly like Autechre whether we admit it or not.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link

of course not. I just find it interesting when people seem so eager to run into a thread and proclaim their dislike for 'nerd' music.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:53 (nineteen years ago) link

not long after I started hanging out on ILM the word 'overrated' lept out of the dictionary, wrapped its hands around my throat and strangled me to death. ILM teaches me things like that.

my own moment of epiphany was when I lazily posted that sheer hellish miasma was overrated, then realized... how many people in the world are ever going to even learn of this album's existence let alone hear it once. after that, pissing matches like this thread became easier to take... I was trying not to post a candidate until strongo (the loudest pisser on this thread) kicked off his '10/10' contribution with fucking 94diskont and I just lost it

― (Jon L), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Clarke, you had me with you . . . and then you had to go and fucking diss Down With the Scene!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:58 (nineteen years ago) link

(But, yeah, pursuant to what milton said, it is actually kind of a compliment to the record that you consider it overrated. I had no idea it had any sort of widespread esteem to begin with!)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:59 (nineteen years ago) link

thanks for that link--it reminded me that we forgot to include Herbert on this thread

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 05:22 (nineteen years ago) link

fucking KISH KASH, dammit

― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Friday, 4 June 2004 06:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Southall - you totally fucked up with jumping the gun on Kompakt.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 4 June 2004 07:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Also FARBEN - TEXTSTAR PEOPLE!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 4 June 2004 07:09 (nineteen years ago) link

milton do you like druum's 'triangles'? (not all electronic, 'sheer hellish...' is like a good version of 'metal machine music' on CD (please don't tell me you hate MMM)).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 4 June 2004 07:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I hope jess wasn't joking that time he said side 3 of MMM was his favorite because I was thinking 'hey he's right'

haven't heard anything else by drumm, was scared off. I'll look for 'triangles'.

― (Jon L), Friday, 4 June 2004 07:35 (nineteen years ago) link

One interesting thing about dance music as whole is that there's a sense in which each scene chronically underrates everything that comes out of each other scene

tim otm. they also overrate everything in their own scene. but hey, enthusiasm over balance is all aprt of being excited.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 4 June 2004 08:18 (nineteen years ago) link

re 808 State: 'Gorgeous' and 'Don Solaris' probably over-rated at the time wrt to getting mostly positive reviews. i think 'Newbuild' is a bit over-rated too as the acid monotony = tedium after a while. nobody ever bangs on about '90' or 'Ex:El' being dance canon really tho (at least not in the same way they do about Orbital) tho they're just as strong as them if not stronger.

'The Fat Of The Land' should be on this thread tho i guess

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 June 2004 08:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Herbert - Around The House

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 4 June 2004 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Interesting thread from the perspective of someone who has never been a committed electronica fan but has an interest in the genre. Electronica has always left me vaguely dissatisfied. I love the idea of it, and I keep willing it to be great, and some of it certainly is, but the canonical albums invariably seem to fall well short of what I had hoped for. I think this is true of canonical albums in all genres, but in my case it's more extreme with electronica than other genres, or at least genres I feel generally well disposed towards and WANT to like. It's interesting to see these feelings apparently finding an echo among people who, for the most part, are much more committed fans than I.

― frankiemachine, Friday, 4 June 2004 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link

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