― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 4 June 2004 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 4 June 2004 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link
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
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
― oops (Oops), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:53 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 05:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Friday, 4 June 2004 06:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 4 June 2004 07:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 4 June 2004 07:22 (nineteen years ago) link
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
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
'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
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 4 June 2004 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― frankiemachine, Friday, 4 June 2004 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― frankiemachine, Friday, 4 June 2004 10:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Unknown User, Friday, 4 June 2004 11:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:25 (nineteen years ago) link
jess otm, as well, I mean, I like orbital's albums loads, but they are, or were at least, very over-rated.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Your first mistake, Anthony. I'm with Siegbran.
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Top 50 Most Overrated Electronic Albums=ALL OF THEM
― peepee (peepee), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave q, Friday, 4 June 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Toon (Skelter), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Talking About Records
vs.
Talking About Your General Impressions Regarding the Underlying Pattern of How Other People Have In the Past Talked About Records
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, in context everything is/can be overrated, but I wanted to see if some people would throw down their choices and back them up. I dropped SAW II because while I thought it was a good album at the time of its release, in time it has evolved even further into this groundbreaking ambient work (on many "top ever" lists), which is untrue. If anything, with time it seems to highlight Aphex Twin's tendency to pepper his audience with masturbatory sketches and lazy efforts.
And I totally disagree with Tim Finney's suggestion that people simply don't remember albums being overrated. I was very much into electronic music in the early days of 808 State (which was the point of reference) and it in fact was fairly rated at the time.
And I would agree that DJ Spooky would own this thread, but the only place he's ever been "overrated" is maybe Newsweek or the like.....
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 4 June 2004 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 4 June 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
This again suggests a need for people to back their claims up with something, otherwise, it's all easily dismissible.
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 4 June 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Hey! I like some jazz.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― (Jon L), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link