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
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 June 2004 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Saturday, 5 June 2004 04:43 (nineteen years ago) link
i know alex AND you like some hiphop. its just if someones commenting from outside a position of enthusiasm/fanaticism for a genre they're always going to be mystified by the love particular records get.
to try and reach an objective position on the relative merits of all musics is a project that bloody difficult.
― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 5 June 2004 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link
because being in love is a wonderful feeling?
― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 5 June 2004 06:35 (nineteen years ago) link
o ok i'll shut up now.
― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 5 June 2004 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link
I still can't understand all the ilm love for this one. Are you all still listening to it?
― mei (mei), Sunday, 6 June 2004 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link
1 Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk2 Blue Lines - Massive Attack3 Selected Ambient Works: 85-92 - Aphex Twin4 Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld - The Orb5 Dummy - Portishead6 Ambient 1: Music For Airports - Brian Eno7 Endtroducing... - DJ Shadow8 Exit Planet Dust - The Chemical Brothers9 Dig Your Own Hole - The Chemical Brothers10 Homogenic - Bjork 11 Orbital 2 - Orbital12 Substance - New Order13 dubnobasswithmyheadman - Underworld14 Innovator - Derrick May15 76:14 - Global Communication16 (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art of Noise - Art of Noise17 Utd State 90 - 808 State18 Homework - Daft Punk19 Leftism - Leftfield20 Music For The Masses - Depeche Mode21 Maxinquaye - Tricky22 Music Has The Right To Children - Boards of Canada23 Bytes - Black Dog Productions24 Everything Is Wrong - Moby25 The White Room - KLF
So apparently to be overrated you must be- British- Ambient/IDM
― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 6 June 2004 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link
49. The Stooges - Fun House50. Nirvana - Nevermind
well they use electricity to power their amps, so counts!
― zebedee (zebedee), Sunday, 6 June 2004 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 6 June 2004 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 6 June 2004 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link
revive
― the late great, Thursday, 10 May 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
I feel like you could really go to town on some of the electronic albums of the intervening years - Burial, Darkstar, Forest Swords, Actress, Galcher Lustwerk, Andy Stott, Jam City etc but it's like shooting fish in a barrel at this stage.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 May 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
let’s do itlet’s go to town
― the late great, Thursday, 10 May 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
i agree w 6 of those 7 btw
galcher lustwerk has an album?
― marcos, Thursday, 10 May 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
i think he has like five at this point if you count the side projects
― the late great, Thursday, 10 May 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
http://galcherlustwerk.bandcamp.com/album/dark-blissi was into the first few singles (esp i neva seen and the one w “tape 22” on it) but i’m pretty over it now
― the late great, Thursday, 10 May 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
Arca - literally everything he's recorded that hasn't been with Bjork, and at least half of the Bjork stuff as well
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 May 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
my feeling about arca has always been a very strong sense of idgi
― the late great, Thursday, 10 May 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link