Top 50 Most Overrated Electronic Albums

This again suggests a need for people to back their claims up with something, otherwise, it's all easily dismissible.

Hey! I like some jazz.

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.

because being in love is a wonderful feeling?

o ok i'll shut up now.

I still can't understand all the ilm love for this one. Are you all still listening to it?

1 Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk
2 Blue Lines - Massive Attack
3 Selected Ambient Works: 85-92 - Aphex Twin
4 Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld - The Orb
5 Dummy - Portishead
6 Ambient 1: Music For Airports - Brian Eno
7 Endtroducing... - DJ Shadow
8 Exit Planet Dust - The Chemical Brothers
9 Dig Your Own Hole - The Chemical Brothers
10 Homogenic - Bjork
11 Orbital 2 - Orbital
12 Substance - New Order
13 dubnobasswithmyheadman - Underworld
14 Innovator - Derrick May
15 76:14 - Global Communication
16 (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art of Noise - Art of Noise
17 Utd State 90 - 808 State
18 Homework - Daft Punk
19 Leftism - Leftfield
20 Music For The Masses - Depeche Mode
21 Maxinquaye - Tricky
22 Music Has The Right To Children - Boards of Canada
23 Bytes - Black Dog Productions
24 Everything Is Wrong - Moby
25 The White Room - KLF

So apparently to be overrated you must be
- British
- Ambient/IDM

49. The Stooges - Fun House
50. Nirvana - Nevermind

well they use electricity to power their amps, so counts!

revive

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.

let’s do it

let’s go to town

i agree w 6 of those 7 btw

galcher lustwerk has an album?

i think he has like five at this point if you count the side projects

http://galcherlustwerk.bandcamp.com/album/dark-bliss

i 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

Arca - literally everything he's recorded that hasn't been with Bjork, and at least half of the Bjork stuff as well

my feeling about arca has always been a very strong sense of idgi

galcher lustwerk is from my hometown so i'll have time for him, though i guess not enough to know he put out an album

the burial debut was interesting but i'm amazing anyone cared after that

i also don't get arca, borderline unlistenable imo

Logos - Cold Mission
Mumdance - Twists & Turns

Hell, anything they briefly tried to sell as 'grime' before everyone remembered what it was.

The entire discography of Jon Hopkins, Daniel Avery, most of Caribou etc.

burial had a hot streak until 2013 when it all started to sound rather samey

omg matt i revived this with hopkins and avery in mind!!!

CLARK

all of it

This is making me sound crankier than I am and tbh I like pretty much everything that isn't tepid 6music indietronica and screwfacey IDMised versions of actually exciting genres.

also uh

boards of canada - campfire headphase
boards of canada - tomorrow's harvest

prob the rest of them too but whatever

tepid 6music indietronica and screwfacey IDMised versions of actually exciting genres

first one has a place, i don't mind easy listening it just depends how indie i guess, second one is v v v v v otm

"it's like dancehall but shit!"

there is a lot of bad mumdance and the grime angle of logos is definitely oversold

but i will go to bat for mumdance & logos “different circles” mix

it is on apple music and spotify, give it a listen if you like heavy ambient, you won’t be dissapointed

only one mention of the orb in the original thread, smdh

i heard this new Orb single the other day and jfc my toes haven't uncurled yet

i thought of clark too ... he reminds me of that part in amadeus ... “too many notes”

I don't mind Hopkins, but the only thing he did I love was the King Creosote collaboration.

a lot of the idea of overrated is about being annoyed by the garrulous "seen the light" hypecitement of people first jumping onto a perceived new thing whereas when you come across stuff in the middle of a big mix of all sorts of other stuff it can be perfectly pleasant and enjoyable

I don't mind Hopkins, but the only thing he did I love was the King Creosote collaboration.

still not entirely sure what his contribution was there.

avery is pretty popular right? "song for alpha" what a terrible album name.

i'm gonna say the new errorsmith album. i want to hear the influences more than the cerebral take on them.

Jon Hopkins is fine and perfectly enjoyable as a sort of candyfloss background music but it's a mystery how he got so big (massive adverts on the Tube, glowing broadsheet reviews) when he's essentially rehashing the sort of thing Stefan Bodzin was rehashing from James Holden over a decade ago.

YES

I agree with the Jon Hopkins thing, it's good but I'm surprised it's so huge.

Logos - Cold Mission

This still sounds great imo. And Jam City. And Forest Swords. And Burial for that matter, even if he's influenced a lot of questionable stuff.

Arca's recent s/t is my favorite thing of his since his early EPs/mixtapes.

a lot of the idea of overrated is about being annoyed by the garrulous "seen the light" hypecitement of people first jumping onto a perceived new thing whereas when you come across stuff in the middle of a big mix of all sorts of other stuff it can be perfectly pleasant and enjoyable

― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, May 10, 2018 3:38 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea otm