Top 50 Most Overrated Electronic Albums

ime it sounds best when you're actually doing things to it, so it succeeds on the level of its concept

Mouse on Mars
Matmos
Orbital
Gas
Nicolas Jaar
The Orb
Arca

I don't actively hate any of them, except maybe Mouse on Mars (a little). And while I generally enjoy Arca's music, the s/t was just unbearably narcissistic.

Whoever said Actress is dead RONG.

Daft Punk, probably

Best Herbert is scale

Not sure what’s weird about my list

i agree w your list

What if you've never listened to this kind of music (typically preferred traditional song structure and guitars or whatever) and are now suddenly into it but know NOTHING about it? Is there a thread for Top 50 Most Properly Rated Electronic Albums?

I am dismayed to read that Andy Stott, Burial, and Actress are overrated. Like, do I have bad taste in electronic music? Those are all the ones I've been into recently, hahaha. Excited to check out DJ Mad About You, etc. I like dumb names. I think a lot of the reason I stayed so far away from electronic stuff is it seems to take itself SO seriously.

look this thread is not about what the correct ratings are, it’s just a place to dish about albums we don’t like

nothing personal abt your taste

everything personal about taste tho

i must note it is funny that you stayed away from electronic due to self seriousness but listen to actress burial and stott

xp my statement about my taste is not a statement about your taste

electronic music that tries to be funny is overrated

sorry lg I wasn't contradicting you I was adding to the thought

herbert is not overrated

DJ Stolling Rones. To me he is no more than just an overrated jerk who writes melodically dead emotionally dry music. The most overrated electronic act I know of, actually.

i will not be contradicted on my own thread revive

>:-(

i like arca, actress and andy stott. mouse on mars too

if there is one really highly rated thing that I’ve never really connected with - and god knows I’ve tried - it’s drexciya and their offshoots. Also I have come to realise that I don’t really give too much of a shit about wm. basinski

Future Sounds of London are so overrated. Good to see they’re slowly fading away, haven’t heard anyone namedrop them in years. Back in the late 90s early 00s they got namedropped a lot.

That’s Future Sound not Sounds

imo drexciya is fantastic up through grava 4 but there’s definitely an element of scraping the barrel with all of the posthumous releases

I like some of they’re songs like Papua New Guinea I assume that one sounded like some next level shit for someone back in the early 90s.

Their not they’re goddamn you cellphone

haha I'm listening to FSOL right now!

also I love Drexciya

Best Herbert is scale

― Ross, Friday, May 11, 2018 12:55 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agreed. Scale is one of my favorite albums!

I like most of the stuff itt tbh to some degree or other. What I would like is for people to state an album they feel is underrated next to the one they think is overrated, but it's not like I'm contributing anything so it's cool

that would be cool

I have never knowingly heard Boards of Canada.

i definitely don't get Nicolas Jaar

FSOL rules imo, i don't think people namedrop them much because tbh they're not very trendy. as much as i love them their peak albums are extremely '90s. also after Dead Cities they didn't really have much interest in going the traditional studio album release route, and i think compared to other artists who are were their contemporaries that results in them being overshadowed.

Accelerator/ISDN/Lifeforms/Dead Cities = classic. and Amorphous Androgynous, too!

Floating Points

Also never got very far with Hopkins, Arca or Actress for that matter. Filed under "not for me".

Probably stating the obvious but with so much electronic music out there anything that achieves a self-sustaining level of visibility is likely to be relatively 'overrated' to some degree, even if it is actually very good. With a concomitent amount of stuff being underrated, or as is more likely hardly heard at all.

I remember hearing Papa New Guinea and thinking it was pretty cool. was a bit crestfallen to find out right after that it was their big track

my intro to FSOL was via We Have Explosive. still love that one. also FSOL was my entry into Dead Can Dance via that PNG sample.

Tried to listen to Lifedorms recently and CBA with it. Their reworkings of that prog band (um, Syd Arthur) as Amorphous Androgynous a couple of years ago was OK. Playing to their strengths.

Apt typo ;-)

I was hugely into Papua New Guinea in the mid-90s, had the single and played it a lot, but never listened to anything else by FSOL until the 00s. Dunno why! I remember walking into a club as a student and PNG was playing and I had to find out who it was, luckily one of my friends knew it. This would've been at least 2 years after it came out tho, I was never really on the pulse with dance/electronic music, then or now tbh.

stakker humanoid is fsol too amirite? cos that is v klassic

def! that's right up my street that one.

FSOL was kind of big for a minute thanks to AMP, they received a lot of play on there. So did Adam F and Mocean Worker and others of that ilk. best show ever.

papa new guinea is an incredible track, up there w 808 state “pacific”

speaking of which ... never really got into much 808 beyond that beside ”flow coma” and “narcossa”

My controp is electronic music just keeps getting better.
Drop the old canon of aphex- boc. Autechre

Create Yr own canon

i would agree w/r/t bobbins, not so much w/r/t idm

Best Herbert is scale

― Ross, Friday, May 11, 2018 12:55 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agreed. Scale is one of my favorite albums!

― Evan, Friday, May 11, 2018 2:32 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not to be all drug bro but listening to this on acid with a friend and both of us gradually getting super creeped out by the dread underlying the bright disco surface of the album was a really memorable listening experience

Future Sounds of London are so overrated.

each to their own, but this is so wrong.

Nah man I see you xpost

xp i had the same type of experience listening to phish

re FSOL - I've never listened to anything later than Dead Cities, and I've heard that the later stuff is a bit shit? could that be the reason for the negativity, Moka did say late 90s/early 00s.

That’s when I started listening in. 1999 forwards, of course I listened to their previous record but that scene was nearing its expiry date by the early 00s. Again that’s just my pov. For someone older than me they were probably amazing back in the 90s

re FSOL - I've never listened to anything later than Dead Cities,

FSOL have not released another album of new material since that one (not incl. the various archive releases).
the other albums were released under their AA moniker which is a very different vibe - 60s psych etc.

Looks like The Isness was a Future Sound Of London release in the US?