POLL: Mojo's 50 Greatest Electronic Records

Many available here:
http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2012/08/listen_to_mojos_50_greatest_el.html

Annette Peacock > Stockhausen

apples and tomatoes and tangerines and potatoes, but all ilx loves dr who

*looks at list*
*barfs*

EMI Music’s consumer research shows dance/electronic music to be the third most popular music genre globally with particularly high interest amongst 16-34 year olds, and Electrospective will encourage electronic music fans to engage with and delve deeper into the genre as well as appealing to music fans in general. 

http://www.djvibe.com/2012/06/emi-launchs-electrospective/

CD1 Track Listing

BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP - DOCTOR WHO THEME
ROXY MUSIC - VIRGINIA PLAIN
BRIAN ENO - HERE COME THE WARM JETS
TANGERINE DREAM - RUBYCON
CAN - I WANT MORE
THE NORMAL - WARM LEATHERETTE
CABARET VOLTAIRE - NAG NAG NAG
TELEX - MOSKOW DISKOW (ENGLISH VERSION)
SIMPLE MINDS - I TRAVEL
ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK - MESSAGES
ULTRAVOX - SLEEPWALK (EARLY VERSION)
THE HUMAN LEAGUE - THE THINGS THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF
DURAN DURAN - PLANET EARTH
HEAVEN 17 - I'M YOUR MONEY (12'' EXTENDED VERSION)
YAZOO - DON'T GO (REMIX)
GIORGIO MORODER AND PHILIP OAKEY - TOGETHER IN ELECTRIC DREAMS
PET SHOP BOYS - WEST END GIRLS
ERASURE - WHO NEEDS LOVE (LIKE THAT)
MANTRONIX - KING OF THE BEATS
NITZER EBB - CONTROL I'M HERE

CD2 Track Listing

INNER CITY - BIG FUN
SOUL II SOUL FEAT. CARON WHEELER - BACK TO LIFE (HOWEVER DO YOU WANT ME)
RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE - WOMEN RESPOND TO BASS
DEPECHE MODE - ENJOY THE SILENCE
MOBY - GO
THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON - LIFEFORMS
DAFT PUNK - AROUND THE WORLD
ADAM F - CIRCLES
MASSIVE ATTACK - INERTIA CREEPS
AIR - KELLY WATCH THE STARS
ST GERMAIN - ROSE ROUGE
RADIOHEAD - EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE
THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS - STAR GUITAR
GOLDFRAPP - STRICT MACHINE
GORILLAZ - DARE
ERIC PRYDZ VS FLOYD - PROPER EDUCATION

E2-E4

Augustus Pablo, King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown

Neu!, Neu! LP, 1972

in what sense is this an electronic record?

mojo sense

voted dr who

The most rockist list of electronic music I have ever read. Some prejudices are harder to shake than others, huh?

there's a lot of great stuff on this list so I can't complain.

these were the ones that I was seriously tempted to vote for:

Louis and Bebe Barron, Forbidden Planet LP, 1956
Kraftwerk, Autobahn LP, 1974
Brian Eno, Discreet Music LP, 1975
Donna Summer, I Feel Love 12-inch, 1977
Suicide, Suicide LP, 1977
Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works Vol. II LP, 1994

I'm going with Forbidden Planet.

Radiophonic Workshop, Doctor Who 7-inch, 1964
White Noise, An Electric Storm LP, 1969
Donna Summer, I Feel Love 12-inch, 1977
Yellow Magic Orchestra, Solid State Survivor LP, 1979
New Order, Blue Monday 12-inch, 1983
Mr Fingers, Can You Feel It EP, 1986
Phuture, Acid Trax 12-inch, 1987

^^^^things I could realistically see myself voting for.

There are other artists on there that I love, obviously, but weird, weird choices for the record they chose. Could happily vote for other Kraftwerk or Aphex or KLF albums, just don't even feel that those are the best of that artist, let alone on that list.

And obv there are some artists I would totally be KMT at, if I hadn't broken my tooth this weekend.

only fucking mojo could put a list of key electronic albums together and still have 90% of it from before 2000

dreadful

the 00s records they chose are probably the biggest indictment of the whole sorry enterprise though

gonna vote either donna summer or massive attack

Yeah, it's like there are whole decades they just completely ignored in favour of rock groups that used "electronic elements."

I'm tempted to vote for Can You Feel It but the idea of voting for anything that isn't I Feel Love is just absurd.

Arthur Russell, World of Echo LP, 1986

I love this but, uh, it's just a bloke with a cello really

How can someone write this with a straight face?

tracks selected for their impact and influence

...and then have Hot Fucking Chip on the list?

But Hot Chip invented the dance / pop-rock crossover! Without them, we wouldn't have such luminaries as... Delphic?

What a fucking bizarre list.

Some Bizarre?

no.

Anyway, this reminds me, I picked up a copy of "Son Of My Father" by Giorgio last week!

Suuuuuuuun of MaFather! Moving I was grooving I was wig Wam Bam!

Yeah, it's like there are whole decades they just completely ignored in favour of rock groups that used "electronic elements."

This is the most frustrating thing ever. Not so much in terms of this list since a) seems like they're going for an earlier focus, b) it's fucking mojo, it's not like I got my hopes up when I read the thread title. But it makes me think, for instance, of an "electronic" music "festival" that used to be annual in Toronto that was essential a series of daytime/evening sit-down/stage concerts by rock bands that incorporate a keyboard or a drum machine. bane of my fucking existence.

I'm not getting the 'rock bands that use a keyboard a bit' on the list really.

I do see a bunch of reggae, hip hop, etc.

And a majority of actual electronic albums.

Sure, a whole host of stuff is missing, but. And really, was there no more than four *influential* albums after 2000?

Before you all waste a lot of energy handwringing please remember this is a list in MOJO MAGAZINE.

in favour of rock groups that used "electronic elements."

Really? Considering this Mojo and not Mixmag or The Wire, there are surprisingly few: Radiohead, NIN, New Order, Bowie, Roxy, Neu!

Though I'm less interested in defending or criticising the list than wondering what other people would have put in there. "Influence" is a tricky one because it pretends to at least some objectivity. By that reckoning I'm not sure how you could omit Daft Punk.

(Re: Rock bands, I only just clocked Animal Collective at the end - that's an odd choice - the 00s in general is a weak spot)

Gotta say those early 21C choices are pretty terrible. I don't consider Merriweather Post Pavilion to be an "electronic" album really.

xpost

Mike Oldfield will be furious.

Lennie De Ice, We Are I.E. 12-inch, 1991

^^ this is the only thing i've never heard of at all. what is it?

It's an early jungle record - arguably the first, though these things are always arguable especially the rave-to-jungle transition.

Augustus Pablo, King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown LP, 1976

?? electronic?

I know, I know it's Mojo, but unless you count a tape delay as electronic, I'm not understanding.

went for the Prodigy. Much of this list is either incredibly stuffy, boring or just not electronic enough

seems like a pretty well-plotted midpoint between 'stuff that won't scare the regular reader horses' and 'stuff that will get people jawing about it on msgboards etc, even if it's to say it's shit and our mgazine is stupid' (cf Whiney's "Skrillex is one of the best guitarists of all time" thing)

No one has danced since 1991.

DL, it was a complaint specifically about the representation of the entire decade of the 00s':

Burial, Burial LP, 2006
Radiohead, Kid A LP, 2000
LCD Soundsystem, Losing My Edge 12-inch, 2002
Hot Chip, The Warning LP, 2006
Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion LP, 2009

That is basically 80% rock bands with electronic bits. And considering what happened during the 00s, that's just bizarre. But point taken that Mojo writers are unable to grasp the concept of even addressing any music recorded within (now) - 20years no matter what the genre.

(Yes, I know LCD Soundsystem is a bloke, but I pretty much consider him a rock band with electronic bits. That may be unfair.)

Oh right I see what you were saying. Yeah the 00s bit is weak. No need for both LCD and Hot Chip, who are working in the same area, and no need for AC at all. Trying to think what the best options for that decade would be.

oh that's definitely what he is, to his detriment, though at least they've chosen an early single when this wasn't so much the case

xp

i don't even know where to start with the best 00s options because there are so many

pretty much anything except those choices really.

xp Oh go on. Off the top of my head I can think of tons I like but not a watertight "influential" record - I'm sure I'm forgetting something obvious.

I mean obviously the most Mojo-friendly artist that had the most influence over "stuff I actually listened to" was The Knife. But that's my prejudices showing, I could easily complain about the lack of Lindstrom if we're noting the complete absence of the scando-scene here. I mean, WYGIGT is totally Mojo-friendly! It's practically prog!

It's just hard to think of stuff that would pass the "wouldn't want to scare the horses" WRT Mojo readers. It's hard to think in Mojo-speak.

felix da housecat
ricardo villalobos
ellen allien
michael mayer
lindstrøm
basement jaxx
sweet female attitude
dizzee rascal
the knife
booka shade

etc

ha xp

Okay, the Knife is good. What about mix CDs? I could just about imagine 2ManyDJs or even Immer being good choices for this.

xposts

if you're not picking mix CDs (or, latterly, online mixes) you're just not doing a list like this right

i was thinking of fabric13 but immer's obv great as well

2manydjs need to be put under a stone where we can forget they ever happened though

Yes, any of those would have worked. As it is, two-step, grime, electroclash/electro-house, minimal, mash-ups, post-80s house music and cosmic disco/Balearic are all invisible.

Total lack of any French house stuff at all. Totally o_0 at exclusion of Daft Punk and all their groovy children.

It's especially weird because the 80s/early 90s stretch is diligent about noting the origins of house, techno, electro, jungle, etc. After that any interest in the roots of key genres just evaporates and it becomes about big home-listening albums that Mojo readers will own. If you can have Lennie De Ice (and rightly so) then why not the subsequent equivalents?

Mojo are archeologists of music, stuff has to be layered down deep and documented so much so as to be footnoted with proper annotations in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (not even Wikipedia) before they feel comfortable including it.

Hitchin has had a big "retro-hipster" thing going on for some time, which is pretty prevalent for a small town - mostly people in their late-30s and up wearing polka-dot skirts, and rockabilly shirts etc... Cue lots of people who are young enough to know better complaining about the term "Classic House" being used on a flyer for a DJ night mostly featuring vintage garage/punk/reggae etc...

Still haven't heard that first Oval record, but I thought that either 94 Diskont or Systemisch would have been the obvious picks there?

Even if they were going to go down the indie dance route it's pretty funny they went to all the trouble of including both LCD Soundsystem and Hot Chip and left out Screamadelica.

We've already established that Kid A was this generation's Screamadelica. No need to include both.

if you're not picking mix CDs (or, latterly, online mixes) you're just not doing a list like this right

Possibly, but then if the caveat is "records" or tracks as they are now, surely this could be done.

Influential? translates as "I did a hit with this one" towards "ooh, well he did that, we can do similar.."

I'd choose Murk "Amame (when you're ready)" but that's just me right?

I'm glad Lennie de Ice is in there, even if I didn't actually hear that record until about 1997. There are 16 different mixes on Spotify!

I had a look at the covers gallery on the Mojo website to see if there had been a Roxy cover (no) and it's very telling who their big sellers are. In order of frequency:

The Beatles (21 times!)
Pink Floyd
Oasis
Bob Dylan
Led Zeppelin
Rolling Stones
The Who
Nirvana
Sex Pistols
Bob Marley
Neil Young
Radiohead
Paul Weller
New Order/Joy Division
The Smiths
The Stooges/Iggy
Bruce Springsteen
The Clash
REM

In summary, this ain't no Booka Shade crowd.

Only other cover stars on the electronic list: Massive Attack, Kraftwerk (twice), Bowie (three times).

Once I got past the idea that this should be electronic dance records, I voted Stevie, just like I should.

We've already established that Kid A was this generation's Screamadelica. No need to include both.

Given what I know of Mojo, isn't that actually the argument for including them both?

KLF albums, just don't even feel that those are the best of that artist

nah this is the right choice, both in excellence and influence

(and yeah Losing My Edge is one bloke, a sequencer, and a drum machine that he's playing while he sings)

(and yeah Losing My Edge is one bloke, a sequencer, and a drum machine that he's playing while he sings)

He's not playing it, he just presses a button and it does it all for him, LOL!

OK, under those conditions, by the Mojo definition, LCD Soundsystem isn't even an electronic artist, he's a "rapper" so he still shouldn't be on the poll.

i can imagine a better list where i wld still be inclined to vote for rainbow in curved air

M/A/R/R/S, Pump Up the Volume 12-inch, 1987
OK I'll rep for a good novelty record any day, but really?

Also: no Tiesto, no credibility.

Yeah I don't know what "electronic" really means in this context. Like I've heard Neu! called electronic, but I just don't see why they are considered as such. The record listed here is quite organic, actually! So I can't vote for that. Also, KLF's Chill Out is incredible, but I don't really consider that electronic, it's just samples! Also why list Numan's 7" when his albums in this period were so much better? I'd probably have voted for Replicas or The Pleasure Principle here had they been options.

In the end, I voted YMO because it's an album that's *actually* electronic and it's better than the Kraftwerk album listed, so there.

As far as I know samplers are electronic

True but I feel like that album could have been made with a bunch of tape decks, you know? The more I remember Chill Out the more I feel it probably does handidly fit in the "electronic" category, it juts feels weird to me

I guess it's such a fuzzy category. I think sample-based records fit but in that case why no Bomb Squad/Prince Paul/Dust Brothers productions? And on it goes.

In general to me "electronic" means stuff like Kraftwerk, YMO, Orbital, Autechre, Underworld, etc. Mojo seems to be, "anything that uses a synthesizer" ?? I'm still trying to figure out why Neu! is on there.

I have no problem with a Mojo list being 90% pre-2000 albums in 2012. Seeing as I was the biggest repper for electronic music in the 1950s poll I have a fair amount invested in the history (particularly early history) of this stuff. Having said that, I'm totally on-side with everyone being WTF about the post-2000 choices. Hell, I like Animal Collective a lot, but I totally boggled at MPP being on this list. And there is a *lot* of choice for great iconic electronic music over the last 12 years, ffs.

With Neu!, I see their connection to the rhythms and innovations of electronic music, but it's not an 'electronic album' by a long stretch.

I think I'm probably voting White Noise, though Louis & Bebe come close, and I feel like Silver Apples should definitely get some props even if only for the invention of the Simeon (also, they are awesome).

Stevie Wonder is another. I mean, Stevie's great and he plays the keyboard, but electronic?

stevie's classic 70s albs were all made w/ the Tonto's Expanding Head Band guys = electronic music pioneers

xp Because if Mojo adopted a strict machines-only definition that excluded Bowie, New Order and Radiohead then this whole feature wouldn't exist, basically.

dog latin, do you know about TONTO and how important those Steve albums were to popularising synths? Definitely a milestone for electronic music.

no i didn't know that. colour me foolish.

This is such an amazing piece of work for 1959

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SHJ6CcML80

Oh wait, my preceding post disappeared - I was thanking emil.y for introducing me to stuff like this on the 50s poll thread.

Aww, thanks DL.

True but I feel like that album could have been made with a bunch of tape decks, you know? The more I remember Chill Out the more I feel it probably does handidly fit in the "electronic" category, it juts feels weird to me

So is analogue tape music, e.g. early musique concrete, also not electronic?

I'd probably be more interested in this list if it stopped at 1979 and so I'd imagine would most of Mojo's readership.

If you look at it in regards to influence, the list makes more sense, but again putting Animal Collective on there seems like, uhhh hey dude

So is analogue tape music, e.g. early musique concrete, also not electronic?

I guess I don't really know, "electronic" doesn't really seem like a real genre because it kind of begs the question of "how many electronics do you have to use"

it fails, because you may as well have tried to fit the greatest songs to ever feature guitar into a 50-slot article.

Julia Holter, Ekstasis LP, 2012

LOOOOOL Get the fuck out of here with this

actually everything after 1994 is suspect as fuck and that should be like the easiest part to get get right!

xpost that's one of the more credible recent choices, no?

snake oil iirc

I guess I don't really know, "electronic" doesn't really seem like a real genre because it kind of begs the question of "how many electronics do you have to use"

I've been wondering the same thing throughout this discussion. ("Strings of Life" is almost entirely based on samples of acoutsic classical music, for example. Should it not count?) "Electronic" is not really a musical style. I'm not saying that this list is brilliant but it also does not seem insane to me to describe Kid A or Merriweather Post Pavillion or, for that matter, Sgt Pepper, as electronic albums. (What makes "Idioteque" less electronic than an Aphex Twin track?) I've never thought of Chill Out as anything other than electronic.

it fails, because you may as well have tried to fit the greatest songs to ever feature guitar into a 50-slot article.

This does make sense to me (although lists like that exist, surely!).

*acoustic

WGW - I haven't really listened to Ekstasis, but the earlier album from last year is very nice in my book.

The Julia Holter album is great, but... she plays to her strengths and innovations a lot more on Tragedy.

snake oil iirc

― Fareed Zaireeka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, August 13, 2012 4:07 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You do not rc

Yeah from what I heard of Ekstasis it was more song-based, more solid, but I kind of like her murky/ambient sound sketches (like The Falling Ages for instance).

not heard the Holter album but I think Mojo have already repped for it this year

moreover lists like this nearly always have a "record from this year that's far too new to canonise but we just went ahead and did it anyway check us out" entry

No Detroit? What a joke!

Model 500?

Model 500, No UFO's 12-inch, 1985 xpost

That's actually the only redeeming thing abt this list, no outsized Detroit fetish. But these days, most of that died down a bit anyway I guess? Still, Jaguar?

can't fetishize Detroit enough but it's fair not to overload the whole history of electronic music with it. anyway, this is a list for Mojo readers, big surp it's kinda conservative and ob(li)vious. gonna vote for the most contrary option when i've decided what that is

gonna vote for the most contrary option when i've decided what that is

that oval album is not good. It's got vocals.

Damn, this poll was difficult. There's a lot of great records here that I've played the shit out of. I ultimately went with Violator.

Mine too - I could have tossed one to Neu!, Chill Out, Violator, Autobahn, Planet Rock, or Low, but Solid State is probably the most *fun* listen of all those, so what are you going to do about that

OK Model 500 I missed it. But that is a little like having "This Charming Man" represent thirty years of Manchester guitar groups

howww does it feeeel ♫

turgid, overplayed, boring?

to feign disgust at electronic music polls every week for months ♫

xp still delivers imo!

"We nearly chose:"
(Mojo's backups for each selected record)

Stockhausen, Gesang der Junglinge/Hymnem, 1962
Joe Meek, I Hear a New World EP, 1960
Ray Cathode, Time Beat, 1962
The United States of America, The United States of America, 1968
Perry-Kingsley, The In Sound from Way Out, 1966
Morton Subotnick, Silver Apples of the Moon, 1967
BBC Radiophonic Music, BBC Radiophonic..., 1971
Neu!, Neu!2 LP, 1973
Brian Eno, Here Come the Warm Jets LP, 1974
Tonto's Expanding Headband, Zero Time LP, 1971
Walter Carlos, Switched-On Bach... LP, 1968
Kraftwerk, Computer World LP, 1981
Tangerine Dream, Ricochet LP, 1975
Harmonia, Musik Von Harmonia LP, 1974
Vangelis, Opera Sauvage LP, 1979
The Upsetters, Blackboard Jungle Dub LP, 1973
Giorgio Moroder, Utopia- Me Giorgio LP track, 1977
John Carpenter, Halloween LP, 1979
David Bowie, All Saints, 1993
Suicide, Second Album, 1980
Cabaret Voltaire, Nag Nag Nag 7-inch, 1979
Robert Rental, Paralysis 7-inch, 1978
Ultravox, Systems of Romance LP, 1978
Herbie Hancock, Future Shock LP, 1983
Yello, Solid Pleasure LP, 1980
The Human League, The Dignity of Labour 12-inch, 1979
Kraftwerk, Computer World LP, 1981 (second mention)
Donna Summer, Our Love 12-inch, 1980
DJ Shadow, Endtroducing LP, 1996
Horace Ferguson, Sensi Addict LP, 1986
Farley "Jackmaster" Funk & Jessie Saunders, Love Can't Turn Around 12-inch, 1986
Soul II Soul, Club Classics Vol. One LP, 1989
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Strings of Life 12-inch, 1987
Dinosaur L, Go Bang #5! 12-inch, 1982
Steve "Silk" Hurley, Jack YOur Body 12-inch, 1986
A Guy Called Gerald, Voodoo Ray 12-inch, 1988
Depeche Mode, Construction Time Again LP, 1983
The Orb, A Huge Ever Growing... 12-inch, 1989
4 Hero, Combat Dancin' EP, 1990
The Dust Brothers, Song to the Siren 12-inch, 1992
Autechre, Tri Repetae LP, 1995
Boards of Canada, Music Has the Right to Children LP, 1998
Ministry, The Land of Rape and Honey LP, 1988
Burial, Untrue LP, 2007
Daft Punk, Homework LP, 1997
Fridge, Happiness LP, 2001
LCD Soundsystem, Daft Punk Is Playing at My House 12-inch, 2005
SBTRKT, SBTRKT LP, 2011
Four Tet, Everything Ecstatic LP, 2005
Flying Lotus, Cosmogramma LP, 2010

Anyway, this reminds me, I picked up a copy of "Son Of My Father" by Giorgio last week!

Suuuuuuuun of MaFather! Moving I was grooving I was wig Wam Bam!

― Mark G, Monday, August 13, 2012 2:37 AM (17 hours ago)

Collected and selected independent views! Knowing and a-showing that a change is due!

i'm ignorring this poll

NO ROBERT ASHLEY, NO FUCKING CREDIBILITY.

No Bruce Haack?

voted White Noise

never heard White Noise till now, holy shit

the 00s records they chose are probably the biggest indictment of the whole sorry enterprise though

― lex pretend, Monday, August 13, 2012 1:31 AM (21 hours ago)

the only indictment, really. it's a pretty commendable list of interesting (mostly) electronic stuff up through the 80s. gets a little iffy in the 90s (i mean, i love that air EP, but come on), then becomes a sick, sad parody of mojo putting together such a list in the 00s. hot chip and animal collective are cringeworthy inclusions, and while there's no shame in julia holter, it feels awfully arbitrary.

kind of hate myself for it, but i can't deny dr. who.

Hmmm. 2 Kieren Hebden records, FlyLo and SBTRKT for the 00's? I guess that's a step in the right direction but it would still kill them to include a recent record you could actually dance to.

I mean, I've got as much of a hard-on for Kieren Hebden as anyone but it seems excessive to include two of his outfits when others didn't get a look-in. No one else got doubles on the original list.

Oh wait no I think Delia Derbyshire is on there twice in various forms, but come on. She is Delia Derbyshire. Oh, and Brian Eno. Yeah, I'll allow that.

never heard White Noise till now, holy shit

― Gurdas Mane (crüt), Tuesday, August 14, 2012 6:52 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This poll is forgiven. Seriously, crüt, never before?? It's so your thing.

It's kind of the perfect album

Kenny Everett used to use bits of it as jingles

Pretty useless list.

Double Dee & Steinski are "electronic" in the same way Gene Vincent was "electronic."

also Augustus Pablo "electronic" wtf where's Buchanan and Goodman when you need them?

No Stockhausen, no Laurie Spiegel, no Sun Ra, no Art of Noise...

that Pablo record is their arbitrary dub reggae record because, y'know, dub is electronic, right?

...no Can, no Beaver and Krause, no Laurie Anderson IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT MAKE YOUR OWN LIST but anyway

...no Xenakis, no Lee Perry (if you want dub), no Miles Davis or Gil Evans (whaddya mean, Gil Evans? Check out There Comes A Time)...

No Hawkwind...

No Alice Deejay...

No Country Joe & the Fish

No Republica????

Stevie Wonder is another. I mean, Stevie's great and he plays the keyboard, but electronic?

― sorry for asshole (dog latin), Monday, August 13, 2012 3:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonto%27s_Expanding_Head_Band#The_TONTO_synthesizer

No Bjork is slightly surprising given Mojo's general bent.

Not arguing for her inclusion btw but she is kind of the acceptable 6 Music-friendly face of that kind of thing.

TERRY FUCKING RILEY

It's not even the correct TERRY FUCKING RILEY record either.

He was so much better when he worked with Guy and Bobby Brown I'LL GET MY COAT

Scooter was robbed.

Amazing restraint in not including the Beachy Boys and the Beatles band.

It's not even the correct TERRY FUCKING RILEY record either.

Which would you prefer? I think Rainbow is my favourite.

I like "In C" best, because I have one and I have not heard the others.

It's not electronic though.

lol sund4ar read the next line of that post

Oh ha, I didn't remember who Teddy Riley was tbh. Had to look up the reference.

And, yeah, In C is acoustic.

tbf I thought MC was making a sincere statement but then went for the dadjoek anyway, to get max value from the post

This poll is forgiven. Seriously, crüt, never before?? It's so your thing.

― emil.y, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 7:59 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's kind of the perfect album

― drawings by teen cultists (Crabbits), Tuesday, August 14, 2012 8:49 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

both OTM

music is a retrograde, obsolete "art" form to begin with, but any of you who vote for a recording on this list that has even a single non-electronic instrument on it (even in "samples") should immediately be erased.

Remember when Skrillex was named one of the best guitarists of all time by Spin magazine

Skrillex is superior to any music featuring a guitar. That said, he should be killed.

Harsh but fair

i almost feel like it is my duty to make that the board descrip

Presumably intended to distract from issue 1 of "Electronic" magazine.

Skrillex is superior to any music featuring a guitar. That said, he should be killed.

― Banaka™ (banaka), Wednesday, August 15, 2012 4:33 PM (4 hours ago)

Harsh but fair

― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, August 15, 2012 4:34 PM (4 hours ago)

i have no idea why, but this just about killed me

if only

― r|t|c, Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:05 AM (51 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

banaka <3 <3

"compiled and annotated by Martin Aston, Sonny Baker, Mike Barnes, Jenny Bulley, Andy Cowan, Danny Eccleston, Ian Harrison, Dorian Lynskey, Andrew Male, Paul McGee, Kris Needs, Andrew Perry, Jon Savage, Joseph Stannard, Dan Stubbs, Jonny Trunk, Kieron Tyler, Stephen Worthy."

Scooter was robbed.

Yes, but at the end of the day, it's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

oxygene was robbed -- then again i don't have a dog in this fight because i didn't vote.

eh

woah this is weirder than the poll

id listen to a cassette of "blue lines" "world of echo" and phuture back-toback right now. everything else still would cause me to throw up.

N.b i would begin with Phuture

Skrillex is superior to any music featuring a guitar. That said, he should be killed.

― Banaka™ (banaka), Wednesday, August 15, 2012 7:33 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Would have voted Bambaataa or Silver Apples.

Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion LP, 2009 3

Fuck off.

Funniest thing must be Neu! s/t finishing second in a poll on electronic records when it isn't an electronic record.

Stupidest list ever? Where are Boards of Canada, where are Autechre? Half of those albums have hardly anything to do with electronic music. Low? Roxy Music?