Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Rolling Stone: The 30 Greatest 'EDM' albums of all time

  • 12-08-2012 9:26pm
    #1
    Scubadevils
    Subscribers Posts: 8,322 ✭✭✭


    Rolling Stone magazine getting a lot of stick for this top 30 'EDM'... not surprising of course but what's even more entertaining are comments posted from people saying that its an awful list because they've chosen the 'worst' Deadmau5 album or 'where is Tiesto' in such a way that suggests his exclusion invalidates the list.

    Anyway, for those who haven't seen, enjoy... :pac:

    http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-30-greatest-edm-albums-of-all-time-20120802


Comments

  • #2
    BetterCallSaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,161 ✭✭✭BetterCallSaul


    That's one of the most bizarre lists I've ever seen.

    From Kraftwerk to Madonna to Skrillex......

    It's like everyone in the office got one pick :pac:


  • #3
    Scubadevils
    Subscribers Posts: 8,322 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    Ha yeah does look like that alright! Pretty feckin random stuff... to include DJ mixes and compilations in a 'greatest albums' list.


  • #4
    BetterCallSaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,161 ✭✭✭BetterCallSaul


    Loving the Deadmau5 write up though, "If Skrillex is Metallica, this guy is Bon Jovi". Jaysus.


  • #5
    milltown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,618 ✭✭✭milltown


    Absence of Screamadelica invalidates the list IMO.


  • #6
    Father Damo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    In terms of talent, Skrillex reminds me somewhat of the sh1te dance track the lads on Brass Eye claimed people heard for hours on end after taking Cake. There is being cheesey like say, Scooter, there is being bland rubbish like Deadmau5, and then there is Skrillex. He just has his own level of complete fcukwittery.


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    carnie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 674 ✭✭✭carnie


    Who first coined that term 'Electronic Dance Music/EDM'?

    I know it was probably some american but jesus it's horrible!


  • #8
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    No Leftism. Big Fail!!!


  • #9
    BetterCallSaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,161 ✭✭✭BetterCallSaul


    I'm not sure even Screamadelica or Leftism could save that list, there's some awful embarrassing sh1te on there.


  • #10
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    Funnily enough, Our Mojo down the road did up a list of electronic albums as well. Very indie muso-centric but definitely a bit more respectable than the Rolling Stone one:

    1. Louis and Bebe Barron - Forbidden Planet (1956)
    2. The Tornadoes - Telstar (1962)
    3. BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Dr Who (1964)
    4. Silver Apples - Silver Apples (1968)
    5. The Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show - Revenge(1968)
    6. Terry Riley - A Rainbow In Curved Air (1969)
    7. White Noise - An Electric Storm (1969)
    8. Neu! - Neu! (1972)
    9. Roxy Music - Roxy Music (1972)
    10. Stevie Wonder - Music Of My Mind (1972)
    11. Wendy Carlos - Clockwork Orange (1972)
    12. Kraftwerk - Autobahn (1974)
    13. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (1974)
    14. Brian Eno - Discreet Music (1975)
    15. Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygen (1976)
    16. Augustus Pablo - King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown (1976)
    17. Donna Summer - I Feel Love (1977)
    18. John Carpenter - Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
    19. David Bowie - Low (1977)
    20. Suicide - Suicide (1977)
    21. Throbbing Gristle - United (1978)
    22. The Normal - TVOD / Warm Leatherette (1978)
    23. Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric (1979)
    24. Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock (1982)
    25. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor (1979)
    26. The Human League - Dare! (1981)
    27. Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4 (1984)
    28. New Order - Blue Monday (1983)
    29. Double Dee & Steinski - Lesson 1 (1985)
    30. Wayne Smith - Under Mi Sleng Teng (1985)
    31. Mr Fingers - Can You Feel It (1986)
    32. Massive Attack - Blue Lines (1991)
    33. Model 500 - No UFOs (1985)
    34. Arthur Russell - World Of Echo (1986)
    35. Phuture - Acid Trax (1987)
    36. M/A/R/R/S - Punp Up The Volume (1987)
    37. Depeche Mode - Violator (1990)
    38. The KLF - Chill Out (1990)
    39. Lennie De Ice - We Are IE (1991)
    40. The Prodigy - Experience (1992)
    41. Oval - Wohnton (1993)
    42. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol II (1994)
    43. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994)
    44. Burial - Burial (2006)
    45. Air - Premiers Symptômes (1997)
    46. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
    47. LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge (2002)
    48. Hot Chip - The Warning (2006)
    49. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (2009)
    50. Julia Holter - Ekstasis (2012)

    The last 10 years gets short shrift though and no leftism either…


  • #11
    BetterCallSaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,161 ✭✭✭BetterCallSaul


    'Leftism', Underworld's 'dubnobasswithmyheadman', Orbital's 'In Sides' and the Chem's 'Surrender' should be on there every time.


  • Advertisement
  • #12
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    BetterCallSaul wrote: »
    I'm not sure even Screamadelica or Leftism could save that list, there's some awful embarrassing sh1te on there.

    True, but if you can't even get the standards right, well then there's no hope.


  • #13
    RamesesII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭RamesesII


    Why does everybody go on about NIN's the Downward Spiral so much? The Fragile was an infinitely better record!!


  • #14
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    RamesesII wrote: »
    Why does everybody go on about NIN's the Downward Spiral so much?

    Because they enjoyed it
    RamesesII wrote: »
    The Fragile was an infinitely better record!!

    But they didn't enjoy that as much


  • #15
    RamesesII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭RamesesII


    I just think it scored an extra few points for being controversial.
    Fair point though man.


  • #16
    jonnny68
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭jonnny68


    carnie wrote: »
    Who first coined that term 'Electronic Dance Music/EDM'?

    I know it was probably some american but jesus it's horrible!

    +1


  • #17
    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭latenia


    Reminds me of Alan Partridge being asked his favourite Beatles' album: The Best of the Beatles. No dubnobass... or second toughest, the first 4 Orbital albums, LFO Frequencies, T-Power's Self Evident..., LTJ's Logical Progression, KLF White Room. You can tell the list was compiled by clueless Yanks who arrived on the bandwagon 20 years too late.


Advertisement