Top 25 Electronic Albums of all time

yellum

http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/features/2520electronicalbums.html

Slate Magazine gives their top 25.


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 Buy
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

mike65

Interesting, very biaseed towards the present era. No Tangerine Dream, Jarre, Neu, etc.

Oh yeah - "Wot, no Air?"

Mike.

Makaveli

I own a whole 5 from that list.
Also surprised not to see Air on the list.

tman

5 as well, i guess "orbital 2" means the brown one?

phoenix2181

for orbital i'd say Snivilisation is better....but I can't believe they left out one of the best albums ever...

Music For The Jilited Generation - The Prodigy

(one of the few albums you could play straight through at a party) :ninja:

claudius

think lacklustre 'container' deserves honorary mention as modern classic in the electronic genre. also, ulrich schnauss 'far away trains passing by' - i like my accessible melodic stuff.

and my personal favourite - bola 'soup'. ah well, it's all subjective. one man's caviar is another's custard .....

Cloud

Interesting selection... I have half of them I suppose:

1 Trans-Europe Express Kraftwerk
3 Selected Ambient Works: 85-92 Aphex Twin
5 Dummy Portishead
6 Ambient 1: Music For Airports Brian Eno
8 Exit Planet Dust The Chemical Brothers
9 Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers
10 Homogenic Bjork
11 Orbital 2 Orbital
13 dubnobasswithmyheadman Underworld
15 76:14 Global Communication
18 Homework Daft Punk
19 Leftism Leftfield

Not too bad

Here's my top 25:

• Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92
• Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume 2
• Daft Punk Discovery
• Future Sound of London Lifeforms
• Global Communication 76:14
• Jarre, Jean-Michel Oxygene
• Jarre, Jean-Michel The Concerts in China
• Kitaro In Person Digital
• Kraftwerk Autobahn
• Kraftwerk The Man Machine
• Les Rhythmes Digitales Darkdancer
• Orb, The Orbus Terrarum
• Orbital In Sides
• Plaid Double Figure
• Plaid Rest Proof Clockwork
• Plone For Beginner Piano
• Starink, Ed Retrospection
• Tangerine Dream Poland
• Tangerine Dream White Eagle
• Tomita, Isao Bermuda Triangle
• Tomita, Isao Snowflakes are Dancing
• Tonto's Expanding Head Band Tonto Rides Again
• Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman
• Vangelis Heaven and Hell
• Vangelis The City

And some of the rest that nearly made it, from 25 to 50 (there's a few non-electronics in there, but still ambient):

• Air Moon Safari
• Autechre Amber
• Bjork Homogenic
• Bjork Post
• Boards of Canada Geogaddi
• Boards of Canada Peel Session
• Bryars, Gavin Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
• Carlos, Wendy Switched-On Bach
• Carlos, Wendy A Clockwork Orange
• Eno, Brian Ambient 1: Music for Airports
• Isan Salamander
• Jarre, Jean-Michel Equinoxe
• Jarre, Jean-Michel Zoolook
• Kraftwelt Retroish
• Lacklustre Container
• Preisner, Zbigniew The Double Life of Veronique
• Preisner, Zbigniew Three Colours Blue
• Sakamoto, Ryuichi Nineteen Ninety Six
• Schmoelling, Johannes White Out
• Schmoelling, Johannes Zeit
• Squarepusher Budakhan Mindphone
• Tangerine Dream Le Parc
• Tangerine Dream Logos Live
• Vangelis Albedo 0.39
• Vangelis Blade Runner

mike65

Feck it! I'll have to try harder with my next CDR!

Mike

Cloud

Hehe mike Actually I was only counting my non CDR albums there...