Music: Response

I came across the Top 50 Electronic Albums rated by Impreza22B recently and was surprised at how many of the album I owned, or had at least heard or heard about. It is a rare thing to find anyone with even vaguely similar music tastes in my experience (unless your music tastes are "Top 40s" in which case it is vapidly easy to find like-minded listeners).

While I think Impreza22B basically got it right, it inspired me to put together my own list of:

Top 50 Electronic Albums


1. Oxygene – Jean Michel Jarre (1977)
2. Into Deep – LSG (1999)
3. Selected Ambient Works – Aphex Twin (1993)
4. In Sides – Orbital (1996)
5. Beaucoup Fish – Underworld (2002)
6. Second Toughest in the Infants – Underworld (1996)
7. Beyond the Infinite – Juno Reactor (1996)
8. Dead Cities – The Future Sound of London (1996)
9. The Mix – Kraftwerk (1991)
10. Sunday 8pm – Faithless (1998)

11. 100th Window – Massive Attack (2003)
12. Phrases and Numbers – Infusion (2001)
13. Relentless – Pet Shop Boys (1993)
14. Protection – Massive Attack (1994)
15. Snivilization – Orbital (1994)
16. Outrospective – Faithless (2001)
17. Mezzanine – Massive Attack (1998)
18. Brown Album – Orbital (1992)
19. Music Has the Right to Children – Boards of Canada (1998)
20. Blue Album – Orbital (2004)

21. Kid A – Radiohead (2000)
22. Dubnobasswithmyheadman – Underworld (1993)
23. Leftfield – Leftism (1995)
24. Accelerator – The Future Sound of London (1992)
25. The Fat of the Land – Prodigy (1997)
26. Walking Wounded – Everything But the Girl (1996)
27. G-Spot – Speedy J (1995)
28. Orchid for the Afterworld – Sonic Animation (1999)
29. Oxygene 7-13 – Jean Michel Jarre (1997)
30. Behaviour – Pet Shop Boys (1990)

31. Come With Us – Chemical Brothers (2002)
32. Tourist – St Germain (2000)
33. A Hundred Days Off – Underworld (2002)
34. Splinter – Sneaker Pimps (1999)
35. Frequencies Will Move Together – B(if)tek (2003)
36. Geogaddi – Boards of Canada (2002)
37. Freek Funk – Luke Slater (1997)
38. The Hive – LSG (2002)
39. Bible of Dreams – Juno Reactor (1997)
40. Melody AM – Royskopp (2001)

41. Beam Me Up – Space Cat (2000)
42. Music for the Jilted Generation – The Prodigy (1994)
43. The Altogether – Orbital (2001)
44. No Roots – Faithless (2004)
45. Selected Ambient Works Volume 2 – Aphex Twin (1994)
46. Behind the Sun – Chicane (2000)
47. Movement in Still Life – BT (1999)
48. AM/PM – Endorphin (2002)
49. Junk Science – Deep Dish (1998)
50. Decksandrumsandrockandroll – Propellerheads (1998)


The nice thing about finding Impreza22B's list was finding a few new music groups I hadn't heard before, most recently Royskopp (insert umlaut somewhere there) and The Future Sound of London. In the latter, I've struck gold! Actually, I read that FSOL have another album that I'll probably get in the next period that might be even better than the two albums I've included above.

(I'd love for my own stuff to be in this list, but I've got to get famous first... ;-)

B