Top 40 Greatest Music Albums
by Electronic Barry

My ten favorite majority electronically made albums are as follows:

1. Nine inch nails - downward spiral
2. Depeche mode - violator
3. Nine inch nails - pretty hate machine
4. Prodigy - fat of the land
5. Underworld - beaucoup fish
6. Bjork - homogenic
7. Dj shadow - endtroducing
8. Underworld - second toughest of the infants
9. Portishead - dummy
10. Prodigy - music for the jilted generation
11. Fatboy slim - halfway between the gutter and the stars
12. Goldfrapp - black cherry
13. Lamb - lamb
14. Massive attack - mezzanine
15. Leftfield - leftism


All british except nin and dj shadow

What an interesting chart! Great job!

From Gavin Cook 02/04/2012 16:18 | #36440

Thanks for the rating Barry. I know a lot of the albums on your chart, much I really love
This is probably one of the boldest and most honest charts I've seen on here. I will make a point of listening to the albums I don't know.

Fever Ray might be the best electronic album in recent memory.

Nice one Jim - I take it all on board, especially the tip (there is always room for new discoveries). Feel a bit limited by 40 choices TBH. There are some other great albums that would fit this MO. Re: Calvin Harris - I take your point, but the idea is very much to include 'good times' music and not to always defer to music made with a straight face (not to say that Kraftwerk didn't have a sense of humour).

From Jimmy Dread 12/18/2011 12:00 | #33228

Welcome aboard the BEA bus, Baz. Interesting idea for a chart... even more interesting that Calvin Harris is above Kraftwerk... each to their own though! Would definitely echo Meruizh's comments re. Fever Ray - fantastic stuff. Lots of stuff missing in my opinion - Daft Punk, Justice, Cornelius to name but 3 - and I'm sure there's loads of fantastic artists you haven't discovered yet (try Ricardo Villalobos for starters) - be interesting to see your chart 6 months down the line, will be keeping my eyes open!

@meruizh - Thank you very much for the rating and comments. I do appreciate other types of music as well, but this is a chart reflecting my passion. Thanks for the tips also – I’ll check these out – I do need some new stuff and my chart is a bit too heavily weighted towards the 90’s. All subject to change, of course.

From meruizh 12/18/2011 06:48 | #33211

i think there is more in music than electronic, but i respect your chart.. i think you should listen to Fever Ray if you like the Knife. Röyksopp, M83, Washed Out, Air... Have amazing proposals, checked them out