The Most Underrated / Overrated Music

[gmanyo]

Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian. One of the best albums ever in my opinion.

[Blir]

Overrated: Squarepusher

Underrated: Gridlock.

[SR4]

Gridlock's Trace is such a perfection of industrial meets "IDM" glitch stuff

[o00o]

underrated: http://projectmooncircle.bandcamp.com/

[Redruth]

underrated:

 

lakker

mordant music

nosaj thing

bvdub

gareth clarke

sinner dc

the haxan cloak

himuro

swod

10-20

xela

 

 

overrated:

 

gonjasufi

die antwoord

skrillex

hudson mohawke

lil'b

[o00o]

underrated: Schematic Records

[Redruth]

schematic is extremely underrated! here's to hoping they can continue their recent upswing alongside DETUND™

[Npoess]

I'm listening to Steve Hauschildt - Tragedy & Geometry right now. Seriously one of the best records I've heard in a long time. And most review I've read of it seem to be slightly down on it.

[cruising for burgers]

overrated: mike patton

[Guest zaphod]

blur are really underrated. been listening to 13 a lot lately and there's some great guitar sculpting going on.

 

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[l1fef0rm]

underrated:

 

lakker

mordant music

nosaj thing

bvdub

gareth clarke

sinner dc

the haxan cloak

himuro

swod

10-20

xela

 

 

overrated:

 

gonjasufi

die antwoord

skrillex

hudson mohawke

lil'b

gareth clarke is not underrated by yours truly.

[dr lopez]

overrated: mike patton

yeah but not bungle. at all.

[Guest chunky]

elastica + mark e smith EP

the fall -slates

erik satie -ogives

henryk gorecki symphno2-no3

jsbach -mass in b minor

super furry animals - mwng

television - marquee moon

ceephax old stuff

sint, hehe

overrated:

ceephax new stuff

warp records since 10 years ago

tigerbeat6/kid606

glitch

 

not overrated, not underated, just massively popular and influential:

kraftwerk

drexciya

aphex twin

boards of canada

[Redruth]

henryk gorecki symphno2-no3

 

not particularly underrated i would say but quite breathtakingly beautiful! thx u plees, i'd not listened to this for some time

[beerwolf]

Overrated? Queens of the fucking Stoneage.

[Adieu]

underrated:

 

- freeform

- nuno canavarro

- colleen

- grimes

- funki porcini

 

overrated:

 

- joker

- oasis

- lil wayne

- the game

 

EDIT:

Overrated:

- Grimes

[Ivan Ooze]

recs from Warp i own

 

Overrated

 

- Rustie - glass swords

- Clark - boddy riddle

- the other people's place - the other people's place

- aphex twin - Saw II

 

Underrated

 

- Gonjasufi - sufi and a killer

- Hudson Mohawk - butter

- Prefuse 73 - Security screenings

- Jamie Lidell - Mudlin gear

- Aphex twin - drukqs

[Audioblysk]

Overrated--

-Alva Noto (solo work. however, his work w/ryuichi sakamoto, is some of my favorite ambient music)

-Clark (prepares to receive hate, but really, he isn't anything special past a few tracks between turning dragon or totems flare)

-Die Antwoord

-Burial

-M83

 

IN THE MIDDLE--

-Ceephax, I love the whole old skool acid thing, but in terms of his melodies, sometimes they verge on just being spliced from a game of tetris on fast forward or a bad arcade game. That being said, I have a love hate relationship with Ceephax, I don't deny his talent, just don't really like the melodies in his songs

 

Underrated--

-E.O.D

-Wisp

-ROT13 (MANY afx rip-offs, and not gonna lie, his stuff is in the top 1% of it)

-Ultre

[Guest zaphod]

radicalfashion - odori

 

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completely underrated

[FLA FUR BIS FLE]

radicalfashion - odori

 

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completely underrated

 

 

thanks for the reminder. great album.

 

 

i say this very lightly, as I love both. BUT, I will jump off the deep end here with:

 

Overrated: Wutang

 

compared to the underrated: Black Moon/Boot Camp Clik/Da Beatminerz.

 

Functioning roughly around the same time, both out of Brooklyn. I just don't think they get enough play, compared to a similar group, like Wu.

 

[ghOsty]

underrated:

 

lakker

mordant music

nosaj thing

bvdub

gareth clarke

sinner dc

the haxan cloak

himuro

swod

10-20

xela

 

 

overrated:

 

gonjasufi

die antwoord

skrillex

hudson mohawke

lil'b

 

i love those guys...

 

I think Animal Collective is extremely overrated, none of it has ever really appealed much to me

[Jur]

Underrated:

 

Jneiro Jarel

Daedelus

Amon Tobin

Edan

Hype Williams

Dorian Concept

Himuro Yoshiteru

Dabrye

Fat Jon

Aardvarck

[Zephyr_Nova]

I've finally got around to listening to Pavement, who are hailed by many as indie gods, but the best thing about them that I can glean is that some of their lyrics are kind of interesting. Melodically and arrangement-wise it seems pretty mediocre, the playing is really sloppy, and Steve Malkmus just sounds bored out of his skull when he sings. Where's this genius that so many are taken in by? Usually I can at least understand the hype around bands that critics spooge hard for, but... this one's lost on me. I know people with music opinions I respect who admire these guys, so I'm going to give it all at least one more listen. But I swear they're just kind of a shitty band.

[Cryptowen]

I listened to the first MGMT album a while back after seeing positive comments on WATMM, aside from Kids & Electric Feel (which I quite dug), I was borrrrrredddd

 

and I'm usually able to groove to pitchforky indie pop so it's not my IDM nerd coming out here

[Guest zaphod]

I've finally got around to listening to Pavement, who are hailed by many as indie gods, but the best thing about them that I can glean is that some of their lyrics are kind of interesting. Melodically and arrangement-wise it seems pretty mediocre, the playing is really sloppy, and Steve Malkmus just sounds bored out of his skull when he sings. Where's this genius that so many are taken in by? Usually I can at least understand the hype around bands that critics spooge hard for, but... this one's lost on me. I know people with music opinions I respect who admire these guys, so I'm going to give it all at least one more listen. But I swear they're just kind of a shitty band.

 

i had the same experience

 

i like some of their stuff now. but i'm still not completely sold.