# Top 10 Electronic albums of all time: **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016 "2008-04-05T01:04:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/1 "2008-04-05T01:04:13Z")
1. Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious 2. Violet Vision - First Sign of Communication 3. Speedy J. - A Shocking Hobby 4. Amon Tobin - Foley Room 5. Eat Static - Science of the Gods 6. Hallucinogen - Twisted 7. Skinny Puppy - VIVIsect VI 8. Mindless Faith - Momentum 9. KMFDM - Symbols 10. Future Sound of London - ISDN ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/2 "2008-04-05T01:18:56Z")
Kraftwerk “Autobahn” ? Old school from my generation. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/3 "2008-04-05T01:22:52Z")
[QUOTE=River Hippie] Kraftwerk “Autobahn” ? Old school from my generation. [/QUOTE] You should burn a book in honor of your 451st post, but what are the other 9? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/4 "2008-04-05T01:51:38Z")
I think _Radioactivity_ was awesome! But I couldn’t fill out another nine to save my life. :o ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/5 "2008-04-05T04:35:16Z")
In no particular order: The Chemical Brothers - Come With Us Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman Moby - Play Shpongle - Are You Shpongled? The Orb - The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld Daft Punk - Homework Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2 BT - This Binary Universe Kraftwerk - Radioactivity New Order - Substance I guess. This leaves a lot of stuff out (Prodigy, Junkie XL, Tiësto, Sasha, 808 State, Fatboy Slim, Jam & Spoon, Paul van Dyk etc.) ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/6 "2008-04-05T04:51:36Z")
Does Suicide count? They are more industrial, I guess, but Suicide’s debut is a classic. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/7 "2008-04-05T04:58:33Z")
Hmm I don’t know Suicide, but I would count Industrial. Do they use lots of synths or samplers? **Yookeroo** I meant to put Shpongle - Nothing Lasts…but Nothing is Lost An honorable mention goes to Younger Brother’s - Last Days of Gravity ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/8 "2008-04-05T05:25:42Z")
[QUOTE=mswas] Hmm I don’t know Suicide, but I would count Industrial. Do they use lots of synths or samplers? **Yookeroo** I meant to put Shpongle - Nothing Lasts…but Nothing is Lost An honorable mention goes to Younger Brother’s - Last Days of Gravity [/QUOTE] [Suicide.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_%28band%29) Basically, they were synth pioneers, working along side the punks of the day. Their debut (1977) is strange, nihilistic, and unquestionably brutal, but it is still an amazing album. Probably not as influential as Kraftwerk, but a close second. [Youtube.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRTCqgAkfg) ETA: Since we don’t get many electronic threads on the Dope, have you heard the new [Crystal Castles?](http://www.myspace.com/crystalcastles) Not best electronic album of all time, but best of 2008 for me atleast. ---
**Author:** ![Octalcode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Octalcode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octalcode)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/9 "2008-04-05T13:34:23Z")
All I have is Larry Fast - Synergy. Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra. Released in 1975. It was fascinating at the time. Here is a link to information about how it was recorded, and equipment used. [http://synergy-emusic.com/erro.html](http://synergy-emusic.com/erro.html) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/10 "2008-04-05T16:17:36Z")
[**Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia-Princeton_Electronic_Music_Center_%28album%29) Fripp and Eno - **No Pussyfooting** Peter Frohmader - **Macrocosm** Pierre Henry - **Mix 01.0-04.0** The Orb - **Live 93** (chosen over other Orb albums by virtue of having the best cover ever) Terry Riley - **A Rainbow in Curved Air** Klaus Schulze - **Timewind** Morton Subotnick - **Silver Apples of the Moon** Tangerine Dream - **Zeit** Frank Zappa - **Civilization Phaze III** ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/11 "2008-04-05T16:46:07Z")
Would David Bowie’s **Earthling** qualify & be worthy of consideration? ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/12 "2008-04-05T21:25:24Z")
No love for Stockhausen? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/13 "2008-04-05T21:32:59Z")
[QUOTE=Ichbin Dubist] No love for Stockhausen? [/QUOTE] _Gesang der Jünglinge_ would certainly qualify, but it isn’t an album. I can’t think of a lot of whole albums of Stockhausen’s music that I would characterize as electronic (as opposed to instrumental music that incorporates electronics to greater or lesser degrees). ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/14 "2008-04-07T01:25:08Z")
[QUOTE=Key Lime Guy] Would David Bowie’s **Earthling** qualify & be worthy of consideration? [/QUOTE] It was much derided at the time as “Bowie does drum ‘n’ bass” but there are some great auld tunes on it. Orbital - Snivilisation (spel?) Cut/Copy - Bright Like Neon Love The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation Aphex Twin - Drukqs I’m sure there’s more, but I’m usually into individual Electronic tunes as opposed to albums. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/15 "2008-04-07T01:57:14Z")
**Depeche Mode** “Black Celebration”. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/16 "2008-04-07T02:08:02Z")
[ol] [li]Nobukazu Takemura: _Child’s View_[/li][li]Nobukazu Takemura: _Child’s View_[/li][li]Nobukazu Takemura: _Child’s View_[/li][li]Nobukazu Takemura: _Child’s View_[/li][li]Nobukazu Takemura: _Child’s View_[/li][li]Nobukazu Takemura: _Child’s View_[/li][li]Nobukazu Takemura: _Child’s View_[/li][li]Nobukazu Takemura: _Child’s View_[/li][li]Nobukazu Takemura: _Child’s View_[/li][li]Nobukazu Takemura: _Child’s View_[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/17 "2008-04-07T02:56:14Z")
I’ve been obsessed with [Lemon Jelly](http://www.myspace.com/jellyspace2) (MySpace page) lately. Great mellow electronica. I have all three of their albums in heavy rotation right now. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/18 "2008-04-07T10:37:13Z")
There seems to be two schools - old and new. I belong in the former, so: Moondawn - Klaus Schulze Join Inn - Ashra Tempel In Search Of Ancient Gods - Absolute Elsewhere Tanze der Lemminge - Amon Duul II Epsilon In Malaysian Pale - Edgar Froese Katzenmusik - Michael Rother Anywhere - New Musik Third - Soft Machine Alpha Centauri - Tangerine Dream L’ Apocalypse des Animaux - Vangelis Actually, I could fill the whole list with Klaus Schulze (he’s the master), but I 'thought I’d give the others a chance. I also think this list shows electronica in many diverse forms. I think most of the choices so far in this thread prove that electronic music has yet to hit the mainstream! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/19 "2008-04-07T11:05:45Z")
Some of mine (one more than 10, I’m afraid), with favourite songs too. Lots of 80s stuff, also a lot of Mute Records artists there. [ul] [li]Wire - _The Ideal Copy_ - _Ahead_[/li][li]Skinny Puppy - _Too Dark Park_ - _Morpheus Laughing_[/li][li]Laibach - _Opus Dei_ - _Geburt einer Nation_[/li][li]Pet Shop Boys - _Actually_ - _Rent_[/li][li]Erasure - _The Circus_ - _The Circus_[/li][li]Depeche Mode - _Music For The Masses_ - _Never Let Me Down Again_[/li][li]Nitzer Ebb - _That Total Age_ - _The Chant_[/li][li]Yazoo - _Upstairs at Eric’s_ - _Only You_[/li][li]Kraftwerk - _Trans-European Express_ -_The Hall of Mirrors_[/li][li]New Order - _Power, Corruption and Lies_ - _Blue Monday_[/li][li]Einstuzende Neubauten - _½ Mensch_ - _Z.N.S._[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016/20 "2008-04-07T11:18:32Z")
A granddaddy album: _I Robot_ by the\*\* Alan Parsons Project\*\*. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-electronic-albums-of-all-time/444016.md?page=2)