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Ah! I have to fix that.
An even bigger pet peeve of mine is when I personally write "your" instead of you're.
Yeah...College Pro is a great company if you're lucky enough to get a decent area, which is a significant minority. I knew far more managers who failed than were successful - and I knew every manager in my city, as does every franchise manager. The vast majority were still touted by the company as "profitable" (since you can view everyone's revenue's on CPOWER), including me. In my entire city (of around 30 managers), 4 made money, and all were in incredibly rich neighborhoods. So maybe you were lucky enough to get a good area, but whatever - you still got screwed. You would've made mounds more doing the exact same work if you hadn't been with the College Pro. Even if you lay that "but it let me learn business" argument on me, tell me, why the hell are you still with them after 3 years? Why didn't you leave after the first year after you knew how to do everything? And don't tell me it's because you're honest, because I know franchise managers enough to know that you're not.
Where do I attack it for being toooooo hard? My criticism is that it is essentially a scam, inches away from being a multi-level marketing company. It's not like I have anything against business - I've run a couple of successful small businesses since, and I'd run another before. My attack is on their exorbitant royalties, deceptive contracts, cult-like business training, and nasty little fines for piddling non-offenses - which is borderline illegal (IE: "Your estimate ran long so you had to call us 5 minutes late? Too bad, $80 fine.").
Either way, it pisses me off that you'd read my description and get "lazy" out of it. Honestly, if you want to try to insult my actions that summer, why not something like "disorganized" or "stupid"? OK, maybe it was stupid to trust my "friend" without checking into it, and maybe it was idiotic to take an area without doing more research, those would be reasonable things to level at me. But lazy? Did you even fucking read it? Like what, I should have worked 7 straight days wired on stimulants without sleeping or taking any breaks rather than 6? Fuck you.
I've heard this exact rhetoric dozens of times from the company anyway.
There's really nothing that sounds quite like The Orb. Anything I've got that comes close is already on the list above, or is sufficiently low quality that you won't particularly want to have it. Glad you enjoy the list though :D
At the time it was the only ambient-like track of Nathan Fake's.
I don't find the album quite good enough to make this list. I liked it, but it was missing something to be one of my favorites.
I find it OK, but I disagree with a lot of it, and haven't heard others. I might class those as the most innovative ambient records, but not the best.
Try looking on One Star Flicks.
Disliking Bruno might have had something to do with seeing it with my somewhat homophobic brother (who endlessly complained about the dicks in the movie, which sort of killed a lot of it), but at the same time, I also found it not nearly as funny as Borat (I couldn't help but compare), and a lot of the gags fairly lame (IE that whole camping trip) and aiming for nothing but shock value - which doesn't work on me anymore. I laughed a few times though, especially during the Mexican chair people scene. I almost fell over laughing there, actually.
Inglorious Basterds, like all Tarantino movies, is best enjoyed in a theatre - like all movies, sure, but Tarantino films are especially enhanced by watching them at the cinema.
To lfbray:
Points well taken, but this list focuses more on styles that are generally called electronic music, rather than including all music that is electronic. If I did it the latter way, I would have to include most pop music produced in the last 30 years, which would defeat the purpose of this list.
The albums from artists like My Bloody Valentine, Steve Reich, and Can come from genres that are closely related to electronic music, and in some cases, predominantly electronic. IE: a lot of people would call krautrock an electronic genre, but few would describe pop as such.
Moon Safari I'm strongly considering right now anyway. It's very likely going to have a place here.
As for Homework, I disagree with a top 20 position. While a very good album, and certainly influential, I think those placed above it are better - and "influential" wasn't really my primary criterion for placing albums (I took it into account, but it wasn't the main factor).
What exactly do you mean by "relevant"? While there are a few obscure albums on the list (3 Organic Experiences comes to mind in particular), the vast majority are well-known, and well-accepted as important electronic albums. (I counted 60 that are almost inarguably important of the first 75, and most of the 15 more obscure cuts were closer to the bottom; and I could easily argue that most of those 15 were indeed influential and important).
I honestly just don't really like Depeche Mode that much. While there are a few songs I really enjoy (like Enjoy the Silence), I've never heard an album of theirs that really blew me away from beginning to end.
Drawing the line that defines what is and isn't electronic music was indeed really difficult, and in a lot of ways, arbitrary. However, my definition stands, simply because any change to it at this point would essentially involve making massive changes to the list - and because I think it's a fairly decent defintion, and one that caters really well to the interests of this list's audience (those who are searching for the best "electronic music" aren't usually looking for bands and artists like ABBA and Michael Jackson; they want to find musicians/groups like Air, Brain Eno, Kraftwerk, Sasha, or Boards of Canada).
Glad you enjoyed the list :D
I really liked these:
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Psychedelic Horseshit - Magic Flowers Droned
Pom Pom - CD001
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Japandroids - Post-nothing
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
DJ Koze - Reincarnations
The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
No Age - Losing Feeling
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Mount Kimbie - Maybes
This is far from complete, of course; I've been too busy this year to give a lot of promising albums a good listen.
Yes, MGMT is good stuff, although the album has way too much filler.
"Swell"? I can't even imagine how one would say that out loud without irony.
GO AWAY!
What's with all this spam on listology lately?
I have no idea. Maybe it's the sheer stupidity of the song, which the band itself seems to realize:
from www.teamyacht.com/
"Included are all the songs off of See Mystery Lights, excluding the A Cappella version of "Psychic City" for obvious reasons."
Either way, I find it to be a hell of a lot of fun. I'm guessing you're not a fan?
SPAM! Shoo! Shoo!
Cool, it's been quite a while since a good ambient album has been released (that I've come across, anyway). Thanks for the suggestion.