The Worst Artist Or Record Label Decisions Ever Made

  On 8/10/2011 at 10:25 PM, ghOsty said:

Liam Howlett of The Prodigy refusing to let go of the 90's big beat sound and try something new... Always Outnumbered never Outgunned had some good ones but ultimately flopped, Invaders Must Die sucked

fat of the land is still as good as on the first day but then he started using reason

miles davis covering cyndi lauper, holy shit why has nobody mentioned that

also, is there no reason anybody has discussed drukqs at all? i haven't listened to it recently enough to formulate an updated opinion, but there was a pretty split reaction regarding the alternating electronic/piano/whatever track order of a pretty sprawling double album, from what i recall.

(btw holy shit, i've been on watmm for like, ten years now—drukqs-era is when i joined watmm as a 14-year-old alienworkshop)

  On 8/11/2011 at 3:15 AM, KY said:

miles davis covering cyndi lauper, holy shit why has nobody mentioned that

I never thought this was so egregious, I just wish he did more with the song instead of just play it....

  On 8/11/2011 at 2:48 AM, o00o said:

  On 8/10/2011 at 10:25 PM, ghOsty said:

Liam Howlett of The Prodigy refusing to let go of the 90's big beat sound and try something new... Always Outnumbered never Outgunned had some good ones but ultimately flopped, Invaders Must Die sucked

 

fat of the land is still as good as on the first day but then he started using reason

I still love Fat of the Land...

Man, if he is using Reason these days, he's awfully unimaginative with what it can do...

  On 8/10/2011 at 10:18 PM, KY said:

v/vm kind of just disappearing

He's released hours and hours of music as The Caretaker, Leyland Kirby and The Stranger in the last few years. Although no typical v/vm pop-destruction.

  On 8/11/2011 at 9:30 AM, Stoppit said:

  On 8/10/2011 at 10:18 PM, KY said:

v/vm kind of just disappearing

 

He's released hours and hours of music as The Caretaker, Leyland Kirby and The Stranger in the last few years. Although no typical v/vm pop-destruction.

i meant v/vm test records, but yeah, i've been following the caretaker in particular and loved his most recent full-length!

No BoCset!!!!

Warp have bought the rights to their back catalogue (pre-twoism) years ago. Why haven't they released it in full glory?

Don't make sense to me. Obviously there is a reason, though not one I can rationaly think of.

  On 8/11/2011 at 5:53 PM, beerwolf said:

No BoCset!!!!

 

Warp have bought the rights to their back catalogue (pre-twoism) years ago. Why haven't they released it in full glory?

 

Don't make sense to me. Obviously there is a reason, though not one I can rationaly think of.

Maybe they have, but under a different name

Metallica once turned down Les Claypool...

Kraftwerk approving Coldplay's usage of the melody and chorus from Computer Love:

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Separate UK and US iTuneses, seriously.

Plone's second album not being released :(

if warp rejected it, they should have tried it with other labels, but then a member passed away and the band split up

I think it's a beautiful album, I would buy it in a second if any label could release it

Radiohead sticking with Nigel Godrich for too long and sounding increasingly flat, stale, and boring.

Every Beck album he touches sounds excellent, though.

ulver doing the william blake album's depeche mode meets NIN meets goth rock circus music and never exploring the style any further

when futonic records decided to read a troon thread

i will swivel your tits until they fall off

  On 8/5/2011 at 2:24 PM, purlieu said:

Oh God why did I click play?

 

 

The Future Sound of London putting out six archive albums all jumbled up, instead of fine tuning them and doing one archive album for each era (Lifeforms Archive, ISDN Archive, Dead Cities Archive, 1997 Scrapped Album). I should probably just make my own.

The second and third Environments volumes were utterly phenomenal return-to-forms though. No complaints here.

warp burning a bunch of records so they can delay the new boc album

Jack Dangers' attempts at going dubstep... go back to the jazzy acidy breaks w/ all the obscure samples that made you so great man

  On 8/17/2011 at 4:45 AM, jules said:

warp burning a bunch of records so they can delay the new boc album

bahaha

Arovane

Ed Banger releasing SebastiAn's album four years too late (same goes with almost all their releases).

Trent Reznor refusing to have a US release of Chiastic Slide on Nothing records because it was "too experimental"

  On 9/5/2011 at 11:52 AM, sysyphus said:

Trent Reznor refusing to have a US release of Chiastic Slide on Nothing records because it was "too experimental"

Is there a source for that? I don't believe it's genuine. Trent has stated that his favourite ae release is EP7 so I have a hard time believing he vetoed Chiastic.

Not puting out some Autechre live archive thing & not puting out the Squarepusher acid track ("roma 2002"), also not filling the 5 years gap between boards of canada releases with some archive box. I also regret not being able to affort those hafler trio special editions (like unique piece of art but really expensive) but i can understand the whole point of it.