[Granny Gremlin]

That list is hilarious because it exposes the demographics of the 'audiophiles' involved. Like how is there no jazz or classical (I don't really like those much but like, those genres have a good few spiritual experiences within them surely). It's like they put the Prodigy on there so that it wouldn't be all 70s prog rock/something without electric guitar, but skipped so much seminal work as regards music production; like pick a dub record you twit.

I am so sick of this.
In our early married days we lived in a 5th floor apt. One day, new neighbours move in next door. Young couple, where the wife would constantly play just that album over and over ad nauseam for what seemed like a year.

Appologies, my ex was crazy like that. Can't stand Fleetwood Mac and it drove me batty too.

Our landlord at the time lived downstairs and every Saturday morning was a Bruce Springsteen marathon. Now I donl;t mind the Boss, but I don;t need 3 LPs in a row. I was getting it from both sides.

 

[Granny Gremlin]

Fat of the Land is an interesting inclusion for me. I haven’t listened to anything from that album on headphones since about 1999 but maybe I’ll go back. It makes me wonder about a lot of those electronic Big Beat groups. I remember Chemical Brothers and Death in Vegas albums sounding good but Ive not sat and listened to one for decades.

Chemical Brothers are Big Beat? Prodigy was decidedly (hardcore) techno (in the electronic music nerd sense not the general colloquial Night at the Roxbury sense) on the first record but Fat of the Land was more mainstream so I dunno; that was just after they collabed with Pop Will Eat Itself and just before they got their own guitarist.

[reading the wiki real quick]

It bothers me how genres are redefined decades later. Like at the time I had a raver cousin in Germany who was super into Big Beat and our only overlap in that regard was Bentley Rhythm Ace. Nobody was calling CB, Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, Crystal Method etc Big Beat at the time that I recall; Big Beat was this tiny subgenre that never really got super popular in NA.