why don't you poll me I feel like flying to... the UNDERWORLD Poll Results thread -- produced by Smith & Hyde for ILM Artist Poll #102

mods?

lol. thanks a lot sic!

I mean they're just not an albums band you know...

― nashwan, Thursday, June 4, 2020 4:37 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

unfortunately this is highly untrue

Liner notes from Beaucoup Fish sampler

Trevor Morais: All the hitting things done in a live, loose and sexy way not dissimilar to drumming but better.

finally some weird controps

I had to google the quote to figure out how it was meant to back up your point. So that's Trevor's credit on the album. I found an old article saying he played with Underworld live and in studio. News to me. Anyway not sure I'm following here. They're great at all of it

https://i.ibb.co/QrWZkhN/Underworld-big-day-out-Australia-2003-04throwshapes.gif

i surrender

my albums ballot:
Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Everything Everything
Barbara Barbara We Face a Shining Future
Second Toughest in the Infants
Beaucoup Fish
A Hundred Days Off
Drift Series 1
Riverrun
Oblivion with Bells

Holy shit it WAS close wowowow

(sorry I'm not more active. Internet now fully down tech coming tmrw truly I am not a Hackers (1995))

(if ppl wanna share ballots already would someone mind starting a quarantine thread [mb on 77?]? I’m on Zing here, at the rallies for the next few hours, but will create a safe zone afterward if nobody else has)

I wasn't really sure what to count as an album so I only ranked the main ones. Maybe regret that now but I think all their studio albums are basically excellent so not much point splitting hairs.

xp I'm not sure what half that meant, but you stay safe yourself sic! Cheers

& Strumpet instead of Bird 1. Bird 1 is good, but it's not as good as Strumpet live was.

that's tough, I think Bird 1 is one of those tracks where the outside remix really works

but yeah I'm jammin Barking now and man ALAF really would be so much cooler if they'd kept that groovy bassline

Well the top 3 are right anyway.

If not in the right order.

I will never listen to Drift in its entirety but the only album whose present ticks me off here is Everything Everything. Every version of every song (almost all of them classics) is consistently worse.

Presence, not present

this is, again, the wrongest opinion you've ever had xp

And the one I’m most proud of.

funny first time I heard EE I thought the exact opposite (minus "Cups", I guess)

I love the crowd noise on it. it sounds so good with banging house music like this. I mean, that whole idea has sustained Scooter for 25 years

frogbs, there's one recurring noise in the album version that annoys me and distracts me the whole song. It first occurs on the downbeat at 1:40 and it just annoys the f outta me.

hope Will's internet gets fixed in time to post his planned excerpts from TOO LOW: A Commemorative Monograph


here is a "my ballots, let me show you them" thread that exhibitionists can bookmark and reuse. (anyone who doesn't know: 77 is a search-engine-proof board, just ask to be let in.

Barking & BBWFASF way too low.

Didn't vote for OWB as a couple of tracks aside it's just not very good.

Was also surprised to discover BF is nowhere near as good as I remembered it being. (It would have been my #3 before relistening)

Apologies to maffew but I kept changing my #1 album between dubno & STITI and in the end went with dubno. There's nothing in it really and they're both incredible albums

i ended up finding OWB to be their weakest apart from Barking. the highs are still wonderful but it's a little patchier than most of their albums. i think Drift is a bit overrated too, there are certainly a few incredible all-time great tracks on it, but largely the quality is a little below their average.

what's the reason to post ballots in a 77 thread? it's not unusual for people to post ballots for a part of the poll after it's rolled out?

I see Underworld's shop is currently closed, the Drift box seems to be unavailable generally.

xpost - In this especial instance, it might clutter the conversation somewhat to have 23 near-identical lists of the same five albums posted over and over again, somewhere in the first 20% of the thread. :) And generally speaking, it makes poll threads really really really difficult to navigate after the fact, and absolutely trashes searchability sitewide for the titles or artists or films or whatnot - as I said over there, I've already made things extremely annoying and difficult for myself with two passes of the eligibility lists.

xp Wonder what they're up to with that store refresh. The whole Drift box is on streaming, and download stores like iTunes.

you’re all being ridiculous about owb, it’s all great

glam bucket, faxed invitation, AND best mamgu ever

to heal, crocodile, beautiful burnout. others!

it’s their jazziest and lowest key this side of second toughest and that is precisely the mode in which i love them the most

there was talk in the voting thread about how they ruined the studio version of “holding the moth” but the og hard techno disco “holding the moth” while amazing does not fit the texture of owb or the rest of riverrun really. i think they successfully made it more noirish and ominous for the album

xps... All of Drift had original videos on YouTube. Here's a link to a playlist that has them in order (the official one has them in reverse, and Dexter's Chalk not available strangely)

you’re all being ridiculous about owb, it’s all great

they all voted it the sixth best Underworld album tbf


RIP this afternoon to Rupert Hine, musician, director of songwriters' rights agency The Ivors Academy, and producer of the Underneath The Radar album

(also of Jon Pertwee's 1972 single I Am The Doctor, I just learned)

i was talking to the few ppl in this thread who were like “aside from a few tracks it’s not very good.” v hyped about its placement!

og hard techno disco “holding the moth”

tell me more...

its not like owb is bad or anything, i just ended up finding most of their other albums are even better after having previously thought it was one of the stronger post-beaucoup albums. really the only thing i don't like on it is "ring road". it spends more time than most on ambient interludes which ends up meaning there aren't quite as many standout moments though

kinda wish more of the album was in the vein of "holding the moth" idk

og holding the moth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYm03yOWd1s

album version is way better

I would say that having spent the last few weeks listening almost exclusively to UW, Barbara Barbara is now easily my third favourite album of theirs. So many great tunes.

barbara barbara is in contention for their best front-to-back

it's an amazing record

Only 2 votes for Oblivion With Bells is surprising. I'd think a lot of ILXors would dig that one.

― frogbs, Thursday, November 7, 2013 1:06 AM (six years ago)

ten years ago an Underworld albums poll could get 86 voters on ILM

Barking is way too low, wtf

I actually considered not including dubnobass on my ballot just to give Second Toughest an edge.