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

The lowest-scoring track received just one point, and was released in 2019.

The lowest-scoring track to get multiple votes scored two points, and was released in 1979.

I was one of the voters for that then

and was released in 2019.

(in studio form: it had been performed live from the early C21st, and included in part on a live album.)

Go for 100! Just start now!

I was one of the voters for that then

I love that both of the voters for I Just Can't Stand Cars by The Screen Gemz wanted to rep it exactly the same amount :)

ahundredtracksoff

Go for 100! Just start now!

look, I dunno if we can start from 100

101. I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This Is My Horse
150 points, 4 votes
2006 digital EP (Riverrun 3) mixing excerpts of five uncompleted songs

audio

i do wanna rep for "i'm a big sister, and i'm a girl, and i'm a princess, and this is my horse" which i went to sleep to for a few months
― ufo, Wednesday, May 6, 2020 10:16 AM

https://i.imgur.com/fU4NpJ9.jpg

the whole EP is great but "Wedge"/"Showlder" is really some of the most gorgeous music I've ever heard in my life
― frogbs, Wednesday, May 6, 2020 11:03 AM

I like the "11 Hundred Hz" tag.

I voted for I Just Can't Stand Cars as I do quite like it, especially the harmonies towards the end, and wanted to give it some recognition. it probably isn't in their best 77 tracks tbh.

oh look, maybe we do have some graphics lying around after all

http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u100-884652.png

100. Bigmouth
154 points, 3 votes
1992 12" by Lemon Interupt

audio

lowest scoring.....I dunno, did someone put in Mile Bush Pride? Interesting little thing.

oh whoops. uhh. I'll come back.

The kickass house/blues romp "Big Mouth" (with some guy named Philadelphia Slim whom I've never heard of on harmonica!!) is another awesome underrated early Underworld song. Underworld kicks ass.

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, January 8, 2004 4:32 AM

audience video 2015
audience audio 2003

(on a Country Techno thread:)

lemon interrupt/underworld's 'bigmouth' possible precursor. (is a harmonica country?)

― special guest stars mark bronson, Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:55 PM

The title was standardised to "Bigmouth" when re-released by Underworld.

https://i.imgur.com/6k2aQW7.jpg

(Philadelphia Slim does not exist. Patrick Hernandez did not write this song.)

hmm. I didn't vote for any of the Riverrun EPs as a whole but I did put on a lot of the individual tracks. Big Sister is really great, everyone should hear it

I love that both of the voters for I Just Can't Stand Cars by The Screen Gemz wanted to rep it exactly the same amount :)

― an, uh, razor of love (sic)

I was the other, something about its scrappy charm made it seem perfect for #77!

Re-listening now. This song makes me smile. na na na na

side-note, the Youtube version I listened to had it listed as "I Just Can't Stand The Cars" and I briefly wondered if I had somehow missed the period of MK.5 Underworld where they made diss tracks

http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u099-573079.png

99. Louisiana
156 points, 4 votes
2010 album track from Barking
video by Danielle Short & Toby Vogel

holy crap these visuals are great. this is my favorite track on Barking and in my top 10, this list is gonna be crazy.

wish I had voted in this. for albums Beaucoup Fish would have been #1 for me

Love Bigmouth. Harmonica techno ftw

Louisiana is a great song! It's uncool to not like it. See also the UW remix of William's Last Words by Manic Street Preachers, which for me captures a similarly reflective / somber tone.

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:38 AM

demo as Jumping The Cran

https://i.imgur.com/jlvSM8s.jpg

Reminded me of Talk Talk.....

reminds me of mark hollis,and that aint no bad thing.love it.

yeah love the visuals

http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u098-750093.png

98. Universe Of Can When Back
157 points, 3 votes
2018 youtube video as part of Drift
video by Simon Taylor
extended EP audio

I got a bit carried away and put this at #10, maybe a bit high, glad I got it in though.

Featuring Lewis Taylor on saxophone.

love the new EP by the way. Universe of Can When Back/Dexter's Chalk/Another Silent Way is the hardest they've gone in a long time....feels like a certain stretch on Beacoup Fish.

― frogbs, Saturday, December 15, 2018 5:04 PM

album remix audio

It's like the riverrun and keeps running, love where this is flowing

https://i.imgur.com/zuY5AOI.jpg

aw. Louisiana is beautiful. I feel bad not voting for it. That's going to be happening a lot here. It doesn't make me uncool. it doesn't.

... quietly violent (ಥ﹏ಥ)

The start of drift! So hard! Too low! 30something for me

whoops I thought Another Silent Way was up, with that graphic. I enjoy this song also. Goodnight :D

"i'm a big sister" way too low!!! i voted for it as a whole because figuring out how to rank the split-up parts was too much work

yeah, Universe never got a "sleeve" of its own, as it didn't come out for download until the EP.

might drop the sleeve / label images if they're distracting, especially before discussion really ramps up

they're fine imo

Listening to the first of the 1990 demo tapes while I prep more weekend posts and: loooooool at "Sex Lies"

Louisiana was #77 on my ballot so must have placed fairly high with those other three voters

Lovely tune though and totally get the Mark Hollis/Talk Talk comparisons

Also thought Big Sister would be higher but then vote splitting I guess if people have voted for individual tracks rather than than the piece as a whole

images always fun

xp Yeah I did a few Riverrun specific tracks only (plus Riverrun on album ballot), as if I had to consider the three as full movements they'd crowd up my top 10 "tracks" I guess. anyway I appreciate this choose-your-own-adventure style!

http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u097-450041.png

97. Underneath The Radar
157 points, 4 votes
titular single from 1988 LP
video
full-length audio

I gave that a vote. Said all I had to say about it upthread.

ah wow these track rollout images weren't showing on my phone earlier (using Flagging app) - great job!

that's Underneath The Radar from Underneath The Radar, the first release under "Underworld"

'live' on children's TV 1988
soundboard audio 1988

Hahaha yes so glad to see at least one mk1 tune place. Such a great earworm.

Since it probably won’t place can I just say the thumbnail YouTube uses for “Stand Up” always makes me laugh.

lot of great gif material in Stand Up... too bad it's really rough and in 240p

is there "underneath the radar "? hip a noo now now ...

― retroboy, Sunday, January 8, 2006 5:03 PM

https://i.imgur.com/PT4tsO2.jpg

As their biggest hit single, the song is well-remembered, and often revived.

Here's KYA reinvigorating it in November 2019

2006 Big Brother contestant Danielle And who can forget when Big Brother contestant Danielle launched her singing career by performing it on the 2006 season finale special?
It went well, as one can see from this live date on her tour a few weeks later.

She was the youngest housemate of Big Brother 2006. Danielle became romantically involved with Dino after Katie's 20th birthday party.

First minute of Underneath The Radar is easily the beat thing MkI did, love the perfectly timed mix in / mix out as the first guitar note hits, was just thinking about how Blockbuster by The Sweet pulls off exactly the same trick.

Don't think I've ever listened to the two MkI albums but that song's actually pretty good and the chorus is already stuck in my head

what's astonishing to me is that MkI had one good song and padded it out to two not-very-good albums over three years, then MkII put out enough amazing material to fill four CDs over their first two years.

Is that their one good song then?

(so not worth listening to anything else from that phase?)

I liked the whole album (and not the second) as a kid, as noted upthread, but that's the best one. It's probably interesting to hear them mixing woinging electronic sounds, and Karl making weirdish vocalisations and inflections, in a rock band context, when you're coming from the other direction.