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

jam scraper rules i voted for it

I can actually remember the first time I heard it. I think I downloaded it from Kazaa and thought it was like a sequel to Kittens. Still can recall how weird it made me feel the first time I heard it

Love that the first 3 seconds has a hard kick drum that's immediately abandoned.

Let's acknowledge the adorable aptness of nashwan's image for Puppies, too.

I honestly find it surprising that they went with the 1994 version instead of the later 1996 album version of this piece

https://i.imgur.com/czeG2zu.jpg

If we are acknowledging Jam Scraper, does that mean that it got more votes than Telegraph 6.11.92? In which case humpfh.

no spoilers!!¡!

but yes, twice as many votes, and nearly twice as many points

more than twice as many points

what's this about 94 and 96?

I dunno tbh, when there aren't any sourced quotes from ILX I've grabbed some comments from youtube or elsewhere, and I wondered if someone here would be prompted by that!

oh it's about Puppies? No idea.

Puppies into Mosaic = their most unsettling two track run

heebies & jeebies. Wonder if we'll see Mosaic here

Puppies is great, very interesting sounds. The Pearls Girl US CD was another release I really underrated

Love that the first 3 seconds has a hard kick drum that's immediately abandoned.

yeah I really think this is brilliant

http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u092-068376.png

92. Ancient Phat Farm Coat
171 points, 3 votes
2005 b-side to JAL To Tokyo, a small excerpt also appears on Pizza For Eggs

audio

oh nice

another strange one-off. you'd never know it was Underworld. though maybe the piano underpinning gives it away.

Brad, discovering the existence of the 20-minute original:

excuse me there's a what

― BradNelson, Thursday, May 14, 2020 3:46 AM

I'm really going to have to learn the track titles for the riverrun stuff for this poll, huh. FINE.

― lukas, Thursday, May 14, 2020 3:56 AM

morning y'all

I'm sure I've posted this in at least one UW thread but every time this comes up on shuffle I'm always struck by how much it sounds like early 90s Underworld

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJa7v17kqqA

"ancient phat farm coat" ended up being really high on my ballot

prob my favorite ambient(???) underworld track ever at this point

also confirm or deny that they exported the piano from this track onto "best mamgu ever"

frogbs: Makes me think of 2002 b-side "Headset".

i somehow spaced on the long Farm Coat til this morning. Beauty. I'd only known the 8-minute "short excerpt" all this time :)

yeah sounds the same as the Mamgu piano to me

oh yeah I forgot about that one entirely

also reminds me of Freur's "Alabaster White Thing"

Yes. I'm now hearing that for the first time. Neat.

http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u091-643921.png

91. This Must Be Drum Street
174 points, 6 votes
2019 free-to-mailing-list mp3 as part of Drift

video
album remix audio

honestly "Do you wanna buy my car?" is one of my favorite Karl lyrics

one of the catchiest drift tracks

this kicks so much ass

― BradNelson, Monday, April 15, 2019 5:02 AM

this would be a nice one to stretch out to 12+ minutes

― frogbs, Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:16 AM

https://i.imgur.com/B2k0l3h.jpg

Now they can also do techno pop music? Oh my God !!!

i quite like this, it's simple but catchy. Love hearing Rick's voice reciting random(?) words when we'd expect Karl. Speaking of, Karl's two lines are so dreamily produced, they become like a calming mantra...especially if one puts the track on repeat as i did yesterday and today for commutes!

everything starting to feel 'too low' already lol. Love this one. Had it at #49

http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u090-140108.png

90. Minneapolis
178 points, 5 votes inc one for ...Airwaves
1992 12" AA1 and AA2 by Lemon Interupt

audio
Minneapolis Airwaves audio

I'm not sure why I hadn't heard this before

Omg that graphic.

i thought i listened to pretty much everything but apparently i missed sooo muuuuch!!!

audience video 2014

- First, just saying... But why the name Minneapolis

-- because the song is named after minneapolis.

- Chanhassen is not Minneapolis by any stretch of the imagination

-- they name a lot of songs after places. why not?

- Jesus this isn't an act of war I was just curious the back story.

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

Underworld have a handful of incredible tracks they've played live but not released. I'm not sure of other bands who still work on ideas while on stage in front of 10K-20K fans. They did a version of Ring Road on one of their live broadcasts where they used Minneapolis as the backing track. Worked out great.

― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, October 20, 2009 3:59

audience video 2017 with Ring Road lyrics

things I've learned so far in this poll:

1. Underneath the Radar was way more popular than I ever imagined. wondering what the most covered Underworld song is now, and where that stands in the ranking.
2. I slept on the Drift videos, they're really well done. apparently I have hours of watching to do.
3. need more live mashups after watching Ring Road + Minneapolis.

Think there's a few obvious (and fairly horrible) trance covers of Born Slippy so at least this one tries something different

Ha, Born Slippy as Cornflake Girl. I don't hate it!

http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u089-220311.png

89. Phonestrap 6 / Autotrader 4
182 points, 3 votes inc Will voting for one of each title
2008 track from digital EP Phonestrap

audio (8 min)
full EP audio (18 min)

So muß sich Musik anhören

nice trip! i love them

good sound )

that whole phonestrap series was such a lovely surprise! a nice little tune playing telephone with itself into weird spaceworld

if i'm following the telephone game going on in here, i think Karl sold his car to someone in Minneapolis using Autotrader?

http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u088-284165.png

88. And I Will Kiss
186 points, 3 votes
2012 Olympics opening ceremony segment, feat. Dame Evelyn Glennie and The Pandemonium Drummers, released on Isles Of Wonder

Opening Ceremony "Pandemonium" video 2012

Opening Ceremony 'Pandemonium' video 2012

I cannot put into words how good this was. The actors were outstanding, the music was perfect and how creative you got to be to put this all together that only a absolute genius can do. Love this man front row with tears in his eyes and how proud he is 15:53. Will always remember this for the rest of my life.

I was lucky enough to be one of those on stage, hauling sections of turf in the industrial revolution - it was the best, most memorable and moving night ever! So very proud to have been (a very small) part of it

One of the greatest moments in the televised history of the world! A masterpiece.

This song simultaneously inspires me and makes me think I’m wasting my life.

I was lucky enough to be there that night and will take to my grave the pride to be British and the emotion this piece brought to the stadium. Seven years later I marched on Parliament, so ashamed am I of the mess made of this most divided country by those driven by self interest and introspection

I hit a big dislike because i had to watch this because of school

audience video 2018

tsk - audience video 2018

Forgot about that Ring Road/Minneapolis mash up, that's so good. is my mind playing tricks on me or did they do that during a radio broadcast once?

glad Phonestrap got a few votes, always been a fan of that one

It was bld's quoted reference to a broadcast version in the '00s that set me finding that 2017 one!

I can only assume that And I Will Kiss scored three votes because nearly everyone hadn't heard it, btw. Rick being hospitalised at the end of the ceremony was probably at least 50% just having written this, months earlier, catching up with him.

wow yeah I don't think I've heard this one

http://ghostfood.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u086a-617443.png

86= The First Note Is Silent
189 points, 3 votes
2011 12" by High Contrast featuring Tiësto & Underworld ‎

promo video (directed, shot and edited by High Contrast}
audience video (High Contrast dropping the acetate .wav a month before release)