PENSIONERS TRAPPED IN THEIR HOUSES
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u082-514221.png 81= Soniamode (Aditya Game Version) 204 points, 5 votes inc one for OG 2019 free-to-mailing-list mp3 as part of Drift, rewritten for 2019 digital single original video by Simon Taylor & Ibrahim Muasher for Tomato Aditya Game video by Simon Taylor & Ibrahim Muasher for Tomato
THE SHADOW OF LEHMANN
CORPORATE WELFARE QUEENS
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
audience video 2019
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:01 (four years ago) link
ZOMBIE GOVERNMENT
ZOMBIE ECONOMICS
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/azvf0VZ.gif
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
THE BROKEN PROMISES OF AN ENTIRE POLITICAL CLASS
CAPITALISM'S DEFAULT SETTINGS
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
love the Soniamode story.
― cheek, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
All credit to Ned T Rifle.
Born lippy: how I helped Underworld write a socialist banger ― Ned Trifle X, Tuesday, May 21, 2019 9:17 PM Obviously not about me, I didn't help them. ― Ned Trifle X, Tuesday, May 21, 2019 9:18 PM
oh wait
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u081-625675.png 81= Threat Of Rain 204 points, 7 votes 2019 free-to-mailing-list mp3 as part of Drift video by Simon Taylor and Rick Smith for Tomato
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
others: i've gotta new boyfriend.. me: i've discovered new music
Holy shitballs, what an EPIC train ride through mental sound city. All aboard!!!
My interpretation of this track, for what its worth: A person trying to convince themselves they are ok (I'm good, I'm alright), but something dark is brewing deep within and gathers momentum until it literally erupts and takes over. When it finally subsides they are left with the aftermath. The threat of rain was actualised and boy did it pour and now everything is drenched.
https://i.imgur.com/aixzeAa.jpg
- this is their longest track in a very long time isn't it? -- If you don't count And I Will Kiss, then this is the longest since Ancient Phat Farm Coat.
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:46 (four years ago) link
epic... dark... brewing... drenched. Yes!Parc is another one I spaced on til this poll. What a groove. Would've been higher if it was on an album for sure.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:08 (four years ago) link
one thing about Parc...it feels like it should be longer. it fades out just as things are really starting to get good.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
If you don't count And I Will Kiss, then this is the longest since Ancient Phat Farm Coat.
Two weeks later, the 47-minute Appleshine Continuum was accidentally uploaded early to youtube...
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:23 (four years ago) link
there is no way that is next!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
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80. 215 Miles 206 points, 5 votes, 1 #1 1994 12" / B-side audio
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
Aha. A #1, wow! First occurrence yet i think? Classic. I had it down my ballot somewhere. We'll yet see "Thing in a Book" if this is any indication :)
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
Forgot to vote for this as it's not on Spotify. Remember buying both 12 inches *and* the cd single at the time to get all the different versions of Dark & Long they released (and so many were absolutely killer)
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link
I mean it's such an incredible collection of remixes from just one song. You obviously have the monsters that are Dark Train and Thing In A Book but then you also have this and Spoon Deep and also used to hear the Burts mix played out quite a lot in the clubs. Trying to think of another electronic act that got so much excellent material out of just one song and drawing a blank.
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
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Bugs me they left tracks off the boxsets, such as Dark & Long (215 Miles)
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 22:07 (four years ago) link
at the early part of this poll, I made a playlist of the stuff "left off" the boxset... it would have added 3 discs. 4 if you you add the Misterons "cutting room floor" mix (and you should!). That's still not to speak of remixes for others
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
I might stick my early-days compilation tracklists in the ballots thread, for fun. You can see why they left recently-remastered stuff from the 2012 best-ofs off, to respect obsessive fan purchasers, but the 7" Dark & Long probably could have made way for another of the "versions..."
The cutting room floor mix is so good, it should be available in higher bitrate quality.
(Based on consensus, we're treating the majority of the Dark & Long B-mixes as separate tracks, but will provide combined point totals eventually.)
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 22:20 (four years ago) link
http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u079-724265.png 79. Dinosaur Adventure 3D 218 points, 7 votes 2002 single from album A Hundred Days Off video live audio 2002
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link
xp Cool. Yeah my playlist didn't bother with edit versions and all that stuff, either
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
Dinosaur Adventure 3D is glorious, must be the next single. ― Ronan, Wednesday, September 25, 2002 12:30 AM
― Ronan, Wednesday, September 25, 2002 12:30 AM
Dinosaur Adventure 3D doesn't do anything King Of Snake didn't, but it's still a top choon...that's all it is, a top choon...― blueski, Wednesday, September 25, 2002 2:20 AM
― blueski, Wednesday, September 25, 2002 2:20 AM
https://i.imgur.com/6PHsfH6.jpg
a lot of it feels uninspired for this band...particularly "Dinosaur Adventure" which seems like an analgam of past UW successes constructed just for single purposes ... ― frogbs, Tuesday, February 5, 2013 2:18 AM
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
Chicken Lips remix of DA3D was a fave at the time with a kinda proto-Rex The Dog/electrohouse feel going on.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
This is one of the songs I underrated when voting. The beat is nothing particularly new for them but Karl's vocal is really memorable, makes the whole thing come together
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 23:44 (four years ago) link
He's overwhelmed by your appreciation.
https://i.ibb.co/NYG4g1J/gg-karlface.gif
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 00:57 (four years ago) link
215 miles was my number 1, and it was a close choice between that and one of the other dark and long “mixes”. 20 minutes long and doesn’t get boring, chugging along but constantly changing. In the U.K. at the time there was an arbitrary time limit on singles, it could be 20 mins including b sides, or 40 mins if it was all mixes of the same track. getting an album length cd masquerading as remixes really endeared them to me. Then the import cd was another 70 minutes and didn’t even have this track on it. Will love this forever. And it isn’t even on Spotify or the deluxe box set! Crazy
― I am using your worlds, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 05:26 (four years ago) link
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.
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.
well, better make sure you count
Sydney covers band HYJINX in March 2020, just before the world closed and Perth covers band Black vinyl plus New Zealand cover band leader Kezza, on acoustic guitar, by request of his wifenot to mention 60-something South African signpainter Raine Carosin, being given the run of her local
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 09:08 (four years ago) link
most covered is almost certainly "born slippy .nuxx"
lol at this from the wiki page for underneath the radar:
The album was recorded in one continuous single take and was promoted as such to underscore the technical expertise of the band members.[citation needed] Promotional appearances for the album's release featured the band playing the entire album live and in sequence.
― ufo, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 09:34 (four years ago) link
weird that "underneath the radar" was a decent hit in australia, nz, and south africa, but nowhere else
― ufo, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 09:35 (four years ago) link
well, better make sure you countplus New Zealand cover band leader Kezza, on acoustic guitar, by request of his wife
plus New Zealand cover band leader Kezza, on acoustic guitar, by request of his wife
Kez is my friend - he has tons of original prog-metal type stuff on BandCamp too - https://therocklords.bandcamp.com/
― aphoristical, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 09:42 (four years ago) link
:D :D :D !!!
Promotional appearances for the album's release featured the band playing the entire album live and in sequence.
In Karl's memoir, he says they'd record every night on tour and pop the cassette out and hand it to the crowd at the end of the show.
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 09:55 (four years ago) link
http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u078-712894.png 78. Pizza For Eggs 224 points, 5 votes 2005 digital EP (Riverrun 2) mixing excerpts of six semi-completed songs audio
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 09:57 (four years ago) link
the new net only ep's (2 so far, 3rd coming soon) have been so-so with moments of pure bliss and moments of "where's the skip button". they come bundled with tons of pics and have been played repeatedly at my place. ― biz, Saturday, May 20, 2006 8:01 AM
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 09:59 (four years ago) link
Too low!
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 11:04 (four years ago) link
pizza for eggs is cool but baffled it's higher than i'm a big sister
― ufo, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 11:07 (four years ago) link
Thought the Riverruns would place higher tbh. Will be a travesty if Lovely Broken Thing does as it is nowhere near as good as the other two. Have been enjoying the 20 minute version of Ancient Phat Farm Coat as didn't realise it existed until it placed in this poll.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 11:08 (four years ago) link
i hope "peach tree" at least is still to come
― ufo, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 11:14 (four years ago) link
they probably placed too low because of people like me who split the tracks out, I voted "Food a Ready" and "Back in the Fears" pretty high
― frogbs, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 13:51 (four years ago) link
yeah their placement is relative to the variety of ways of representing them on one's ballot. i separated out tracks. i expect peach tree to make it (rightly, it's one of the riverrun tracks like "jal to tokyo" that seems extricable from the project)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/M8uhY6Shu9NMzNe3ND/giphy.gif
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link
gahhhh i missed a day! i was gonna respond to "i like all of barbara barbara excpet for the first two tracks" with a very sterm emoji or something but it was like 3am my time so i was like "ill do it tomorrow" and then work happened when i woke up and i kinda forgot.
i wanted to like soniamode more (i mean i liked it, and ranked it, i just wanted to like it MORE) when i read that it was a "socialist banger" lol. alas
parc was a late cut for me! a great tune but i somehow had 80 songs ahead of it.
dinosaur adventure 3d did make the tail end of my list, although i feel like it's one of those songs that could be top 30 if i had given it a little more time to breathe, if that makes sense.
i somehow didn't rate/listen to 215 miles?! even tho i tried to listen to everything (everything)?! also can't speak to the drift tracks i didn't rate, as i really just blasted thru drift listening to most songs once except the ones i remembered to mark as "come back to this"
"pizza for eggs" (the title, i mean) always reminds me of my favourite inscrutable pro wrestling t-shirt of all time, "hard on eggs." also it is my favourite chunk of riverrun for sure, although... ugh there's too much stuff that didn't fit into 77.
hey look what came in the mail today!
https://i.imgur.com/c0zyZDu.jpg
this did not come in the mail i just wanted ot show what i was talking about.
https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/image/e9c3970ab036de70892d86c6d221abfe/e/g/eggs_hot_pink.jpg
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
gahhhh i missed a day!
In other words, you missed 3 song placement reveals.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
I'm listening to Barking again and everyone who isn't praising it is, well... barking
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u077-724265.png 77. Brussels 225 points, 5 votes 2019 free-to-mailing-list mp3 as part of Drift original video by Simon Taylor for Tomato (song completed in hours to soundtrack video) album remix audio
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
yeah but like... i missed... the conversation
also it was more than 3 no? i mentioned like 6 in my lil recap
xp NUMBER 77!!!!! ..but it's one of the drifty boys i didn't rank. i swear i will go back and listen to the ILX short version of it!
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:37 (four years ago) link
Funny, I was driving close to Brussels when this came on! First time I had come across this fantastic concept; I'm 60 and always have enjoyed Underworld ; to dance tog the , dream and deep listening. Loving the contrasts of tracks; Underworld magic, thank you
Nice beat, mixed melodies and the best speaking vocals in music period. Love it. Thursday bliss
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
Also those three song reveals had a solid eight hours of listening time.
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link