You're getting a banging donk on it already
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Sunday, 14 June 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link
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― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 04:47 (four years ago) link
Many, many, many, many people have asked me "Rick, how do you approach a remix?"
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 07:21 (four years ago) link
Rick Smith : How to Remix
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 07:22 (four years ago) link
Is everyone having a chilled morning?
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 12:18 (four years ago) link
Cute videosI'm good
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 June 2020 12:32 (four years ago) link
you know who is chilled?
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link
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48. Ova Nova 466 points, 11 votes, 1 #1 2016 single from album Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future video by Tomato / Simon Taylor KCRW session video 2016 (link at 41:45)
Respect to whoever gave this a #1.
Fantastic tune
― groovypanda, Monday, 15 June 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link
"low burn" and "ova nova" are very og underworld while the rest is verrrryyyy different ― BradNelson, Tuesday, March 8, 2016 5:48 PM
btw NPR is offering "Ova Nova" up as a streamable song and it's kind of incredible http://www.npr.org/2016/03/07/468737177/songs-we-love-underworld-ova-nova Between this and "I Exhale", I feel like they've finally hit upon an iteration of the "Bruce Lee"/"Ring Road" template that works extremely well for me rather than making me want to die. ― DJP, Wednesday, March 9, 2016 4:58 AM
instrumental audio
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fan cover
"Ova Nova" is so damn good, I'm getting chills from it ― frogbs, Tuesday, April 26, 2016 4:02 AM
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 13:02 (four years ago) link
bliss
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 June 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link
I was the guy who put this at #1, tough decision but it felt right in the end
― frogbs, Monday, 15 June 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link
chillest dude 2020
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 June 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
Ova Nova had managed to bounce off me completely until after the ballots closed, and it's currently one of my favourite Underworld songs.
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 13:26 (four years ago) link
Listening a lot to BBWFASF after submitting my ballot I wish I'd put it higher on mine too
― groovypanda, Monday, 15 June 2020 13:28 (four years ago) link
http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u047-208623.png 47. Confusion The Waitress 467 points, 14 votes
1996 album track from Second Toughest In The Infants audio live audio 1996
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
Barbara is so cohesive after the first two (excellent) tracks you almost don't want to talk about it cuz you might sound like you're calling it "samey"... but they're all distinct tracks that manage to sustain a certain...ok, chill(Holy crap, "Santiago Cuatro" is cuatro minutes long??)
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 June 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
i think ova nova was my highest rated barbara track? maybe if rah was higher. i refuse to look at my ballot and get acquainted with how wrong i was
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 15 June 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
― frogbs, Monday, June 15, 2020 6:11 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
extremely respectable no. 1!
I relistened to 2nd Toughest and, surprisingly, didn't hate it. I still feel like the recorded versions of most of the songs aside from "Rowla" and "Pearl's Girl" don't have the same impact that they do in a live setting (ESPECIALLY "Confusion The Waitress", which really kills the momentum of the album) but I have a much smaller chip on my shoulder about the actual album than I used to I still rank it behind all of their other albums though, except maybe Oblivion With Bells ― DJP, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:32 AM I never really had a problem with "Confusion". You kind of need to listen to it on good headphones to catch all the little things that go on on that album. It just captures SO MUCH of what was great about the whole 90's electro scene (dubnobass did too, but kind of had its own sound) ― frogbs, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:38 AM
audience audio 1998
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Darren Emerson remix, for more speculation on what he brought to their songwriting
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 14:24 (four years ago) link
she said
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 15 June 2020 14:25 (four years ago) link
You kind of need to listen to it on good headphones to catch all the little things that go on on that album.
very true
― cheek, Monday, 15 June 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u046-745074.png 46. Mother Earth 485 points, 11 votes inc 2 for FM 1992 12" by Tomato featuring Underworld audio 1990 demo audio (mp3)
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
omg M.E. is SO GREAT AND UNDERRATED ― Stevie D, Friday, September 23, 2016 6:40 AM good christ i love m.e., it's one of their hippiest sunrise on ibiza tracks too. ― nomar, Friday, September 23, 2016 6:52 AM I've never understood why people are down on M.E From day one, it's always been one of the (many) highlights on Dubno for me ― groovypanda, Friday, September 23, 2016 6:29 PM
FM Mix audio1991 live audio
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piano cover
Although I don't understand why folks are so down on 'M.E.' ... I love that one! ― Turrican, Thursday, June 2, 2016 5:57 AM M.E is ace. One of my favourite tracks of theirs. ― groovypanda, Thursday, June 2, 2016 6:01 AM
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
I shoulda voted for that one.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Monday, 15 June 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link
Still one of my favourites although this being Underworld, that wasn't quite enough to make my top 10
― groovypanda, Monday, 15 June 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u045-005880.png 45. Dune 488 points, 10 votes 2019 digital single as part of Drift Volkswagen Play The Road video 2013 Drift video by Simon Taylor and Carys Staton
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
Another find from the Drift box on relistening for this poll. A beautiful thing
― groovypanda, Monday, 15 June 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
I was in front of my computer today for 8 hours. This track played on repeat for each of those 8 hours.
Love it. As many others have said, it's like a follow-up to Sola Sistem, but this time there's glimmers of hope :)
Ok, is this only me now or is Dune like the perfect successor to Are you rockstar? I mean, same vocoder setting, same lead?! Just put on Are you a rockstar and wondered why I was listening to Dune. Hm...
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
who else played this so much early on that the new vocal take on the box is still jarring?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 June 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
*karl voice* tuuuuuuuuuune
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 15 June 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
yes!! in iTunes I put "Are You Rockstar" as track 1 on episode 3
I'm sure it's been mentioned a few times but this track brings back nearly the entire sound palette of AHDO
― frogbs, Monday, 15 June 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
and beats most of it!I scratched the lyrics down on a notepad one day as I absolutely couldn't follow them through the song otherwise.... they really drift by somehow.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 June 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
I made some very tough cuts to get Dune in my top 10 and still feel I under-rated it. some of my favorite Karl lyrics, and somehow they feel especially evocative, especially that middle section.
― cheek, Monday, 15 June 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
I ranked it right about here. I'm still gonna say "too low!"
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 June 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
I remember telling a friend of mine (who was into Underworld a long time ago, hasn't heard anything from them since, idk, 1999 or so) about what they were doing and he was like, "that's cool but I can't imagine listening to all that". ten minutes later he sent me a link to "Dune" and wrote "I wasn't expecting this at all, this is insanely good"
― frogbs, Monday, 15 June 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
And about these lyrics. They're as nutty as they are pretty. Moaning like a dartboard? Haircut like a fish? Are my ears broke?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 June 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u044-917064.png 44. Deep Arch 495 points, 13 votes 1996 CD5 b-side audio
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
18 years ago first panic attack happened to me and I didn’t know what to do and how to get rid of that sudden and desperate anxiety. Somehow that piece helped to become much calmer.
One of my absolute all time fave Underworld tracks. I often play this towards the end of a very long night/DJ set. Mesmeric.
In this ego dominated world, this is just one little piece that fights in the corner of soul.
Makes me happy to be alive knowing that theres music like this to soundtrack my life. So many fond memories to this. Lying down on my conservatories couch on a summers evening after 'winning' my first girlfriend from the near clutches of a school mate. Feeling the warmth of the evening and the warmth in my heart, this song will always take me back to those times. Even if she did turn out to be a stuck up bitch.
I must have listened to this track a few thousand times by now, and I never get tired of it. It`d be the perfect soundtrack to some eerie time-lapse montage: maybe a lightning-quick trip through unnamed cities at night, or rushing unseen over endless seas of grass as the sun sets, or... I don`t know. Enough to say it`s a magical track. Thank you Smith and Hyde for this beautiful music. Genius.
They never disappoint. So many of their productions can be listened to countless times. I'm delighted to have existed in the same period of time when they made the world just perfect.
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
tsk, audio
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
Man, I'm an idiot not voting for this one.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Monday, 15 June 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
deep arch too low on my own ballot (had it around 30). this is my favourite subtype of underworld song, the kinda song that it just feels like i can hang out inside it forever.
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Monday, 15 June 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
Really a great bookend for the EP's opener "Tin There," too.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Monday, 15 June 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
*looks up US compilation tracklist* wow that's bonkers having Pearls Girl (edit) and Pearls Girl (album version at tracks 6 and 7 out of 9, especially not having (Carp Dreams... Koi) at all
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u043-409790.png 43. Border Country 505 points, 13 votes 2019 free-to-mailing-list mp3 by Underworld and Ø (Phase) as part of Drift
video by Simon Taylor and Jan Urbanowski audience video at Sydney Opera House, 27 days before release
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
this is one of the best yet from Drift ― ufo, Friday, June 28, 2019 9:48 AM oh my fuckin GOD border country ― BradNelson, Friday, June 28, 2019 10:19 PM it is really quite something ― maffew12, Friday, June 28, 2019 10:41 PM well this is good ― DJP, Friday, June 28, 2019 10:53 PM
well this is good ― DJP, Friday, June 28, 2019 10:53 PM
Cocoon 20 live promo audience video at Wembley Arena, their last gig before lockdown
second half in particular is amazing. this has got to be the fastest track they've done since..."Tin There" maybe? crazy one thing I can't figure out is how the songs on this EP are gonna fit together...they're all very different from each other. I wonder how much they're gonna tweak for the release. ― frogbs, Saturday, June 29, 2019 12:16 AM
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
Deep Arch Youtube comments are wild lol!
Border Country WAY TOO LOW
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 June 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link
what i love about this band is that they have never lost their touch over the decades ... still true to the original sound yet able to innovate and write the books for other to come ... ! if anybody would ask me who started techno and the genre whitout esitation i'd say underworld any given day ... ! love you guys thx for your work and energy !
This is like flying over a city in the future at night! Amazing stuff! It’s not just like you’re listening to a track. Underworld creates some kind of an audio MOVIE where you are in the very centre of it. Pure masterpiece, not less.
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this is one of the best DRIFT tracks so far, no doubt. it sits up there with Listen To Their No and Appleshine Continuum for me. the visceral and bombastic intensity is the mere reason as to why this track so great...it really does hark back to the STITI era, especially with that high BPM. an absolutely essential release.
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 19:59 (four years ago) link
deep arch too low
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 15 June 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link
everything too low
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 June 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link