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
https://i.imgur.com/ETycXgp.jpg
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.
https://media.giphy.com/media/hR5Z9nH36gaZdE3zdq/giphy.gif
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
Border Country (Ø [Phase] Dark Room Tension Dub)
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
"fatboy slim asked me where my head was at and i said underworld"
― cheek, Monday, 15 June 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
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42. Most 'Ospitable 516 points, 12 votes 1994 CD B-side thing video video by Dirk Van Dooren & Graham Wood
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link
the most beautiful track on earth
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 15 June 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
that'll do, earth
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 June 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
Love Most Ospitable so much
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 15 June 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link
from pov: devastating tunes that make you curl up into the fetal position with a bottle of whiskey :
4. "Most 'Ospitable" by Underworld. Kind of an obscure B-side type and maybe not fully developed but my god is that synth noise both gorgeous and impossibly sad. ― frogbs, Monday, 22 April 2013 21:27
The UK single was the first every piece of Underworld music I ever heard. I'm a massive Underworld fan but this track remains my all-time favourite Underworld track, I wish they had made more tunes like these over the years
https://i.imgur.com/VwsqrJZ.jpg
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link
goodbye, mother
yeah this one still hits me in the gut
these guys really have a ton of one-off tracks that hint at new directions that they never fully took. I can't think of anything that sounds quite like this.
― frogbs, Monday, 15 June 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
So I went to look at the YouTube comments on Deep Arch and now I can’t unhear “peepee mouth peepee mouth”
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 15 June 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
lol! i was only reading what sic bravely brought back. Good job on the deep dive.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 June 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
The "talking into the void" nature of youtube comments really opens people up for heartbursting emotion, weird poignancy, and the occasional unguarded oddness. I'm rarely even looking unless there wasn't any/enough vaguely substantial ILX comment, but it's quite often unexpectedly enriching (and there are usually more comments on fan uploads than the official ones).
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u041-878187.png 41. Tongue 545 points, 11 votes 1994 album track from dubnobasswithmyheadman audio
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
Speaking of...
(None of them can touch "Tongue", though.) ― DJP, Friday, September 20, 2002 10:06 PM
audience video 2015 (Rickless tour)
Best track on the whole album.
it's my favourite song of all underworld's music. Unreal track!
make me cry all the times, to many memories ... london memories <3
Perfect song. I love the guitar on this track. Everything is stellar. Perfect. Timeless. Classic. Kiss my wound.
this music should have it's own catergory, 'Better than everything else.'
Shelter.
Slowdive rip offs
https://i.imgur.com/xee1zAc.jpg
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
I'm a huge fan of the specific-memory-based Youtube comments.
― cheek, Monday, 15 June 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
comes to think of it, it does sound a little bit like "Rutti", but "Tongue" came first as far as I can tell.
― cheek, Monday, 15 June 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
yea this is always the "wow forgot how good this one was" track on the album
― frogbs, Monday, 15 June 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/McR6gVV/au-king-aa.gif
who's ready to...
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
...kick off the top 40?
https://i.ibb.co/87zrQkp/au-king-xx.gif
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 21:58 (four years ago) link
"kiss my wound"? Sheesh. And now that I've gone directly to "Tongue" for the first time ever, that's clearly right. Somehow in my head it was "love".
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 June 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link
Nobody?
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 23:10 (four years ago) link
i’m ready
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 15 June 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
I'm invisible.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Monday, 15 June 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link