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

could we get a full countdown in text

also, wow. i was gonna joke about how long this rollout took but you really put together everything, everything

At the risk of making Brad sadder, I feel compelled to note that while I like "8 Ball" a lot I don't really think of it as a peak UW tune - it kinda sounds like the band was asked to write a soothing instrumental dub of "Pure Shores".

Doubtless everyone will tell me "yes, that is why it is great" - and I agree it's nice! - but not so exciting that I would put it above anything else in the top 50 or so.

(although with such depth of quality in tunes that's not at all the put-down it looks like)

compelled to note "+1" on this, lest Tim feel alone with his take.

could we get a full countdown in text

could swear there was a top 100 in text posted here, did I dream it or is it in another thread?

it definitely was here! maybe it's being redone, had some formatting issues

yeah, ILX mangled it and switched the year with the number of points. maybe because I upset it with musical note characters, or maybe the post was just too huge. trying again...

1 : Rez and Cowgirl * 1993 / 1994 * 2509 combined points, 44 votes from 24 out of 25 voters
2 : Dirty Epic and Dirty and Dirty Guitar * 1992 / 1994 * 2143 combined points, 38 votes from 25 out of 25 voters; 5x Epic #1s, 1 Dirty #1
3 : Pearl's Girl and Tin There * 1996 * 1955 combined points, 37 votes from 24 out of 25 voters; 2x Pearls #1s, 1x Tin There #1

4 : Juanita: Kiteless: To Dream of Love * 1996 * 1706 points, 24 votes, 4 #1s
5 : Jumbo   * 1999 * 1625 points, 24 votes, 3 #1s
6 : King Of Snake * 1999 * 1551 points, 25 total votes for various versions
7 : Mmm...Skyscraper I Love You * 1993 * 1393 combined points 21 votes for original, 6 more votes for other versions
8 : Cups * 1999 * 1388 points, 23 votes, 2 #1s
9 : Two Months Off * 2002 * 1371 points, 23 votes
10 : Dark Train * 1994 * 1338 points, 22 votes
11 : Appleshine Continuum and Appleshine * 2019 * 1259 combined points, 26 combined votes
12 : Rowla and Cherry Pie * 1996 * 1226 combined points, 13 + 12 votes
13 : Banstyle/Sappy's Curry * 1996 * 1215 points, 19 votes, 1 #1
14 : Born Slippy .NUXX * 1995 * 1068 points, 18 votes, 1 #1
15 : Dark & Long * 1994 * 1055 points, 19 votes
16 : Custard Speedtalk * 2019 * 987 points, 17 votes
17 : Low Burn      * 2016 * 944 points, 20 votes
18 : Thing In A Book * 1994 * 927 points, 15 votes
19 : Scribble and You Do Scribble * 2010 * 924 combined points, 18 total votes
20= Beautiful Burnout * 2007 * 888 points, 19 votes, 1 #1
20 = Always Loved A Film      * 2010 * 888 points, 17 votes
22 : 8 Ball * 2000 * 878 points, 16 votes
23 : Born Slippy (original) * 1995 * 866 points, 16 votes
24 : Spikee * 1993 * 854 points, 16 votes
25 : Nylon Strung * 2016 * 838 points, 19 votes
26 : Crocodile  * 2007 * 835 points, 18 votes
27 : Push Upstairs * 1999 * 825 combined points, 18 total votes
28 : Best Mamgu Ever  * 2007 * 808 points, 15 votes
29 : I Exhale  * 2016 * 745 points, 17 votes
30 : Mo Move * 2002 * 730 points, 17 votes
31 : If Rah * 2016 * 727 points, 15 votes
32 : Moaner  * 1997 * 724 points, 16 votes
33 : Surfboy and Spoon Deep * 1994 * 712 combined points, 16 total votes
34 : Luetin  * 2002 * 677 points, 15 votes
35 : Kittens * 1999 * 675 points, 14 votes
36 : Spoonman * 1994 * 669 points, 16 votes
37 : Stagger  * 1996 * 660 points, 14 votes
38 : Airtowel * 1996 * 614 combined points 14 total votes
39 : Bird 1 * 2010 * 613 points, 13 votes
40 : Twist * 2002 * 565 combined points 11 total votes
41 : Tongue * 1994 * 545 points, 11 votes
42 : Most 'Ospitable * 1994 * 516 points, 12 votes
43 : Border Country * 2019 * 505 points, 13 votes
44 : Deep Arch * 1996 * 495 points, 13 votes
45 : Dune  * 2019 * 488 points, 10 votes
46 : Mother Earth     * 1992 * 485 points, 11 votes
47 : Confusion The Waitress * 1996 * 467 points, 14 votes
48 : Ova Nova  * 2016 * 466 points, 11 votes, 1 #1
49 : Oich Oich * 1996 * 461 points, 11 votes
50 : Little Speaker  * 2002 * 451 points, 11 votes
51 : Another Silent Way  * 2018 * 441 combined points, 12 total votes
52 : Schiphol Test * 2019 * 432 points, 10 votes
53 : Glam Bucket * 2007 * 392 points, 10 votes
54 : Listen To Their No * 2019 * 385 points, 8 votes
55 : Something Like A Mama * 1999 * 384 points, 11 votes
56 : Brilliant Yes That Would Be * 2018 * 378 points, 8 votes
57 : Between Stars * 2010 * 376 points, 11 votes
58 : Winjer * 1999 * 372 points, 9 votes
59 : Faxed Invitation * 2007 * 363 points, 8 votes
60 : Tree And Two Chairs * 2019 * 350 points, 10 votes
61 : JAL To Tokyo * 2005 * 348 points, 8 votes
62 : Sola Sistim  * 2002 * 328 points, 10 votes
63 : Moon In Water * 2010 * 307 points, 9 votes
64 : Doot-Doot * 1983 * 277 points, 5 votes, 1 #1
65 : To Heal (And Restore Broken Bodies) * 2007 * 273 points, 8 total votes
66 : Peach Tree  * 2006 * 265 points, 5 votes
67= River Of Bass * 1994 * 255 points, 9 votes
67= Toluca Stars * 2019 * 255 points, 8 votes
69 : Eclipse * 1992 * 251 points, 5 votes
70 : Holding The Moth * 2007 * 250 points, 8 votes
71 : Why, Why, Why * 1993 * 244 points, 8 votes
72 : Downpipe * 2009 * 236 points, 7 votes
73 : Motorhome * 2016 * 233 points, 7 votes
74 : Please Help Me * 1999 * 232 points, 5 votes
75= Bruce Lee * 1999 * 226 points, 8 votes
75= Blueski  * 1996 * 226 points, 7 votes
77 : Brussels * 2019 * 225 points, 5 votes
78 : Pizza For Eggs [Riverrun 2] * 2005 * 224 points, 5 votes
79 : Dinosaur Adventure 3D * 2002 * 218 points, 7 votes
80 : 215 Miles * 1994 * 206 points, 5 votes, 1 #1
81= Threat Of Rain  * 2019 * 204 points, 7 votes
81= Soniamode * 2019 * 204 points, 5 votes
83 : Parc * 2008 * 198 points, 5 votes
84 : Pinetum * 2019 * 197 points, 4 votes
85 : Twenty Three Blue * 2016 * 193 points, 6 votes
86= Skym * 1999 * 189 points, 4 votes
86= The First Note Is Silent * 2011 * 189 points, 3 votes
88 : And I Will Kiss * 2012 * 186 points, 3 votes
89 : Phonestrap 6 / Autotrader 4 * 2008 * 182 points, 3 votes
90 : Minneapolis * 1992 * 178 points, 5 votes
91 : This Must Be Drum Street * 2019 * 174 points, 6 votes
92 : Ancient Phat Farm Coat * 2005 * 171 points, 3 votes
93 : Puppies * 1996 * 170 points, 5 votes
94 : Doscientos * 2019 * 166 points, 7 votes
95 : S T A R * 2019 * 165 points, 5 votes
96 : Ramajama * 1999 * 162 points, 5 votes
97 : Underneath The Radar * 1988 * 157 points, 4 votes
98 : Universe of Can When Back * 2018 * 157 points, 3 votes
99 : Louisiana * 2010 * 156 points, 4 votes
100 : Bigmouth * 1992 * 154 points, 3 votes
101 : I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This Is My Horse [Riverrun 3] * 2006 * 150 points, 4 votes

did anyone other than me vote for 020202 out of curiosity?

Nope!

too bad, it was one of my fave finds from all of the extra bonus stuff you introduced me too! (i don't think i said thanks yet so BIG THANK U for all of the work not just doing the poll but going the extra 50293 miles to add so much stuff to discover!!)

me to* wtf

did anyone vote "Swing Up High"?? I thought I did but apparently I forgot!!!

People voted for box-set demos and stuff but I don't think anyone voted for totally-unreleased-commercially songs

hashtag #meto

yes, but which mix? there are 2. we could do an Underworld remixes poll too because their mixes of Black Sky are also fantastic.

― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, December 16, 2008 5:37 AM

please to be making underworld remixes thread

― I am using your worlds, Tuesday, December 16, 2008 5:58 AM

Okay folks get ready

Check 1 / Check 2

I think that first link is blocked on copyright grounds? But thanks!

Still looks okay from here, fingers crossed

A bit of talk about the mk II origins from Darren Emerson in this 2019 interview btw (22 minute stream)

Thanks! My first attempt to VPN around it had failed but going to a third country worked fine.

bonus beats

whaaaat are we doing now? What's with hard vs soft? And bonus?!

strange, i thought the first link was taken down too... then it was fine when i opened it in a private window. But I think it was ok anyways and it was just some sort of ad? Anyways.

What's with hard vs soft

I aimed to make each one a flowing listen as an album; they often did two (and occasionally three) different remixes on a job; the probably-the-last-ever-Emerson-and-Rick remixes were named Soft Mix and Hard Mix; the Hard album tends to be more knocking techno and the Soft album more housey or balaeric, but mostly both bang and it's just a way of separating the alternate mixes.

And bonus?!

Other stuff that doesn't really fit the definition of an Underworld '90s remix poll, but is of interest to hear / satisfyingly completist anyway.

(I threw some extra Karl stuff into the albummy-things to give him some more representation, and because they fit in the listening flow, but won't include 'em on an eligibility list.)

I was supposed to have done an imgur collection of all the images by now - for anyone who would like that rest assured it is on the way.

Examining Discogs afresh, the editors believe that their earlier attempts to scry the various mislabelled Cafe del Mar singles resulted in inaccurate conclusions; it is likely that the "Underworld Mix" here is in fact the Hip Hop Mix, and not by Underworld. Mix Three is probably the "regular" Underworld Remix, and the unnumbered two are different takes of Dub Heaven: a 10-minute version featuring Mr Hyde on guitar on the 1993 UK CD single, and a 12-minute guitarless version on the 1996 reissue 12".

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My Underworld review from Glastonbury 1999. Dictated down the phone to my editor after I’d done a pill. Oh dear. pic.twitter.com/bfHZ5z5ueS

— Ian Wade (@WadeyWade) June 26, 2020

lol i wrote "it takes a nation of shopkeepers to hold us back" as a lyric once

fuck me these lads were good

Imgur'd Images album for which some additional annotation may be provided and with a couple updated.

is it smith & hyde or hyde & smith tho

Smith Hyde Productions is their company

😺 at gallery

🐆 chonky floof emoji

That Ian Wade live review is great! They just don’t write ‘em like they used to.

Finally caught up on all the tracks I had not heard before. I think most of the favorite Drift tracks ended up on the sampler, but it was cool seeing the videos. "Why Why Why" was my favorite new find - it certainly would have made my ballot if I'd heard it before. the band that keeps on giving

I should say all the placing tracks I had not heard before

12 Drift tracks in the 77 but only 5 of them on the Sampler

I'm going through the YouTube playlist and it's great so far. Underworld are like Stereolab or Saint Etienne for me where no matter how thoroughly I try to acquaint myself w their intimidatingly vast catalog, I STILL find non-album singles or compilation tracks or b-sides that blow my mind (this morning it's "Big Mouth").

I'm also surprised that 2 of the 3 Riverrun releases placed but not "Lovely Broken Thing", and that someone said upthread that it was clearly inferior to the other 2?? I always thought it was the strongest but haven't spent that much time with them, and "I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This Is My Horse" was WAY better than I remembered.

LBT has JAL to Tokyo and I like Peggy Sussed a lot but the rest feels a bit undercooked

TWELVE BY TWELVE: the best remixes made by Underworld in the 1990s, as voted by four ILX0rs

12. Mental Generation -- Cafe Del Mar (Underworld Mix Three)

Released 1993, probably done in 1992.

11. Björk -- Human Behaviour - The Underworld Dub (1)

Paired with its rarer twin on a 1993 10" titled Björk In An Underworld Adventure, cat # BJ DJ 104.

10. Eagles Prey -- Tonto's Drum (Darren Emerson Remix)

Despite the credit, one of the only full-Underworld remixes, including Karl on guitar. This ^ appears to be an extra long exclusive-to-youtube version, possibly too long to fit on a 1992 12".

it's happening!!

i had Tonto's Drum high. Not sure I'd heard it before.

Weird the youtube link won't play for me. Looks to be the same as what's on Spotify, which just has some bonus ambiance after the track. It sounded like a scuffed CD rip anyways so better off with your file.

I'd love it if the digital edition just left the DAT running by mistake.

09. The Chemical Brothers -- Leave Home (Underworld Mix One)

From 1993, and oft-collected thereafter.

i haven't been in an Underworld mood but bookmarking to revisit - looking forward to these remixes, have only heard the Björk so far

08. One Dove -- Why Don't You Take Me (Underworld Up 2 Down Remix)

One of the only instances where they were playful about numbering the additional versions of a mix. 1993.

lh1 already!!

07. Dreadzone -- Zion Youth (Underworld Mix)

1995 is the latest we'll be seeing anything place from. (1997 made a showing at #24.)

06. Saint Etienne -- Cool Kids Of Death (Underworld Mix)

Also from 1995, and an outlier in that it was mixed by Rick Smith solo (whether because Emerson though The Et were just too twee, or by chance as Rick was producing tracks for the band at the time, history does not record).

05. Shakespear's Sister -- Black Sky (Dub Extravaganza Part Two)

Our second example of a "#2" remix placing, this one from 1992.

04. Drum Club -- Sound System (Underworld Mix)

Only one version of this 1993 mix - one wonders if vote-splitting affected many contenders, or if there was a clear choice for every one of our massive voting audience.

Aww, assuming I know what the top 3 is so sad to see the amazing Simply Red remix miss out.

The Eagles Prey remix is part of my musical DNA as a ridiculous amount of 1993 was spent listening to this fantastic compilation whilst driving to various clubs all over the country