Underworld - Classic or Dud?

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I've always been under the impression that, a few slammin' singles aside, Underworld was the epitome of style over substance. However, hearing "King Of Snake" for the first time and going gaga over their live album is forcing me to reevaluate.

Therefore, I turn to my peers. What say you - is Underworld fab or foul? Beauty or booty? Wonderful or worthless?

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 17 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-six years ago)

Eh? Style over substance? Weren't you one of the people who heartily recommended _dubnobasswithmyheadman_ to me a month ago? :)

― Josh, Tuesday, 17 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-six years ago)

Um, yes. This was after spending THREE YEARS trying to get into the damn thing. I now like it a good bit, but I'm not nearly as passionate about that album as I am about many of their singles, such as "Dirty Epic", "Mmm Skyscraper I Love You", "Born Slippy (original)", "Pearl's Girl", "Cups", and "King Of Snake".

I recommmend _dubnobass..._ because that's the best Underworld album and it's a genuinely good album. _Second Toughest..._ isn't nearly as strong and hearing "Push Upstairs" and "Jumbo" put me off of getting _Beaucoup Fish_, which I'll admit might have been a mistake because "King Of Snake" and "Cups" both rank up there among the best songs they've ever done. (But is it another case where the single is stormin' and the album is limpid? I don't know.)

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 17 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-six years ago)

Dan, the thing with Underworld is that they have very consistent production and arrangement skills, which means that really you're gonna like each song based on how strong the tune is. Hence the singles seem fab, and everything else comparatively drab.

But "Beaucoup Fish" is worth getting. Both "Push Upstairs" improve the more familiar you are with them - both seem insanely repetitive to begin with, but I found both grew on me enormously once I went walking around the city with them on my headphones. Plus, you're missing out on "Cups" (deep house par excellence), "Bruce Lee" (hip hop meets Detroit techno), "Kittens" (a storming epic), "Something Like A Mama" (jungle-inflected track like "Pearl's Girl" with its tongue in its cheek) and of course "King Of Snake". It's a strong album.

― Tim, Tuesday, 17 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-six years ago)

I never really had a problem with Underworld being style over substance--more power to people and bands who can pull that off as consistently as they have. So, finding out (via numerous listens and re-evaluations and re-re-evaluations--I'm thinking of "Second Toughest..." here, an album I literally didn't listen to for over a year because it seemed to be such an unworthy follow-up to "Dubnobass...") that "Hey, there might be something more here than just a storming tune or some nice atmospherics" has just been the icing on the cake (or maybe the lovely dense cake hiding under the sweet and pretty batter?). The live album has certainly helped in this assessment, but it has also made me wonder lately why so many folks slag off "Jumbo," which is really a beautiful and (I think) quite emotional song (despite the standard Hyde lyrical meanderings, which I wouldn't have any other way, of course). So many reviews of "Everything Everything" have inexplicably picked on my dear "Jumbo" as the dud track, and I have to wonder if it's because it simply lessens the momentum of the album (albeit briefly) or if I have been hoodwinked into liking a song that might, upon further reflection, just be a cute little toss-off ditty that will eventually fade in comparison to the admitted genius of "Cowgirl" or "...Skyscraper..." Whatever the case, "Jumbo" is what elevated "Beaucoup Fish" from good to great for me, and served more than any other recent track (yes, even more than the overrated "Born Slippy") to reaffirm my belief that Underworld are fab, beauty, and most assuredly wonderful.

― Max Jones, Wednesday, 18 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-six years ago)

Underworld for me have always fallen down due to Karl Hyde's lyrics - back-of-a-fag-packet undergraduate cut-up nonsense which at best just distracts and at worst actively spoils the music, turning it from wide-ranging and danceable into a nasty urban noir mess. And his wannabeatnik delivery nobs me off, too.

― Tom, Thursday, 19 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-six years ago)

one month passes...

I kinda fall between the stools here...there albums are slightly dissapointing (with the exception of Beaucoup Fish)...a fair amount of their output is wank...but stuff like "Rez" and "Jumbo" are those moments when dance music just transcends itself...stunning......probably because Karl Hyde cuts out that annoying gibberish

― Michael Bourke, Monday, 4 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

*Underworld*? Mmm...yes, well, Josh was kind enough to send it to me but I haven't read the damned thing yet. Well, actually, I read the opening section yclept "The Triumph of Death" when it appeared in Harper's (see, there's Harper's and death again...that's why the mag's so goth), and I liked *White Noise* quite a bit as you all know so I can't imagine any recent Delillo not being any good, you know?

― Michael Daddino, Monday, 4 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

two weeks pass...

I thought underworld was just crap cause of the lyrics. but man, after hearing Jumbo, i beleive these guys to be masters of the art thaat is music, if not Gods. So much can be said for a single track to cause such revelation. by the way as cryptic as these lyrics are, why do all songs have references to "the city"? am i the only one that's noticed that.

― Keyur Patel, Saturday, 23 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Because they are like so urban and hip.

― Josh, Saturday, 23 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

three weeks pass...

Underworld, very tricky proposition. When they're good they are well amazing (Rez, Skyscraper, Cups, Juanita), and it doesn't depend on the vocals/no-vocals division of tracks, see for instance Cups which has lovely vocals. The long-players have all been patchy, usually the first 3 or 4 tracks are storming and then anything can happen. The 2nd half of Dubnobass...has some great stuff (Dirty Epic, Cowgirl), Secondthoughts never recovers and Beacoup Fish has Kittens, which is...is...the sound of taking lots of drugs and feeling very expansive :) So between classic and dud, leaning on the classic side.

― o.munoz, Thursday, 18 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

After "Rez" I could just about forgive them anything.

― Stevo, Thursday, 18 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

"Kittens". I heard a RealAudio excerpt of this when _BF_ came out and was suitably staggered. I was all set to run to the store to buy the album when I heard "Push Upstairs"... ew. (I've since grown used to that song, but I don't see anything overly special about it.)

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 18 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Underworld have never struck me as self-consciously hip. When I listen to their music, I hear genuine angst, not posturing. Of course, if you don't *like* angst...

― Snow Dog, Thursday, 18 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Well, okay. Having had an opportunity to at least listen to the first half of _Beaucoup Fish_, I'm somewhat staggered by how much I actually LIKE it! Granted, it's all stuff I've heard before, but if the rest of the album holds up, I'm going to have to temper many of the negative things I've said about them.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 19 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

So, after that initial euphoric burst, I've come down somewhat on encountering "Winjer", although I note that as far as vaguely-ambient Underworld nonsense goes, it's pretty damn cool. So, we're still in the plus column...

― Dan Perry, Friday, 19 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

four months pass...

It's obvious none of you were there in their 80s days, nor early 90s. Unfortunately, there are a lot of new fans of theirs with the release of BF, many of which don't understand them. You need to listen to an album fully (especially the 2 earlier ones), and repeatedly, and definitely see them live a couple of times. I find Karl's lyrics to be soothing oftentimes, and can sit around interpreting them for hours (even though they are, self admittedly, nonsense). There are other commercialized techno bands/groups/DJs where the lyrics distract a LOT more (Fatboy Slim? Daft Punk?) - and many are more repetitive than much of U/w's stuff. If you're listening to them to find dance music, find something else. Much of their stuff has been, and still is, ambient & moody, with the occasional club anthem strewn in. I find them a unique and rare band (well 2 of them, now), one which actually tries to innovate & mix their own stuff (look actual guitars).

Admittedly, I am biased (met them live several times) and I am more of an ambient/idm fan (ala FSOL & AFX) & some trance (Juno Reactor), and have been for over a decade, so there's your caveat and explanation of my fangirl-ishness.

― UW_fangirl, Friday, 25 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

They're great live and they're great to dance to when you're off your nuts. What more do you want?

― Dirty Dirty Dirty Dirty Vicar, Friday, 25 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

LAGER LAGER LAGER LAGER LAGER LAGER....etc.

I could listen to that all day. Or at least for about 4 minutes, when I'd get really irritated and want to bust up something. Still.

For the most part I find Underworld a bit boring but I still have their CDs because I like some of the songs. They're really not a classic or a dud, to be honest. They're more an existance.

― Ally, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

eight months pass...

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― rhamnose, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

Underworld for me have always fallen down due to Karl Hyde's lyrics - back-of-a-fag-packet undergraduate cut-up nonsense which at best just distracts and at worst actively spoils the music, turning it from wide-ranging and danceable into a nasty urban noir mess. And his wannabeatnik delivery nobs me off, too.

Strange - that's what initially attracted me to Underworld; and was the first step I took towards electronic/dance music - I hadn't heard any interesting throwaway cutup soundbytes-strung-together fractured- narrative stuff before, and the music seemed to be the perfect accompaniment to this - I couldn't imagine Karl Hyde-isms succeeding over a guitar backdrop etc. And as someone a very long way away indeed from Underworld's BritCity; it seemed oh so very exotic&mysterious&sexy. Inauthenticity of musical tourism, and all that guff; but Underworld were something I could be palpably excited by; and a doorway to a whole new world of music, apologies for RAGING CLICHES.

― Ess Kay, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one of the things I like about Underworld is the different moods on the albums. Cowgirl vs. Tongue. Pearls girl vs. Blueski. they do both the rock-out and the chill out pretty well

― Ron, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic, classic and more classic. As classic as they get. Once in a while I feel compelled to go back and play everything I have by them: all the albums, seven bootlegs, ten singles. I sometimes have to dig out their remixes too. There's nobody else where I do this.

And I love Karl Hyde's lyrics.

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

curiously enoght it was through underworld that i found this site. i frequently post on the foums at [url]http://www.dirty.org[/url] and fellow poster [b]girlthursday[/b] (minna) posted a link to this site.

i like all of their albums but [i]dubnobass..[/i] is defintely my favourite. i love the fact that the albums contain pure dance floor killers next to more downtempo tracks like [i]dirty epic[/i] and [i] m.e[/i]

they are also jaw-droppingly fantastic live - i've seen them seven times - and they were really the pioneers of taking dance music into the live arena and in so doing paved the way for bands like [b] orbital, chemical brothers[/b] and [/b]the prodigy[/b] to follow in their footsteps.

there's plenty of their live gigs available on audiogalaxy including the superb european club gig. fans should also check out [url] http://www.underworldlive.com[/url] which is an official site where you can download soundboard recordings of some of their gigs as well as some recent studio stuff such as the blue mountain sessions.

― matt, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

NOONE HAS MENTIONED "DARK AND LONG", NOONE. Well maybe someone, but it's a classic too.

― Ronan, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

does anyone else hear the chords to Brian & Roger Eno's "Always Returning" in "Born Slippy"?
since "Deep Blue Day" (also from Apollo) was in the movie, is this a connection/(not so)hidden-reference?

― Paul, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five months pass...

'luetin' was playing on the radio as i drove home, and afterwards the dj said "Hardcore electronica from Underworld!" which i thought was funny

― ron (ron), Friday, 20 September 2002 00:04 (twenty-four years ago)

Has anyone listened to "Tiny Clicks" and "Headset", the two "vaguely-ambient Underworld nonsense" (as Dan puts it) b-sides on the "Two Months Off" single? Both excellent - "Headsets" in particular is pretty fabulous - and they'd be about the first time I've really warmed to Underworld's non-dancefloor biznizz. Will have to think about getting "A Hundred Days Off" now.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 20 September 2002 03:26 (twenty-four years ago)

The hilarious thing is that "Winjer" is now one of my favorite songs off of _Beaucoup Fish_!

Those two tracks are great. I think I need to live with them a little more before they really sink in, but so far they're much better than, say, the ambient tracks on the "Pearl's Girl" single. (None of them can touch "Tongue", though.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 September 2002 12:06 (twenty-four years ago)

CLASSIC of course, Karl's lyrics and delivery an' all but again i urge you to seek out Underworld's early material if you like a larf...'change the weather', 'underneath the radar' esp. - i can almost see them supporting Talk Talk with It Bites on tour in 1987 hahahaha

― blueski, Friday, 20 September 2002 12:19 (twenty-four years ago)

Ronan, Dark & Long dropped into their live sets gets me going.

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 20 September 2002 12:22 (twenty-four years ago)

maybe we should do a Taking Sides - 'Dark & Long' vs 'Dark & Long (Dark Train)'

― blueski, Friday, 20 September 2002 15:42 (twenty-four years ago)

"Dark & Long" any day. That bass line is to DIE FOR.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 September 2002 16:21 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmmmm they played Dark Train last time and it was pretty amazing.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 21 September 2002 09:51 (twenty-four years ago)

they never played Dark Train or Dark & Long the times i saw them - bastads

― blueski, Saturday, 21 September 2002 13:05 (twenty-four years ago)

three months pass...

can anybody give me an explanation over the song born slippy? Tell me what is behind the lyrics... thnx

― bart, Saturday, 18 January 2003 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Born Slippy is about placentas.

now, on to my ancedote, which is about how the promo vinyl we got for 'King of Snake' was a 12" and os I put it on at 33 and it was SUPER FUNKY like WOW until Karl's vox came in and it sounded like he was a dying robot from planet Opium. So I put it on 45 and it turned into house music, which while quite good was not nearly as enjoyable as the 33 version.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Saturday, 18 January 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven months pass...

Dubnobasswithmyheadman- is tHe bEST underworld album. Fav track: Dirty Epic. anyone that don't like that song's gotta be heartless.

― whoever (whoever), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 07:26 (twenty-two years ago)

My fav one is Beaucoup Fish. Jumbo sounds more like Wire than Elastica ever did.

echo...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought "Spoonman" off "Dubnobass..." was flippin' ace!!! No one I know seems to like it!!!!! Mind you, I like repetitive techno bollox!!!!!!

I also went to one of the concerts (Broadcast on Radio 1!!!!!) at around the time of "Dubnobass...", (The same night as they found the body of Kurt Cobain!!!!) and it was grebt/GRATE/etc!!!!! Unlike the recent "live" album, it was one big long DJ mix style jam, mixing in various bits of their songs. The track on the live album which mixes "Cowgirl" and "Rez" is nearest equivalent- imagine a whole concert like that with most of the tracks from "Dubnobass..." and an early version "Born Slippy"!!!! (I've actually got a tape of it somewhere, taped of the radio...)

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG! I did the same 33-45 mistake with the "Kittens" promo, with the same effect: the slow version easily trumped the "right" version.

Anyways, Underworld is still classic because did I mention that "Tin There" is basically my favorite techno barnburner ever?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't care how much everybody hates it, I think "Underneath the Radar" is a fucking GREAT 80s pop song.

The kickass house/blues romp "Big Mouth" (with some guy named Philadelphia Slim whom I've never heard of on harmonica!!) is another awesome underrated early Underworld song. Underworld kicks ass.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

total classic. however, i was one of those american kids who was rather impressionable when trainspotting came out and when record labels were trying to push 'electronica' down everyone's throats.. but stuff like dubnobassman, second toughest and the pearl's girl maxi single kept me around for good. second toughest is one of the albums ive played more consistantly than anything else over the last 5-6 years.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

www.freakytrigger.co.uk/underworld.html

(I'm sorry I won't pimp out that article ever again, this is the millionth time, prob haven't written anything decent for free since, it was 18 months ago)

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic. They're one of the only bands my brother ever turned me on to. Second Toughest, I have to agree, is killer.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 January 2004 06:56 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

I am listening to _Beaucoup Fish_ right now and realizing that the only song on it that I dislike is "Bruce Lee".

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

the thread about electronic music that moves you reminded me of this band.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

DUD ^

― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i love Bruce Lee, where does that female monologue come from?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Hyde's lyrics are starting to annoy me more here and there these days, particularly on Luetin tho that is a fantastic track (a classic case of a track you are just casually listening to, a few minutes pass and then you just hit a moment and realise where you are who you are what's going on etc.)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 1530 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

actually tried to buy a ticket using half a dozen different browsers on three different devices and never even got far enough to learn what the ticket price was

― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 April 2026 00:57 (six months ago)

three weeks pass...

tight one-hour festival set from EDC last Friday — thrilling views of Rick’s patch label strips for each song, the “for2026” versions of Pearls & Kittens with the Boiler Room samples back in, opener is Born Slippy with Good Day Today sung over the top

― uploading this content requires perseveration (sic), Wednesday, 20 May 2026 23:39 (five months ago)

two months pass...

william orbit's passing brought "water from a vine leaf" to my attention. there was an underworld remix of it. it's pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYUoXO20_Qs

― shaking babies (map), Sunday, 9 August 2026 19:36 (two months ago)

no there wasn't

― uploading this content requires perseveration (sic), Monday, 10 August 2026 10:53 (two months ago)

there were three

(sort of. the "Underworld" mix is a short version of Underwater Mix pt 2.)

― uploading this content requires perseveration (sic), Monday, 10 August 2026 11:03 (two months ago)

three weeks pass...

Spoon Deep/Thing in a Book has got to be one of the best 12"s ever made, even by this group's standards its really good

― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 September 2026 18:11 (two months ago)

have listened to Thing In A Book about a billion times yeah

― ok star grumbles (lukas), Tuesday, 1 September 2026 18:43 (two months ago)

going to see them Friday night!

― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 1 September 2026 22:39 (two months ago)

frogbs OTM

― I am using your worlds, Wednesday, 2 September 2026 07:28 (two months ago)

listening to Dark & Long (Thing In A Book Mix) right now for the first time ever and this is fantastic

― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 2 September 2026 09:45 (two months ago)

NYC tonight!

― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Thursday, 3 September 2026 15:13 (two months ago)

can you do me a huge favor and let me know what the Knockout Center is like? I gather that the door time is 8 pm, if you could let me know what the line is like and how long it takes to get in, what time they take the stage, and end? I know that’s a lot of asking somebody I don’t know but it’s my first time at this place and I’m coming up from Washington for 24 hours basically.

― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 3 September 2026 15:27 (two months ago)

fwiw, Dice sent this out:

08:00PM - Doors 09:00PM - Underworld Set 1 10:00PM - Intermission 10:30PM - Underworld Set 2

Knockdown usually takes security pretty seriously, so there can be lines.

― bulb after bulb, Thursday, 3 September 2026 15:46 (two months ago)

two sets!

― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 3 September 2026 16:18 (two months ago)

thanks!

― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 3 September 2026 16:18 (two months ago)

might be seeing them in L.A. at an outdoor gig w/Moby and Nia Archives.

― omar little, Thursday, 3 September 2026 16:39 (two months ago)

two sets is what they did when we saw them in denver.

scene reports appreciated!

― shaking babies (map), Friday, 4 September 2026 01:59 (one month ago)

might be seeing them in L.A. at an outdoor gig w/Moby and Nia Archives.

― omar little, Thursday, September 3, 2026 5:39 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

this setup sounds fun.

i wonder where this is gonna be

26TH NOVEMBER 2026
???

― shaking babies (map), Friday, 4 September 2026 02:04 (one month ago)

Kalispell, Montana, I hope.

― wipes chooser (unperson), Friday, 4 September 2026 02:18 (one month ago)

frig i gotta see the 2 sets thing if they ever do it outside the States again

― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 4 September 2026 02:50 (one month ago)

(talking myself out of flying to Chile for a festival set)

― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 4 September 2026 02:52 (one month ago)

Was I tripping balls or did they perform their remix of David Lynch’s Good Day Today at the top of the second set?

― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Friday, 4 September 2026 06:28 (one month ago)

For those going on 9/4 to Knockdown, the line outside was 5 blocks, so I missed the first two songs. They started at 9 on the dot.

― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Friday, 4 September 2026 06:30 (one month ago)

oh thanks for the tip

― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 4 September 2026 09:46 (one month ago)

omg that setlist

they've been using the Lynch lyrics on top of Born Slippy (non NUXX)

― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 4 September 2026 10:07 (one month ago)

saw a clip of one of the new songs ("All the Xs"), they ain't slowin down huh

― frogbs, Friday, 4 September 2026 13:19 (one month ago)

sorry to hear that, nikola. security there can really snarl things up. we got there at 8:20 and there was fortunately almost no line.

great show, but it got very hot in there, especially up front. thought the mix was excellent.

― bulb after bulb, Friday, 4 September 2026 15:41 (one month ago)

yeah the heat was a big factor in the Chicago show, they had folks passing out free water bottles (a $8 value!) and I think I must've drank like four of them. wasn't enough for some people since I think two people passed out from heat exhaustion.

I think they actually came on a little early when I saw them, I remember checking my watch and thinking oh my god, they're due on in two minutes, I'm finally gonna see these guys (for context I got into them at 13 and have wanted to see them ever since...I'm 40 now), looked up and saw them walking out

― frogbs, Friday, 4 September 2026 16:10 (one month ago)

the tshirts sold at the gig refer to the show as a "live recording"!!!

― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 4 September 2026 16:42 (one month ago)

was there a warning sign posted in the venue about there being a recording? in concerts I have been in that seems to be the case

― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 4 September 2026 17:05 (one month ago)

@boring: yep
@bulb: and here I thought it was an extremely cool way to kick off the show with confusion the waitress haha

― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Friday, 4 September 2026 18:11 (one month ago)

tempted to try and go tonight

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 4 September 2026 18:32 (one month ago)

i wouldn't think anything of recording signs at a venue. the "crazy crazy" pizza box marketing for these specific 2 gigs wasn't known to be anything but cute promo, til the shirt that calls "crazy crazy" a "live recording"... so there's something coming.. live album or at least long YouTube or something!

― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 4 September 2026 19:10 (one month ago)

damn, wish I’d made it up to where frogbs was in chicago

tbf I was hanging back with my friend who was having some discomfort issues and it turns out that was cancer so uh, maybe next time we’ll all be up front and cancer free

I think I drank a $12 gin and tonic though

― mh, Friday, 4 September 2026 20:20 (one month ago)

xp it’s sold out

― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 4 September 2026 20:23 (one month ago)

no free water? DC clubs spoil me I guess

― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 5 September 2026 00:08 (one month ago)

I got in line at about 7:40 and am in now

― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 5 September 2026 00:08 (one month ago)

I copped a copy of their remix of 'water from a vine leaf' #grail

― ok (D-40), Saturday, 5 September 2026 00:10 (one month ago)

which one? #twonewgrails?

― uploading this content requires perseveration (sic), Saturday, 5 September 2026 01:04 (one month ago)

The tribal American one (I think it’s no 2)

― ok (D-40), Saturday, 5 September 2026 01:58 (one month ago)

one month passes...

how have they been live lately? they've just announced a tour here, doing the same two sets thing as the recent new york shows

― ufo, Wednesday, 21 October 2026 09:11 (one week ago)

best form of their entire career

― uploading this content requires perseveration (sic), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 09:46 (one week ago)

cf itt Underworld - Classic or Dud?

― uploading this content requires perseveration (sic), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 09:51 (one week ago)

I’ve seen them a few times over the last 25 years, and easily, they’ve never been better or more exciting live than now.

― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 13:02 (one week ago)

I gave Edgeland a proper listen recently after a minor breakdown/panic attack. It was beautiful, the perfect thing for me.

― Art Cow (Cow_Art), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 13:11 (one week ago)

yeah despite the heat in the venue the (second) NYC show I saw last month was amazing. everything I hoped it would be.

― Professor Woods and His Blues-singing Dummy (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 13:42 (one week ago)

as someone who listened to Everything, Everything dozens of times as a teenager and wanted to see them more than anything for the following 2 1/2 decades all I can say is they did not disappoint when I finally did, it was *that* good and maybe even better

― frogbs, Wednesday, 21 October 2026 13:52 (one week ago)

saw them before and after Strawberry Hotel came out, the before was better. thrilling show, felt like watching them discover Denver Luna live. rare to see a show where you feel like something is *happening*

― ok star grumbles (lukas), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 18:41 (one week ago)

ah that's sweet! I'm a little sad that they stopped playing the ones from Strawberry Hotel where they sing together (Denver Luna and Gene Pool)... who knows maybe they are continuing to shoot for the live release in Australia (they're also "crazy crazy" .. the title of the project.. i think).

At least they still do the Dark Train new singing bit

― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 20:13 (one week ago)

i have to admit I find the material post-Dirt Pt. 1 to be very disappointing. But Dirt set a very high bar.

― Professor Woods and His Blues-singing Dummy (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 20:16 (one week ago)

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