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"Cowgirl"

― Grand (grand), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 18:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

nuh uh

― jonathon, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 18:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

banstyle/sappys curry

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 18:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

Pearl's Girl

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 18:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

Juanita/kiteless/To Dream To Love

though this can and will change throughout the day.

― biz, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Dirty Epic"

― Dan (Here Comes Christ On Crutches) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

Juanita/kiteless/To Dream To Love

though this can and will change throughout the day.

I Agree With This Post

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Shudder/King of Snake"

― ghost dong (Sonny A.), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

Spoonman

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

Big up to Beaucoup, but I'd give it to "Jumbo."

― Nbarbour, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

dan got there with the correct answer before me.

i haven't listened to dubnobass ... in years. i need to rectify that.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

pearl's girl

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

Rez

― Michael B, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

mmm skyscraper.....

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

That version of Born Slippy without the chanting.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

kate beckinsale

― keyth (keyth), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

Pearl's Girl - 144996 version

― blunt (blunt), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

banstyle / sappys curry

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Thing In A Book"

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

*14996. probably unlistenable anywhere other than a packed dancefloor btw but 'Underworld' and 'album' only sounds interesting in terms of graphic design

― to meee (blunt), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

to you?

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

Ned T Rifle and keyth make compelling arguments.

― Dan (Mmmm Kate Beckensale I Love You) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

"mmm skyscraper... (jamscraper remix)" of this one: http://www.discogs.com/release/98208

― tylero (tylero), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

I like lots of them, though Banstyle/Sappy Curry is a very good one. I only ever listen to that Thing in a Book track when on the train to London, but it is good.

I don't like picking one from this kind of band, as it's not really about that for me, but Banstyle/Sappys Curry is as close as it gets.

Actually, there's one called Oich Oich that I like a lot too... Maybe that.

― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

Mmm Skyskraper

― van igloo (van smack), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

I also really like "Dirty -DMD Remix"

― van igloo (van smack), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

Pearl's Girl.

hon. mention to Jumbo and the first 30 sec. of Cups.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

Rez or MMMM Skyscraper

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

Rez plods like a fule. Vid was aight

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

Needs: +3% pitch, -Goa mud

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

rEz

― ACIEEEEEEEEED, Thursday, 18 May 2006 03:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Rez" only works live and mostly because of the accel/deccel thing they do.

― Dan (IMO) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 May 2006 03:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

Jumbo. The Rob Rives & Francois K remix of it is good too.

― Bn1 (Bn1), Thursday, 18 May 2006 05:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

stand up

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Thursday, 18 May 2006 05:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

River of Bass ad lib

― Max Blazevic (kitaj), Thursday, 18 May 2006 06:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

'rez / cowgirl' off the live album.

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Thursday, 18 May 2006 06:37 (7 years ago) Permalink

Two Months Off

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

long and dark

― grapple (grapple), Thursday, 18 May 2006 08:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

'cups'.

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 18 May 2006 09:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

Cowgirl

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 18 May 2006 09:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

rez/cowgirl off the live album also.

close run with dark and long dark train version.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

The original, non-Nuxx version of "Born Slippy"

― Scott Warner (thream), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

rez/cowgirl off the live album also also

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

the versh of 'dark and long' off of 'trainspotting'

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

Dark & Long (Dark Train remix). Easily too.

― rchinn (rchinn), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

yeah that's the one.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

SOMETHING TO DO WITH MINIMAL VOX

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

Can't recall if it's "spoonman" or "surfboy" that i'm thinking of (think it's the latter), but it's the one where they go all stuttering miami electro bass and have the rising pitches sorta trailing off throughout the song, until it builds up and starts going "doo doo doo doo. doo doo doo doo" with this great little sound. that's always been a favorite.

but overall i'd probably go with "dirty epic" just for repeat listening value

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

ripping my dubnobass vinyl will have to wait a couple of weeks. but as i type, i'm listening to "dirty epic", which i've just bought off fucking iTunes as i couldn't find a decent enough rip elsewhere. this is maybe the first time i've heard it in ten years. right now there is a case for it being the single greatest song ever made.

i love rediscovering forgotten favourites. thank you, ILM.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 18 May 2006 21:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

the piano. the glorious piano. o god. "shaken in my faith". godlike.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 18 May 2006 21:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

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madman

― gear (gear), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

Lemon Interrupt! "Big Mouth" was a Lemon Interrupt tune as well.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Tin There" (Wipeout XL version)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 19 May 2006 04:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

It looks like they released the original "Dirty" as Underworld too:

http://www.discogs.com/release/118220

I just listened to "Dirty Epic", and it omits most of the wonderful atmosphere of the original and replaces it with rather boring indie vocals. I wish they'd done more instrumentals.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

yeah Lemon Interrupt's "Big Mouth" is fantastic.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

I just listened to "Dirty Epic", and it omits most of the wonderful atmosphere of the original and replaces it with rather boring indie vocals.

Er, no it doesn't?

― Dan (Are We Listening To The Same Song?) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

Rez for dancefloor action, Dirty Epic for home listening, Born Slippy for throw your hands in the air collective live experience

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

(To clarify: the version of "Dirty" that I have is basically eight minutes of the climactic bit of "Dirty Epic" played over and over. "Diry Epic" is better because the components of that climax are broken down and phased into the song over time. continually building you up to that awesome climax as opposed to dropping you in it and then not going anywhere forever, also known as That Annoying Thing Underworld Does Sometimes That Makes Potentially Great Songs Boring At Best And Unlistenable At Worst.)

― Dan (Structure Isn't A Bad Thing) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

prefer 'Dirty' to 'Dirty Epic' myself, tho i am fine with Hyde's vocals always (lyrics, less so, haha).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 19 May 2006 11:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

Dan, I can see what you're saying, but I think we just approach the song from different points of view... I first heard "Dirty" as a trance/techno fan, and thought the athmospherics were wonderful. I have no need for progression in a song if I like its sound world, though "Dirty" does actually progress like any techno track does. To me, "Dirty Epic" is much worse because it only features the horn and the synth sounds in small bits, and instead is dominated by generic indie vocals (which are also more conventional and less hypnotic than in some than some of the better Underworld vocal tracks). Also, if the version you have is eight minutes long, it probably omits the spooky outro with the vocal samples from Akira, which is one more reason to love the tune.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

Another Underworld production I really love, for pretty much the same reasons as "Dirty", is their remix of Björk's "Human Behaviour".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Mmm Skyscraper" -- the only one where I can remember how it sounds while not playing it.

― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

i think i only have the edited version of 'Dirty' from the Abduction compilation which is under 8 minutes but does include the Akira sample at the end.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

Okay, the version I have is on Trance Sylvania 4 and it lasts for 11 minutes, don't know what's the difference between the two.

Maybe it's time to dust off my copies of Dubnobass and Second Toughest and give them another try, the last time I listened to them I was going through a heavy "no rock in my techno, please" period, but maybe I'm older now and can appreciate them for what they're worth. I do remember liking the first LP when it first came out.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

opz

― molly (bulbs), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

I remember thinking "just a bunch of Beloved 12" remix b-sides" when DNBHMHM first came out. Like it well enough now tho.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

The juxtaposition of the blase vocals that become more urgent and strained as the song goes and the surreal images they evoke with the pulsating bassline and the building layers of synths and samples are exactly what make "Dirty Epic" work so well; the entire thing is a continuous crescendo in both volume and energy on a scale matched by few of their other songs (really only "Mmm Skyscraper..." and the original "Born Slippy" even play in the same league; most of the other Underworld tracks either don't go for this type of structure or aren't as massively epic).

Also I had indie grounding but I came at "Dirty Epic" after being a big rave/trip-hip/d'n'b zombie for about eight years so I don't know that our perspectives were that different aside from the whole sideline of also singing classical music.

― Dan (Captain Save-A-"Dirty Epic") Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

i know yooo-send-eeet isn't allowed on this board, but if anyone has an mp3 of the original born slippy, i can check this yahoo email account...

― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 19 May 2006 14:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

uh, what happened to ysi?

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 19 May 2006 14:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

I can't believe I'm the only one who picked the Born Slippy w/vocals.

G. F. Stout (1931) argued that if epiphenomenalism (the more familiar name for the ‘conscious automaton’ theory) is right,

it ought to be quite credible that the constitution and course of nature would be otherwise just the same as it is if there were not and never had been any experiencing individuals. Human bodies would still have gone through the motions of making and using bridges, telephones and telegraphs, of writing and reading books, of speaking in Parliament, of arguing about materialism, and so on. There can be no doubt that this is prima facie incredible to Common Sense (138f.).

What Stout describes in this passage and finds ‘prima facie incredible’ is a ‘zombie world’: an entire world whose physical processes are closed under causation (as the epiphenomenalists he was attacking held) and exactly duplicate those in the actual world, but where there are no conscious experiences.

― Lukas (lukas), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

new song I'm Little Girl etc. is so epic. Awesome tune. Highly recommended. starts 28mins in their Live at Lemonworld show from last weekend.

― biz, Friday, 19 May 2006 19:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

how's their recent net-only ep stuff?

― gear (gear), Friday, 19 May 2006 19:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

a bunch of Beloved 12" remix b-sides

o, how joyous would that be?

i've never heard "dirty" - actually, there's whole screeds of underworld stuff i've never heard - but dan's description of what makes "dirty epic" so great is kinda spot-on.

"big mouth" is superb. i didn't know there was an underworld link. which reminds me: has nobody mentioned freur's "doot doot" yet, by the way? the 12" of that is a thing of some fucking beauty.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 May 2006 19:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

absolutely, positively has to be 'Dirty Epic'. that song gives me shivers that most others don't.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Friday, 19 May 2006 20:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

how's their recent net-only ep stuff?

i only have the first one. good moments, but for 30mins of new Underworld, meh.

― Lukas (lukas), Friday, 19 May 2006 20:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

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. 5 pounds isn't too much to pay and if you buy all 3 you get a free EP of remixes, plus the archive at UWLIVE is filled with great live tracks and videos they add to from time to time.

Always Loved A Film (Silver Boots) - Live at Lemonworld is amazing. had it on repeat for 6hrs now. Still loving it.

― biz, Friday, 19 May 2006 22:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

the new slew of mixes coming are great too. Robag Wruhme, Pete Heller, Pig and Dan, Buick etc. I've got a promo disc with 6 new minimal techno mixes of UW stuff and i can't wait to hear them on a loud system.

― biz, Friday, 19 May 2006 22:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

Dirty Guitar, Dirty Epic, Dark And Long, Push Upstairs, Trim, Little Speaker, and all the rest...

― Sharkey, Thursday, 25 May 2006 09:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

I can't believe I'm the only one who picked the Born Slippy w/vocals.

This is mostly because "Born Slippy" w/o vocals stomps all over it.

― Dan (MORE ARPEGGIOS) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 May 2006 10:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

My answer is "Jumbo". I could listen to it for half an hour, and sometimes I do.

― Lotta Continua (Damian), Thursday, 25 May 2006 14:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

listening to king of snake on brand new technics in 1998

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:36 (5 years ago) Permalink

at 33 RPM instead of 45!

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

i was thinking of making a muxtape of songs i have digitized at the wrong speed but my 45 (instead of 33) "Freak Out/Starry Eyes" (LCD Soundsystem) is over 10 megabytes.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

hey wahts the deal with the ymo releases with shitty vocal overdubs

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

never owned one

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:42 (5 years ago) Permalink

I guess I'm thinking of female vocals on the second half of tong poo

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:44 (5 years ago) Permalink

there are some weird (compared to the first three albums) overproduced vocal bits on the later material but I don't necessarily think it's all bad

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

tong poo is on self titled.... maybe its an american vinyl press?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:55 (5 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

IM DRUNK

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 8 May 2008 00:43 (5 years ago) Permalink

heyooooooo

― mh, Thursday, 8 May 2008 01:15 (5 years ago) Permalink

jumbo really is something

― cutty, Thursday, 8 May 2008 02:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

i found the 'big mouth' 12" a while back from when they were releasing as lemon interupt - the flipside, 'eclipse', is this amazing strung-out balearic house cut. do people know this track?

― haitch, Thursday, 8 May 2008 02:17 (5 years ago) Permalink

no but i would like to know it

― cutty, Thursday, 8 May 2008 03:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

It's between the first two and last tracks on Second Toughest.

― chap, Thursday, 8 May 2008 17:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

great mEmoriEs

― piscesx, Sunday, 6 March 2011 20:31 (2 years ago) Permalink

the Everything, Everything version of "Rez/Cowgirl" is such a classic and maybe the high watermark of house music

― frogbs, Sunday, 6 March 2011 21:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

btw the answer to this is still "Dirty Epic"

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 15:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

no it's "Mmm Skyscraper... I Love You"

― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 15:02 (7 months ago) Permalink

I admit that is a compelling argument

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 15:04 (7 months ago) Permalink

There's a nice newish reedit of Eclipse. Answer is still Dirty Epic.

― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 15:46 (7 months ago) Permalink

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