Underworld - Classic or Dud?

(there is a thread of Orbital recommendations and/or an Orbital album poll somewhere on ILM but my personal choice is In Sides and I expect Mr HI DERE will have some suggestions too)

Leftfield's first album still sounds pretty good.

xpost - In Sides seconded

if this means you have missed out on Orbital, please stop missing out on Orbital

^^^^^^^^^^^ YES ^^^^^^^^^^^

Orbital poll
^ some discussion of favourite tracks and albums here, too lazy to be more helpful as I am leaving work in 2 minutes (hooray)

GMBB: you likely will adore Beaucoup Fish so I'd start there, then check the others in this order:

Second Toughest in the Infants
A Hundred Days Off
dubnobasswithmyheadman
Oblivion With Bells

xp: God yes, In Sides, amazing album; really everything from Orbital 2 through The Middle of Nowhere is top-shelf brilliant and everything else ranges from great to okay.

you've already been extremely helpful, thanks aps!

Thanks, HD, much more useful than Stan's response!

what other british electronic music making duos am I missing out on

Orbital, LFO, Autechre, Boards Of Canada, Plaid, The Orb, The Black Dog, FSOL, Global Communication, Leftfield, Slam, Chemical Brothers, System 7, Spooky, Meat Beat Manifesto, Renegade Soundwave, lol 90s...

being a British electronic music making duo became a criminal offence around 2001 (and the likes of Groove Armada and Basement Jaxx may not be of interest idk)

^ helpful post to counter my dislike of this High Contrast ft. Karl Hyde business

wait what boards of canada aren't actually from canada? you just totally blew my mind

and for some reason I've always thought of meat beat manifesto as an american third wave ska band. hah. well, that's a very helpful crumb trail, much thanks!

Sorry, Gerald.

jesus dyao! ha

and for some reason I've always thought of meat beat manifesto as an american third wave ska band.

what the FUCK

like, really?????????????? I cannot even begin to comprehend this

TBH, for quite some time I thought Meat Beat Manifesto was an American industrial band. That's what the name sounded like to me.

And speaking of electronic duos, don't forget the greatest of them all: Yello! (Not British, though.) You could even say they were predecessors of Underworld's 90s style with their combination of rhythmic not-quite-singing, melancholy synths and absurdist lyrics.

TBH, for quite some time I thought Meat Beat Manifesto was an American industrial band. That's what the name sounded like to me.

― Tuomas, Monday, May 17, 2010 5:19 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

In the states that was the scene they were lumped in with for a long time

Alright, I've come around to the vocals on "Scribble" -- it's fantastic through and through. Still prefer not to see Hyde's fish-eye lense'd mug while he's driving around and mouthing the worlds.

Verdict: song = C, video = D.

Is that verdict for the radio edit that runs less than half the length of the full track or is that verdict for the version Tong played where he talked over the peak of the track then faded the end?

Radio edit.

Should I track down the full version?

Is this a scale from A to F or are we talking classicdud?

classicdud

In conjunction with the thread title, of course.

Ah. Now that you mention it, makes sense of course. I don't mind the video myself, the suspiciously happy man and the flashy colours don't clash with or divert the attention away from the uplifting music.

this just made me feel so good. haven't felt this way from a new song coming out in a long time. i don't mean that in a jaded way, just that this is just way above the rest. hello summer

:)

Heard this live @ Berlin (mainstream-ish gay club in chicago) at the very end of a saturday night (aka 5AM sunday morning) & shit was just XXXXXXXXXXXXD facemelting

by 'live' i mean, the dj played it

and by 'berlin' you mean the mainstream-ish gay club in chicago

jeez scribble is just a classic already imo

i agree sir

full video for Always Loved A Film is up too. Very uplifting. Grace got put up on iTunes UK by accident. All in all, Barking is shaping up to be huge. Can't wait. Have preordered the ltd box set with autographed/numbered print from Underworldlive.com Disc 2 has all the original versions and comes with a DVD.

jeez scribble is just a classic already imo

― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, August 5, 2010 2:53 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

theyre such a big deal to me and have never fallen off or even really faltered in my opinion

<3 them so much, scribble 4ever

Scribble is great but I'm getting used to 'great first single + underwhelming album' by now.

if u are underwhelmed by underworld albums then i dont know what to tell you

i shall sb you instead

but he's a mod!

i mean it to sting

damn bell boy

I get what Matt is saying (lol obviously); I still am not a big booster of STITI or OWB although both contain songs I really love.

http://hotfile.com/dl/60655018/f9a8a62/Underworld-Essential_Mix_At_Privilege_(Ibiza)-DAB-08-08-2010-1KING.rar.html

Incredible live set from this weekend in Ibiza.

XD

this is too dope (nb im only 3 mins in)

man do i wish i was there in person for this!!!!!!!!1

oh man this is so f'in good

i lost track of these guys after 'a hundred days off' (which was good). am i missing out on much?

half good, half forgettable, new song "Scribble" is possibly the greatest thing they've done since Beaucoup Fish

which was when the slump started