Underworld - Classic or Dud?

Oblivion With Bells is a fantastic record. Even if you don't like Ring Road, there are songs like Best Mamgu Ever and Faxed Invitation that really show off their range. Hopefully everyone interested in the band have the RiverRun EPs and the extra tracks from the OWB sessions, Peach Tree and Loads of Birds.

"ring road" is the only single track they've ever done that i don't love

i go through periods where i only want to listen to underworld. i'm there right now...

Yay, can't wait to pick up this album. I fully credit this thread for making me dig out Everything, Everything for the first time in maybe six years. Criminally under-appreciated album that still sounds fantastic.

not sure it's under appreciated? at least not on this forum.

definitely not

Where are you people getting the leak from?

Who said there is one? Journalists get promos, don't think it's leaked yet.

Damn cultural elite.

Grace got 'released' on iTunes by accident. Scribble has leaked and been played on Radio1 lots. Always Loved A Film was Tong's Essential new tune a few weeks ago and the video is on YouTube. Bird 1 aka Strumpet has been played live since 07 and can be found on YouTube. Between Stars and Diamond Jigsaw are also on youtube. Louisiana = Jumping The Cran which was performed on one of their radio broadcasts from Lemonworld. Most of the album is out there in live form but the LP versions have been reworked so will sound a bit different. Between Stars, Scribble and ALAF are on the set posted above. Some are on the iTunes Live EP that got released last week.

Scribble has leaked

not sure if the band officially releasing it on their website counts as a "leak"

I'm talking about the single w/ album version, instrumental and Netsky remix.

That's for sale on iTunes, I believe.

ah, my use of the word leak was improper then. please forgive me.

we cant

essential mixxxxxxx is essential

ESSENTIAL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsHo1Q3BPYY

it's like a glossy dubnobass... track

ginormous smiley face

ha, well done youtube for taking the still image from those 2 seconds of video

this is pretty nice but something about High Contrast's brand of glossiness (thanks Dan, that is exactly the word) which is slightly offputting to me - looking forward to a full album though

i'm not sure this track is by high contrast

You're right - Scribble was, this isn't. (Barking wiki)

Oh, right! It sounded... trebly enough. Whatever that means. I stand corrected.

Leaked

whispers
bad boy
elevator
agitator
new york girl
corkscrew hair
BANG

Anyone got an opinion on the new album yet? IMO it's their best in a long while, probably better than even Beacoup Fish to me. Very positive and uplifting stuff, it does lack some of the subtlety of their earlier work, but there's a lot of knockout tracks here. I count 4 legitimate singles, maybe even 5. I wish they could have put on one epic-length jam on there, maybe something like "Bamboo", but whatever. It's definitely very good.

Opinions have been expressed, they largely match your own:
Underworld - Barking (Sept 13 2010)

Lots of discussion here:

Underworld - Barking (Sept 13 2010)

And to answer succinctly, it's one of the best albums I've heard all year.

wow, search function did not turn up that thread...thanks

hey guys if u didnt know ilxor really likes this album

hey guys here is a 7-year-old post where deej the critical genius of all things hip-hop admits to liking the smashing pumpkins!! looooooooool

Ned, let's talk about your 136 Albums of the 90s.

\Oo/ i still like selected works

great 'zing'

stfu

no

Not sure how deej's Underworld zing is any better/worse than my SP zing...?

Frankenstein stage play soundtrack imminent

I adore Underneath The Radar!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JqMUYLV9L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Am I the only one?

Oh, and when Googling I came across the video for the title track, which I had never seen before...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5vQP_RFccY

It's eightiesriffic!

a lot more continuity with their later sound than i expected!

I really like the two albums they did as Freur. Kind of like OMD or Depeche Mode but more fun. As for the first era of Underworld I'm not really sold on the albums (Underneath the Radar is okay), but they do have good songs - "Stand Up", "I Need a Doctor", "Underneath the Radar", "Mercy", "Change the Weather", and "Glory! Glory!" are all good fun

everything everything.......prob one of my favourite albums ever, rediscovering via spotify. they put a shame on the other 90s dance act by dint of how real and raw and true to...ecstasy, their sound is. everything everything is a perfect album.

My copy of Frankenstein showed up last week. Really great listen but even better in context of the play. If you don't have Breaking and Entering yet, get it ASAP. If you like the ambient side of underworld, B&E is going to please you. I play it more than any other UW album now.

i never bothered with anything after two hundred days or whatever it was called. am i wrong not to bother?

Barking is great. Oblivion With Bells isn't but has some good tunes.

you know what's good? the pig & dan mix 2 of 'play pig'. i think it's mix 2 anyway, the one on the 12".

The Pete Heller mix of Peggy Sussed rules too. I really like Oblivion With Bells and Barking. The River Run Projects have some great songs mixed with some mediocre experimental things. The RRP 12"s all have great mixes on them but they're hard to find. They've done three soundtracks that are all good if you like ambient UW. You really need to get their webcast from 06 called underworld vs. Misterons. It's 1.5hrs of UW jamming versions of some classic tracks and new stuff. Killer versions, required listening.

okay "Dirty Epic" is just the greatest thing they ever did

it hits every single one of their strengths and sustains the awesome for 10 straight minutes

totally agree. Dirty + Dirty Guitar just make the whole experience that much more enjoyable. they opened one of the shows I saw in 07 with Dirty Epic. truly incredible.

So actually sitting down and listening to their Isles of Wonder soundtrack for the first time. That Evelyn Glennie collaboration really is something.

I was actually kind of surprised by the High Contrast tunes. Not at all what I expected out of him and quite good besides. The new UW stuff is great, not that you'd ever know it's them. Good remixes too. But the fact that there's three Arctic Monkeys tunes on it kind of puts me off. Just delete all the non-UW non-High Contrast stuff and you've got a neat album though.