Underworld - Classic or Dud?

seriously, I think I like "Should Have Been a Painter" as much as any UW track I can think of right now

Oh man, I'm going to have to wait for 1 hour 58 minutes to hear this!

Yes, this is excellent. Mediocre reviews, but then I think Underworld are one of these bands where what they do/want to do is not what they're famous for doing.

It's the vocals that let this down - not that they are anything particularly shocking given Underworld's previous form, but they feel a lot more intrusive on this.

The bonus tracks didn't really add much for me ...

Live version of 8 Ball from Union Chapel on YouTube is wonderful.

"The Night Slips Us..." is a profoundly beautiful song.

http://thequietus.com/articles/12083-karl-hyde-underworld-favourite-albums

^ I found this quite endearing

Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
If I was trying to be cool I’d say Bitches Brew, but this is the seminal album really, isn’t it?

^^^ awesome

He could've listed both and it would've been even cooler.

I like that he thanks the UK PR for Rune Grammofon on the album sleeve.

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

Video of Hyde and his solo band doing "8 Ball"...fucking brilliant!!

Awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mss2tv8PYBw

why u no embed, secure YT

That's pretty cool. Wonder how long it takes to start feeling repetitive.

if you're driving in Midwest Karl comes on to sing 'corn corn corn corn Stuckey's'

Dubno is 20 years old today.

Blimey

It was used to mark the 10-year anniversary of the Mac.

one of my ten favorite albums. as far away now as Autobahn was back then :)

The quality of music from Hyde/Smith/Emerson from 92-94, loosely the 'Dubno' era, is extremely high. I wish they could arrange a comprehensive remix anthology from this era.

hard to think of any electronic group putting out as much great music as UW did from 1992-1997

Orbital
The Orb
Prodigy
Aphex Twin
Squarepusher
Mike Paradinas
Luke Vibert
Coldcut

just off the top of my head and not considering labels (Moving Shadow, Suburban Base, Reinforced, R&S, early XL, +8, etc etc)

Meant to say "over a five year span" there. I think both the Orb and Orbital come really close. Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, and Paradinas certainly did a lot of music in there but I don't think all of it is great. I don't know much about the others. But I admit that I probably overrate Underworld - for them it's two of my all-time favorite albums, a handful of classic, non-album singles ("Dark Train", "Rez", "Nuxx"), some excellent side releases (Dark and Long, with the magnificant "Thing in a Book", and Pearl's Girl, which was practically a whole new album in itself), plus a lot of really good single tracks - "Spikee", "Why Why Why", the original "Born Slippy", and so on. None of those guys did so much great stuff outside of the albums!

underworld created an unbelievably deep and rich catalog in that era simply by remixing themselves a lot

Jaxx did tons within 5 years fwiw.

yeah I know a lot of those are supposed to be remixes but they're often so different from the source material that you almost wouldn't know. the three mixes of "Born Slippy" are so different that I would have never guessed they sprung from the same thing. even when it's more obvious (say "Rowla" and "Cherry Pie") the overall mood is so different that it doesn't quite register as just a "remix"

exactly

The remixes they did for other people from 92-95 are killer too. Spooky, Simply Red, Bjork, dreadzone, Orbital, mental Generation, Massive Attack etc etc etc

hard to think of any electronic group putting out as much great music as UW did from 1992-1997

UR

xp Lush 3.3 and Soundsystem are two of my all time favourite remixes

Brian Eno and Karl Hyde are releasing an album together on Warp this spring. I loved Bebop Hurry and think this collaboration will yield a few great songs so i've preordered the vinyl already.

http://warp.net/records/enohyde/enohyde.com

Does anyone remember who Underworld was touring with in the US for Underneath the Radar in 88? I saw them in Cleveland; pretty sure they were the openers for a UK band -- maybe Mighty Lemon Drops?

was it the Eurythmics?

Mighty Lemon Drops did tour the US in 88 but the only listing I could find said they were opening for Love and Rockets.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t1.0-9/10367142_10152103259101960_6289136037550289382_n.jpg

Ha ha ha, I was just looking at that photo… for reasons that are too complex to go into here.

couldn't resist cross-posting it, it's so amazing!

What is that?

Freur

Thx. Amazing photo. Hard to tell what decade that's from, tho. Is that the 60's?

such a great frown out of the guy between Rick & Karl

that's actually John Cusack

Oh yes:

http://www.underworldlive.com/news/2014/06/dubnobasswithmyheadman-20th-anniversary-re-issue-show-2/

People are talking about that on the Dubnobass thread.

needed a lift so decided to listen to Underworld and Underworld only this week. can recommend so far. never would have tried that 5 (!) cd version of dubno otherwise, and it has some great moments.

I know the feeling, I remember playing "Ouch Ouch" on replay for nearly an hour

Oich Oich? or is there an alterate Ouch Ouch version?

uh.......no :(

(seriously though, lets get that 5-disc STITI box coming???)

There is a 'jam' version from their old website. It's pretty good too.