Mega Mega Vote Thing - UNDERWORLD (Smith/Hyde) in ILM Artist Poll #102 - Campaigning, Discussion, Equivocating until 22nd May

Ok, Oblivion with Bells is great. It will be hard to compare songs on that with songs I've loved for 20 years but it's definitely my favorite album they've done after the 90s

I don’t know every single remix and B-Side and outtake to consider myself knowledgeable enough to vote in this poll (I know she’s a classic and all, but does the world really need FIVE official remixes of “Dinosaur Adventure 3D”?), but I’m super excited to see the results. I had no idea they put out so much music in the past ten years and looks like they’re still going amazingly strong 40 years into their career. That is super impressive.

Listen for a couple of weeks and vote!

tfw "sappys curry" goes hard techno all of a sudden

FIVE official remixes of “Dinosaur Adventure 3D”

there's no way i'm listening to any of these, and i like that song. Forget anything that is just gonna feel like homework to you and join in!

imo the only vital "remixes" are the Dark and Long ones (most of these aren't remixes and were labelled like they were for chart considerations?) and the ones for Cups.

and Jumbo Jedi Future Shock something something

i prefer "cherry pie" but when i'm listening to "rowla" and i start to feel like it's slowwwing... dowwwwn.... it's great

q: is "pearl's girl" the greatest song ever recorded by anyone

q: is "big mouth" the greatest harmonica song ever recorded by anyone?

None of the remixes by outside artists are relevant to this poll anyway, so Dinosaur Adventure only had one remix

second toughest was my favorite underworld record for a very long time and when i hear "air towel" i remember why

after all this you're putting something above Second Toughest?

"stagger" too, jeez xp

yeah oblivion with bells is my fave, i arrived at this opinion after a very long period of acceptance and deep reflection

perhaps I've been naive to think Second Toughest could place first

it has a pretty solid chance imo

"Holding the Moth" from OWB is the one that always surprises me with how good it is

conversely dubno may (deservedly) be very difficult to dethrone xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vewj8NR08nE

i'm not going to make youtube embedding a thing and it's not like you can vote for this specific version of "air towel" anyway but it is sooo awesome and i am having a great time listening to it right now

the thing with dubnobass is I discovered it in high school (about a decade after its release) and it quickly became the most important album in the world to me. it also functions as a cross between electro, New Wave, and prog which happen to be my favorite genres

"air towel" is one i've never gotten at all, that repetitive synth loop gets on my nerves without there being much else to hold my attention. that version brad linked is so much better i can't believe it

the thing about second toughest for me is there's about an hour that's absolutely perfect and then there's "rowla" which is a little grating and far inferior to "cherry pie", and "air towel", so it's strange to listen to as a whole.

sorry for liveblogging my way through the catalog by oh my fucking goddd "cups"

Pearl's Girl (Carp Dreams... Koi) • [1996 b-side] 10:09

yo wtf i've never heard this before

the thing with dubnobass is I discovered it in high school (about a decade after its release) and it quickly became the most important album in the world to me. it also functions as a cross between electro, New Wave, and prog which happen to be my favorite genres

*listens to underworld all day* wow i really spent 24 hours with the king of snake

Underworld: Beaucoup Fish

think this was my very first poll

SNAKE

my favorite part of "king of snake":

that stuff enough
snake!

oh-h-hh-h-h-hh-hhh

king of snake great!

the version on Everything Everything though

jeez, “kittens”

underworld mk 2 is like... every few tracks there’s a peerless masterwork

Forgot how great Everything Everything is as a kind of snapshot of their 90s live performances.

Really wish it had this version of Rez/Cowgirl on though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jst8yoqPTmo

I listened to the whole of the Danish Dark And Long 'EP' last night and it rules from start to finish. If I was voting in this Spoon Deep would.figure very highly, absolute peak trance techno and such clean yet hedonic energy. That and Thing In A Book (which appears in the same piece of wax) both seem like perfect unedited live in studio jams, the peaks and troughs just all fall right.

I've also been listening to and enjoying STITI which I mostly skipped over when it came out. I can appreciate now that they are trying for something a bit different, and also what everyone gets out of it but still can't entirely shake the impression I had of the breakbeat stuff as enthusiastic but kind of cringworthy attempt at jungle. Of which embarrassing 'fungle' lameness there was quite a bit about. Snooker sample!

Reminded that .Nuxx is still brilliant, though. Another memorable occasion hearing Underworld's music loud in a public space at 4am was Laurent Garnier playing that (pre Trainspotting ubiquity) and one or both of the Leave Home remixes (intercut with Green Velvet - Flash IIRC) in a Wandsworth shopping centre.

Leave Home is nuts. There does need to be a follow up remixes poll.

Are remixes *of* Underworld by other acts eligible? Because I want to vote for the Pig & Dan Mix 2 of Play Pig if so

Don't think they are and neither are UW's own remixes (unfortunately)

Oh shit really? Was gonna vote for the Shakespears Sister dub extravaganza too :(

That one isn't credited to Underworld anyway, is it?

I know you all have been touting some of the dubnobass-era material that was not on the album, but I'm floored at the embarrassment of riches on the dubnobass deluxe version. I don't understand how they produced so much amazing music during that time period, and I'm also annoyed at myself for never checking it out before. "Thing in a Book" mix will certainly make my ballot, and at least a couple more but it'll be tough to decide which ones and how they rank

That one isn't credited to Underworld anyway, is it?

― ceci n'est pas un ppe (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 11:40 (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's credited to Emerson and Smith on the vinyl

my recs for stuff that didn't make the deluxe version are "Mother Earth (FM Mix)", "Why Why Why", and "Dark Hard". there's really so much great non-album stuff from that period though, "Thing in a Book", "Most 'ospitable", "Spikee", "Dark Train"...

I got the double CD which has a pretty good selection but it's the other Skyscraper mixes that currently tempt me towards the Super Deluxe if I find one for a reasonable price.

Thanks for more recs but aaagh I may have to cut it at the super deluxe version for now, as there is still STITI and Beaucoup super deluxe and Riverrun to listen to. (I've given up trying to listen to Drift.) And then to put it into a ballot!

main issues with it are A) "Twist" doesn't have the awesome guitar bit that the live version does

so glad they eventually put out "Twist (Music Bank Jam Take 7)", the studio version is fine but the live version is really something else

there's really nothing much on the Beaucoup super deluxe of note since the era had only a single b-side and they didn't put any of the remixes they did themselves on the boxset for some reason.

i'm not as into Drift as a lot of other people here but "Custard Speedtalk" and "Appleshine Continuum" at the very least are absolutely essential listening. maybe "Dune" too

oh and if you listen to "Appleshine Continuum" make sure to listen to the full-length single version (https://youtu.be/LhcgUodizro) rather than the version they put on the boxset which cuts like 13 minutes off it.

Oh yes, I see Beaucoup is mostly outside remixes. I've heard the Drift sampler and liked it and "Custard" will def make my ballot. If I have time I'll listen to some Drift cuts that y'all recommend

it's a proper new mix/edit, but yeah it's pointless when the 47-minute version is so great.

if people are going to listen to just one Drift song, it should be the video for Custard Speedtalk. If they're only going to listen to two, the other should be Appleshine Continuum.

Are remixes *of* Underworld by other acts eligible?

no, in-house Underworld production only. we have to make the options manageable somehow!

a remixes poll can totally follow as a sequel, once ppl recover from the results-thread-inspired listening.


i'm not going to make youtube embedding a thing and it's not like you can vote for this specific version of "air towel" anyway

yes you can!

but it is sooo awesome and i am having a great time listening to it right now

here's another completely different 2008 live Air Towel, in an audience recording

If I was voting in this Spoon Deep would figure very highly,

voooote