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

this has been my favorite band for basically my whole life and I have no clue what my #1 will be. could be "Rez/Cowgirl" from EE if you could vote for it. I've narrowed it down to like 5 tracks. maybe I'll just say fuck it and make NUXX my #1

this could change at any point but i'm already really surprised by what my no. 1 turned out to be

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, May 14, 2020 7:01 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

totally unrelated, but anyone itt who does not rate oblivion with bells, i encourage you to spend some time with "beautiful burnout," maybe this live version even

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efUwy3SMcns

lmao i embedded the wrong thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CdvOJ756HY

listen to THIS ok i promise i'll never embed another youtube

i rate it, somewhere in the middle :) Crocodile -> Beautiful Burnout head and shoulders over the rest of it. Love that section. Ranking Crocodile higher from listening to the album tracks, but yeah BB live is beautiful. When this thing is done I'm gonna gradually go through all those Oblivion live sets.

I was just reminded of how great "Another Silent Way" is

lol Brad xp

I've also got a Top 5 or 6 and any of them could be #1 tbh xps

the 15 minute Another Silent Way is so good

i sure do love to listen to live in tokyo 2005

the performance of "nuxx" on it is so good. that added house piano, exquisite

"it was just silly crap, but it hit the spot"

i am not voting for the very ooc underworld track "peggy sussed" but i think it rules

Is Peggy Sussed the one about architecture for the blind? If so, that's a great song with some decent remixes too.

The Riverrun 12" series was the last decent Underworld artwork too.

^ the Drift videos though

wait so I can't vote for Orange Bed & Conchord?

let's skip Rick's notated versions like (3 comp75 id9 a1771 aug 93a) and (a1558 nov 92b.1) from the archival box sets.

is there a version of Concord that isn't notated something approximately, more or less, top of my head, like (3 comp75 id9 a1771 aug 93a)?

Ah, assumed the notation omissions were for existing songs from the albums, eg Mmm...Skyscraper I Love You (A1765 Sky Version Id4. Harmone6 Comp43).

So no Birdstar or Can You Feel Me? then either

Yeah, I meant that to be a shortcut for covering "let's skip anything that was never finished or never properly titled or never released except as an archival artifact of something unfinished." But mainly because I wanted to remove at least a few hours of extra homework listening for people that weren't familiar, and save ultranerds from wasting votes on stuff that was wildly unlikely to have any other support! So what the heck, if folks are that keen, throw your votes away shoot your sincere shot.

dying to see every single ballot

just found about this cover they did of David Lynch's "Good Day Today" -- pretty great! more or less interpolates the main riff from "Two Months Off"!

it's listed as a remix, so probably not eligible, but worth a listen.

I did regret not listing the Lynch cover / remix or Manics covers / remixes on relistening this week.

omg I missed the boat on the Manics one as well, this is amazing.

ah what the heck, since 3/4 of these are absolutely covers

Feed Your Mind (Underworld Remix) • [Paul Oakenfold and Spitfire, Nobel Son OST exclusive 2008] 7:02
William's Last Words (Underworld Remix) • [Manic Street Preachers, remix EP 2009] 6:17
William's Last Words (Underworld R37BR11 Mix) • [Manic Street Preachers, probably 2009, rel. charity comp exclusive 2015] 10:41
Good Day Today (Underworld Classic Remix) • [David Lynch, b-side 2011] 8:40

Emerson-era remixes still wait for a sequel poll.

woohoo! gotta spend some time with the Oakenfold one but the other two will definitely place highly for me.

"bird 1" is just incredible my god

Then why isn’t there a Bird 2

lol i was so close to making a bird 2 joke

i really love barking idk, it's so fun. i listened to it all the time when it came out and i associate it really intensely with my first year in new york. i even like "hamburg hotel" a lot bc it was often played on a sirius xm chillout station that my bosses would leave on at my first job here

"grace" -> "between stars" is definitely my favorite part of the record though

There are two birds in my house

i also understand this is not normal but "diamond jigsaw" makes me cry

"premium tequila" makes me misplace my pants

jeez wtf "louisiana" made me cry too

how many albums can we rank #1?

rt

however much as i really love barking i am voting for "you do scribble" not "scribble"

Barking came out a couple days before my wedding, I had it preordered but grabbed a leak so I could hear it the day before. so I'll always associate it with that

damn that's a good record for that kind of day imo

yea played a number of songs at the reception too

even though my tracks ballot is starting to extend out infinitely my albums ballot feels way more chaotic. pretty sure barbara barbara is in my top three but also i think there are five underworld records in my top three

LUNA LUNA LUNA LUNA

"low burn" is just ... how do they keep making songs like this

barbara barbara is such a pretty album

i was having such a rough time when it came out, it was one of the records that kept me going that year

literally every barbara track except for "santiago cuatro" is on my ballot lmao

"nylon strung"! i'm crying again!!!!

what the double heck, Bird 2 is also eligible

i've never heard the old live version of "diamond jigsaw" before, i'm flabbergasted that the album version is significantly less cheesy

What's the story of Freur's "Alabaster White Thing," which stands out like a sore thumb in the middle of the Underworld 1980s mix above?

It's from a CD of unreleased demos all I can find out about it is from an Underworld forum -

Apparantly Alabaster is just some experimental track they were
playing around with (!) and they supposedly recorded the phone bits
late at night / early morning where they phoned up one of their
management people and kept quiet ... just kept taping ... so if you
get a phone call in the middle of the night but its quiet on the
other end ... be polite!