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

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!

https://www.discogs.com/Freur-Lost-Treasures/release/12059270

Rick & Karl made a tape of the Transmutations / Underworld film score for a huge Freur fan, and filled out the end with some unreleased demos. In 2003, he digitised the cassette and put it on the RTSR tracker.

forgot how good "another silent way / drift poem / better than diamonds" is but it also really misses the piano from the original "another silent way"... not sure which to vote for

lest we forget

https://i.imgur.com/R69SayJ.jpg

wot a larf

ah sweet I didn't know their film soundtrack was out there

i've got something to show you
it's a few days old
it's amazing

"threat of rain" is still so massive. i love how occasionally annoying and shrill the sounds smith drops in are, gives it a real motorik energy

drift track i don't think gets enough shine: "brussels"

yup.

Appleshine and the Continuum version both belong so high... but the latter has most of the former track in it soooo, I just vote Continuum and make room for another song. Makes sense???

Appleshine Continuum was my #1 vote in the 2019 poll so it'll be placing pretty high on my ballot but still not sure it'll crack my top 10

This band has a ridiculous number of amazing songs

"listen to their no" kinda feels like a sequel to the barking sound, even though it is definitely not "bird 2"

"schiphol test" is so fucking sick

also "custard speedtalk" is def in my top ten. only took karl 25 years to write some lyrics for "rez"!!! j/k

I think 15 Drift tracks might make my top 77, including "Molehill" which last I checked everyone hated

"molehill" is beautiful and also maybe their most out-of-character track ever

amazing, i have to vote for "toluca stars" too

like, that may be their most simultaneously tense and gorgeous track

the synths are kinda like stars winking through all the space in the track

kinda sad that oblivion with bells ends with Loads Of Birds but then Barknig starts with only one bird... wonder what happened to all of the other birds :(

lmao

loads of birds was in Japan though. its quite remarkable one made it over to East London, really

hmm you raise a valid point. i actually worry about this bird now, that is a pretty jacked migration pattern. and cell phone towers started getting really data-heavy around that time too. it was for sure that