you know it never occurred to me the hook in "Sappy's Curry" was just a bunch of sampled guitar like the "King of Snake" intro
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 May 2020 02:47 (four years ago) link
don't forget that Dirty predates those!
― ufo, Thursday, 28 May 2020 02:47 (four years ago) link
xp
― ufo, Thursday, 28 May 2020 02:48 (four years ago) link
xp Orbital maybe. and Chime, Belfast, & Satan all dropped before the first album
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 May 2020 02:48 (four years ago) link
in my thoughts rn about the legacy of Lemon Interupt had Underworld stopped at Rez.
― maffew12, Thursday, 28 May 2020 02:56 (four years ago) link
yeah goodnight
a Rowla/Chemical Beats mash up would be pretty sick
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 May 2020 03:05 (four years ago) link
I did relisten to dubnobass the other day - the 2014 version, as I've deleted all the original files off my computer and the vinyl copy is the new one. it's weird how much those little imperfections that were wiped out in the remaster get lodged in your brain - it sounds off without the mic pop in the Skyscraper intro or the deep bass stutter on Dirty Epic
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 May 2020 03:12 (four years ago) link
I had a similar moment of regret relistening to 100 Days Off after submitting my ballot. I think I've underrated that album since it came out
― Vinnie, Thursday, 28 May 2020 03:51 (four years ago) link
Everyone has.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 May 2020 04:31 (four years ago) link
AHDO was a lot better than I remembered it to be
― groovypanda, Thursday, 28 May 2020 07:17 (four years ago) link
I haven't treated Underworld as an albums band at all since Second Toughest, but listening back to whole LPs for the poll has revealed the startling fact that they're very very good at making albums.
(emailed you, brotherlovesdub)
― massage angry pixels (sic), Thursday, 28 May 2020 07:21 (four years ago) link
how many electronic acts are legendary from just 1 or 2 12"s? Skyscraper(!) and Rez(!!!) came before Spikee. They were legends before the "first" album. dang.
Yeah, I got into them in 93 with that awesome run of singles and by the time the album dropped the following January it was one of the most anticipated in a long while. And then they went and dropped the Dark & Long EPs a few months later
― groovypanda, Thursday, 28 May 2020 07:32 (four years ago) link
how many electronic acts are legendary from just 1 or 2 12"s
see the Vitalic thread last week. also Inner City tbh
― massage angry pixels (sic), Thursday, 28 May 2020 09:12 (four years ago) link
I meant that they could've stopped there and they'd still be remembered
― maffew12, Thursday, 28 May 2020 10:59 (four years ago) link
yah I said the same thing about Vitalic (people kinda care about the first album, but...) and I literally can't name an Inner City song after the first two singles
― massage angry pixels (sic), Thursday, 28 May 2020 11:11 (four years ago) link
Aha. Yeah some might've done better not to make an album at all!
― maffew12, Thursday, 28 May 2020 11:15 (four years ago) link
Aeroplane to thread
― groovypanda, Thursday, 28 May 2020 12:25 (four years ago) link
inner city’s paradise is a good album!!! but also yes the singles are towering
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 May 2020 12:48 (four years ago) link
Had The Prodigy packed it in after that first run of singles (What Evil Lurks/Android, Charly, Everybody in the Place) they still would have been massively remembered IMO.
― (so serious) (DJP), Thursday, 28 May 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
So many good Inner City singles, I can’t even...
― I am using your worlds, Thursday, 28 May 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
So I'm guessing it's too late to submit a ballot! All good, I'll treat this rollout as a means of finding the hidden gems I don't have to look for.
― octobeard, Thursday, 28 May 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
NO MORE BALLOTS
― massage angry pixels (sic), Thursday, 28 May 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
*unless Second Toughest is first
― maffew12, Thursday, 28 May 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
^ ^ ^
― octobeard, Friday, 29 May 2020 04:30 (four years ago) link
So is rollout starting next week?Ridiculously excited for this
― groovypanda, Friday, 29 May 2020 07:59 (four years ago) link
I really hope someone mails in a ballot after the rollout starts
― (so serious) (DJP), Friday, 29 May 2020 13:47 (four years ago) link
hopefully full of fake song titles
― ufo, Friday, 29 May 2020 14:12 (four years ago) link
true story when the OWB tracklist was leaked I was 95% convinced it was fake
― frogbs, Friday, 29 May 2020 14:21 (four years ago) link
1. Chonky Floof2. Two of Clubs/Go Fish3. Mizerayray4. A Floating Paper Bag5. It's A That6. Hatch7. Frenumy8. Bonivavirus9. Sue City10. Glimmerglass Menagerie
― (so serious) (DJP), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
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― maffew12, Friday, 29 May 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
lmao chonky floof
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 29 May 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
Listening to Barbara, Barbara out the garden this afternoon and thinking it should have been even higher on my ballot
― groovypanda, Friday, 29 May 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
Facing some shining fuchsias?
I didn't do a ballot for one thing because I don't know much of their stuff past Boucoup Fish but I anticipate enjoying the reveals.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 29 May 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
Beaucoup.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 29 May 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
1. Chonky Floof2. Two of Clubs/Go Fish3. Mizerayray4. A Floating Paper Bag5. It's A That6. Hatch7. Frenumy8. Bonivavirus9. Sue City10. Glimmerglass Menagerie― (so serious) (DJP), Saturday, May 30, 2020 12:41 AM (eleven hours ago)
― (so serious) (DJP), Saturday, May 30, 2020 12:41 AM (eleven hours ago)
zomg amazing Just saw this video for the first time: ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxdNS8WNSOY
...and remembered being disappointed as a kid how they'd given up on the electronics and become a boring rock band, lol
― massage angry pixels (sic), Saturday, 30 May 2020 02:04 (four years ago) link
listening to Beaucoup Fish tonight, this is one of the very first CDs I ever bought. was looking for more music like Lo Fidelity Allstars and it was recommended to me.
still remember the first time I ever listened to it..."what the hell is this easy listening crap? oh....holy shit YESSS"
― frogbs, Saturday, 30 May 2020 02:21 (four years ago) link
seriously what would I have missed out on had I not listened to that one Amazon review
― frogbs, Saturday, 30 May 2020 02:28 (four years ago) link
I was 13 and could only afford like 4 CDs a year! what are the odds I'd pick this one knowing nothing about the group
― frogbs, Saturday, 30 May 2020 02:29 (four years ago) link
you know now that I'm hearing it more firmly in the context it was released this was quite a big leap for them. the beats are so much different than anything they'd done before.
― frogbs, Saturday, 30 May 2020 02:47 (four years ago) link
man, you're bringing me back. at 15 I asked my Mom to pick up Dig Your Own Hole from Columbia Mall. she brought back Beaucoup Fish as well because the guy at Sam Goody told her "if you want techno, you NEED to hear this."
I still think about that guy sometimes.
― cheek, Saturday, 30 May 2020 02:53 (four years ago) link
I'd guess it would have taken you a bit longer, frogbs, but their name was thrown around so much in the 90s for a band that never got radio play. I kept hearing about them and reading about them. cf my experience with UW as a youth: hear "Moaner" after buying the Batman and Robin OST - hate it; listen to "Born Slippy NUXX" after reading about how amazing it is - find it boring; grudgingly check out dubnobass after some friends in college recommend it - everything clicks
― Vinnie, Saturday, 30 May 2020 02:58 (four years ago) link
Yeah I remember being totally no nonplussed by the “Born Slippy NUXX” vIdeo when I was 14 - like: “these are nice synth chords... wait, isn’t this just a really loud kickdrum for several minutes?”
Of course it now sounds like one of the most memorable and instantly recognisable kickdrums ever.
― Tim F, Saturday, 30 May 2020 03:07 (four years ago) link
I think I recognized the name from a newsgroup I was in. lol, back in the day when I could be online for 15 minutes a day. my introduction to electronic music was Fatboy Slim, I thought the whole genre was "RIGHT ABOUT NOW...THE FUNK SOUL BROTHER". naturally, I thought that was the coolest thing ever.
― frogbs, Saturday, 30 May 2020 03:07 (four years ago) link
that was pretty much my reaction hearing NUXX for the first time too. like..."that's it?? this is so dumb". I didn't get it.
― frogbs, Saturday, 30 May 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
I couldn't believe the intro (before the drums come in) went on so long. I thought it was a joke
― Vinnie, Saturday, 30 May 2020 03:18 (four years ago) link
And *checks notes* it's only 1 minute 30! I thought it was at least 2 minutes. It probably felt like 5 minutes at the time
― Vinnie, Saturday, 30 May 2020 03:25 (four years ago) link
― frogbs, Friday, May 29, 2020 10:29 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
I was about that age and helping out my dad at his work over the summer break. One day during the lunch break I walked over to the Herald Sq. HMV and they had it on one of the listening stations. I was immediately taken with Jumbo, but didn't have any money to buy the CD, so I walked back to the same HMV every day for weeks to listen to Jumbo on repeat. When they took it off the listening station I was heartbroken!
Previously to that I'd only heard a Real Audio sample of NUXX on AOL i think. It might even have been the whole track idk.
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 30 May 2020 04:15 (four years ago) link
one of the very first CDs I ever bought. was looking for more music like Lo Fidelity Allstars and it was recommended to me.
ha ha, yess! it's the only album that could work for that, but it does make sense
also lolol last night I was listening to another Oblivion tour best-of and thought "hey Karl is very nearly doing a direct homage to Warming Up The Brain Farm" here
― massage angry pixels (sic), Saturday, 30 May 2020 07:28 (four years ago) link
wait did I say another, four-and-a-half-hour-long Oblivion tour compilation that includes one version of every song performed on the tour not already covered by the other two?
― massage angry pixels (sic), Saturday, 30 May 2020 11:18 (four years ago) link