yea this is always the "wow forgot how good this one was" track on the album
― frogbs, Monday, 15 June 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/McR6gVV/au-king-aa.gif
who's ready to...
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
...kick off the top 40?
https://i.ibb.co/87zrQkp/au-king-xx.gif
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 21:58 (three years ago) link
"kiss my wound"? Sheesh. And now that I've gone directly to "Tongue" for the first time ever, that's clearly right. Somehow in my head it was "love".
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 June 2020 22:11 (three years ago) link
Nobody?
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
i’m ready
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 15 June 2020 23:11 (three years ago) link
I'm invisible.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Monday, 15 June 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
I'm still catching up but ready got more!
I only had time to listen to a handful of Drift tracks but "Dune" was a standout. Beautiful
Though not as beautiful as "Most 'ospitable", which was my second favorite find of this poll. Achingly gorgeous, and I love that the "Dark Train" pad is used in this, it fits wonderfully
"Tongue" is my favorite of that style of track they've ever done (and there are many to choose from). Such an evocative piece of music, makes me think of beaches on an alien planet
― Vinnie, Monday, 15 June 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
oh hell yes I've been offline for a while and was sure I'd miss the whole rollout
― lukas, Monday, 15 June 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
I have 51 tracks left on my ballot that haven't listed yet. trying to guess the 11 that won't make the cut and there's four that I actually have no idea on! the only thing I'm TRULY certain of is that my #61, "Beach", won't be in the top 40 lol
― cheek, Monday, 15 June 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u040-050967.png 40. TWIST 565 combined points, with an almost exact split on 11 votes. 285 points from 6 votes for the 2002 album track from A Hundred Days Off280 points from 5 votes for the 2005 rehearsal tape released as a free mp3 2019 during Drift
pre-release long version audio live 2002
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
yesssss / too low
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 15 June 2020 23:28 (three years ago) link
I love the way looped Karl is holding up the title there, and at first appears to be wearing a different business shirt.
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 23:29 (three years ago) link
It's like "Twist" from AHDO, it's decent enough on the album but it feels like they really figured out what to do with the track live. Then again UW is really much different live and in studio. In the studio everything is perfected in its own way (I really like the studio version of "Holding the Moth"!), but yes it does lose some of its spontaniety. ― frogbs, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:24 AM
Basically techno samba is one of my favorite things in the world ― DJP, Tuesday, February 5, 2013 2:29 AM
https://i.imgur.com/Ozc3LHZ.jpg
Music Bank Jam Take 7 audio or youtube
Soundcloud comments on the Music Bank Jam version:
You guys never cease to amaze me. Ear candy!
i can't ever truly express how this track--and the live takes of this track from that time with guitar jam--along with 100 Days Off has changed my life.
always growing better with years!
This song reminds me a difficult time in the 2003, so many emotional memories happended during the album which contained the original version of this song released. Such nostalgic! such precious! Thanks for your sharing.
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 15 June 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
people who listened through that live Twist will have gotten a spoiler
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:34 (three years ago) link
http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/interupt-rowla.png On solo votes, Rowla would be placing respectably close to here. The track from 1996's Second Toughest LP (also promoed on white label) got 600 points from 13 votes. We'll visit it again later, but here are a couple of versions you might not be familar with. 12-inch audio audience audio 2000
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:45 (three years ago) link
heebies & jeebies. Wonder if we'll see Mosaic here
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, June 8, 2020 11:45 AM (one week ago)
(For anyone who thinks Mosaic and Confusion The Waitress share enough elements to be counted together, they also would have scored 600 points combined.)
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 02:06 (three years ago) link
If "Jedis Sugar Hit Mix" of Jumbo merited an Abbey Road remaster then
AND IT CERTAINLY DID
― lukas, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 02:57 (three years ago) link
a lot of great stuff today:the fm mix of "mother earth" really makes it with the sax introduuuuuuuuune! probably my favourite of their downtempo tracks, one of the very best from drift"most 'ospitable" is their absolute best ambient piecedidn't vote for "tongue" or even really consider it, so i was really underrating itthe album version of "twist" is fine but the guitar on the rehearsal version is so much better and really elevates it
― ufo, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 03:25 (three years ago) link
bonus quotes for Rowla:
i had such an urge to listen to Rowla yesterday i dl'd it at work tho i have the CD at home ― blueski, Friday, October 8, 2004 3:39 AM
Also, "Rowla" fights with "Luetin" as being their best album track ever. ― DJP, Friday, January 7, 2005 6:11 AM
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 04:20 (three years ago) link
"rowla" is just kinda grating and repetitive to me, much prefer "cherry pie" (which i'm assuming it was combined with)
― ufo, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 04:29 (three years ago) link
I like both, but not enough to vote for either. I think some sort of combo between the two would be the ideal mix for me
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 05:45 (three years ago) link
what's that you say?
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 05:51 (three years ago) link
cheers, groovypanda! silly for me not to go looking for this mix myself. this is basically exactly what I wanted
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 06:02 (three years ago) link
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, June 16, 2020 8:11 AM (three hours ago)
I'm leaving typos in the quoted comments if they speak to an elevated enthusiasm, btw, and tidying them up if it'll make the poster's intent clearer - but this guy actually had it as "kiss my root."
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 06:40 (three years ago) link
A morning heater for the European readers:
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 07:15 (three years ago) link
http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u039-673727.png 39. Bird 1 613 points, 13 votes 2010 single from album Barking
video by Dylan Kendle KCRW session video 2011 (link to 13:36)
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 07:16 (three years ago) link
their newest song, Strumpet, is fantastic. check out the version from Oct. 31st / Brixton. ― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, December 16, 2008 9:52 AM
audience video 2009 (as "Strumpet')
Underworld are deep into their most creative period ever. I'm in love with their recent work. Webcasts, artjams, live shows, social networking. It's a great time to be an Underworld fan now that the Lager, Lager, Lager heads have moved on. Between Stars and Strumpet are great indicators of their new direction. Karl is doing a poetry thing with Eno and one of the Eno/Hyde collaborations will probably turn up on the forthcoming K7 DJ compilation series Underworld is starting. Big things ahead in 2010. ― brotherlovesdub, Friday, October 16, 2009 2:36 AM
live jam entry in fan remix contest
lately I have become obsessed with "Bird 1" ― DJP, Wednesday, October 12, 2011 5:03 AM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink it's a great song. the live version from 10/31/08 at Brixton is really good. ― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, October 12, 2011 5:06 AM i love lots of lines in that song but the one that really gets me is 'a moped started up, sounded like a chainsaw, tiny firecrackers' ― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, October 12, 2011 5:07 AM it really does call back to the lyrical style of "Dirty Epic" re: the whole lucid dreaming thing they do so well ― DJP, Wednesday, October 12, 2011 5:21 AM
There's a noise in Bird 1 that repeats that kills the song for me. I love Strumpet and still play it a bunch, but they ruined the track once they took it to the studio. I would love to discuss the meaning of the lyrics of that song though. I have a theory, but I'd like to hear other theories. ― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 10:20 AM
piano cover
I play "Bird 1" something like once a week ― DJP, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 12:02 PM
https://i.imgur.com/ruTrwaK.jpg
i always forget how amazing "bird 1" is ― BradNelson, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 7:34 AM
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 07:33 (three years ago) link
I've never got bld's insistence that the album version on Barking has been ruined compared to the early versions of Strumpet. They're not massively dissimilar imo (and nothing like the difference between You Do Scribble and Scribble)
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 08:03 (three years ago) link
had never heard that cherry pie / rowla mashup, that rules
― ufo, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 08:10 (three years ago) link
The annoying pew sound on the downbeat that runs throughout the song is all I can hear once it starts.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
Oh I guess it’s pasted above, I haven’t read through all the posts. Some people have different opinions.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
Bird1 is the best lyrical song Karl Hyde has ever written. There’s another opinion others won’t share.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
Dune reminds me of some downer eighties sophisto-pop. Can't quite place the exact thing, something like War Baby by Tom Robinson.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
I think Bird 1 was the only thing from Barking on my ballot. Great track!
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
the lyrics on Barking are surprisingly good
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
Bird 1 is such a good little story, not quite my #1 on that album but vvvv close.
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
Maybe I was thinking of Hold On To Your Dreams as well, although that's been on my mind anyway. xps at me re: dune.
https://youtu.be/658677tpgkc
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u038-028744.png 38. Air Towel 614 combined points, 14 total votes 402 pts from 10 votes for the 1996 album track on Second Toughest In The Infants, which would have placed around 56 on sole votesand 212 pts from 4 votes for the 2000 rehearsal tape released as a free mp3 edited that year, and in full during Drift in 2019. This would have been 87 by itself audio Airtowel A2778 Live Jam for Web Dec 2000 audio or youtube
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
This, to me, feels more of a #56 track than a #38 track.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
i love classic cuts like 'rez' but i feel like their deep cuts are often pretty revelatory and inspiring, like idk 'luetin' or 'air towel'.. ― nomar, Friday, September 23, 2016 5:16 AM
audience audio 2008 https://i.imgur.com/Fy2NzI8.jpg
Had never realised what an airtowel was until this second ― James Morrison, Friday, May 10, 2019 11:08 AM I didn’t until you pointed out that was what the image was supposed to depict I’m satisfied to have that mystery cleared up but I will kind of miss its former status in my life as a nonsense phrase ― Champiness, Friday, May 10, 2019 2:14 PM
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
Was #35 on mine so feels about right xp
Does anyone know what the actual lyrics are towards the end?
Most sites have it as "Should I want it. Should I want" which sounds like it could be right but sometimes (and especially in some live versions) it sounds more like "Just where I want it. Just where I want"
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, June 16, 2020 10:30 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
nah shit's funky
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
it was almost certainly pushed this far by the live jam though
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
xp, end lyrics, to me it's been "cereal wharf egg".Love it
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
Cereal Wharf Egg would make a great title for a late-90s bootleg live CD
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
good track but yeah it placed ahead of a lot of more deserving tunes
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
Would you have been happier with this at #38?
http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/interupt-tinthere.png Intially a hard remix of Pearl's Girl, refined into its own track for a video game, and tightened even further for the CD soundtrack release of that game, Tin There scored 623 points from 13 voters (in various forms), including 1 #1 vote.
audio of CD version
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
lol xps
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link
Damn, well that was almost certainly my #1 there.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link