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
"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), 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
God that thing is a demon of a track.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
Anyways, Underworld is still classic because did I mention that "Tin There" is basically my favorite techno barnburner ever? ― Eric H., Thursday, January 8, 2004 4:27 AM
"Tin There" (Wipeout XL version) ― Eric H., Friday, May 19, 2006 2:00 PM
"Tin There" is blissful carnage. ― Eric H., Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:19 AM
Going to stunt for Tin There over Pearl's Girl (Tin There). It's much less blown out, but I dig its strict crescendo-decrescendo symmetry better than the Pearls Girl version's variations.― Eric H., Thursday, May 7, 2020 6:50 AM
― Eric H., Thursday, May 7, 2020 6:50 AM
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
lol i was kinda hopin tin there would be counted separately but yeah what a stormer
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
xp on second thought, it's hard for me to be sure I was the #1 vote
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
:)
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
tin there is SO GOOD, i think that's my first top 10 to place? (bird 1 was 11th, that was the only one close)
I had air towel high too! i declare this section of the poll ~the good zone~ (jk it's all good)
(actually i just checked, phonestrap was my 10th so it's the second top 10 to place, but anyway)
also re: tin there and re: wipeout, i had a video game magazine that had this ad in it and i used to think about it ALL THE TIME (i had no access to the game and no idea what it was about!)
https://i.imgur.com/dG2DX5X.png
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
also i have no idea who sara cox is but to the british ppl here, yes that is sara cox
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
kinda hopin tin there would be counted separately
Por que no los dos? dot gif
I like that we get a tiny snippet of the Designers Republic sneaking into this Tomato-sauced poll btw. xp: and now some extra from Will!
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
i mean i'm thankful you're giving us the alt universe list where it counts, sic
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u037-629941.png 37. Stagger 660 points, 14 votes 1996 album track from Second Toughest In The Infants audio
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
Meh.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
ahahaha too low
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
kind of yet another underworld track that invents a genre they never return to
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
Tin There was pretty high on my ballot, I never played the game itself but I did buy the Wipeout 2097 soundtrack CD and always loved that song. Hearing the longer version was interesting but I think I do prefer the one I'm more familiar with.
Air Towel is one of my favourites on Second Toughest so it feels too low to me if anything!
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
There is nothing in the songs "Blueski", "Stagger" and "Juanita" (for example) that sounds anything like anything in the other two. ― roxymuzak, Tuesday, June 29, 2004 11:55 AM
As for Second Toughest, it's what got me hooked on Underworld and will always be my sentimental favorite. Though "Stagger" will probably always zero plays on my iTunes. ― Eric H., Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:49 AM
https://i.imgur.com/QQ6oSkQ.jpg rehearsal jam audio
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
it's so random that this should feature
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
As for Second Toughest, it's what got me hooked on Underworld and will always be my sentimental favorite. Though "Stagger" will probably always zero plays on my iTunes.
Well, that's maybe overstating it. It has at least 3 or 4.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
rick's synth playing on this track is out of this world
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link