Underworld - Classic or Dud?

partly i think the danceability of second toughest is subtle yet powerful- the repetitive figures of the "juanita/kiteless" opening block at first just make you bounce around a little bit, jiggle a leg in your seat or whatever, but by later you're humming along with the vocoder and it picks up speed. this is opposed to the danceability of, say, "push upstairs," which just starts bashing down the door and forcing you to dance with the detroit-ness of it all and builds even more on that.

neither is a better approach.

OTM OTM OTM OTM and incidentally this is why "Pearl's Girl" is the only track on the album that works.

_Second Toughest..._ comes across like they took the miniscule edge of _dubnobass..._ and sanded it off of every track, leaving a completely innoffensive and uninvolving puddle of bland (with the SOLE exception of "Pearl's Girl"); the entire reason why most of those songs work better in a live situation is because beefed up through a gigantic club system with all of the live filter processing and feedback inherent in the setup the tracks regain bite and crispness. I first heard most of the _Second Toughest..._ material live at one of their shows in support of the album and was DEEPLY LET DOWN by the faceless blancmange that they put in the stores, so I basically turned back to the drum n bass CDs that were piling up next to my stereo and wrote them off for YEARS.

I've been meaning to listen to dubnobass and stiti again - it's been a while.

Spoonman
Juanita: Kiteless (preferably in some version that cuts the "To Dream of Love" part)
Eclipse
Minneapolis
Confusion the Waitress
Cherry Pie
Cups
Dark & Long
maybe Why Why Why

burn a CD-R, get the hits, and that should be about all that's necessary.

Rick and Karl will be presenting Tuesday night's show.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/johnpeel/thisweek/thisweek.shtml#sess1

(yes I recently downloaded the live BBC mp3s)

these days i'm always surprised how much i like '100 days off' whenever i re-listen to it. they fckn ruled didn't they?
they might again!

Wow; well that's certainly different from my opinion anyway. I often think that Banstyle/Sappys Curry is my favourite track of the '90s. Bland is the last thing I'd describe it as. The first half hour of that record I think are amongst the best half hour of music I've ever heard. Not to worry, we're obviously looking for different things in it.

Not to worry, we're obviously looking for different things in it.

Yeah, I've come to the conclusion that the particular itch that STITI scratches is an itch I pretty much have never had.

DOOT!

Seeyoolaaaaayta Seeyoolaaaaayta aHEPMEAnownowaHEPMEanownownooooooowww yeah...

Wonder why I never posted on this thread, actually. Great of course but I'm too under the weather to say more than that.

I like Underworld, but their remix of Depeche Mode's "Barrel Of a Gun" still leaves me quite cold.

chillout music innit

"alfie" looks like that guy from Lord of the Rings

Or a cut-rate 1970s Brian Eno.

http://www.underworldlive.com/index/shop.html

Sure I like their more mellow new tunes, but I still would absolutely kill to hear them do another total rockin' monster 12" banger like "Cowgirl" or "Cups" or "Spikee." Hell, NOBODY does totally rockin' monster 12" bangers anymore. Ah well.