why don't you poll me I feel like flying to... the UNDERWORLD Poll Results thread -- produced by Smith & Hyde for ILM Artist Poll #102

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37. Stagger 
660 points, 14 votes
1996 album track from Second Toughest In The Infants

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Meh.

ahahaha too low

kind of yet another underworld track that invents a genre they never return to

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!

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

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rehearsal jam audio

it's so random that this should feature

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.

rick's synth playing on this track is out of this world

all of these songs i regret not placing!! stagger is very good just wasn't fitting into my "this is what i like right now" i guess during my balloting? the melody reminds me of a bjork song i cant place

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36. Spoonman
669 points, 16 votes
1994 album track from dubnobasswithmyheadman

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16-minute long audience audio 1995
shorter audience audio 2000

Into the blood into the sperm

Listening along with the results so many of these tracks seem like no brainers that I’ve always loved and should have voted for, but I hadn’t remembered what they were from looking at track titles alone

Not Spoonman though, that was top 10 material

The only dubnobass album track on my ballot (also had "Cowgirl" and multiple non-album versions of "Dirty").

I thought "Spoonman" off "Dubnobass..." was flippin' ace!!! No one I know seems to like it!!!!! Mind you, I like repetitive techno bollox!!!!!!

I also went to one of the concerts (Broadcast on Radio 1!!!!!) at around the time of "Dubnobass...", (The same night as they found the body of Kurt Cobain!!!!) and it was grebt/GRATE/etc!!!!! Unlike the recent "live" album, it was one big long DJ mix style jam, mixing in various bits of their songs. The track on the live album which mixes "Cowgirl" and "Rez" is nearest equivalent- imagine a whole concert like that with most of the tracks from "Dubnobass..." and an early version "Born Slippy"!!!! (I've actually got a tape of it somewhere, taped off the radio...)

― Old Fart!!!, Wednesday, January 7, 2004 9:27 PM

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Spoonman placing on a Tuesday, well played

Whhhhhhoooooooooaaaaaaaaa....

(Tues ... day.)

clllllllllassic. second half of my ballot. I'm just wrong.

There are no wrong answers in this poll.

i almost didn't place it because i already had so much dubnobass on my ballot but i ended up deciding not to lie to myself and put it on there too

disc 4 of the reissue has "Spoonman (version1 A1559 Nov92)" which I think is even better than the one that wound up on the album. there's an additional layer to it that didn't make the cut.

Anyone fancy hearing Old Fart's memories?

I remember struggling with whether or not to buy the CD since it only had a few tracks I didn't already own, but yea as soon as "Spoonman" started I knew I made the right choice

i would like 2 hear an old farts memories

here, with an extra 20+ minutes not on the radio broadcast

also hey i literally just found this, a page from the wipeout 2097 soundtrack booklet i guess?

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here's the whole booklet

...and i have my new dn

the introductory page is so over the top BRI'ISH i almost expect them to talk about the newsie-wewsies

There was sooo much Future Sound of London on that soundtrack.

i literally just found this

scroll up :)

haha oh no did i miss it?!

is it a link or an image? i am now realizing that there are some probably-image-sized gaps that haven't loaded anything for me...

There was sooo much Future Sound of London on that soundtrack.

This soundtrack album and the actual soundtrack of the video game do not contain the same collections of music. CoLD SToRAGE supplied two tracks ("Canada", "Body In Motion") for the game, the Chemical Brothers produced "Dust Up Beats", Fluke created a different "Atom Bomb" Mix than the one featured on this release called "Atom Bomb (Straight Six Instrumental)" and Future Sound of London, supplied "Landmass", none of which were included on the soundtrack album. Conversely, Photek's "Titan", the Chemical Brothers' "Leave Home", and the tracks by Daft Punk, Source Direct, Orbital, and Leftfield did not appear in the game itself.

That Wipeout 2097 page was sampled in the Tin There image, nbd.

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35 Kittens
675 points, 14 votes
1999 album track from Beaucoup Fish

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Too low

"Kittens" (a storming epic), "Something Like A Mama" (jungle-inflected track like "Pearl's Girl" with its tongue in its cheek) and of course "King Of Snake". It's a strong album.

― Tim, Tuesday, October 17, 2000 11:00 AM

Everything Everything DVD-only audio

Kittens, which is...is...the sound of taking lots of drugs and feeling very expansive :) So between classic and dud, leaning on the classic side.

― o.munoz, Thursday, January 18, 2001 12:00 PM

audience video 2017, Rick alone and lasers going pew pew pewww

"Kittens". I heard a RealAudio excerpt of this when _BF_ came out and was suitably staggered. I was all set to run to the store to buy the album when I heard "Push Upstairs"... ew. (I've since grown used to that song, but I don't see anything overly special about it.)

― DJP, Thursday, January 18, 2001 12:00 PM

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OMG! I did the same 33-45 mistake with the "Kittens" promo, with the same effect: the slow version easily trumped the "right" version.

― Eric H., Thursday, January 8, 2004 4:27 AM

That Wipeout 2097 page was sampled in the Tin There image, nbd.

― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Tuesday, June 16, 2020 3:43 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

omg oops wow

aw geez shit-talk on push upstairs in the comments ;_; (it was my first underworld song i think and is v close to my heart)

you gotta have tough skin in here will

Kittens was the greatest thing ever when I was 13

its a wonder they don't play it live more often. seems like it would bring the house down

kittens too low!!!!!!

this is Rowla Pie country

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34. Luetin 
677 points, 15 votes
2002 album track from A Hundred Days Off

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live audio 2002 with interview snippet

also too low

Hyde's lyrics are starting to annoy me more here and there these days, particularly on Luetin tho that is a fantastic track (a classic case of a track you are just casually listening to, a few minutes pass and then you just hit a moment and realise where you are who you are what's going on etc.)

― blueski, Friday, May 21, 2004 2:09 AM

The trick to Luetin for me is the strings. I often don't notice them come in, but I do, it's lovely. I can't even make out most of the lyrics on it though.

― Vinnie, Friday, May 21, 2004 2:20 AM

he says 'cokey cola'

― blueski, Friday, May 21, 2004 2:21 AM

Peel Session audio 2003
piano cover

Dan, I've just relistened to Luetin based on this post, and you're otm that it's great, but I don't think it's as satisfying for some reason.

― roxymuzak, Thursday, October 20, 2005 1:34 AM

Oh...but...I forgot this part where the synths come in.

― roxymuzak, Thursday, October 20, 2005 1:34 AM

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hey at the very least my last relisten revealed that "luetin" is one of their best songs and is totally buried on that record!

― BradNelson, Tuesday, March 15, 2016 5:20 AM

^^^^ I have been saying this for years

― DJP, Tuesday, March 15, 2016 5:21 AM

great tune, glad to see it this high. but yeah Karl's lyrics on this one are kinda...uh...best not to pay too much attention

I never intentionally pay attention to Karl's lyrics, so it's always a nice surprise when a phrase catches on and sticks in my head, or I can associate a song with some words.

"The rhythm of keys swinging in your hand, the rhythm of light coming out of your fingers" - the latter part sat in the song as a general vibe of positivity, or a rave visual of lasers and splayed hands, for years before I suddenly locked it with the first half and realised they could be paired. Maybe Karl had spotted an extremely menial, quotidian image at a moment where the sun hit, and sparked a tiny hidden poem out of it.

that's so beautiful :')

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33. Surfboy and Spoon Deep
712 combined points, 16 total votes
11 votes for the 1994 album track from dubnobasswithmyheadman, which would have placed at 49 alone
plus the five previous for a remix released as sort of b-side while claiming to be a remix of a different song

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audience audio 2003 link at 8:20