What's the best of these electronic live albums from the big 90's acts?

Closer than I thought it would be, though I figured that would be the order.

underworld are so cheesy. never really listened to them before outside of remixes and singles, listening to everything, everything now

someone really needs to show them how to change the quantize setting in their sequencer

Yeah! You tell 'em, champ!

Are you paying attention, Underworld?

0 is harsh on Don't Think which is pretty great

getting into this now, ha, they sure love their jd-800 presets! /startrekman

yeah I think that maybe not enough people have heard it? It is fairly new but IMO compares pretty well to the others

btw calling UW "cheesy" - c'mon, son. maybe listen to one of their full albums.

kind of hate the vox on underworld albums. they've always been a stumbling block for me.

Weird, I consider that their best asset. UW have a "new wave gone techno" approach which really appeals to me. No surprise since they were actual New Wavers for a while.

"new wave gone techno" had never really occurred to me but I can see that. terrible "brit pop gone techno" chemical bros tracks like "the test" are more along the lines of what I'm thinking of. admittedly, that's more of a stretch than your angle and probably a little unfair. underworld vox are definitely more integrated/fundamental to the band's sound than pastiche chemical bros tracks, but ultimately, they just both grate on me in similar ways.

To be fair I kind of liked "The Test" as well. so maybe my opinion isn't worth that much.

I guess I'd have to know exactly which songs you're talking about - "NUXX" is one thing, but I don't know how anyone could hate the vocals on "Dirty Epic"; it's one of the few tracks where Karl really gets to air his voice out and the effect is incredible. Also there's a bunch of tracks out there with cut-up vocal fragments - there's a newer tune they did, "Back in the Fears" which is just a bunch of vocal loops and a shimmering guitar - not something the Chems or any other of these groups could do. Obviously it's possible that you just don't like his voice but IMO he's better than any of the guest singers or vocalists that the other electronic groups got, and they've done a lot with the vocals that you probably wouldn't hear on the songs on Everything, Everything

I'd just listened to everything, everything, so yeah, "born slippy/nuxx." but I will check out "dirty epic" and see if it clicks w/me.