Second Toughest Poll Ever!

just listened to this yesterday, juanita/kiteless never fails to make me stop whatever im doing and just listen

listening to this for the first time

report back, I'm curious as to how it's held up to someone who doesn't have any memories attached to it. my last impression of this was that it dated very well...feels cleaner and more timeless than dubnobass or Beacoup Fish

this album makes me want to live my life driving around in a car at night

first time, crut?!?? we should have talked about this IRL while you were here

also al leong otm in the extreme.

Think this is my favourite dance album of all time these days. It definitely has dated better than Dubnobass and Beaucoup Fish (as great as those they are)

Obviously didn't need those and they in that last sentence.

I love the lack of obvious bangers on this one (I don't think Hyde does his shouty vox thing here except on pearls girl and even there it's deeply distorted.) and those hooks are just really so subtle and they immerse themselves in my head. like on confusion the waitress, which is all time great. I think they really achieved something singular here, like the perfect moody, propulsive, shining cityscape fast approaching in the distance album.

this album makes me want to live my life driving around in a car at night

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, February 14, 2014 5:38 PM (1 year ago)

Listening again to this again now, mainly thanks to the epics poll, and I'm hearing again how good it is and how much I loved it. Such great tracks all the way through. It reminds me so much of my travelling to meet my gf in Liverpool from Leeds on the trans eur.. erm trans peninne express. Great days.

http://www.underworldlive.com/news/2015/09/underworld-second-toughest-in-the-infants-remaster/

CD3: previously unreleased material
1. Bug
2. Confusion The Waitress (She Said)
3. D+B Thing
4. D’Arbly St
5. 4 Crowns
6. Rowla A1806
7. Bing Here
8. Techno Thang
9. Pearls Ver2
10. Bloody 1

yessssssss

i've been listening to this album a lot lately and it's still >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

my cd copy is still way too quiet, gotta crank the stereo up double to hear it. But it still sounds amazing.

Full set:

Disc: 1
1. Juanita: Kiteless: To Dream Of Love
2. Banstyle / Sappys Curry
3. Confusion the Waitress
4. Rowla
5. Pearl's Girl
6. Air Towel
7. Blueski
8. Stagger
Disc: 2
1. Cherry Pie
2. Oich Oich
3. Puppies
4. Mosaic
5. Deep Arch
6. Pearl's Girl (Tin There)
7. Pearl's Girl (14996 Version)
8. Born Slippy (Original Instrumental Version)
9. Born Slippy.Nuxx (Deep Pan)
Disc: 3
1. Bug
2. Confusion The Waitress (She Said)
3. D+B Thing
4. D'Arbly St
5. 4 Crowns
6. Rowla A1806
7. Bing Here
8. Techno Thang
9. Pearls Ver2
10. Bloody 1
Disc: 4
1. Nuxx A1796
2. Nuxx A2221 UW live (2 sets) Leicester M Dog 94
3. Nuxx A4712 Live @ Zap club Brighton Feb94
4. Nuxx A4733 UW live Amsterdam Apr94
5. Nuxx Liquid Room 94 A2254 UW Live Liquid Room 2 Tokyo
6. Nuxx from A1825
7. Born Slippy (Nuxx)

i've been listening to this album a lot lately and it's still >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson)

i only found out the titles origin last year

which is?

The unusual name of the album derives from a comment made by member Rick Smith's six-year-old nephew, Simon Prosser, when asked on his progress at infant school, the level of schooling attended by four- to seven-year-old children in the United Kingdom[citation needed].

yes it may or may not be true but between truth and [citation needed] print the later

The first two tracks on this album = godlike.

cannot believe Amazon wants $$110 for the 4cd set!

I've gotta say, I love how this album is mastered so quietly compared to other electronic records of the time, it means it really blossoms when you crank it up.

this has got to have the best first six minutes of any electronic album ever. even though I've heard it a zillion times I still get drawn in every time.

The best 30 minutes, more like!

Second disc of the deluxe edition (which gets split out over 3 discs + added tracks differently on the superdeluxe) is so quality front-to-back. I love this era of Underworld, when production technique got more sophisticated but they hadn't yet gone technicolor, it was still pretty straightahead, driving, melancholy dance music.