that said I feel like it was maybe never finished
yeah, even Parc (made for a Japanese radio station, first broadcast May 2008) is remixed from this live performance of Darc in July 2005. They may have never even tried to do a studio version per se, and almost certainly weren't still working on it by the time of recording Oblivion.
― Elon's musk (sic), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
The notes on Sydney Hotel Room Peal:
‘I remember when Rick first sent me this piece he’d written in his hotel room in Sydney back in 2008 (I seem to remember him taking his laptop into the fire-exit stairwell to listen to the natural reverb and getting very excited...). For many many years, it was my go-to piece for combating my insomnia. It was only this weekend, when I was talking to Rick about the track that I realised that was precisely what he wrote it for.’ (Mike Gillespie - UW manager)
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
maybe Primrose came first?....Just cuz they haven't been mentioned a lot yet.... Second Toughest and Barbara Barbara are going to be high on my ballot!
― maffew12, Thursday, 7 May 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
https://youtu.be/4izZYfo58-Eanyone new to Barbara, check the full version (and whole album) if this single edit does anything for you. I remember fans being pretty divided when this hit. I just loved it. Remember just being amazed they still had new directions left in them......... and then Drift!
― maffew12, Thursday, 7 May 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
wow "Mother Earth (FM Mix)" is fantastic, love that melancholy sax intro. significantly better than the album version
― ufo, Thursday, 7 May 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
my favourite from Barbara, Barbara is "If Rah". luna luna luna luna luna!
― ufo, Thursday, 7 May 2020 01:04 (three years ago) link
in love with
― maffew12, Thursday, 7 May 2020 01:06 (three years ago) link
tie strunky tape to it
― maffew12, Thursday, 7 May 2020 01:09 (three years ago) link
I like Barbara except for the first two songs. Really love Twenty Three Blue, the Japanese bonus track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxELB8NMBWk
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 7 May 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
yeah that really should have been on there, it's not like there wasn't room for it.
― ufo, Thursday, 7 May 2020 01:20 (three years ago) link
maybe Primrose came first?
yeah, or the manager might have been given a track in 2008 that Rick had made years earlier, or been fiddling with Primrose to try and crack its soporific powers ever since.
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 01:58 (three years ago) link
"born slippy .nuxx" has to be their only track that actually works better in 4 minute radio edit form
― ufo, Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:05 (three years ago) link
like the full-length studio version just kinda meanders around without any clear direction to go in once it's bored of the vocals + that transcendent synth riff and even in the live versions where they bring the the riff back in eventually that's better but it doesn't really feel earned?
― ufo, Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:10 (three years ago) link
oh i just realised the Eno/Hyde stuff is eligible i love those records but i'd have no idea how to rank anything from them against underworld material
― ufo, Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:13 (three years ago) link
I'm embarking on a listen-through now, roughly drawing the line at no later-released variant mixes & no solo stuff / collaborations, however "no live" is a step too far, Everything Everything needs to be in there, and...? Is there anything obvious I'm missing out with this approach? Also I will absolutely be putting Doot-Doot in my top 10, sorry, unavoidable.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:15 (three years ago) link
polling all this seems like rank madness to me and i won't play but i am loving listening to all this stuff so thanks guys
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:17 (three years ago) link
Live In Tokyo 25th November 2005 is a pretty essential listen even if sic isn't allowing votes for it
― ufo, Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:18 (three years ago) link
just come up with your top 77 tracks and then randomise their order Noodle roughly drawing the line at no later-released variant mixes & no solo stuff / collaborations
I listed the two later NUXX revisits bcz they were singles, but I'll be surprised if anyone votes for them at all however "no live" is a step too far, Everything Everything needs to be in there, and...?
Everything Everything is in there as an album, and ppl are welcome to add notes about favourite live versions of compositions to their ballots
Doot Doot needs no apology
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:45 (three years ago) link
it just plays best to me as one endless woosh of music, like the Autechre that probably doesn't annoy my neighbours as much
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:53 (three years ago) link
we're saying the same thing imo
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 11:21 (three years ago) link
nah i get ya
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 May 2020 11:21 (three years ago) link
Voting for this (not high up), think it's obscure enough that a few people here won't have heard it, so here's the signal boost -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LDgHJq1LDw
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 7 May 2020 12:20 (three years ago) link
Stoked for this.
And I think I'm right in assuming that once you've voted for 20 tracks you could, for example, have both Dark Train and Dark & Long in your Top 20?
And I guess Edgeland etc is admissible?
― groovypanda, Thursday, 7 May 2020 12:39 (three years ago) link
Anything that ensures that the version of "Juanita" that officially ranks is the album/single version gets my whole-hearted support.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 May 2020 12:52 (three years ago) link
will be surprised if that's not #1 tbh. An independent Rez will split the Cowgirl vote.
― maffew12, Thursday, 7 May 2020 13:18 (three years ago) link
If you're nerdy enough to list 20 tracks at all, you unlock the power-up of listing multiple versions. If you really want to, you can then have your entire top eight be tracks that at some point were released on a CD with the words "Dark & Long" on the spine.
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 13:28 (three years ago) link
studio Juanita is excellent but the one on Everything Everything just sounds like the perfection of house music to me
here's my super obscure track of choice. iirc I think one of the fans convinced them to put this out on underworldlive.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OWy4NlAdV8
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 May 2020 13:33 (three years ago) link
will be surprised if that's not #1 tbh. An independent Rez will split the Cowgirl vote.If ppl have particular opinions that they don’t mind thinking of them as one, or Definitely Object to such revisionism, feel very welcome to add notes about this and other distinctions to your ballot. (You can just vote for them one point apart if yr especially keen to keep ‘en together in the results, of course.)
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 13:37 (three years ago) link
i'm definitely gonna do a 77 song ballot and i'm already tired
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 May 2020 13:50 (three years ago) link
xpi think it's appropriate they're distinct... if nothing else, they were both singles. Just when I think of what the real big ones are among fans, J/K/TDOL and Cowgirl/Rez are right at the top.
i'm learning a lot here already... this is great, thanks again!
― maffew12, Thursday, 7 May 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
man... they were gold from the moment "spikee" dropped
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 May 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link
the whole EP is great but "Wedge"/"Showlder" is really some of the most gorgeous music I've ever heard in my life
I never learned the names of the songs within Riverrun... and just now I can't track down a list of what times they all start at. Anyone have one? Cuesheets or anything? Would be great for thread. Or I'll listen through and check them off as I go :p
― maffew12, Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link
nevermind, found em!
Riverrun track times:
1:
PERFORMER "Underworld"TITLE "LovelyBrokenThing"FILE "audio.mp3" WAVETRACK 01 AUDIOTITLE "JAL To Tokyo"INDEX 01 00:00:00TRACK 02 AUDIOTITLE "Billy Goat"INDEX 01 05:37:00TRACK 03 AUDIOTITLE "Peggy Sussed"INDEX 01 11:39:00TRACK 04 AUDIOTITLE "Dub Shepherd"INDEX 01 14:00:00TRACK 05 AUDIOTITLE "Lenny Penne"INDEX 01 16:30:00TRACK 06 AUDIOTITLE "Monkey Wink"INDEX 01 23:33:00TRACK 07 AUDIOTITLE "Witness"INDEX 01 26:55:00
2:
PERFORMER "Underworld"TITLE "Pizza For Eggs"FILE "audio.mp3" WAVETRACK 01 AUDIOTITLE "Food A Ready"INDEX 01 00:00:00TRACK 02 AUDIOTITLE "Back In The Fears"INDEX 01 06:58:00TRACK 03 AUDIOTITLE "Vanilla Monkey"INDEX 01 09:14:00TRACK 04 AUDIOTITLE "Flatz"INDEX 01 13:42:00TRACK 05 AUDIOTITLE "Ancient Phat Farm Coat"INDEX 01 14:16:00TRACK 06 AUDIOTITLE "Play Pig"INDEX 01 22:22:00
3:
TITLE "I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This Is My Horse"PERFORMER "Underworld"FILE "05 I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and this is my Horse.mp3" MP3 TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "Peach Tree" PERFORMER "Underworld" INDEX 01 00:00:00 TRACK 02 AUDIO TITLE "Mowed Path" PERFORMER "Underworld" INDEX 01 10:03:00 TRACK 03 AUDIO TITLE "Showlder" PERFORMER "Underworld" INDEX 01 14:58:70 TRACK 04 AUDIO TITLE "Wedge" PERFORMER "Underworld" INDEX 01 18:35:27 TRACK 05 AUDIO TITLE "11 Hundred Hz" PERFORMER "Underworld" INDEX 01 28:12:44
― maffew12, Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
nearly forgot how amazing "most 'ospitable" is
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
selected ambient works quality ambient
It is still fascinating to me how much most Underworld fans seem to prefer one over the other. This is not a new fight to me here at all.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
move to combine points for STAR and Lenny Penne
― maffew12, Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
*votes for every "dark & long" "remix"*
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
hell yes
― maffew12, Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
really wish the deluxe reissues of the records were more exhaustive in their remix inclusions. i can't get rid of my singles for fear of losing "spoon deep"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
"spoon deep" goes really well with this playthrough of system shock 2 i've been watching
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
And I guess Edgeland etc is admissible?Songs are, album isn’t.
Songs are, album isn’t.
Tempted to vote for every track in that case.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
even "dark hard" is ridiculously great!!! i hate this!!!!!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
Ted Lopez3 years agoI dropped this track (respect to underworld) in summer 1994 san fernando california, at a warehouse event. .. shit was underground back then thanx.....
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
Not sure how anyone can possibly vote for less than 20 tracks.
I'll be doing the full 77 and already think there'll be some tough choices about what i want to leave out
― groovypanda, Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
Spoon Deep215 MilesMost OspitibleThing In A Book
All the Dark and Long “remixes” are career bests for any other band
― I am using your worlds, Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
I didn't include track times for the Riverruns because they're just what one rando with free editing software made up, but at least you posted them in the clearest, most practical way possible ;)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, May 7, 2020 11:57 PM (yesterday)
I also called up [the radio, as a teenager, to huff] when an announcer played something off dubnobasswithmyheadman and said "Nothing to do with the group that had a #1 single with Underneath The Radar! Completely different band."― Elon's musk (sic), Wednesday, May 6, 2020 8:36 AM (two days ago)
― Elon's musk (sic), Wednesday, May 6, 2020 8:36 AM (two days ago)
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
Seriously considering sitting this out since ranking their tracks seems impossible.
― lukas, Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
Vote!
Imagine the hardest part will be ranking the Top 20 or so - after that it'll be fairly arbitrary anyway
― groovypanda, Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
I haven't even got to dubnobasswithmyheadman and I've already found a case where I much prefer a different mix, hmm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCKJWdIdHTM
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
ack sorry! i have been spending as little time as possible in front of the computer lately due to the heat so i completely shat the bed on this. D:
i could hack something together for friday for sure! (i know i said that last time but it's not as hot now)
― TRANCED INTO RADIOACTIVE PUREE (Will M.), Monday, 13 July 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
bumpin bumpin
― bat ain't Thad (sic), Saturday, 18 July 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
here's the in-ear monitor cues the performers were receiving at the end of And I Will Kiss
― bat ain't Thad (sic), Saturday, 18 July 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link
results tomorrow!
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 02:07 (three years ago) link
Huzzah!
― chonky floof (groovypanda), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 07:19 (three years ago) link