Mega Mega Vote Thing - UNDERWORLD (Smith/Hyde) in ILM Artist Poll #102 - Campaigning, Discussion, Equivocating until 22nd May

can we please see everybody's ballots

show me everyone's ballots, you said,
but all i could see was doris day's

maybe the real World of Underworld... is every single one of those ballots

lol.. hey what is the total number of tracks?

Voted for? Dunno until all the ballots are in. In the rollout? Dunno until all the ballots are tallied (and WILL NOT TELL until the results thread!)


when are results?

June!

sent in 77 to help reach the next-five mark. only easy choices were the top & bottom 2

i added "confusion the waitress" to mine after hearing that recording lol

Voted!

That was tough (but fun)

with my own finished-at-6am ballot, that's another five, so here's another Obliviobestof (NB: the last two tracks are mistitled as 29/2, should be the 28th)


Still looking forward to getting ballots from Eric H and Tim F today - anyone else racing to the extended deadline? (Dan?)

I'll try to send one this evening

The more the merrier.

thanks sic, grabbed both these compilations for sometime. I may listen to all of the shows first. These look like parts 6 and 9 of something?? What you up to? Smooth editing.

Today I played a bit of "Bootleg Babies", a fan made alternative to "Everything Everything" that was put out on the old Underworld fan site way back when. Had to resort to S0ulseek surprisingly. Can upload to web if anyone likes. (um... if we get 10 more ballots!?)

Bootleg Babies is great. Think it was an RTSR project with input from lots of us on the old dirty.org forums about which live performances to choose.

Still got my original CD copy somewhere

Realized I never actually voted in this, slapped together a ballot and sent it in

Eriiiiic!

also frogbs check yr email

lol.. hey what is the total number of tracks?

exact numbers are squishy what w/ different versions, but we have votes for over 200 titles

Wow, nice! I was wondering how many total songs were eligible... but I realize that's really fuzzy. I just took your big list and cut out all the remixes (the ones that aren't new or practically new songs) and instrumentals and stuff, and I got 205. Doesn't count all the other stuff that's eligible like movie soundtrack tracks (I put in 2) and Freur/early Underworld, etc.

you are using my worlds, check your email :)

Sorted

Slamming a ballot together.

not a big enough fan to vote, but I hope Stagger does well. I love that one

Should have titled it Colonel Sanders Fingers

#72 here. Now feeling great shame.

imo no such thing as 'not a big enough fan' for these things

I could name you 5 of their songs and you have to submit 13

my goodness you're not a fan at all :D

it's a reasonable cutoff I guess!

incidentally what are your 5? that's interesting cuz you like Stagger

#showmetheballots

#72 here. Now feeling great shame

and so you should. top 15 on mine

i should've voted for "banstyle/sappys curry" even higher

"stagger" is in my top ten i think

one of the many reasons i love second toughest in the infants is that the sequencing makes it a rave center ("rowla"/"pearl's girl") surrounded by gossamer jazzy flourishes ("juanita," "banstyle," and "stagger")

Agreed, the expansiveness of “banstyle/sappy’s curry” and “stagger” (as well as the “kiteless” / “to dream of love” section of the opener) both give the album its distinctive feel vis a vis their other work and allows the band the room to record what is perhaps otherwise their most uncompromising work - later tracks could be faster or harder, but the sheer minimalism of much of this album still startles.

Actually it’s really only about the first minute of “Juanita” that sounds minimalist, isn’t it? But I love the way that track starts and hence the way the album starts: dropping you straight into the middle of a techno set in some dark club at 2am in the morning (one of the genius things about the Everything Everything version is how it totally replaces the undercarriage of this section with something both housier and ravier while preserving this essential truth).

dog latin you are going to have a WILD RIDE in the rollout

I just sent in a ballot. That was ridiculously difficult. A bunch of what I love about underworld is contained in the remixes they did from 92-95, so I'd like to chat about those at some point too.

ffs

don't count it if it's too late. no sweat.

Tim, that's so beautiful

listening to Second Toughest tonight, I'm 8 minutes in and just ordered the vinyl and now think I put Juanita & the whole album too low on my ballot

cancel the poll!

now that I've looked it over I'd probably only put either of them up one spot, god damn they just have so much good stuff

I've heard the Everything, Everything version of this so many times, that was the version of it I knew for a couple years before I got the STITI CD

it's really a different tune, Tim definitely otm

keep listening

can I just say that banging piano underpinning is one of the most brilliant things ever in electronic music

q: is "juanita/kiteless" the greatest song ever recorded by anyone

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:45 (two weeks ago) link

if I had to bet it'll be #1. it's definitely placing higher than my #1. but I don't regret it

while i'm here quoting Brad, this came to mind the other day

man... they were gold from the moment "spikee" dropped

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 May 2020 13:57 (three weeks ago) link

how many electronic acts are legendary from just 1 or 2 12"s? Skyscraper(!) and Rez(!!!) came before Spikee. They were legends before the "first" album. dang.

you know it never occurred to me the hook in "Sappy's Curry" was just a bunch of sampled guitar like the "King of Snake" intro

don't forget that Dirty predates those!

xp

xp Orbital maybe. and Chime, Belfast, & Satan all dropped before the first album

in my thoughts rn about the legacy of Lemon Interupt had Underworld stopped at Rez.