Moaner, NUXX, and Rowla are all horrid, imo. I can't stand Underworld when they try to be hardcore. Give me a 15min ambient rip-off of Steve Reich anyday over that shit.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
... nuxx????
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
lolz
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
Kittens > Moaner
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
I like, and voted for, Moaner .NUXX and Rowla, going hard is fine and good imo
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
I agree Moaner is pretty over the top, arguably their most out of character track in a way. its great though obv
― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
also the indisputably great "king of snake" is one of their hardest tracks
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
tbh left nuxx off my ballot on the principled stance that there was no votable version w/ both the synths and the piano
― lowercase (eric), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
there's not?
some hard takes in here today
― maffew12, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
Think about 80% of my top 10 is 'hard' Underworld
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
xp unless i scanned over something besides the original and 2003 versions?
i like nuxx! just never reach for a non-live version, and 77 was tight
― lowercase (eric), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
i didn't sweat versions so much in making a ballot. sic is probably going to combine a lot of things? Depending on how voting went? I think the only alternate sort of thing I put in was the version of "Twist" put out during Drift - such an improvement. I would've assumed listing "Twist" would turn out the same anyhow. Though I probably slighted "Appleshine" by only ranking "Appleshine Continuum". That's just something I'll have to go on living with.
Just put ".NUXX" in my top 20 somewhere. In my heart that probably includes elements that were only done live. It's not fair but what can you do?
― maffew12, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
Everyone can fuck right off with their "Moaner" complaints. Hearing them close a live set with it almost exactly a year ago made me the happiest I have ever felt.
Also I was independently going to come back to this thread to say that although I love (and highly ranked) a lot of Underworld's more expansionist / moody / chilled work, to me their dance anthems are such indisputable anthems in a way that's nearly unrivalled for a single act that I think it would be entirely appropriate for someone to only vote for e.g. the songs that ultimately made it onto Everything, Everything and a few other of their biggest tracks (including "Moaner" but also stuff like "Dark Train" or "Listen To Their No" from the more recent work. I suppose "Always Loved A Film" is in this category too but it feels to me like it's trying a bit too hard to be in their category - much prefer "Downpipe" actually).
I think Deej posted something once about Everything, Everything being almost the ultimate encapsulation of the appeal of dancing to banging electronic music in a dark warehouse - not because those versions are necessarily superior to the originals but because the album collates and sequences them so relentlessly.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
Preparing the rollout has solidly convinced me that I was hugely underrating Always Loved A Film before.
― massage angry pixels (sic), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
I tried to tell you (I think)
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
At this point, I may have played "Always Loved A Film" and "Bird 1" more than any other Underworld songs except maybe "Pearl's Girl", the original "Born Slippy", and "Dirty Epic"― DJP, Saturday, May 9, 2020 3:59 AM (three weeks ago)
― DJP, Saturday, May 9, 2020 3:59 AM (three weeks ago)
― massage angry pixels (sic), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/101NhpP/tocata-street.gif
― massage angry pixels (sic), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
LOLAgree with Tim on anthems, my protracted struggle with Moaner nonwithstanding. You can call them the ultimate almost-anything-in-this-sphere-of-music band and make a solid argument at this point. And all the different views are fascinating to me. And I need to go play Always Loved A Film again cuz I didn't rank it!
― maffew12, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
Speaking of the rollout, folks
― massage angry pixels (sic), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
Finally!
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 June 2020 00:27 (three years ago) link
To be clear, now I enjoy both "Moaner" and "NUXX", just took me many years to get there
― Vinnie, Thursday, 4 June 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
...is anyone keen to find out the 77 BEST UNDERWORLD TRACKS OF ALL TIME next week?
― massage angry pixels (sic), Thursday, 4 June 2020 00:48 (three years ago) link
Yeeeeeesssssssss please!!!
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Thursday, 4 June 2020 00:50 (three years ago) link
Also I was independently going to come back to this thread to say that although I love (and highly ranked) a lot of Underworld's more expansionist / moody / chilled work, to me their dance anthems are such indisputable anthems in a way that's nearly unrivalled for a single act that I think it would be entirely appropriate for someone to only vote for e.g. the songs that ultimately made it onto Everything, Everything and a few other of their biggest tracks (including "Moaner" but also stuff like "Dark Train" or "Listen To Their No" from the more recent work.
that's what's so nuts about Underworld, they are so undisputedly great at this one thing that it seems almost unnatural that they're also great in a bunch of other modes.
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 June 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/CWJT95x/Underworld-big-day-out-Australia-2003-01water.gif
― massage angry pixels (sic), Thursday, 4 June 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
Just Will then?
― massage angry pixels (sic), Thursday, 4 June 2020 02:48 (three years ago) link
me me me
― lukas, Thursday, 4 June 2020 02:59 (three years ago) link
kind of preferring the anticipation
― maffew12, Thursday, 4 June 2020 03:15 (three years ago) link
L-R: maffew, me
https://i.ibb.co/f4Lpfn3/rick-annoyed.gif
― massage angry pixels (sic), Thursday, 4 June 2020 05:28 (three years ago) link
had I actually submitted a ballot, Moaner would have been in the top 2. can't wait for the rollout!
― octobeard, Thursday, 4 June 2020 05:57 (three years ago) link
I can exclusively reveal that had you and brotherlovesdub both voted in time, Moaner would have placed four spots higher than its current spot
― massage angry pixels (sic), Thursday, 4 June 2020 07:44 (three years ago) link
so I guess it's somewhere around #15
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 4 June 2020 07:48 (three years ago) link
Nice to see some other love for ALAF. It was fairly high on my ballot (and is my most played UW track according to Last.fm)
― groovypanda, Thursday, 4 June 2020 08:48 (three years ago) link
With sic's gracious blessing I have provided images (and some of the gifs) for the rollout. Brilliant yes it will be.
― nashwan, Thursday, 4 June 2020 09:27 (three years ago) link
this gif was not made by nashwan, and indeed may be too perfect to have been crafted by human hands at all
https://i.ibb.co/37X961q/rick-with-stick.gif
― massage angry pixels (sic), Thursday, 4 June 2020 12:34 (three years ago) link
can't wait!!
― cheek, Thursday, 4 June 2020 12:37 (three years ago) link
was Rick a boss in a Mega Man game?
― maffew12, Thursday, 4 June 2020 13:14 (three years ago) link
Hope that costume's a direct tribute to Oskar Shlemmer from Smith. If not Mega Man.
― nashwan, Thursday, 4 June 2020 13:15 (three years ago) link
this is actually getting to me. I remember in some pop culture someone with a staff doing that same motion... and I don't think I have seen whatever this is before, lol
― maffew12, Thursday, 4 June 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
can't wait!!― cheek, Thursday, June 4, 2020 10:37 PM (yesterday)
― cheek, Thursday, June 4, 2020 10:37 PM (yesterday)
If you really can't wait, we could warm up with some album results first?
― massage angry pixels (sic), Thursday, 4 June 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
y
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 June 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
:D
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Thursday, 4 June 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link
(to be clear im happy w results whenever you're ready, neither want you to rush nor wait longer than you want to, i'll be pumped no matter when)
hack the ballot box Will, release them all!
― maffew12, Thursday, 4 June 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/5YJKvHN/karl-fistpump.gif
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Thursday, 4 June 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
poetic interlude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJY9ymKzDnY
― maffew12, Thursday, 4 June 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
i'll use my backdoor to install a KEYSTROKE LOGGER LOGGER LOGGER
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Thursday, 4 June 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
close thread! close thread!
― maffew12, Thursday, 4 June 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
Will is the doctor.
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Thursday, 4 June 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/Yplk9c7twczCLw5VBT/giphy.gif
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Thursday, 4 June 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link