why don't you poll me I feel like flying to... the UNDERWORLD Poll Results thread -- produced by Smith & Hyde for ILM Artist Poll #102

I don't like guessing out loud, to me it's like ppl saying "he's the killer" halfway thru a whodunit movie. Like cool you're clever but just let it ~unfold~

Also I have no idea how they'll land lol

5. OBLIVION WITH BELLS
192 points, 18 votes
2007 PIAS 2xLP, 58 minutes
Top chart position: #6, Japan

new Underworld album: Oblivion with Bells (October 2007) + tour dates

https://i.imgur.com/T7sf8bJ.jpg

what order they will place in, then? oh yes very much so.

wow big board fave here

Almost yelled to low when I saw the album cover. Not sure why they made it so similar it really messeswithmyheadman

(too high)

really though no doubt at dubnobass #1. some of you might know I'm boosting its successor

my no. 1!!!!

next must be the fishes

4. DRIFT Series 1
200 points, 18 votes
2018-2019 52-week digital release project including over 420 minutes of new music, plus over 340 minutes of unreleased older recordings
also 6xCD++ box set
Top chart position: #26, UK

Underworld - Drift

https://i.imgur.com/uNRLacV.jpg

guessing beaucoup fish then.... dubnobass then second toughest

guessing beaucoup fish then.... dubnobass then second toughest

oh lol whoops

3. BEAUCOUP FISH
279 points, 23 votes
1999 JBO/V2 2xLP, 74 mins
Top chart position: #3, UK

Underworld: Beaucoup Fish

https://i.imgur.com/nexVAp1.jpg

mymymymymymy

Drift too low and, for some here, too long. but do take time, sometime, people

really Brad. I feel like dubnobass by a good margin. Hope you are right!

2. SECOND TOUGHEST IN THE INFANTS
295 points, 22 votes
1996 JBO 2xLP, 73 minutes
Top chart position: #9, UK

Second Toughest Poll Ever!

https://i.imgur.com/VbXiedb.jpg

1. DUBNOBASSWITHMYHEADMAN
302 points, 23 votes
1994 JBO 2xLP, 73 minutes
Top chart position: #12, UK

Underworld Dubnobasswithmyheadman - Classic or Dud?
"Decksanddrumsandrockandroll" Vs. "Dubnobasswithmyheadman"
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman POLL

https://i.imgur.com/vB48Uhx.jpg

CLOSE

very close!

someone didn't vote for second toughest.. is that really allowed?

we need to check the machines

I thought Beaucoup would beat Second Toughest In The Albums

Everything,Everything also my #1. I mean they're just not an albums band you know...

mods?

lol. thanks a lot sic!

I mean they're just not an albums band you know...

― nashwan, Thursday, June 4, 2020 4:37 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

unfortunately this is highly untrue

Liner notes from Beaucoup Fish sampler

Trevor Morais: All the hitting things done in a live, loose and sexy way not dissimilar to drumming but better.

finally some weird controps

I had to google the quote to figure out how it was meant to back up your point. So that's Trevor's credit on the album. I found an old article saying he played with Underworld live and in studio. News to me. Anyway not sure I'm following here. They're great at all of it

https://i.ibb.co/QrWZkhN/Underworld-big-day-out-Australia-2003-04throwshapes.gif

i surrender

my albums ballot:
Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Everything Everything
Barbara Barbara We Face a Shining Future
Second Toughest in the Infants
Beaucoup Fish
A Hundred Days Off
Drift Series 1
Riverrun
Oblivion with Bells

Holy shit it WAS close wowowow

(sorry I'm not more active. Internet now fully down tech coming tmrw truly I am not a Hackers (1995))

(if ppl wanna share ballots already would someone mind starting a quarantine thread [mb on 77?]? I’m on Zing here, at the rallies for the next few hours, but will create a safe zone afterward if nobody else has)

I wasn't really sure what to count as an album so I only ranked the main ones. Maybe regret that now but I think all their studio albums are basically excellent so not much point splitting hairs.

xp I'm not sure what half that meant, but you stay safe yourself sic! Cheers

& Strumpet instead of Bird 1. Bird 1 is good, but it's not as good as Strumpet live was.

that's tough, I think Bird 1 is one of those tracks where the outside remix really works

but yeah I'm jammin Barking now and man ALAF really would be so much cooler if they'd kept that groovy bassline

Well the top 3 are right anyway.

If not in the right order.

I will never listen to Drift in its entirety but the only album whose present ticks me off here is Everything Everything. Every version of every song (almost all of them classics) is consistently worse.

Presence, not present

this is, again, the wrongest opinion you've ever had xp

And the one I’m most proud of.

funny first time I heard EE I thought the exact opposite (minus "Cups", I guess)

I love the crowd noise on it. it sounds so good with banging house music like this. I mean, that whole idea has sustained Scooter for 25 years

frogbs, there's one recurring noise in the album version that annoys me and distracts me the whole song. It first occurs on the downbeat at 1:40 and it just annoys the f outta me.

hope Will's internet gets fixed in time to post his planned excerpts from TOO LOW: A Commemorative Monograph


here is a "my ballots, let me show you them" thread that exhibitionists can bookmark and reuse. (anyone who doesn't know: 77 is a search-engine-proof board, just ask to be let in.

Barking & BBWFASF way too low.

Didn't vote for OWB as a couple of tracks aside it's just not very good.

Was also surprised to discover BF is nowhere near as good as I remembered it being. (It would have been my #3 before relistening)

Apologies to maffew but I kept changing my #1 album between dubno & STITI and in the end went with dubno. There's nothing in it really and they're both incredible albums

i ended up finding OWB to be their weakest apart from Barking. the highs are still wonderful but it's a little patchier than most of their albums. i think Drift is a bit overrated too, there are certainly a few incredible all-time great tracks on it, but largely the quality is a little below their average.

what's the reason to post ballots in a 77 thread? it's not unusual for people to post ballots for a part of the poll after it's rolled out?

I see Underworld's shop is currently closed, the Drift box seems to be unavailable generally.