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

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gahhhh i missed a day! i was gonna respond to "i like all of barbara barbara excpet for the first two tracks" with a very sterm emoji or something but it was like 3am my time so i was like "ill do it tomorrow" and then work happened when i woke up and i kinda forgot.

i wanted to like soniamode more (i mean i liked it, and ranked it, i just wanted to like it MORE) when i read that it was a "socialist banger" lol. alas

parc was a late cut for me! a great tune but i somehow had 80 songs ahead of it.

dinosaur adventure 3d did make the tail end of my list, although i feel like it's one of those songs that could be top 30 if i had given it a little more time to breathe, if that makes sense.

i somehow didn't rate/listen to 215 miles?! even tho i tried to listen to everything (everything)?! also can't speak to the drift tracks i didn't rate, as i really just blasted thru drift listening to most songs once except the ones i remembered to mark as "come back to this"

"pizza for eggs" (the title, i mean) always reminds me of my favourite inscrutable pro wrestling t-shirt of all time, "hard on eggs." also it is my favourite chunk of riverrun for sure, although... ugh there's too much stuff that didn't fit into 77.

hey look what came in the mail today!

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this did not come in the mail i just wanted ot show what i was talking about.

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gahhhh i missed a day!

In other words, you missed 3 song placement reveals.

I'm listening to Barking again and everyone who isn't praising it is, well... barking

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77. Brussels
225 points, 5 votes
2019 free-to-mailing-list mp3 as part of Drift

original video by Simon Taylor for Tomato (song completed in hours to soundtrack video)
album remix audio

In other words, you missed 3 song placement reveals.

yeah but like... i missed... the conversation

also it was more than 3 no? i mentioned like 6 in my lil recap

xp NUMBER 77!!!!! ..but it's one of the drifty boys i didn't rank. i swear i will go back and listen to the ILX short version of it!

Funny, I was driving close to Brussels when this came on! First time I had come across this fantastic concept; I'm 60 and always have enjoyed Underworld ; to dance tog the , dream and deep listening. Loving the contrasts of tracks; Underworld magic, thank you

Nice beat, mixed melodies and the best speaking vocals in music period. Love it. Thursday bliss

In other words, you missed 3 song placement reveals.

yeah but like... i missed... the conversation

Also those three song reveals had a solid eight hours of listening time.

hahahaha true

75= Blueski 
226 points, 7 votes
1996 album track from Second Toughest In The Infants
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Blueski made the lower reaches of my ballot. Lovely little tune and many fond memories associated with it

I don't think it quite made my ballot, but I do appreciate "Blueski" when it arrives.

There is nothing in the songs "Blueski", "Stagger" and "Juanita" (for example) that sounds anything like anything in the other two.

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, June 29, 2004 11:55 AM

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title is Japanese for, spirit of the blues

kidding. Reading the image here is somehow the first time i haven't read it like "blue ski". Urban dictionary says it means a bottle of Labbatt Blue. Nah.

I guess we'll be seeing every track from Dubno and Second Toughest in the top 77. Wonder if "Skym" was the lowest of the Fish tracks.

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75= Bruce Lee
226 points, 8 votes
1999 single from Beaucoup Fish

VHS promo
live audio 1998

It's going to be hilarious if the Drift songs just stop ranking cold at the 77 mark.

Naaah. Expecting virtually everything from the "Sampler"... and Appleshine Continuum too if it isn't combined with Appleshine

maybe not "Imagine a Box" though

awwoooooooo

(I got it!)

The one I'm curious about is Shudder. I voted for it at #76 but it's barely even a song, think it should probably have been listed with King of Snake.

Aha. your vote was mentioned earlier I think. Ctrl-F "shudder" :)

anyway - Brussels is great, one of those tracks I like more every time I hear it. thought it should be longer. Blueski placing means everything from STITI will, fine by me but still it's just an interlude. Bruce Lee...hell yeah. When I bought BF I remember reading a lot of reviews that would complain about this track, which I never understood, how can you hate something like that?

if you don't like juiceboxes I guess

I totally can vibe with OWB up unti "Ring Road" pops up, at which point all of the good will I've built up over the preceding songs evaporates and I have to tap out

It really strikes me as if they said to themselves "what if we took the one or two redeeming qualities in 'Bruce Lee' away and stuck the result in the middle of the new album?"

― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:47 AM

the Bruce Lee single had something called the "Dobropet" mix that was just this wild, frightening sound collage. If "Jedis Sugar Hit Mix" of Jumbo merited an Abbey Road remaster then I can't see how those don't.

― Champiness, Saturday, July 29, 2017 5:28 AM

Yeah, as I said upthread, "Dobropet" was a terrifying headphones experience.

― Eric H., Saturday, July 29, 2017 5:40 AM

If votes were combined with remix / b-side / thing Bruce Lee (Dobropet), Bruce would have placed at 64

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7.5 years later, I still stand by that post

never did get round to looking up the origin of the woman-spoken lyrics in Bruce Lee - always seemed like something from a dubbed anime film

Dobropet is wild, is that UW's own thing or an outside remix? it's unlike anything else they've ever done

It's just a Rick messing about thing I think

Aha. your vote was mentioned earlier I think. Ctrl-F "shudder" :)

It's going to be hilarious if the Drift songs just stop ranking cold at the 77 mark.

― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Thursday, June 11, 2020 4:52 AM (five minutes ago)

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I'm sorry, that's "dance soiree"

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woooooooaaaaah

(read that in spoonman's voice)

Okay the Dobropet mix is far and away the best "Bruce Lee"-related thing I've ever heard

From a discogs review:

Dobropet, is one of the most understated and adventurous space of impressionistic evocation. After a short spoken introduction on head wounds, the track dips into a lengthy silence, suddenly transporting the listener back to a scene of fight, with gongs going off amidst glitchy, pulsating beats: the heart is thumping, the crowd is cheering, the glitch is disorienting like a concussion, and the gong is going off between rounds. The listener begins to feel like the wounded, dazed, confused yet resilient Bruce Lee. It's a marvel, it really is.

^ nice one

In the U.K. at the time there was an arbitrary time limit on singles, it could be 20 mins including b sides, or 40 mins if it was all mixes of the same track. getting an album length cd masquerading as remixes really endeared them to me.

The one Dark & Long "remix" that absolutely definitely was a remix was in fact a remix of a different song. Spoon Deep's votes have been counted toward Surfboy, but with 227 points from 5 voters, it would have placed at 81 if all titles were tallied separately.

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"Dobropet" is their "Revolution 909" I guess.

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74. Please Help Me
232 points, 5 votes
1999 CD5 b-side

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demo audio 1997
jam audio 1999

Spoon deep has always been one of my favourites and I’m embarrassed I hadn’t realised it was a remix of Surfboy until sic pointed it out. Seems weird it would be a remix of Surfboy rather than one of Spoonman but it’s obvious now I’ve listened to them back to back

Anyway that whole Dark and Long maxi is gold and would be my favourite “album” if it wasn’t an ep

Spoon Deep deserves both moar points and its own spot.

It was pretty high up on my ballot

When that acid line comes in *chef’s kiss*

yeah i voted for "spoon deep" pretty high. it was at one point my no. 1 lol

i also voted for "please help me"!!!!

xp It took the internet to point it out to me, all that mass is pretty opaque. It would take a double CD to fit everything even without Spoon Deep!

Please Help Me additional:

A legendary classic.
I used to sleep with this on repeat in my headphones.
#Nostalgia

comment on live a capella version from 1998:

I love Please Help Me with it's vocal samples etc and Hyde's buried opening voice, it's so clear here without the beats, i wished they riffed and did things like this now. The crowd chatter, 'I love you' 'I haven't seen you in 10 years' 'look at the butterflies' 'love the shirt, it looks good on you', feels like Hyde's poetry/snatched convos. Is this Underworld eating itself? Wonderful

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73. Motorhome
233 points, 7 votes
2016 album track from Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future

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a beauty