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

This track simply makes me cry at heart. they are still on the top.

Perfect song for sitting relaxed and chill out!!

Loving it. I won't buy it though, rather stream till the ep is out and that I buy without thinking. So, yeah, loving it to death. That track is just what I need right now to calm my mind.

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

ends about 5 minutes too early if you ask me

― frogbs, Thursday, August 8, 2019 10:31 PM

yeah it takes a bit too long to get going and then doesn't spend enough time there once it has

― ufo, Thursday, August 8, 2019 10:33 PM

the juice was barely shook!

I liked it. wonder if the box will have some longer variations of the many "film edit"s.

― maffew12, Thursday, August 8, 2019 11:06 PM

still confounded by the beat on this one but its such a gorgeous track

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67= River Of Bass
255 points, 9 votes
1994 album track from dubnobasswithmyheadman

long audio from 1993 DAT
audience video 2015

Can someone explain to me what, exactly, Darren Emerson was doing in Underworld, with examples provided from the recorded music? I can one sound in "River of Bass" that seems to be emanating from a DJ and aside from that I figure him for dead weight. If I'm out of it, enlighten me quick.

― roxymuzak, Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:48 AM

https://i.imgur.com/3Er4gA5.jpg

fan cover

A life without Faxed Invitation, Peach Tree, Trim, Best Mamgu Ever, Oich Oich, 8 Ball, Thing In A Book, and River of Bass is a life not worth living.

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, May 31, 2018 2:19 AM

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66. Peach Tree 
265 points, 5 votes
2006 excerpted on I'm A Big Sister, And I'm A Girl, And I'm A Princess And This Is My Horse, later in full as Crocodile CD5 b-side

full version B-side audio
live audio 2008

i hope "peach tree" at least is still to come

― ufo, Wednesday, June 10, 2020 9:14 PM

https://i.imgur.com/ynyAsM4.jpg

audience video 2017

A life without Faxed Invitation, Peach Tree, Trim, Best Mamgu Ever, Oich Oich, 8 Ball, Thing In A Book, and River of Bass is a life not worth living.

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, May 31, 2018 2:19 AM

https://media.giphy.com/media/Pjf3XZGZWUCQh2uXdy/giphy.gif

sounds like a full evening

http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u065-995503.png

65. To Heal (And Restore Broken Bodies)
273 points, 8 votes, mainly for the album edit
2007 album track from Oblivion With Bells, uncut on Songs For Tibet

full version audio
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full version audio
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The only problem I have with this album (it's not a big problem though) : I keep expecting The Edge to start the intro to Where The Streets Have No Name during track 4. :-/

― StanM, Sunday, October 7, 2007 1:31 AM

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https://i.ibb.co/qWTPs1W/tocata-shop.gif

Wonder if any Edgeland tracks will make it?

I'm thinking probably not

"to heal" was at the very end of my ballot, next to "moaner." it's gorgeous, the kind of ambient that makes you feel like you're falling in slow motion between stars

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64. Doot-Doot
277 points, 5 votes, 1 #1
1983 7" by {freur}
official video
live on Welsh TV

A lost masterpiece, the sound the production everything just wonderful. Still blows me away all these many years later.

This is indeed one of the best, elegantly timeless & atmospheric songs released by a New Wave or Electronica band in the 1980s, for sure! : )

this is the best song of the 80's ,when they play the first time, nobody knew what to do , they where too ahead of time

live video 1985 (wrong aspect ratio)

My opinion - this is the most beautiful song of the 80's!

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

I heard this first hand in 1983 as a 14 year old and thought it as wierd and wonderful at the time but would not actually hear it again until many years later on a compliation, nowadays it sounds utterly superb to me!

audience video 2013

This song is so ethereal and mesmerizing....epic

The lead guitar-singer is named Karl Hyde and one of the keyboards is named Rick Smith. Later, they became UNDERWORLD!

kids from Ohio

"1 #1" Ha!

This is the best live video of Doot-Doot

This is Underworld performing it in 2013

"1 #1" Ha!

Yeah, that's ne. I can only think of 5 or 6 tracks by anyone ever that I like more.

I still can't wrap my head around their LOOK in freur it's too much

It was just the early 80s, everyone looked like that

It's true, this is from a Ronald Reagan press conference

https://i.ibb.co/37X961q/rick-with-stick.gif

Wow I 100% slept on this track tho huh. What a song!

Yes, I went through a phase of listening to it every day for about six months.

Of course the technology that created Karl's hair has been lost to modern science.

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63. Moon In Water
307 points, 9 votes
2010 album track from Barking

official video by Timothy Bricknell
demo audio

Wow that's a very good back to back

this is one where i've heard a lot of talk about what the original version was like but i've never actually heard it. is the demo close?

holy shit @ the 2013 Doot Doot, that's lovely

this has been a very pretty string of tracks. Good to see Doot Doot place!

The way the speech starts to draa-aa-ag slightly with the beats really gets me. I don't know why. Love the album, except for Diamond Jigsaw, which is silly fun but out of place.

― James Morrison, Friday, September 10, 2010 1:56 PM

https://i.imgur.com/2lUGBR6.jpg

fan cover

There are some great anthems on there and also some beautiful and dark songs too. Moon In Water and Louisiana are fantastic. I say go back and get Barking if it's cheap. It's a fun album.

― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 7:10 AM

ah wow... this 2013 show is a Karl solo gig. You can see Jumbo, Dirty Epic and 8 Ball from that show on YouTube too.

watching 8 Ball now! missed all these "live band" versions from the Karl shows.

sure if you WANT to spoil yrselves ;)

didn't end up voting for anything from barking but "moon in water" is one of the stronger tracks from it

yeah did feel a little dirty watching that before its placement. xp

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62. Sola Sistim 
328 points, 10 votes
2002 album track from A Hundred Days Off

audio

the original radio version of Moon in Water is still the best to me, back when it was a proper ambient track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYWVhejf3FE

i want more sola sistim/jumbo kinda shit from them

― nomar, Wednesday, March 9, 2016 5:02 AM

fan cover

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

- I remember this album💕

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- This beautiful otherworldly song is everything xxxxx

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- ❤

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-María
Fernanda
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❤

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oh wow the early "moon in water" is way nicer

I have this weird urge to visit a religious enclave within italy

"sola sistim" is cool but kinda a dry-run for "dune"

"Sola Sistem" might be my favorite downtempo UW track.

thanks frogbs that's exactly what i've been looking for

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61. JAL to Tokyo
348 points, 8 votes
2005 12" single from Lovely Broken Thing EP

audio
webcast live video 2006

jam

"bang the poll!"

Urgh

new Underworld played on Radio 1 tonight. Awesome mid-tempo vocoder type shizit. lyrics from "Bang the Poll" that's been played on recent live dates. looks like this album will be excellent, but i didn't expect anything else.

― biz, Saturday, October 22, 2005 6:24 AM

I like "JAL to Tokyo" better than anything on OWB.

― Eric H., Wednesday, November 11, 2015 5:30 AM

didn't end up voting for anything from barking but "moon in water" is one of the stronger tracks from it

This was one of only two tracks from Barking that didn't make my ballot (although this one only just missed out).

Something about the sample just rubs me up the wrong way although the melody is great

Great back-to-back listings.