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 think Bird 1 was the only thing from Barking on my ballot. Great track!

the lyrics on Barking are surprisingly good

Bird 1 is such a good little story, not quite my #1 on that album but vvvv close.

Maybe I was thinking of Hold On To Your Dreams as well, although that's been on my mind anyway. xps at me re: dune.

https://youtu.be/658677tpgkc

http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u038-028744.png

38. Air Towel
614 combined points, 14 total votes
402 pts from 10 votes for the 1996 album track on Second Toughest In The Infants, which would have placed around 56 on sole votes
and 212 pts from 4 votes for the 2000 rehearsal tape released as a free mp3 edited that year, and in full during Drift in 2019. This would have been 87 by itself
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Airtowel A2778 Live Jam for Web Dec 2000 audio or youtube

This, to me, feels more of a #56 track than a #38 track.

i love classic cuts like 'rez' but i feel like their deep cuts are often pretty revelatory and inspiring, like idk 'luetin' or 'air towel'..

― nomar, Friday, September 23, 2016 5:16 AM

audience audio 2008

https://i.imgur.com/Fy2NzI8.jpg

Had never realised what an airtowel was until this second

― James Morrison, Friday, May 10, 2019 11:08 AM

I didn’t until you pointed out that was what the image was supposed to depict

I’m satisfied to have that mystery cleared up but I will kind of miss its former status in my life as a nonsense phrase

― Champiness, Friday, May 10, 2019 2:14 PM

Was #35 on mine so feels about right xp

Does anyone know what the actual lyrics are towards the end?

Most sites have it as "Should I want it. Should I want" which sounds like it could be right but sometimes (and especially in some live versions) it sounds more like "Just where I want it. Just where I want"

This, to me, feels more of a #56 track than a #38 track.

― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, June 16, 2020 10:30 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

nah shit's funky

it was almost certainly pushed this far by the live jam though

xp, end lyrics, to me it's been "cereal wharf egg".

Love it

Cereal Wharf Egg would make a great title for a late-90s bootleg live CD

good track but yeah it placed ahead of a lot of more deserving tunes

Would you have been happier with this at #38?

http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/interupt-tinthere.png

Intially a hard remix of Pearl's Girl, refined into its own track for a video game, and tightened even further for the CD soundtrack release of that game, Tin There scored 623 points from 13 voters (in various forms), including 1 #1 vote.

audio of CD version

lol xps

Damn, well that was almost certainly my #1 there.

God that thing is a demon of a track.

Anyways, Underworld is still classic because did I mention that "Tin There" is basically my favorite techno barnburner ever?

― Eric H., Thursday, January 8, 2004 4:27 AM

"Tin There" (Wipeout XL version)

― Eric H., Friday, May 19, 2006 2:00 PM

"Tin There" is blissful carnage.

― Eric H., Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:19 AM

Going to stunt for Tin There over Pearl's Girl (Tin There). It's much less blown out, but I dig its strict crescendo-decrescendo symmetry better than the Pearls Girl version's variations.

― Eric H., Thursday, May 7, 2020 6:50 AM

lol i was kinda hopin tin there would be counted separately but yeah what a stormer

xp on second thought, it's hard for me to be sure I was the #1 vote

:)

tin there is SO GOOD, i think that's my first top 10 to place? (bird 1 was 11th, that was the only one close)

I had air towel high too! i declare this section of the poll ~the good zone~ (jk it's all good)

(actually i just checked, phonestrap was my 10th so it's the second top 10 to place, but anyway)

also re: tin there and re: wipeout, i had a video game magazine that had this ad in it and i used to think about it ALL THE TIME (i had no access to the game and no idea what it was about!)

https://i.imgur.com/dG2DX5X.png

also i have no idea who sara cox is but to the british ppl here, yes that is sara cox

kinda hopin tin there would be counted separately

Por que no los dos? dot gif

I like that we get a tiny snippet of the Designers Republic sneaking into this Tomato-sauced poll btw. xp: and now some extra from Will!

i mean i'm thankful you're giving us the alt universe list where it counts, sic

http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u037-629941.png

37. Stagger 
660 points, 14 votes
1996 album track from Second Toughest In The Infants

audio

Meh.

ahahaha too low

kind of yet another underworld track that invents a genre they never return to

Tin There was pretty high on my ballot, I never played the game itself but I did buy the Wipeout 2097 soundtrack CD and always loved that song. Hearing the longer version was interesting but I think I do prefer the one I'm more familiar with.

Air Towel is one of my favourites on Second Toughest so it feels too low to me if anything!

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

As for Second Toughest, it's what got me hooked on Underworld and will always be my sentimental favorite. Though "Stagger" will probably always zero plays on my iTunes.

― Eric H., Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:49 AM

https://i.imgur.com/QQ6oSkQ.jpg

rehearsal jam audio

it's so random that this should feature

As for Second Toughest, it's what got me hooked on Underworld and will always be my sentimental favorite. Though "Stagger" will probably always zero plays on my iTunes.

Well, that's maybe overstating it. It has at least 3 or 4.

rick's synth playing on this track is out of this world

all of these songs i regret not placing!! stagger is very good just wasn't fitting into my "this is what i like right now" i guess during my balloting? the melody reminds me of a bjork song i cant place

http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u036-898791.png

36. Spoonman
669 points, 16 votes
1994 album track from dubnobasswithmyheadman

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16-minute long audience audio 1995
shorter audience audio 2000

Into the blood into the sperm

Listening along with the results so many of these tracks seem like no brainers that I’ve always loved and should have voted for, but I hadn’t remembered what they were from looking at track titles alone

Not Spoonman though, that was top 10 material

The only dubnobass album track on my ballot (also had "Cowgirl" and multiple non-album versions of "Dirty").

I thought "Spoonman" off "Dubnobass..." was flippin' ace!!! No one I know seems to like it!!!!! Mind you, I like repetitive techno bollox!!!!!!

I also went to one of the concerts (Broadcast on Radio 1!!!!!) at around the time of "Dubnobass...", (The same night as they found the body of Kurt Cobain!!!!) and it was grebt/GRATE/etc!!!!! Unlike the recent "live" album, it was one big long DJ mix style jam, mixing in various bits of their songs. The track on the live album which mixes "Cowgirl" and "Rez" is nearest equivalent- imagine a whole concert like that with most of the tracks from "Dubnobass..." and an early version "Born Slippy"!!!! (I've actually got a tape of it somewhere, taped off the radio...)

― Old Fart!!!, Wednesday, January 7, 2004 9:27 PM

https://i.imgur.com/UdEgbb1.jpg

Spoonman placing on a Tuesday, well played

Whhhhhhoooooooooaaaaaaaaa....

(Tues ... day.)

clllllllllassic. second half of my ballot. I'm just wrong.

There are no wrong answers in this poll.

i almost didn't place it because i already had so much dubnobass on my ballot but i ended up deciding not to lie to myself and put it on there too

disc 4 of the reissue has "Spoonman (version1 A1559 Nov92)" which I think is even better than the one that wound up on the album. there's an additional layer to it that didn't make the cut.

Anyone fancy hearing Old Fart's memories?

I remember struggling with whether or not to buy the CD since it only had a few tracks I didn't already own, but yea as soon as "Spoonman" started I knew I made the right choice

i would like 2 hear an old farts memories