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

lol

my favourite from barbara, barbara

Mine too. Surprised I Exhale is going to finish above it.

Fond memories of my then 6 and 8 year olds singing along to this and always asking for the 'luna luna' song

"nylon strung" and "low burn" still to come too

Also, really enjoying the leisurely pace of the rollout. And massive props to you sic for the deep dives you've done for each track and the links to alternate & live versions (and nashwan for the excellent images). Much appreciated.

So many fantastic tracks so far and we've not even reached the top 30 yet

I've been too far behind to actually post alongside the results but loving this roll-out so much. Will try to come back with substantive comments later.

Happy to bump the top 30 until next week if it means we can get Tim F commentary!

However, since there are at least 31 tracks in the top 30, here's one for the people in European and Australian timezones right now:

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30. Mo Move
730 points, 17 votes
2002 album track from A Hundred Days Off

audio (6:54)
long pre-release version audio (13:49, including material that became B-sides instead)

Newfoundland already here too o7

someone mentioned "Luetin" bring buried on the album, so placing a bit low. Well here's the flipside of that. Interestingly it's smack in there middle of the early, longer version of the record.... I must check that out finally

the links to alternate & live versions

oh word?

Mo Move is also killer. Frogbs OTM re: live version of Twist being superior to the album version. DA3D is a track I never play but I think Chicken Lips did a decent remix.

― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, February 5, 2013 2:35 AM

audience audio 2003 (7:49)

I remember. It took me 10 years to find me this. Another 2 boys from London called 'Circulation' at T in the Park dance tent in 2001 sounded exactly this. You can't explain it to people who weren't there. Bawbag was there, he knows what I'm on about. Underworld are beyond good.

audience audio 2003 (12:17, with Karl singing Oich Oich and Spoonman over the top)

- Listening here 2019? Simply in another planet this song

-- always listening in 2019 & beyond!

Wordimagesoundplay version (for the Playstation 2, 2:40)
audience audio 2003 (12:00, with Karl singing Chill out by Black Uhuru and Skyscraper over the top)

I saw this band in a small club in Nottingham and they were absolutely wicked, even in a small venue. I'd recommend them as a band to see before you die. Brilliant sound.

Nottingham audience audio 2003 (9:00)

Saw them at a midnight show in Chicago years ago ~ AWESOME LIVE !!!!! 420 love

rehearsal jam tx 2006 (13:26)
piano cover (1:00)

"mo move" is all about that percussion

The first 10 seconds of "Mo Move" are still my default ringtone.

(Which doesn't matter because I always keep my cell in silent mode.)

lmao at me being the If Rah Street Team

shit bangs tho

what the heck everyone moaner is too low I AM THE HUNGER ABOVE YOUR TOWN A LITTLE SOUND IN A LITTLE AMP I AM DUBIOUS HARD METAL I AM STAINLESS. I AM MILK IN YOUR PLASTIC

mo aner > mo move

both dope tho of course.

All of the opening tracks on their albums are dope but Mo Move is probably the one I'd rank last

"Underworld openers" vs. "Underworld closers" would be a tough poll

Willie get the get the get the get the

A big thank you to whoever is doing this poll for slowly posting the results a couple songs per day and letting it all just sink in. Make us wait for it! This way I get to absorb so much awesome extra stuff that’s not necessarily part of the poll, like “Strumpet” and the YouTube piano covers.

Closers take it imo xps

Just realized half of my top 10 are openers or closers

6 closers v 2 openers in my top 30

(Spoiler alert: I now love “Push Upstairs”)

― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, June 16, 2020 8:18 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

BTW I forgot to say but I was filled with a happy warmth when I read this

I was filled with pushaaahn.

grand openers, grand closers

mo aner > mo move

vs mo on in water

and speaking of openers

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29. I Exhale
745 points, 17 votes
2016 lead single from album Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future

video
KCRW session video 2016

should be below If Rah

I am unreasonably happy about them putting out an album that sounds like they're covering Stereo MCs

― DJP, Saturday, February 20, 2016 1:10 AM

live video 6 Music Festival 2016

A friend has just texted me to tell me that "I Exhale" sounds like "Hit the North".

― djh, Sunday, March 6, 2016 8:52 AM

live video Glastonbury 2016 (link at 0:30)

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

Brad, discovering the existence of a DJ Koze remix:

wait there's a what

― BradNelson, Thursday, March 2, 2017 6:01 AM

piano cover

yeah! great.

hell yeah my #3

i wrote in my spreadsheet -- "Didn't listen to BBWFASF until this poll, and I ended up coming back to this song over and over and over for the whole however many weeks this was."

team openers

re-listening to If Rah on good headphones and noticed this synth that starts in the left channel and sounds like it's going to just burst at the seams the whole time

also noticing the maybe-actual-animal howling at around 6 min

this song rules

quite a pair

side-note, mo aner > mo move > mo ther earth > mo on on water

lol I would put that precisely backwards. but they're all lovely.

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28. Best Mamgu Ever 
808 points, 15 votes
2007 album track from Oblivion With Bells

audio
2019 Wales In Japan version

lol I would put that precisely backwards. but they're all lovely.

tbh Juanita:Kiteless:To Drea mo f Love trumps them all

It really is, and I've heard a lot of mamgus in my time

balearic underworld might be my low key favourite underworld

Best Mamgu Ever is one of Rick Smiths finest 'Reich-ian' repetitive piano pieces and a track I can listen to over and over again.

― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:54 AM

"Best Mamgu Ever" is the one track that's been hitting me very hard lately and honestly I think it's one of their ten best. I'm a huge fan of the "Big Sister" EP they did and this is really just an extension of that. The way the vocals are mixed in is really astounding, but like all great UW tracks it just builds up under your nose, before you know it there's a long guitar solo and like three vocal parts. Those three final tracks on OWB are all fantastic ("Good Morning Cockerel" is really a beautiful thing. No way do Orbital or the Chems or Fluke do something like this).

― frogbs, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:24 AM

"best mamgu ever" should have produced its own subgenre of dance music

― BradNelson, Saturday, January 26, 2019 7:13 AM

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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

tbh Juanita:Kiteless:To Drea mo f Love trumps them all

laughed way harder than I expected to at this

forgot about mo lehill and mo th at the Door, the latter of which I'm gonna say is relevant to the Openers v Closers conversation since it could be considered the Drift closer.

listening to that and Best Mamgu Ever, I'm currently sitting on Team Closers

mo saic tho

Molehill and Moth at the Door must be their most uncharacteristic songs.

Team opener though. Juanita trumps.... everything ever??

yeah I have a feeling I'm gonna have to flip flop on that opinion when actually looking at the absurd all-star list of openers lol

But... hear me out here... Drift's actual last song is Appleshine Continuum

Yes but M.E, Stagger, Moaner, Luetin, Best Mamgu Ever, Louisiana, Nylon Strung, Appleshine Continuum etc

yes but dark & long, juanita, bird 1, i exhale, cups (ok maybe not cups over moaner but),,,,