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

"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.

http://ghostable.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u028-494015.png

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

https://i.imgur.com/ahCcg6I.jpg

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),,,,

sorry for being unclear, I was arguing against myself.

Cups definitely yet to come in the rollout!

RARRRRRRRR IM ARUGING TOO

Think we can all agree: Great openers, great closers and most of the tracks inbetween are pretty great too

xp Tin There is also an opener. You been pureed, guv

let's warm up Will

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27. Push Upstairs
825 combined points 18 votes (inc a repeat vote for Downstairs, and one vote specifying The Full Length Of It)
1999 single from Beaucoup Fish

official video
Tomato VHS promo

hearing "Push Upstairs" and "Jumbo" put me off of getting _Beaucoup Fish_, which I'll admit might have been a mistake because "King Of Snake" and "Cups" both rank up there among the best songs they've ever done. (But is it another case where the single is stormin' and the album is limpid? I don't know.)

― DJP, Tuesday, October 17, 2000 11:00 AM

Both "Push Upstairs" improve the more familiar you are with them - both seem insanely repetitive to begin with, but I found both grew on me enormously once I went walking around the city with them on my headphones. Plus, you're missing out on "Cups" (deep house par excellence), "Bruce Lee" (hip hop meets Detroit techno), "Kittens" (a storming epic), "Something Like A Mama" (jungle-inflected track like "Pearl's Girl" with its tongue in its cheek) and of course "King Of Snake". It's a strong album.

― Tim, Tuesday, October 17, 2000 11:00 AM

Push Downstairs VHS promo

I was all set to run to the store to buy the album when I heard "Push Upstairs"... ew. (I've since grown used to that song, but I don't see anything overly special about it.)

― DJP, Thursday, January 18, 2001 12:00 PM

this is opposed to the danceability of, say, "push upstairs," which just starts bashing down the door and forcing you to dance with the detroit-ness of it all and builds even more on that.

― .rob, Tuesday, June 29, 2004 3:30 PM

https://i.imgur.com/OLdp0ZO.jpg

8 years after the fact "Push Upstairs" is suddenly one of my favorite songs. WTF?

― DJP, Friday, January 28, 2005 4:48 AM

TV BTS video

The moment that "Push Upstairs" began to work for me was when I focused on two key moments in it:

1) The introduction of that madhouse siren synth during the second iteration of the chorus.

2) "THESE ARE MY INTENTIONS."

The song builds directly into both of those moments and can't come off without them.

― DJP, Sunday, November 14, 2004 6:38 AM

piano cover

THESE ARE MY INTENTIONS and after thaaaaaaaaat I know nothing at all

― DJP, Tuesday, February 8, 2005 2:38 AM

dying to get updated take on Jumbo. No spoilers!

Of all the songs on BF, "Push Upstairs" is the one whose estimation has risen the most since '99. (The rest have basically held steady. This is the one I underrated.)

MY NUMBAH 2

Very nearly my #1, and my introduction to Underworld? I thought I found it on a movie soundtrack as a youth or something but... it doesn't appear to be on any movie soundtracks as far as I can find?

I can only imagine this means that I stumbled across Underworld accidentally, on some kinda audiogalaxy type thing, because I didn't have a friend introduce me. i remember having it burned on a cd that i paid a kid named kyle $5 to make for me lol

Love the sinister-sounding synth at the end. Increasingly agitated sounding Karl is my favourite Karl lol

THESE ARE MY INTENTIONS