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

xp lol! Well that's that for the rest of my life

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pusheen. push een.

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

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25 Nylon Strung
838 points, 19 votes
2016 single from Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future

video
live video 2016 (link at 56:50)

here's the full, 6 minute making of Push Upstairs video video in absolutely brutal video quality. Wondering where I even would've seen this back then... on a CD single? Anyway it's got cute interview bits.

i didn't realize Nylong Strung was a single. Nice video! They've got a daughter each on the track and video, is it?

(xp @ nylon strung) i think i put this at 40 and i already regret it, what an excellent song. i should make this my alarm clock because this is the kinda shit that makes you wanna be awake

"nylon strung" is the most beautiful song

― BradNelson, Thursday, March 17, 2016 5:39 AM

kinda feel like "open me up/i want to hold you laughing" is kind of an all time hyde lyric too, his best stuff has always seemed to use odd juxtaposition to communicate something emotionally direct

― BradNelson, Thursday, March 17, 2016 5:52 AM

piano cover

Nylon Strung is the best track in that I would play it on a loop for a day and thoroughly enjoy it every time. Overall nice album. Would I buy a physical copy, yes.

lol i forgot i wrote that about nylon strung. me otm

brad very otm

the "wales in japan" version of "best mamgu ever" is very cool

I put "Nylon Strung" second, was almost feeling bold enough to put it first

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considering that some part of my brain still thinks that all MK1 stuff "doesn't count", I'm pretty tickled by all these Underneath the Radar covers.

― cheek, Friday, June 12, 2020 12:34 AM

m o d s . a r e . a s l e e p

I adore Underneath The Radar!

Am I the only one?

Oh, and when Googling I came across the video for the title track, which I had never seen before...

It's eightiesriffic!

― NYCNative, Thursday, March 17, 2011 7:01 PM

Highly Strung, here in the oldest inland town in Victoria, also available for your corporate event or function
Justin, out at karaoke
Ron doing karaoke at home
YOU YOURSELF doing karaoke at home! (please report to the... Guides' school?)

we are going deep down underneath the radar now

I am sorry I missed this.
Nobody has to read this but my top tracks are

Jumbo
Two Months off
Scribble
Dirty epic
Pearls Girl

Jumbo prob no 1. All 'hits' I realise but I just had to show my love

Hey sic, could we get a summary of the tracks before it goes much further as the thread is getting hard to load.

okay so one thing I've noticed when relistening to a lot of this stuff is that a lot of UW's music sounds propulsive, particularly the sequenced bass lines on tunes like Spoonman, Deep Arch, King of Snake, Mo Move, This Must be Drum Street, etc. etc. I don't know much about music theory but there's something about the note progressions that Rick uses that gives a bunch of their work the feeling of leaning forward. obviously KoS is famous for sampling Summer/Moroder but that aesthetic is all over their catalogue.

It's probably not just this but he uses very swung rhythms a lot. There's also conversely an odd kind of thick static presence to things like Rez, something to do with the density of high frequency percussive elements, or a buried breakbeat. Maybe a mixture of the two is characteristic of their stuff.

great list, MUPPP!

I noticed that about the Jumbo bassline, it's so short, and seemingly simple and repetitive but doesn't get even remotely boring. there's something special I can't quite articulate about how the last two notes are portamento'ed. masters of propulsion.

Hey sic, could we get a summary of the tracks before it goes much further as the thread is getting hard to load.

be like water Noodle Vague

it just plays best to me as one endless woosh of music

― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, May 7, 2020 8:53 PM (one month ago)

you're 45 minutes into an Underworld show and you think you recognise that bassline, but did it place they play it already or are you thinking of that other song, or are they mixing the two together, or was this something you weren't expecting to hear and

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24 Spikee
854 points, 16 votes
1993 12"
video by Graham Wood
audience audio 2008

oh nice

first time I heard this was on the 1992-2002 comp. the final third made my jaw drop.

Too low!

Massive track and probably the first one of theirs I heard. Used to absolutely destroy dancefloors when played out.

Sure I like their more mellow new tunes, but I still would absolutely kill to hear them do another total rockin' monster 12" banger like "Cowgirl" or "Cups" or "Spikee." Hell, NOBODY does totally rockin' monster 12" bangers anymore. Ah well.

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:22 PM

man... they were gold from the moment "spikee" dropped

― BradNelson, Thursday, May 7, 2020 11:57 PM

Mmm...Spikee I love you

― groovypanda, Thursday, May 14, 2020 4:58 AM

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audience video 2015 (Rickless tour)

Taking Sides: Underworld's "Spikee" Vs. Primal Scream's "Swastika Eyes"

My first “TOO FUCKING LOW!!” of the poll.

Sure I like their more mellow new tunes, but I still would absolutely kill to hear them do another total rockin' monster 12" banger like "Cowgirl" or "Cups" or "Spikee." Hell, NOBODY does totally rockin' monster 12" bangers anymore. Ah well.

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:22 PM

“Scribble”?

you're 45 minutes into an Underworld show

I'm on my phone looking to listen to what's placed that I missed but no problem, I realise it's a chore ;-)

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No way!

born slippy... original recipe?

I'm just sending a nice message to Noel

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23 Born Slippy
866 points, 16 votes
1995 12"
audio
live audio 1996 (link at 50:50)

Progressive House was to get itself a bad rep but ehatever you called it in 1993 it was a rocking good time, as Spikee still eminently demonstrates.

Better than Nuxx

It's very good but no

if you haven't heard it click on that live 1996 version it might change your mind

OMG I LOVE THE ORIGINAL "Born Slippy" SO MUCH NGAAAAAAAAAH

(yes I recently downloaded the live BBC mp3s)

― DJP, Friday, January 7, 2005 6:37 AM

would place at 17 with 936 points if combining 2 votes for .TELEMATIC remix

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It is a masterpiece of uplifting techno perfection

YouTube. A modern day´s cavern to store pieces of Art like this.

This piece of art really drives me mad in the positive way

yes, they played it in atlanta. i nearly shat my pants

i ranked og born slippy over nuxx but i really couldn't tell you definitively if one is better than the other

i reallyyyyyy love og born slippy though, great vortex

OG is about a billion times better

Better beat, better build, better internal tension, better lyrics, better everything

yes, I meant to say an instrumental has better lyrics than the version with lyrics because ultimately most of those lyrics are dumb

drab boy, dog boy

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22. 8 Ball
878 points, 16 votes
2000 track for "The Beach"

audio
KCRW session video 2016 (link at 26:40)
official live video of Karl with solo band 2013

too low!!! this was a lock for my no. 1 until i changed my mind at the last minute

I love 8 Ball. Really great song and strangely very epic as well. One of my favorite 'walking around the city' songs.

― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, February 16, 2013 5:00 AM

Granted, a lot of my love for 8 Ball comes from how I still perceive it as the last truly great Underworld track. They've released some decent material since, but nothing that compares to their '90s output.

If they'd ended their run with 8 Ball, I wouldn't have minded at all.

― Turkey, Friday, February 15, 2013 9:36 PM

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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

Voted for OG Born Slippy over Nuxx which I left out completely for nefarious tactical reasons (tho I could happily live without hearing it ever again)

I did include it, but OTM

The next two tracks are tied, and come with a couple of hours of supplemental viewing / listening.

sounds right

Voted for OG Born Slippy over Nuxx which I left out completely for nefarious tactical reasons (tho I could happily live without hearing it ever again)

― or something, Thursday, June 18, 2020 4:29 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i could prob go w/o hearing nuxx again but i still had to put respect on it by ranking it, i am guileless