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

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

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

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 ;-)

https://media.giphy.com/media/Qx4xUV4fv1BsXZDuYs/giphy.gif

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

https://i.imgur.com/61WL6SG.jpg

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

https://i.imgur.com/XGePcWk.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

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

"nuxx"'s live permutations are routinely the most thrilling moments in the underworld shows i've listened to

Why is NUXX considered a remix of “Born Slippy”? Do the two songs have anything at all in common?

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20 = Always Loved A Film     
888 points, 17 votes
2010 single from Barking

official video by Graham Wood
one vote specified Extended Club Mix audio
alternate video by Graham Wood
a fanmade video that also rules really hard

I should dig up my radio rip of the original late 00s instrumental version of Always Loved A Film if it's not more conveniently available out there.

oh, it's convenient

Always Loved A Film (Silver Boots) - Live at Lemonworld is amazing. had it on repeat for 6hrs now. Still loving it.

― biz, Saturday, May 20, 2006 8:01 AM

Silver Boots 2006 Lemonworld audio

At this point, I may have played "Always Loved A Film" and "Bird 1" more than any other Underworld songs except maybe "Pearl's Girl", the original "Born Slippy", and "Dirty Epic"

― DJP, Saturday, May 9, 2020 3:59 AM

demo version 1 2008

His dances usually turn the sounds into something visual. This was not an exception. It might look odd at times, but it's just what the music made him feel.

KCRW session video 2011 (first six minutes of video)

I need to see them live before I die.

live video 2010

This is probably my favourite track on Barking, and that's saying something. I gotta say, every time I listen to a new Underworld album I think, 'That was disappointing.' Then I listen to it a few more times and I end up absolutely loving it. With Barking it seemed very ordinary at first, samey, but wow, now it's one of my favourite things ever. Also, this film clip is incredibly brilliant.

https://i.imgur.com/Fymj8lO.jpg

Live On Jimmy Fallon 2010, their American television debut (and, probably, finale)

i heard this song first when i was stoned off my face watching fashion tv ... good times

piano cover

lol king u dropped this \/\/

Love the performance of this on Jimmy Fallon, not least his little dance at the end.

actually neither of those first two links are like the one I had which was a faster version of the 2008 demo with more variation in the bassline per 2 beats towards the end iirc - but still

2 beats bars

hm! there's this one also, but it's closer to an instrumental of the final version - both those demos were downloads from their website at the time.

I love the Karl dance at the end of the Fallon clip too

The version I have/had is basically instrumental version of the 2006 lemonworld - just a demo sans vox for radio (might even have been R1 evening session)

Wow that's a fun clip of them on Fallon (lol Huey Lewis at the end). I'm not sure you can count their performances on UK TV on more than one hand (they did do 'Push Upstairs' on a rubbish short lived Sky show in '99 hosted by Chris Moyles iirc).

love it, but I miss the old bassline

Silver Boots is a hell of a jam too, wish they'd actually recorded it in studio. was kind of disappointed that the official Drift release of it was just the same lossy streamed audio

even the lyrics are pretty sweet..."Maggie is a doll and I'm a big sister, I'm a little girl and I'm a little princess"

come to think of it wasn't there a photoshoot a while ago of Karl in a wedding dress, Angst in My Pants style?

check the voting thread! :)

I'm not sure you can count their performances on UK TV on more than one hand

Even counting the not-in-studio TOTP video, iirc you'll come out of the end of the poll with a thumb free.

The Silver Boots / ALAF up there is probably from 2005, since it seems to be from this 18-minute rehearsal jam they posted during Drift (and included in the box set bonus tracks, so there's full-strength audio now frogster!).

So that's at least five years from first performances to released versions. Any advance on five?

yeah I have that - my box came with a download code which has all the extras in VBR MP3s...but this one doesn't sound notably different, I think it's just a transcode

ah

anyway

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20= Beautiful Burnout
888 points, 19 votes, 1 #1
2007 single from Oblivion With Bells


video by Dirk van Dooren
full-length Unfaded audio

Nice but mellow but nice sounds about right - "Beautiful Burnout" is sounding great. (n.b. I hate the culture of commenting on albums while listening to them for the 1st time, so I'll try to make that the last thing I say about this for a while!)

― toby, Saturday, September 29, 2007 3:33 AM

For me - the BEST track of yours! I know Born Slippy is most popular and most recognisible but this one has something that BS simply has not. I just love the dark magic electro climax. If You could just bring this kind of mood to your next LP... ohh!

I get chills and tingles EVERY time I listen to this song, from the first time to the hundredth.

demo audio as Biro The Leggy c.2002 (great fan-made video though)
live guitar-based Biro The Leggy audio 2000

So much Underworld,so little time .........

Best music for the last 4.5 billion years

https://i.imgur.com/lIl1ToI.jpg

official live video Oblivion Ball 2007 (lo-res rip)
piano cover

my no. 1

blood on a tissue on the floor of a train