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

Hey, sic dredged up one of my old posts. To update:

Barking: good, if not quite at the level of "Scribble"
Barking tour: one of the most fun shows I've been to

I'm curious why it wasn't the A-side to begin with if they were woodshedding it so long (see that full disc on the box set).

I first heard it on the Live at Sound City broadcast around April 1994. Remember it well as it was the day the news of Kurt Cobain's death broke and we were supposed to go clubbing that night but my mate's car broke down so a load of us went round another mate's (whose parents were away), necked our pills and listened to Underworld instead.

Great night and the new Mega Mega White Thing track became our anthem for a while. There was also a OMFG moment when we discovered the second track on their new single a year later was the Mega Mega one.

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

They were woodshedding the original just as long (there's a rough version on the Tramway show I posted yesterday, from April 1994 {XPOST: the one groovypanda heard in enviable circumstances!}). They'd sometimes perform the NUXX lyrics with Born Slippy, which could be what connects them - before the music of each became more consistent, either of them counted as Born Slippy?

Maybe the third Always Loved video is legit! I knew there were two, and since there were two that were on Underworld's own channel, I assumed they were all (and the happy kid singing did suggest an indoctrinating dad). Thanks for doing the sleuthing.

(although only the Mega Mega White Thing song was on the radio broadcast)

are there any recordings of original born slippy with .nuxx's lyrics out there?

Advance comments on the next track:

- There has just been a woman on 'Up all night' on Radio 5 live. The phone in was based around "Where do we draw our strength from in hard times, like during the current Covid-19 crisis". This was her answer. She said it has been for the past 26 years and probably always will be. 'Born Slippy' was as far as my 'Underworld' knowledge spanned up until tonight. Thank you to that

Just listened to the same thing and came straight here to see what this track is I’ve never heard of.

Came here because of exactly that, lol. Love underworld, but have never heard of this track before. So glad I accidentally clicked on 5 live when I did 😁

Same here

I heard it too. Listening to this as a result . Pure joy

(any guesses?)

Tongue. If hat hasn't placed already. I wouldn't know ;-)

here's Tongue!

(I promise the thread is worthwhile in with-images-and-links form, if you get a chance eventually :] )

i managed to track down the source of those comments and too low!

i've figured out 18 tracks that are surely left to place so one has to miss out and i can't imagine which it could possibly be

*18 other tracks

Dark and Long?

(open full thread in incognito window to see it without images)

ufo, could be an unpredictable sic combining in the mix

anyway wondering if anyone voted for "second hand" in the count for what's about to place

http://ghostfood.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u018-395497.png

18. Thing In A Book
927 points, 15 votes plus 4 pts on a rpt vote for Second Hand
1994 12"

audio
audience audio 1994

I also count one too many. Could this mean Rez and Cowgirl are combined and will thus run away with the top spot?!

aha I was sorta right. This rules.

haha if I ever find a bar that has "thing in a book" in the mp3 options I will become even more infamous and despised

― TOMBOT, Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:40 AM

placement would be unchanged including 1 vote for remix Second Hand, on comp Café Del Mar

This 3rd disc, with "Thing in a Book" and "Most 'Ospitable" is so ace. Thing In A Book would probably be a top 5 for me track, if we did a poll right now. Maybe even like, #1.

― frogbs, Saturday, November 1, 2014 1:06 AM

alternate version Man Loop, from their old website

I only ever listen to that Thing in a Book track when on the train to London, but it is good.

I don't like picking one from this kind of band, as it's not really about that for me, but Banstyle/Sappys Curry is as close as it gets.

Actually, there's one called Oich Oich that I like a lot too... Maybe that.

― KeefW, Thursday, May 18, 2006 8:27 AM

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A poll without Faxed Invitation, Peach Tree, Trim, Best Mamgu Ever, Oich Oich, 8 Ball, Thing In A Book, and River of Bass is a poll not worth rolling out results for.

― brotherlovesd(pp), Thursday, May 31, 2018 2:19 AM

idk what there is to say about "thing in a book", just mesmerising its entire 20 minute runtime

shh, it's playing

This was #18 on my ballot so can't argue with that placing. Sublime

i've figured out 18 tracks that are surely left to place so one has to miss out and i can't imagine which it could possibly be

I make it 17 so not sure which one I'm missing

that's a more fun position to be in. Math rots!

Finding out about Man Loop for the first time today is wonderful. It would be great if they would stick stuff like this up on their new Bandcamp

Catching up and re-tracking down and trying to metadate their C21st sidebar tracks during Drift, while also tracking the release pattens for Drift, made me frequently imagine how beautifully convenient it could be if they handled the next Drift through Bandcamp, and different ideas for the in-between-episodes weeks.

After hardcore researching and listening over the last couple of months for this poll, now that they've launched a BC I basically reckon they should hire me to run it.

are there any recordings of original born slippy with .nuxx's lyrics out there?

― ufo, Friday, June 19, 2020 8:39 PM

Here's an October 1994 Slippy, an August 1995 (post-release) Slippy with Nuxx lyrics, and 2 weeks later Slippy with Waitress and Nuxx lyrics

ah fascinating!

http://ghostfood.uk/public/ilx/underworld/u017-433574.png

17. Low Burn     
944 points, 20 votes
2016 album track from Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future

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live video 2016

pleasantly surprised by how high this is, i think this is exactly where i had it.

incredible memory of listening to this on the plane on my first trip to nyc, feeling so alive, etc.

Could this mean Rez and Cowgirl are combined and will thus run away with the top spot?!

Have been anticipating this result for awhile now.

"low burn" and "ova nova" are very og underworld while the rest is verrrryyyy different

― BradNelson, Tuesday, March 8, 2016 5:48 PM

piano cover

Brilliant, mesmerizing layers of dreamy highs and lows and travels through time and space Underworld style!

A tune that can lead your thoughts and emotions to a different state. I can enjoy it on the sofa or with a freak dancing, totally, unlimited.

Favourite dance track of the last decade. In fact, in the right mood, maybe favourite dance track ever. I fucking love you Underworld !!

KCRW session video 2016

Just watching Karl tweak with every minute change of direction this song takes. He really feels it. Born to make music.

https://i.imgur.com/G8lPiEn.jpg

Some bands and music are one time wonders...But Underworld's music is as appealing and awesome as ever....ageless.

I got introduced to Underworld quite late...in 2002...and the music i heard then is still a part of my daily playlist today!!!

Unlimited. Fuck numbers!

totally

I think I listened to "Thing in a Book" five times, maybe more, when preparing my ballot. It made my top 10 (only new-to-me track to do so) but I suspect I'm still underrating it

"Low Burn" is my favorite Barbara track by far. So propulsive

Earlier today I heard Rez playing loudly from a postal van. I think the thread should know.

This was the most pleasant part of my journey into town and back.

that rules

both these tracks are so great

I'd been listening to Second Hand for years before I knew about Thing in a Book. couldn't believe how great it was for a B-side. guessing it would've made an album if it weren't 20 minutes long

As for Low Burn...always thought of it as like a sequel to Jumbo

I like that Low Burn has this very chill hippie mantra throughout against such a, for them, deep dark river of bass.

Really enjoying this thread - I've hardly listened to new Underworld material this century, other than a little of Drift, and there's clearly a lot of amazing music to catch up on. (I'm amused to see myself quoted above on Beautiful Burnout - I would have guessed that I'd never listened to this album at all, so I wonder if I only heard it once, before the three plays in a row that I've just given it.)

I also count one too many. Could this mean Rez and Cowgirl are combined and will thus run away with the top spot?!

― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, June 19, 2020 7:37 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lolololol i had them as one song from EE as my number 2 or 3 for a long time before i separated them and moved them down to make sic's life less difficult, this would truly be the funniest result

low burn as og underworld/jumbo sequel super OTM. so uplifting.

also ppl saying that there's one more song in their probable top remaining than spot left have me shook, i really don't know what "rates" i guess because i only have like... 14 and i am not even confident? i must be missing some v obvious ones!

I don't think I listened to the 20m Thing In A Book while I was going thru... big mistake eh?

the results have been a real unpredictable journey for me so far so i don't want to ruin that by guessing

much as i'm convinced that dirty epic is going to win

i am rooting for it but my guess for number one is one of the songs with MO in it (if u take groovypanda's alternate spelling to heart)

but yeah i am not looking to guess i'm just enjoying the RIDE

HERE COMES CHRIST ON CRUTCHES

NO NOT YET DONT COME YET CHRIST ON CRUTCHES