I don’t really know Underworld at all and am only familiar with Hyde’s collabs with Eno but agree, this is terrific. I kind of wonder what it’s going to sound like when it (presumably) has instrumentation.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 12 October 2023 03:48 (six months ago) link
lol if THIS is the only UW song you know
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 October 2023 03:53 (six months ago) link
oh they just announced the 'full' version is coming on 10/18
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 October 2023 04:08 (six months ago) link
No I mean, everything else I’ve heard by them is … not like this at all. But this has a pretty exciting open and is kind of a weirdly through composed thing.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 12 October 2023 04:12 (six months ago) link
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Thursday, 12 October 2023 06:14 (six months ago) link
it is! but definitely a track which might give you the totally wrong impression of what kind of band this is
though after Drift what kind of band are they exactly?
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 October 2023 13:22 (six months ago) link
i also love denver luna.
― omar little, Friday, 13 October 2023 21:30 (six months ago) link
well this is the best of the lot so far maybe one of the best tracks they've done ever really
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clUQ7cy_35Y
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 13:25 (six months ago) link
idk about 'one of the best tracks they've ever done' but it's pretty solid
― ufo, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 13:35 (six months ago) link
like a slinkier "Border Country"
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 26 October 2023 00:11 (six months ago) link
Man the drop that happens at 6:44 is teased for so long and when it finally happens it's actually kinda subtle. Good tho. Want remixes.
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Friday, 10 November 2023 22:57 (five months ago) link
tour https://underworldlive.com/events
― StanM, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 09:08 (four months ago) link
ha, i was gonna bump this thread for a different reason
Underworld for me have always fallen down due to Karl Hyde's lyrics - back-of-a-fag-packet undergraduate cut-up nonsense which at best just distracts and at worst actively spoils the music, turning it from wide-ranging and danceable into a nasty urban noir mess. And his wannabeatnik delivery nobs me off, too.― Tom, Wednesday, October 18, 2000 8:00 PM (twenty-three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
the thing is, his timing was absolutely perfect. the early internet is an unseen character in those Underworld songs, to me.
i've seen a lot of stuff about how 'early mtv put a hip new wave club in every teenager's living room', and sure i roll my eyes but AOL was an awful lot like having a dive coffeehouse in my living room.
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 21:08 (four months ago) link
maybe it's me- the crowd i fell in with with were the type who published poetry e-zines and fantasized about nights drinking absinthe out of dixie cups with purple-haired drop outs, idk. but i think, for various reasons, people who spent a lot of time online then were more likely to be outsiders who rejected the mainstream culture, or were rejected. so underworld's cyberbeatnik identity connected them to the chatrooms as much as the dance clubs.
a nocturnal parallel world seemed to spring up.... we still spent time hatching plans on the internet that would play out in the realm of physical geography. like, the internet was a map to me, not a place. it felt like our whole generation was a community, and we would be able to float around crashing on people's couches who we met on AOL. i get that none of that was new or unique to the moment ("wannabeatnik"- yeah def) and part of it is just the optimism people have when they're young and it's still possible to one day become "successful".
but the possibility of a bohemian slacker utopia has since closed, i think. what's changed is how the people who seemed incapable of integrating themselves into the straight world and holding down a normal job are more likely now to eke out a living piecemeal through the "gig economy" of driving ubers and walking dogs etc. it seems less plausible now to get by without those connections to the mainstream overworld.
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 21:26 (four months ago) link
something somethinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LSxDPgV9sM
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 22:35 (four months ago) link
won't play for me
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 22:45 (four months ago) link
this better be the first of the banging denver luna remixes I've been waiting for
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 22:52 (four months ago) link
I've always liked his lyrics. maybe it's because I got into this band at the age of 13. I never thought they were that weird because I didn't know that much music. ditto for like, the guy from Cake, where it's really only now I realize how odd they were. I get why people don't like his lyrics but they do capture something pretty unique I think, particularly that night out feeling meeting people you'll never see again, always thinking what if...
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 December 2023 00:09 (four months ago) link
that night out feeling meeting people you'll never see again
exactly
― Deflatormouse, Thursday, 7 December 2023 01:16 (four months ago) link
not having roots
― Deflatormouse, Thursday, 7 December 2023 01:18 (four months ago) link
are you listenin?can you hear?UNDERWORLD X KETTAMA fifteenth december pic.twitter.com/U6Ngxvkhq8— Underworld (@underworldlive) December 10, 2023
― groovypanda, Sunday, 10 December 2023 18:57 (four months ago) link
This was better than I thought it would be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzqgGlyehLE
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 01:55 (four months ago) link
Underworld x Kettamahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwSNXtzWER4
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Thursday, 14 December 2023 12:53 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J91SR8wfAvU
another one with Kettama, doesn't really sound like UW but it's pretty sweet
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 March 2024 14:25 (one month ago) link
I had a load of marking to do tonight and put on Everything, Everything to make it more bearable, and the version of Moaner on the DVD is fucking incredible isn't it I am only used to the CD, why the fuck was it not on the CD?
You've all heard this a thousand times I'm sure, but I hadn't until just now, because some brilliant person put the whole DVD on youtube a year ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h93w-28dVY
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 7 March 2024 23:05 (one month ago) link
the whole Pinkpop 1999 show where that version of Moaner was filmed is on YT if you want more of a concert experience - (oh, look for Palladium Koln 1999 there as well for another treat)
― StanM, Friday, 8 March 2024 01:37 (one month ago) link
it wasnt on the CD because it's already 80 minutes long and they had to cut something
god I hope we get a vinyl reissue of it one day, I still don't think anything's captured the pure euphoria of live electronic music as well as this album does
― frogbs, Friday, 8 March 2024 16:14 (one month ago) link
A remastered / expanded double CD would be just fine.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 8 March 2024 16:20 (one month ago) link