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[Dilbert]

I recently rediscovered the genius which is Underworld, and thought I'd give a shout out on the board to see if there were any other fans here. Someone once described them as "beautiful noise," and that's about the best description I've ever heard.

If "Born Slippy" were the only song they'd ever released, they would still be legendary...but that barely cracks my personal top 10 list! (Although, you have to admit, that's a pretty damn amazing track. The floaty keyboards, heavily distorted/chaotic lyrics, and pounding beats sum up everything you need to know about rave culture in 11 minutes. The brief reappearance of the beautiful intro theme about 4:30 in sets up the ending jackhammer wonderfully.)

Oh yeah, that top ten:

#1 has to be "Dirty Epic." Oh. My. GOD. Everything about this song is perfect, and these lyrics OWN: "and here comes another god / here comes another god / like a buffalo thunder / with a smell of sugar / and a velvet tongue / and designer voodoo / and i got phone sex to see me through / the emptiness in my 501s"

The rest, in no particular order:

"Born Slippy"
"Dark & Long"
"Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream Of Love"
"Pearl's Girl"
"Something Like A Mama"
"Stagger"
"Pearls's Girl (Tin There)"
"Two Months Off"
"Cups"

 

[AstroLad]

Born Slippy is a great song. Truthfully I hadn't really known them until Trainspotting but as soon as I heard that song I went out and bought a couple of albums.

 

[Ill Saint]

'Dubnobasswithmyheadman' is real nice. They've done some decent tunes since, but nothing nearly as consistantly good as that album. Should be the first thing anyone with an interest in the group checks out.

 

[MrAngryFace]

ONE AWAKE TWO ASLEEP!

 

[Drensch]

Beacoup Fish is pretty sweet as well.

 

[teepo]

cowgirl is one of the best fuck songs ever.

 

[Triumph]

cowgirl is one of the best fuck songs ever.

This man speaks truth!

Also Skyscraper.

 

[teepo]

lately i've been listening to a lot of my old electronic albums like underworld, orbital, primal scream, daft punk, leftfield, prodigy and so forth in anticipation for wipeout pure.

 

[etiolate]

Snake fighting

Very dangerous!

 

[gigapower]

Underworld's 1992 - 2002 greatest hits album is like "instant party on disc".

 

[beerbelly]

Loved Dirty Epic, but have not heard any other ones by them.

 

[marsomega]

About time we have some Underworld love. So far everyone more or less has mentioned songs I like, except for Jumbo and Kittens.

cowgirl is one of the best fuck songs ever.

cowgirl is one of the best fuck songs ever.

I'm listening to Cowgirl right now and all I have to say is...What the hell?

 

[Banjo Tango]

I seem to remember a board member saying something like... "Post Emmerson Underworld suck fucks."

And while I tend to agree... Dinosaur Adventures in 3D is cool.

Edit - Ooh, to add - the "live in Cologne" version of Rez is good. Gooood.

 

[speedpop]

My friend is a huge fan of Underworld. Even that is an understatement.. he once said to me that if Underworld were not around, he would be dead.

I love their music, and once I got blind as a bat whilst watching one of their gigs in France or somewhere on TV for 3 straight hours. The only thing missing was pills but I came fucking close to it with alcohol :lol Great experience.

 

[8bit]

I seem to remember a board member saying something like... "Post Emmerson Underworld suck fucks."

And while I tend to agree... Dinosaur Adventures in 3D is cool.

Edit - Ooh, to add - the "live in Cologne" version of Rez is good. Gooood.

I might have said that. I thought 100 days off was absolute bollocks.

 

[teepo]

Edit - Ooh, to add - the "live in Cologne" version of Rez is good. Gooood.

how did you end up playing this?