Mega Mega Vote Thing - UNDERWORLD (Smith/Hyde) in ILM Artist Poll #102 - Campaigning, Discussion, Equivocating until 22nd May

Fairly happy with my albums poll but have 99 tracks on my shortlist to cut down to 77 and then somehow put them in order.

Have them all in a spreadsheet and quickly went through giving them approximate placings (Top 5, 10, 20, 30 etc) and currently have 37 tracks in my top 20.

Sent in a ballot. Limited myself to 50 tracks

As a listener, it’s only yourself you’re depriving.

I know! I guess I imagined I would buy it at some point. Have now caved and logged in to spotify for the first time since the Bjork poll, apparently. Seems worth it so far :)

beware the cut-down version of Appleshine Continuum on the box set / album

ok... how are people handling Riverrun when it comes to tracks? If I'm gonna think of them as 3 long tracks, they'll have to go real high... but if I split them up, there's not going to be much of them on there. Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love is my #1 track... so you see the bind I'm in.

WE HAVEN'T EVEN TALKED ABOUT MANCHESTER STREET POEM

i split them up, they're pretty discrete compositions

why 3? the thing i found has 4... 4x30m. is mine different? lol

not sure what that is, Riverrun is three EPs that each were never released as split tracks - Lovely Broken Thing, Pizza for Eggs, and I'm A Big Sister...

the fourth is very probably the Misterons DJ mix of Riverrun tracks

I gave the Riverrun tracks a once-through. Interesting, but would probably require more listens before I can get a handle on them. They seem pretty easy to split up though, unlike Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love or Banstyle/Sappys Curry, which I still don't know where they split up

Anyone feeling like we need an extra week, or three months or w/e, for listening?

i'm almost done with my ballot which seems like it's going to be around 50 tracks before i start to lose interest

Struggling to get mine down to 77 and then have no idea how i'm going to decide the order. Still got six or seven tracks i'd be happy to give my #1 vote to

time is fine

yeah, if i had another week not sure it would make much difference

a lot of my minor placings are going to fairly arbitrary anyway

and out of interest, what's the points system going to be?

77 points for first place down to 1 point for 77th or will top 5 or 10 or whatever get more weighting?

a little help for anyone who's having trouble getting up to 77, or a relaxing listen for after voting

done. Christ, that was hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa49v5vwQWs

"Jenny" from Manchester Street Poem, in case there's anyone thinking to dig a little deeper still. I'm just trying to talk myself out of thinking hard on any Hyde/Eno tracks and move on with my life.... and the Oblivion live series

I seem to recall Elton John once listing Second Toughest among his favorite albums but have no idea where that was. Can anyone confirm?

I voted, ended up with 39 tracks. Would be nice to have 40 but there was a dropoff after #39 so it seemed a good place to cut it. I'm sure there's something awesome among the Drift tracks I haven't heard yet, but my brain is starting to melt all this new music together. Anyway, I've already found more amazing music in this poll than in any other artist poll I've voted in by far - a good quarter of my ballot is music that was new to me

oh i still haven't listened to manchester street poem, should i?

I seem to recall Elton John once listing Second Toughest among his favorite albums but have no idea where that was. Can anyone confirm?

“Even in 1970 when I started to make it, I used to go to Musicland in Berwick
Street and work on a Saturday for nothing,” he tells me during a misty-eyed
anecdote about a long defunct shop in London’s Soho.

“I was fascinated by what people would buy and I just loved it. It was the job
I might have done.”

He remembers shifting a few copies of bedsit troubadour Cohen’s latest and
something by jazzy prog rockers Soft Machine.

I can’t help wondering if he turned customers on to his self-titled second
album with breakthrough hit Your Song or, later that same year, the
follow-up, Tumbleweed Connection.

All these years later in 2016, I’m happy to report 68-year-old Elton is
thrilled by the vinyl revival. He says: “Unless I’m in a car, I only play
records on vinyl. I sold my record collection in 1991 but now I’m collecting
again.

“I have a record player in Woodside (his Windsor estate) and one in Vegas when
I play there. There’s a place in Vegas called Wax Trax Records, owned by
this guy Rich Rosen and his wife Sunny.

“It’s one of the best old record stores, just vinyl, and has everything you
want. I spent three hours there the other Sunday and came out covered in
dust.

“I’ve never lost the excitement of seeing something I haven’t got or something
repackaged like Underworld’s Second Toughest in the Infants, one of my
favourite albums.

“Now I’m collecting Pet Shop Boys on vinyl, not easy because a lot of it is
from the Eighties and Nineties. Their artwork is always the best

“I love the ritual. Turning the record over mid-way and looking at the sleeve
notes to find so much information.”

bless him. once in Sydney he heard a track by a friend's brother's band on community radio in the car, had his driver take the limo to a record store and bought their album, went back the next day and bought every copy in the shop and sent them to friends around the world.

oh i still haven't listened to manchester street poem, should i?

it's very good but you'll be figuring out which spot in the bottom half of your ballot it takes, not adding any tracks to your top ten

and out of interest, what's the points system going to be?

basically 77 points at the top, weighting possibly tweaked if a piece has a weird spread of votes for versions

the latest in obscure alternate versions of tracks is it turns out the versions of "tin there" in the wipeout soundtrack album is different to the one that was actually in the game (the soundtrack version is a minute shorter) lol

xxp A man of taste

a little Tin There chit chat here

missed these btw:

Crocodile (Extended Mix) • single 2007 8:59
Beautiful Burnout (Original (Unfaded)) • promo 2007 11:08

it is worth finding that og "beautiful burnout"

It's on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWcCidixcoo

Just reading this interview about the Dubno reissue and genuine lol at this bit:

The trio adopted new methods of working. They would record a track, let Emerson road-test it with the Milk Bar crowd, and then revise it until it reached its optimum. This could be confusing. When the three were out clubbing one night Hyde heard an amazing house track with a searing guitar riff, an utterly new sound. This is it, he told Smith, this is what we should be doing. “Karl,” his friend replied, “This is us.” (The track was Dirty Guitar, which appears on the Dubnobass reissue).

lmao that rules

ahahah awesome

reminds me of a story of the New Radicals guy hearing "You Get What You Give" from a passing car and thinking "hey that sounds pretty cool...wait that's my song"

find this blooper and more on the limited edition Blunderworld DVD <boiiing>

voted at last

What are current odds the voting period gets extended? I can submit a ballot tomorrow if needed, but i do want to give some of the newer stuff another chance.

Voted! Managed a 50-track ballot in the end, happy with that.

I won't be finished listening by tomorrow night, but it looks like just you and me struggling, Eric. I'm only giving myself an extension until Sunday night, but you can ride my coattails.

I also appreciate the little extension! I'll have my list tonight, but the ranking is a mess -- i was prepared to cram tomorrow, but that'd be way better for me!

(by "i'll have my list tonight" i mean i have 25 more songs to decide if they make my list or not... and my list is already at 62, so i might have to cull again :S

currently working through a bunch of the odds and ends you posted in bold upthread, took me a while to get focused enough to track em down

The last upload I posted plays really well as a cohesive three-decade album imo btw.

have you received my ballot?

I'm gonna try to vote in the next day as well. Daunting though!

wow... i dl'ed sic's link (thanks sic!) and forgot about it, and sought out all of those songs individually days later. i am a dumb

Yessss Tim!

Nine ballots received so far, including Camaraderie's - I'll send out confirmation emails as I spreadsheet the votes through the weekend.

sorry if you mentioned this upthread, but do you have some kinda "master list" somewhere to copy-paste from to make your life easier?

don't see any other mentions of it in thread, but wow @ phonestrap (1-6) & autotrader

deep, deep extra credit hours: stuck "Get Us Out of Here" on in the car today. It is so much worse than I remember. Lol. Funny to read the praise for it earlier in thread.

Found some great stuff that's new to me in the process of all this. Only real surprise to me is that out of 77 songs (I'm sorting out ranking now) I didn't find space for "Moaner". I wouldn't say I dislike it but.... god what a rich catalogue

but do you have some kinda "master list" somewhere to copy-paste from to make your life easier?

concise-ish version:

LEMON INTERUPT / TOMATO ERA

Mother Earth • [Tomato 1992, also M.E. on dubnob 1994]
Mother Earth (FM Mix) • [Tomato 1992]
The Hump (Wild Beast) • [Tomato 1992]
The Hump (Groove Without A Doubt) • [Tomato 1992]
Dirty • [Lemon Interrupt 1992, re-released as Dirty Epic (Dirty Mix) by Underworld in 1994]
Dirty Guitar • [Lemon Interupt 1992, re-released as Dirty Epic (Dirty Guitar Mix) by Underworld in 1994]
Dirty Epic • dubnobasswithmyheadman [1994]
Minneapolis • [Lemon Interupt 1992]
Minneapolis Airwaves • [Lemon Interupt 1992]
Bigmouth • [Lemon Interupt 1992]
Eclipse • [Lemon Interupt 1992]
The Big Meat Show • [1992 / unreleased til 2012]

UNDERWORLD MK II ERA

Rez • [1993 12"]
Why, Why, Why • [1993 12" b-side]
Why Why Why? [Volume remix 1993] • [comp exclusive]
Why Why Why? [Volume Wasted remix 1993] • [comp exclusive]
Spikee • [1993 12"]
Dogman Go Woof • [1993 12"]
Mmm...Skyscraper I Love You • [1993 12", also on dubnob 1994]
Mmm...Skyscraper I Love You (Telegraph 16.11.92) • [1993 remix / b-side]
Mmm...Skyscraper I Love You (Jam Scraper) • [1993 remix / b-side]
Dark & Long •
Dark Train • [aka Dark & Long (Dark Train)]
Dark Hard • [aka Dark & Long (Dark Hard)]
Most 'Ospitable • [aka Dark & Long (Most 'ospitable)]
Burts • [aka Dark & Long (Burts)]
215 Miles • [aka Dark & Long (215 Miles)]
Surfboy • dubnobasswithmyheadman [1994]
Spoon Deep • [aka Dark & Long (Spoon Deep) - remix of Surfboy]
Thing In A Book • [aka Dark & Long (Thing In A Book)]
Second Hand • [reworking of Thing In A Book for Cafe Del Mar]
Spoonman • dubnobasswithmyheadman [1994]
Tongue • dubnobasswithmyheadman [1994]
River Of Bass • dubnobasswithmyheadman [1994]
Cowgirl • dubnobasswithmyheadman [1994]
Cowgirl (Irish Pub In Kyoto Mix) • [remix]
Cowgirl (Winjer Mix) • [remix, related to Underworld's remix of Lush by Orbital]
Born Slippy • [1995 single, later released as "original instrumental version"]
. NUXX • [aka Born Slippy .NUXX [various lengths]
Born Slippy NUXX (2003 12" Version) • [remix by Rick]
Born Slippy NUXX (Down Version) • [2003 ambient mix by Rick]
Slow Slippy • [2017 Trainspotting 2 remake]
Long Slow Slippy • [2017 single remake]
Deep Pan • [aka Born Slippy .NUXX (Deep Pan)]
.TELEMATIC • [aka Born Slippy .TEL EMATIC]
Juanita: Kiteless: To Dream Of Love • Second Toughest In The Infants [1996]
Banstyle / Sappy's Curry • Second Toughest In The Infants [1996]
Air Towel • Second Toughest In The Infants [1996]
Airtowel A2778 Live Jam for Web Dec 2000 • [streamed 2000, released 2019]
Blueski • Second Toughest In The Infants [1996]
Stagger • Second Toughest In The Infants [1996]
Confusion The Waitress • Second Toughest In The Infants [1996]
Confusion The Waitress (Remix) • [mix by Emerson]
Mosaic • [1996 b-side related to CFW]
Cherry Pie • [early Rowla iteration released as Pearl's b-side]
Rowla • Second Toughest In The Infants [1996]
Rowla (Long Version) • [12" 1996]
Pearl's Girl • Second Toughest In The Infants [1996]
Pearl's Girl (short) • [edit 1996]
Pearl's Girl (Tin There) • [1996 b-side]
Tin There (Wipeout 2091 Soundtrack edits) • [comp exclusive]
Pearl's Girl (14996 Version) • [1996 b-side]
Pearl's Girl (Carp Dreams... Koi) • [1996 b-side]
Oich Oich • [1993 video, 1996 b-side]
Deep Arch • [1996 b-side]
Puppies • [1996 b-side]
Oh • [1997 A Life Less Ordinary OST]
Moaner • [1997 Batman track / single]
Moaner (short version) • [1997 single]
Moaner (Relentless Legs Mix) • [1997 remix]
Moaner [BF album version] • [1999 edit for Beaucoup Fish]
Are You Rockstar • [broadcast 1997, released 2019]
Push Upstairs (The Full Length Of It) • [1998 single]
Push Upstairs [album version] • Beaucoup Fish [1999]
Push Upstairs (The Large Unit) • [1998 remix]
Push Downstairs • Beaucoup Fish [1999]
King Of Snake (original version) • [1999 single]
King Of Snake (Straight (Mate) Mix) • [1999 remix]
King Of Snake (Barking Mix) • [1999 remix]
King Of Snake (Rickʼs Bungalow Mix) • [1999 remix]
Shudder / King Of Snake [album version] • Beaucoup Fish [1999]
Cups • Beaucoup Fish [1999]
Winjer • Beaucoup Fish [1999]
Skym • Beaucoup Fish [1999]
Kittens • Beaucoup Fish [1999]
Something Like A Mama • Beaucoup Fish [1999]
Bruce Lee • Beaucoup Fish [1999]
Bruce Lee (Short) • [1999 single]
Bruce Lee (Dobropet) • [1999 remix]
Jumbo • Beaucoup Fish [1999]
Jumbo [extended anthology version] • [comp exclusive]
Please Help Me • [1999 B-side]
8 Ball • [2000 The Beach OST]


UNDERWORLD MK III ERA

Two Months Off • A Hundred Days Off [2002]
Two Months Off (Radio Edit) • [2002 single]

Dinosaur Adventure 3D • A Hundred Days Off [2002]
Dinosaur Adventure 3D (R.C.M. Version) • [2003 remix]

Twist • A Hundred Days Off [2002]
Twist (Music Bank Jam Take 7) • [rehearsal version of live arrangement recorded 2005]

Mo Move • A Hundred Days Off [2002]
Sola Sistim • A Hundred Days Off [2002]
Little Speaker • A Hundred Days Off [2002]
Trim • A Hundred Days Off [2002]
Ess Gee • A Hundred Days Off [2002]
Ballet Lane • A Hundred Days Off [2002]
Luetin • A Hundred Days Off [2002]

Tiny Clicks • [2002 b-side]
Headset • [2002 b-side]
Like A Swimmer • [2003 b-side]
Ansum • [2003 b-side]
020202 (Old Mix) • [2002 track, released 2008]
020202 (New Mix) • [remix released 2008]
Biro The Leggy (Romford Dub) • [live from 2000, Romford Dub version recorded 2006]
Small Conker And A Twix • [live over many years released as download 2019]

Riverrun 1: Lovely Broken Thing [2005]
JAL To Tokyo
Billy Goat
Peggy Sussed
Dub Shepherd
Lenny Penne
Monkey Wink
Witness

Riverrun 2: Pizza For Eggs [2005]
Food a Ready
Back in the Fears
Vanilla Monkey - Flatz
Ancient Phat Farm Coat
Play Pig

Riverrun 3: I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This Is My Horse [2006]
Peach Tree
Mowed Path
Showlder
Wedge
11 Hundred Hz

various other versions exist of many Riverrun tracks


Crocodile • Oblivion With Bells [2007]
Crocodile (Extended Mix) • single 2007
Beautiful Burnout • Oblivion With Bells [2007]
Beautiful Burnout (Original (Unfaded)) • promo 2007
Holding the Moth • Oblivion With Bells [2007]
Ring Road • Oblivion With Bells [2007]
Glam Bucket • Oblivion With Bells [2007]
Boy, Boy, Boy • Oblivion With Bells [2007]
Cuddle Bunny vs The Celtic Villages • Oblivion With Bells [2007]
Faxed Invitation • Oblivion With Bells [2007]
Good Morning Cockerel • Oblivion With Bells [2007]
Best Mamgu Ever • Oblivion With Bells [2007]
To Heal (And Restore Broken Bodies) • [2008 Songs For Tibet exclusive]
To Heal • Oblivion With Bells [2007]
Loads Of Birds • [Japanese exclusive 2007]
Sydney Hotel Room Peal • [2006, released as download 2019]
Phonestrap 1 • Phonestrap [2008]
Phonestrap 2 • Phonestrap [2008]
Phonestrap 3 • Phonestrap [2008]
Phonestrap 4 • Phonestrap [2008]
Phonestrap 5 • Phonestrap [2008]
Phonestrap 6 / Autotrader 4 • Phonestrap [2008]
Parc • [2008 Japanese exclusive]


BIG ROOM COLLABO ERA

Feed Your Mind (Underworld Remix) • [Paul Oakenfold and Spitfire, 2008]
William's Last Words (Underworld Remix) • [Manic Street Preachers, 2009]
William's Last Words (Underworld R37BR11 Mix) • [Manic Street Preachers, 2009 rel. 2015]
Downpipe (Original Club Mix) • [Mark Knight & D.Ramirez v Underworld, 2009]
Downpipe (Original Dub Mix) • [Mark Knight & D.Ramirez v Underworld, 2009]
Scribble • single and Barking [2010]
You Do Scribble • [broadcast 2008, Barking Alternative Versions 2010]
You Do Scribble (Abbey Road version) • [iTunes bonus track 2010]
Scribble (Instrumental) [b-side] • [b-side 2010]
Scribble (Instrumental) • [promo 2010]
Always Loved a Film • single and Barking [2010]
Always Loved A Film (Extended Club Mix) [2010] • [2010 remix]
Always Loved A Film (Lemonworld Mix) • [broadcast 2003, Barking Alternative Versions 2010]
Always Loved A Film (Instrumental) • [b-side & promo 2010]
Bird 1 • Barking [2010]
Strumpet Groove • [c. 2008, Barking Alternative Versions 2010]
Bird 1 (Instrumental) • [promo 2010]
Hamburg Hotel • Barking [2010]
Hamburg Hotel Essex • [early version, Barking Alternative Versions 2010]
Hamburg Hotel (Instrumental) • [promo 2010]
Grace • Barking [2010]
Grace (Telematic Peal Mix) • [c. 2008-09, Barking Alternative Versions 2010]
Grace (Instrumental) • [promo 2010]
Between Stars • Barking [2010]
Between Stars (Lemonworld Mix) • [c. 2009, Barking Alternative Versions 2010]
Between Stars (Instrumental) • [promo 2010]
Diamond Jigsaw • Barking [2010]
Diamond Jigsaw (Demo Mix) • [early version, Barking Alternative Versions 2010]
Diamond Jigsaw (Instrumental) • [promo 2010]
Moon in Water • Barking [2010]
Moon in Water (Lemonworld Mix) • [c. 2008, Barking Alternative Versions 2010]
Moon In Water (Instrumental) • [promo 2010]
Louisiana • Barking [2010]
Louisiana (Jumping the Cran) • [broadcast 2008, Barking Alternative Versions 2010]
Louisiana (Instrumental) • [promo 2010]
Simple Peal • [Japanese exclusive 2010]
Good Day Today (Underworld Classic Remix) • [David Lynch, 2011]
The First Note Is Silent • [High Contrast ft Tiesto & Underworld, 2011]
And I Will Kiss (feat. Dame Evelyn Glennie) • [Isles Of Wonder, 2012]
And I Will Kiss [A Collection 2 version] • [remixed intro on 2016 anthology version]
Caliban's Dream (feat. Dockhead Choir, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Only Men Aloud!, Elizabeth Roberts, Alex Trimble) • [Isles Of Wonder, 2012]
238 Days • [High Contrast feat. Underworld, 2012]
Ten (Club Mix) • [Sander van Doorn, Mark Knight & Underworld 2013]
Baby Wants To Ride (Underworld vs Misterons 12'' Mix) • [Frankie Knuckles cover 12", 2015]
Baby Wants To Ride (Underworld vs Heller & Farley 12'' Mix) • [Frankie Knuckles cover 12", 2015]

BABS & JIM & DANNY & DORIS & JORIS

I Exhale • Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future [2016]
If Rah • Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future [2016]
Low Burn • Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future [2016]
Santiago Cuatro • Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future [2016]
Motorhome • Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future [2016]
Ova Nova • Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future [2016]
Nylon Strung • Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future [2016]
Twenty Three Blue • [b-side/bonus 2016]
Eventually But • [b-side to Long Slow Slippy, 2017]
Bells & Circles • [Underworld with Iggy Pop, Teatime Dub Encounters EP 2017 (rel. 2018)]
Trapped • [Underworld with Iggy Pop, Teatime Dub Encounters EP 2017 (rel. 2018)]
I’ll See Big • [Underworld with Iggy Pop, Teatime Dub Encounters EP 2017 (rel. 2018)]
Get Your Shirt • [Underworld with Iggy Pop, Teatime Dub Encounters EP 2017 (rel. 2018)]
Bells & Circles (Instrumental Version) • [Teatime Dub Encounters EP 2017 (rel. 2018)]
Get Your Shirt (Instrumental Version) • [Teatime Dub Encounters EP 2017 (rel. 2018)]
Jenny • MCR Street Poem [installation score 2017, rel. 2019]
Doris • MCR Street Poem
Charlie • MCR Street Poem
James • MCR Street Poem
Ed • MCR Street Poem
Meredith • MCR Street Poem
Harry • MCR Street Poem
Mary • MCR Street Poem
Too Little Too Late • [Joris Voorn feat. Underworld, 2019]
Too Little Too Late (Club Mix) • [Joris Voorn feat. Underworld, remix 2019]


DRIFT

Brilliant Yes That Would Be
A Very Silent Way [Underworld & The Necks]
Another Silent Way
Another Silent Way / Drift Poem / Better Than Diamonds
Dexters Chalk [Underworld and Ø [Phase]]
Low Between Zebras [Underworld feat. Matthew Trevannion]
Universe of Can When Back
Appleshine
Appleshine Continuum [Underworld & The Necks]
Appleshine (All Of The Lights)
Molehill
Threat of Rain
Brussels
Soniamode
Soniamode (Aditya Game Version)
Dune
Custard Speedtalk
This Must Be Drum Street
Pinetum
Poet Cat
Listen To Their No
Schiphol Test
Hundred Weight Hammer
Altitude Dub
Altitude Dub Continuum [Underworld & The Necks]
Border Country [Underworld and Ø [Phase]]
Toluca Stars
Mile Bush Pride
Imagine A Box
Tree And Two Chairs
Give Me The Room [Underworld and Ø [Phase]]
S T A R
S T A R (Rebel Tech)
One True Piano Need Hand
Roof Off
Do Breakers Trip
Seven Drone Music
Big Bear
Doscentios
Two Arrows
A Moth At The Door

Happy Christmas from Underworld 🎅

if I fucked up any bbcode I'm just gonna have the post killed

And you want the whole line copied or just the part in bold?