Your Most-Listened-To Underworld

[khouri]

According to Last.Fm, my twenty most listened to Underworld songs are as follows:


Moon in Water [probably a combo of the original and the new one]
Tongue
Like a Swimmer
Food a Ready
Back in the Fears (AMSTM 1)
Jumbo
Most 'Ospitable
Banstyle/Sappys Curry
Best Mamgu Ever
Born Slippy NUXX (Born Sleepy Remix by Warb)
Second Hand
Diamond Jigsaw (Live)
Piano Modal (w/ Gabriel Yared)
Minneapolis Airwaves
Phonestrap 4
Blueski
So-Ree (w/ Gabriel Yared)
Antirom track 5
To Heal
Simple Peal (original from the broadcasts)


How about yours?

[twicezero]

Always Loved A Film (Silver Boots) (Live)
Dark Train ( Bootleg Babies )
Always Loved A Film (Live at Brixton Academy
Cups (Blue Mounttain Live Jams)
Confusion the Waitress (Bootleg Babies)
Lenny Penne (Remix) Lemonworld Broadcast
Spoonman (Dubnobasswithmyheadman)
Push Upstairs (Blue Mounttain Live Jams)
Juanita Kiteless (European Club Gig)
Lenny Penne (Lovely Broken Thing)
Bamboo (2008-06-11 Underworld Radio Show)
King of Snake - early demo
Two Months Off (Brixton Academy (31.10.08))
Pearl's Girl(Blue Mounttain Live Jams)
JAL to Tokyo (Lovely Broken Thing)
Mo Move (Live Jam) (Lemonworld Broadcast)
King of Snake pt 2 (Blue Mounttain Live Jams)
Born Slippy (European Club Gig)
King of Snake (Roundhouse 18th Oct 2007)
Jumbo (Beaucoup Fish)


I'm suprised Bamboo isn't higher... I love that Cups and the demo of King of Snake i do.

[ThingInABook]

i'm not gonna excuse, i love scribble (yeah, i do):

Scribble (Radio Edit)
Grace
Strumpet (Live)
Always Loved A Film
Scribble (full length)
Between Stars (live)
Always Loved a Film (version 4)
Always Loved A Film (Radio Edit)
Ring Road (Autokratz Left Hand Drive Remix)
Parc (J-WAVE 20th Anniversary Song)
Push Upstairs
Phonestrap 1
Scribble (Instrumental)
Confusion the Waitress
Always Loved a Film (Album Version)
Deep Arch
Spoonman
Jumbo
Cowgirl
Banstyle Sappys Curry

[Sappys Curry]

Big Meat Show
Dark and Long (Dark Train Mix)
Puppies
Always Loved a Film (Version 1)
Deep Arch
Born Slippy
Food A Ready
Oich Oich
JAL to Tokyo (Live from Tokyo)
I'm a Big Sister...
Spikee
JAL to Tokyo
Strumpet (Live)
8 Ball
Mosaic
Please Help Me
Simple Peal 1 (from a broadcast)
Puppies (from a broadcast, alternate version)
Pearl's Girl (Tin There)
Toobee


This is not very accurate. I had play counts reset some time ago for some UW songs (dunno what the case was). There should be more from Dubnobass and STITI, as those are the UW albums I listen to the most, and there should be more OWB songs. I remember Faxed Invitation, Best Mamgu Ever, Crocodile, Good Morning Cockerel, and Boy, Boy, Boy being high up there in play counts. Lawl at how "I'm a Big Sister" is higher than some songs in play counts. :D

Edit: Oh, I remember why play counts were reset. I recently deleted all the UW albums I had that are MK II and MK III and then ripped the CDs (I have physical copies of the albums from Dubnobass through Barking) ... sorry, as I was saying, ripped the CDs to my hard drive in Apple Lossless format (Had them as 128 kbps AAC beforehand). That is why their playcounts are so low or at zero.

[the-star-samurai]

I'm going to put the play counts next to them because...I like to brag about how easily addicted I get to Underworld songs:

Best Mamgu Ever 343
Jumping Then Cran 164
Good Morning Cockerel 141
Simple Distinctive (Floating World) 133
Loads of Birds 129
Born Slippy 124
Five Points 99
Born Slippy .NUXX 92
Improvisation 83
(seriously) I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and this is my Horse 82
Cups 81
Shake That Higher 71
King of Snake (Ricks Bungalow Mix) 69
Risingson 65
Crocodile 65
Pizza For Eggs 60
Born Slippy.NUXX (Deep Pan) 56
Push Upstairs 56
Holding The Moth 56
Boy, Boy, Boy 56
You Do Scribble 55

( the rest of my Underworld plays, btwwww (http://www.last.fm/user/star-samurai/library/music/Underworld) )

I haven't reseted my play count (never will) and I've been scrobbling since March 2006, a few months after I just got into Underworld. (September 2005.) For MONTHS I was listening to only them - I don't remember listening to anything else during that time.

And I don't really tag tracks with a '(Live from blah blah blah, ####)" in the title - but in the album. So multiple live "Improvisation"s are in one tag - which is weird, but whatever - I loved them all. And I left in the original tag for a live "Risingson" - but I'm fully aware of the right one.

Oh.

And I have a total of 776 plays to the Breaking and Entering soundtrack and I only just watched the movie this past summer. 108 plays for "Counterpoint Hang Pulse" and 106 for "Broken Entered".
And 164 plays for the Sunshine soundtrack - though I don't think I have the properly tagged version. I have no idea what is, to be honest.

[holden]

Screw Last FM or iTunes.

I listen to UW as follows:

If i want it banging, i turn on "Beaucoup Fish" and listne straight through. A friend in college reakoned that this was their best. I was into her, and into BF, too.

If i want it a little dark and adventurous, i grab STIT and listen straight through. It grabs your attention and doesn't let go. Pearls Girl is probably my least fave on the LP, just from overexposure.

If i want to hear the future, i put on Dubno....all the way through. I've spent plenty of hours in upstate NY and in NYC airport terminals with this to know that it's both experimental and urban. But it's also the sound of a band getting its act together.

I i want to recall surprises, i play AHDO - full through, First LP i awaitied as a fan. And it always makes me feel warm and autumnal, 6 hour drives home and that excelllent mix of what was done with BF and what would be in the future;.

If i want an ambient sort of chill out, i plop on OWB. Yes, it's not really banging, but it's clean and inspired and polished.

Now, if i want a breath of fresh inspiration, simpler tracks that still excite, i'll do Barking all the way through. It's different, but still UW, still quality, and still with surprises.

Maybe the RiverRuns were the most shocking and lived in my earphones for weeks/months, but all the albums have their memories, all the tracks are solid.

[dubman]

was excited to do this, then saw the list and realized most of them were just playing them to make a playlist work. boo.

[Bargo]

(seriously) I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and this is my Horse 82


Hi there "listens to Big Sister far too much" buddy :D

It tops my list of most-listened to tracks on last.fm with 65 plays. "Big Sister" is pretty much my musical equivalent of comfort food.. if I'm feeling down, I turn to that mp3 file and utterly revel in how gorgeous it sounds. So I dunno, maybe that means I'm depressed a lot, who knows.

The rest of my last.fm list is basically a mix of the Riverruns and OWB rather than the earlier albums, because I already listen to them obsessively at work and don't have last.fm there.

[DwarfeD]

Here is my last.fm top 20 of UW-tracks (http://www.last.fm/user/DwarfeD_NL/library/music/Underworld) since feb '08:

1. To Heal 42
2. Faxed Invitation 39
3. Best Mamgu Ever 33
4. Jumbo 27
5. Simple Peal 1 26 (taken from uwlive.com)
6. Good Morning Cockerel 23
7. 8 Ball 21
8. Scribble (Radio Edit) 20
9. Beautiful Burnout 19
10. M.E. 18
Organ 18
Diamond Jigsaw 18 (combined live and album versions)
13. Loads of Birds 17
Big Meat Show 17
15. Dark Train 16
Holding The Moth 16
Glam Bucket 16
To Heal (And Restore Broken Bodies) 16
Always Loved a Film (version 4) 16 (taken from uwlive.com)
Between Stars 16 (combined live and album versions)

Always nice to look at a list like this, since it really differs from the list that I would write down if I was asked to rank the 20 best Underworld tracks.

[purlieu]

Good Morning Cockerel
Best Mamgu Ever
To Heal
Luetin
Phonestrap 1
Ess Gee
Push Upstairs
Scribble (Radio Edit)
8 Ball
Ring Road
Holding The Moth
Boy, Boy, Boy
Bruce Lee (Short)
Beautiful Burnout
Mo Move
Puppies
Glam Bucket
Cuddle Bunny vs. The Celtic Villages
Dirty Epic
Faxed Invitation


It's only in the last few years I've really taken to playing mp3 over CD, so it's not an accurate taste of the last 14 years of listening. I can still make two conclusions:
1. I really, really like OWB.
2. I've given Scribble a chance, I really have.

[big screen satellite]

i usually have i-tunes on random so although uw are my most played artists - and rez oddly has come up most, its certainly not a reflection of my most selected to play uw tracks, just what i tunes likes most - and for the record Born Slippy nuxx is quite high up, but mainly because i have about 100 different versions of it! - so chances are it comes up...

of the new tunes though Grace and ALAF have been 'selected' by me most

i suppose the volume of times a track is selected this way depends upon how much other music you have to randomly select from... when you have 30,000+ tracks in i-tunes, its not gonna throw up uw as much as you'd imagine...

[unwound floors]

Last.FM isn't quite accurate for me, so in order of favourites:

Dirty Epic
Banstyle (Live at Brixton Academy - fuck me, that guitar..!) + Banstyle/Sappys Curry
Best Mamgu Ever
Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love
Moaner
Stagger
Born Slippy.NUXX (from Everything, Everything - to me, this is the definitive version)
Pearl's Girl (oh, memories...)
Tongue
Beautiful Burnout

...that was surprisingly difficult.

[Eikman]

this is from last.fm....not necessarily my all time favs, but it's alright:

Push Upstairs
Luetin
Cups
Sola Sistim
Dark & Long
Crocodile
Two Months Off
Dirty Epic
Lovely Broken Thing
Rez/Cowgirl
Shudder / King of Snake
Pearls Girl
Something Like a Mama
Play Pig (Wighnomy & Robag Wruhme Moosmutzel With Melody remix)

[unddercharlezz]

Last.fm says:

01. Two Months Off - 651 (yes, overplayed XD my favorite song ever)
02. Holding The Moth - 254
03. Luetin - 216
04. Push Upstaris - 179
05. Jumbo - 178
06. Crocodile - 169
07. Parc - 161
08. Ring Road - 160
09. Always Loved A Film - 156
10. Moaner - 154
11. Faxed Invitation - 137
12. Jumping Then Cran - 137
13. Best Mamgu Ever - 133
14. Cups - 131
15. Ballet Lane - 129
16. To Heal - 129
17. Twist - 127
18. Bruce Lee - 121
19. Born Slippy (Nuxx) - 116
20. Tiny Clicks - 109

[Andrea]

I don´t have every UW track so my list is quite limited. These are my favourites:

River of Bass
M.E.
Best Mamgu Ever
Good Morning Cockerel
To Heal
Tounge
8 Ball
Dirty
Dirty Epic
Pearl's Girl
Shudder/King Of Shake
Two Months Off
Crocodile
Downpipe
Scribble
Always Loved a Film
Jumbo
Mmm Skyscraper I Love You
Dark & Long
Pray
Rez/Cowgil
Born Slippy Nuxx
Sola Sistim
Lovely Broken Thing

My first and thus also my favourite UW album is Second Toughest In The Infants
Accidentally I´ve kinda "jumped right in" this magical UW world by that outstanding instrumental intro of Pearl's Girl in 1999.
For years it was one of my most odd albums, you know the one you don´t love but just have to listen to from time to time. And then I heard Crocodile and I fell in love...

[lowbit]

Songs:
Best Mamgu Ever
Two Months Off
Banstyle / Sappys Curry
Rez
Born Slippy Nuxx

Album:
Lovely Broken Thing
(suprisingly - I would have guessed A Hundred Days Off)