What would be your perfect Underworld setlist?

[stimpee]

What would be your perfect Underworld setlist? and why?

Pick 10-16 tracks only!

[dubman]

Way to have me blow an hour at work :rolleyes:

I think last time i came up with one of these here i just did a relentless marathon of sweaty dancing that no one should have the energy to do on a nightly basis. Even today it's hard to not do that, but i attempted a kind of buildup to it with some breaks in the middle to keep it interesting on a sensory basis. Also trying to keep it on the short end because I err more towards the Lightning Bolt approach to a live gig.

the essential idea of it is all the big hit energy with less of the actual hits. live, loose, and will light you up.

Silver Boots/Pins
King of Snake (Sept 97)
Juanita/Kiteless/Deep Pan
Pearl's Girl/Push Upstairs (full on! enough with the "straight up" one)
Strumpet Groove/Confusion the Waitress
Dexter's Chalk
Border Country
Please Help Me / Cappe Ffuno
Why Why Why
BYTWB/NUXX (w/ 2003 piano in the back half)
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Nylon Strung

[khouri]

This feels like a fun challenge to just mix one myself. Will start brainstorming!

[iamneorev]

Spikee
Dark Train
Appleshine
Jumbo
Cherry Pie/Rowla
Universe Of Can When Back
JAL To Tokyo
Pearl's Girl
Deep Arch
020202
King Of Snake
Crocodile
Mmm Skyscraper I Love You
8 Ball
Push Upstairs
Confusion The Waitress
Born Slippy Nuxx
Dexters Chalk
Kittens
Another Silent Way
Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream Of Love
Listen To Their No
Rez/Cowgirl

[joethelion]

Okay... here's my initial setlist

Builds up quickly, followed by a few slower ones, then it picks up at the end.

1) Cups (without ‘Pins’)
2) Confusion the Waitress; add ‘Pins’ to the end, transitioning to…
3) Juanita / Kiteless
4) Born Slippy (Original)
5) Pearl’s Girl
6) Push Upstairs
7) Back in the Fears
8) 5 Points
9) Glam Bucket
10) Appleshine
11) Jumbo
12) Luetin
13) Dark Train
14) Deep Arch*
15) 020202
16) Born Slippy .NUXX + ’03

* and I haven't checked the bpm's, but I'd imagine that there could be a good medley / mash-up using "Deep Arch" and "Schiphol Test"

[purlieu]

Boy, Boy, Boy
Tongue
If Rah
Blueski
M.E.
Bruce Lee
Skym
Trim
Molehill
Ess Gee
Ring Road
To Heal
Rubber Ball (Space Kitchen)
Cuddle Bunny vs The Celtic Villages
Louisiana
Santiago Cuatro
Puppies
Most 'Ospitable
Dobropet
Tiny Clicks
Hundred Weight Hammer
King of Snake (Barking Mix)
Counterpoint Hang Pulse

[holden]

I'm not going to attempt this because a) difficult to choose 16 or less favorite tracks from a favorite band, b) haven't got the time to think about sequencing, i mean really think about how this would play out live, and c) choices would likely change tomorrow.

i will say that i really like the posted mixes (dubman, i'd pay for your gig, guaranteed. You had me at cappe ffuno!), the efforts for diversity/obscurity!

[dubman]

Thanks man

I also like how these setlists have something different to give. Purlieu’s sounds like when a band make a stop at somewhere different than usual, like a library or a park, with a different crowd coming out for an intimate night where they stop to talk to the small group that gathered in. Joe’s reminds me of the LHN days if it got defibrillated, and neorev is if they were the most generous band on the planet.

[iamneorev]

and neorev is if they were the most generous band on the planet.

I can dream. It was hard to cut.

[River of Bass]

Globe
Dark & Long
SP Bridge
Border Country
Bruce Lee
Cowgirl
Cherry Pie
Low Burn
Push Upstairs
Pearls Girl
Back in the Fears
Dirty Epic
Jumbo
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Simple Distinctive
Juanita
Always loved a Film
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Beautiful Burnout
Moaner

[darktrain]

Top of my head with questionable flow, but I really like all of these live (and I just really want to hear ASW mixed into Nuxx)

Rez (with the slow intro)
Spikee
Downpipe
JAL to Tokyo
Between Stars
Darc
Luetin
Dark Train
Dirty Epic
Glam Bucket
Small Conker/You Do Scribble
Cherry Pie/Rowla
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Born Slippy
Another Silent Way
Nuxx

[purlieu]

Purlieu’s sounds like when a band make a stop at somewhere different than usual, like a library or a park, with a different crowd coming out for an intimate night where they stop to talk to the small group that gathered in.

With the exception of KoS Barking Mix, you're right, it would probably suit quite an intimate / casual environment. I just tried to put together the most surprising / least likely to happen setlist, because I think that would be something really worth seeing.

[4thDrawerDown]

Interestingly, no one has suggested the god awful, but annoyingly (live) ubiquitous Two Months Off, that surely to god everyone is bored to tears with by now?

[khouri]

Interestingly, no one has suggested the god awful, but annoyingly (live) ubiquitous Two Months Off, that surely to god everyone is bored to tears with by now?

100%. That's my go-to-the-bathroom track. It's been performed more less exactly the same way since its debut. If you've heard it once you've heard it a thousand times. The most overrated of Underworld's anthems.

[4thDrawerDown]

100%. That's my go-to-the-bathroom track. It's been performed more less exactly the same way since its debut. If you've heard it once you've heard it a thousand times. The most overrated of Underworld's anthems.

It's always sounded a bit...oh I don't know..'forced' to me..."Let's write a massive comeback anthem for our return", that sort of thing, where they try a bit too hard to sound like classic Underworld

See also: One Perfect Sunrise by Orbital on one of their many reformed comebacks..

[purlieu]

'One Perfect Sunrise' was actually the last track on their last album before they first split. But yes, it really felt like "let's do a big Halcyon-esque climax to end things". I've always hated it.

[34958hq439-qjw9v5jq298v5j]

eh my only gripe with TMO is that when they do it live they don't do the heavily-layered rhythmic coda which to me is the high point of the tune. I still love the track - when I first heard it, it clearly stood apart from their past anthems. I think of "Dinosaur Adventure 3D" as the forced one.

[khouri]

eh my only gripe with TMO is that when they do it live they don't do the heavily-layered rhythmic coda which to me is the high point of the tune. I still love the track - when I first heard it, it clearly stood apart from their past anthems. I think of "Dinosaur Adventure 3D" as the forced one.

I'd agree with that assessment of Dinosaur Adventure 3D.

[purlieu]

Yes, Dinosaur Adventure 3D always felt like King of Snake II: Not as Good to me.

[undarrenworld]

Sorry, its "All Too Much" for the perfect 10 to 16 tracks, but this is hard...

01 Luetin
02 TMO
03 Bird 1/ALAF
04 Surfboy/Skyscraper/Spikee
05 Cherry Pie
06 Cups
07 Push Upstairs/KOS (Would that work?)
08 Dirty Epic
09 Banstyle/Dark Train (Improv?)
10 Glam Bucket (With some of the Rez elements)
11 Born Slippy/Air Towel (Jam Version)
12 Pearls Girl
13 8 Ball/JAL to Tokyo/Bruce Lee (Improv Medley)
14 Rez/Cowgirl
15 Born Slippy Nuxx/Kittens (Imagine in the beat section comes that Kittens energy?, its still dream setlist right?...)
16 Moaner
17 Juanita/Rowla


I know weird end, but Juanita is one of the best, I like live energy of Underworld, so its too much upbeat dream setlist. Cool setlists across the whole thread...

[negative1]

i don't have one. i wouldn't want to know what songs they play.
i wouldn't want to dicate how it would sound.

i would prefer it to be totally improvised, and partially dj'ed.

ok, maybe not 14 hours worth of it. but something along those lines.

later
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[stimpee]

Sorry, its "All Too Much" for the perfect 10 to 16 tracks, but this is hard.... Yeah the reason i said 10-16 is because thats the number of tracks Underworld play (10 at festivals and upto 16 at their own gigs). Gotta keep it reasonable. Much as I'd like them to do a 3hr gig again...