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Second Toughest in the Infants was released ten years ago today!!!
This is incredible. Electronic music still seems so young to me and yet looking back it already spans decades. Second Toughest always sounds so fresh, not just part of electronic music history but a timeless article. Ten years old!?! I can hardly believe it.
Congratulations to Karl, Rick and Darren for still being there a decade later. I asbsolutely love the new download releases and I can't wait to hear the next album.
I love ya!
big screen satellite
03-13-2006, 05:41 AM
wow - yeah 10 years...
time flies when you're making decent music...
beavis14996
03-13-2006, 05:58 AM
yeah, for me it's the one of the greatest electronic albums ever recorded!!
now playing ---> banstyle / sappys curry :)
beavis14996
03-13-2006, 06:05 AM
i still rembember that my older brother gave me STITI cd which he bought in berlin, it was at the end of 1996, i was only ten years old....
after ten years i still love this album, underworld are masters of this style
big screen satellite
03-13-2006, 08:57 AM
i still rembember that my older brother gave me STITI cd which he bought in berlin, it was at the end of 1996, i was only ten years old....
after ten years i still love this album, underworld are masters of this style
ahhh those were the days bfore mp3's
it came out on cassette too...which nothing does anymore...
at least its still fresh sounding...
stimpee
03-13-2006, 09:19 AM
I can remember the day I bought it. I got it on double vinyl from Spinadisc in Coventry. Seems like a long time ago tho. Was on the day of release...
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03-13-2006, 09:59 AM
Well, I only bought the CD two years ago, so it doesn't mean much to me...
But, when Beacoup Fish reaches 10 it will! I remember back in the day, I had a paper route, and a long one too, so it would take me roughly the length of one CD to finish it. I didn't have many CDs...a few of my Dad's which I liked, and then You've Come a Long Way, Baby and Exit Planet Dust which I bought after hearing that funk soul brother song on TV and thinking the music was really cool. I think it was amazon.com that recommended me Underworld, and I bought "the fish" and listened to it like, at least twice a week. And I never looked back...
Well, maybe I did. I kind of lost track of them after that, only to download a few tracks via some filesharing service in 2002, hearing the live Rez/Cowgirl and Two Months Off and realizing that I had totally forgotten about these guys!
Dirty0900
03-13-2006, 10:45 AM
Wow, i was only 10 when it came out.
Amazing that it still sounds so fresh to other albums that have dated over time.
Well, I only bought the CD two years ago, so it doesn't mean much to me...
But, when Beacoup Fish reaches 10 it will! I remember back in the day, I had a paper route, and a long one too, so it would take me roughly the length of one CD to finish it. I didn't have many CDs...a few of my Dad's which I liked, and then You've Come a Long Way, Baby and Exit Planet Dust which I bought after hearing that funk soul brother song on TV and thinking the music was really cool. I think it was amazon.com that recommended me Underworld, and I bought "the fish" and listened to it like, at least twice a week. And I never looked back...
Well, maybe I did. I kind of lost track of them after that, only to download a few tracks via some filesharing service in 2002, hearing the live Rez/Cowgirl and Two Months Off and realizing that I had totally forgotten about these guys!
almost same story here...
But my first Underworld CD was a burned copy:p of Everything, Everything back in 2000 or 2001 when i was only around 11 years old.
I listened to it every day and it became my favourite album (not very hard because it was my first real album).
Early 2004 i read something about 'Beaucoup Fish'... then i discovered that they had released AHDO and the anthology and i didn't notice it:).
Of course i bought those CDs immediately (and an original copy of EE;)).
Now in 2006 i have all the albums, (almost) all singles, some promos and even some really rare stuff...
I've never understood why they don't get more attention here in Germany.
Maybe because the majority of Germans think 'techno = Scooter'?:(
crank
03-13-2006, 11:11 AM
you were 10? and you were 10? boy do I feel old. :(
Ironic that you guys mentioned the 10 year anniversary...I was just thinking the same thing. I can remember watching Trainspotting hearing the sound track and the only trac that REALLY REALLY stood out was Dark Train (which wasn't on the original sound track). I went out and bought STII and instantly fell in love. I later tracked down Dubno... but the rest is history...
cranK!
votingfloater
03-13-2006, 11:23 AM
I have a really strong visual memory from STITI coming out. I was in HMV in Princes St. in Edinburgh just meandering round when I saw the LP cover and it just knocked me sideways. I have no idea why I still remember this so well as it's pretty unusual for me; I liked UW stuff already but wouldn't have said I was a fan, and I didn't know it was an UW record when I saw it.
holden
03-13-2006, 12:03 PM
Since i didn't get bitten by the electronic bug till 1997, i didn't rush out to buy STITI (was too busy with "Dig Your Own Hole" and "Fat of the Land" back then:eek: ). But i often heard "Pearls Girl" and knew the group had an unmistakeable sound. By the time i embraced UW fully in 2002, i grabbed up the back catalog in no time, but i think i bought EE, BF, and Dubno before STITI :o
Ah, ten years on! Doesn't make me feel too old, except that ten years ago i was in high school, playing in a band specializing in Cranberries, REM and Tom Petty covers :p
When i look at my music collection, or at least my cassette tapes, then i feel old... "You mean it's been 17 years since "we didn't start the fire" and 20 since "sledgehammer"?!"
Holden
lowbit
03-13-2006, 01:49 PM
Wow. I guess that means: a) I've been rabidly listening to Underworld for more than ten years (loved DubNo - bought STitI immediately when it came out!), and b) from this thread, it appears that quite a few here are young enough to be my kids. :eek: :) (On the other hand, I guess I can take comfort from the fact that Rick and Karl are actually slightly older than me. :D)
froopy seal
03-13-2006, 01:49 PM
My first Underworld experience was a radio broadcast of a live show from London (?) I tape-recorded. I wasn't into electronic music at that time (to tell the truth, into no real music at all) and was completely blown away. It must have been in 1999 since I still vividly remember the "tom & jerry" shouts from King of Snake. Did they possibly use those lyrics before? I really thought that fateful listen must have been around the mid-nineties.
However, I didn't dig any deeper into the Romford music scene. - Until a friend came up with the digipack BF album of which a *cough* copy *cough* somehow made it into my cd player. I think that's when I fell in love with Underworld.
Unfortunately, I can't remember when/where I bought Dubno, STITI, and EE. :( My memory kicks back in with AHDO and I also remember buying the anthology. Presently I'm busy accumulating a "reasonable pile" (don't ask my friends about it!) of singles.
Wow! Ten years ago I had no idea what musical gems existed out there and now I'm sitting here listening to Quazar - flightrecorder (which arrived today) because Mr Hyde has a ten-word lyric appearance in one song... (I must say the whole album is astonishingly listenable.)
Cadevil
03-13-2006, 03:06 PM
STITI was my entre into Underworld as well...
My friend had a copy of it playing in his...Rowla at a high volume...
Didn't end up buying it until Dec. 1997...got it as a Christmas present.
:)
TheBang
03-13-2006, 05:50 PM
So, is it Second Toughest in the Tweenagers now?
the mongoose
03-13-2006, 07:28 PM
That means it was ten years ago I walked into a "Blockbuster Music" store and got it on a recommendation from the guy who worked there. Thanks random cool employee guy!:cool:
jose m
03-14-2006, 02:53 AM
also great to see "dubnobass..." still in the nme 100 greatest albums.
undarrenworld
03-14-2006, 03:05 AM
I was 13, when it was released.
suicidalpenguin
03-14-2006, 11:56 AM
Man!
I can't remember what i was up to 10 years ago
but then again i can't remember what i was up to yesterday so it probably don't mean much ;)
It ain't good!!
Roytron
03-14-2006, 04:01 PM
I was only 3 when it came out...
It might sound like if I was a dinosaur (which I probably am anyway) but my 1st experience with R&K was in... 1984, buying a vinyl with a weird sign on it and called "Doot-Doot" which I loved, and since then, I always bought everything where R&K/UW were involved as soon as it was available... so I really feel like STITI was released... not too long ago.
Writing this, now, I suddenly feel f*****g old...
bryantm3
03-14-2006, 07:57 PM
well, um, oddly enough, when i first 'discovered' underworld in 2002, i discovered i'd heard doot doot before.
selector
03-15-2006, 12:56 AM
wow, memory lane.
mmm.... dubno came out at the infancy of my clubbing life.
it was a godsend. i can attribute much good to that release, as many here
can as well.
enter STITI in '96.... it hit even more on a personal level...(is this possible?) uhhh, (rick&karl) thank you!!
i'm greatful to have been there, and to be here, still enjoying it!
man, great post liam...
it's nice to remember what brought us here together to begin with!
<sigh> :o
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