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testudo
10-01-2007, 02:06 PM
Tell me I'm wrong... by far the cheeziest song UW has ever written (though it has become a guilty pleasure)

Darc should be on this album. SOOOSOSOSOOOOO sad
BrotherLovesDub
10-01-2007, 02:15 PM
cheesy? uh, cheesy is meat-heads SHOUTING LAGER LAGER LAGER, e'd up punks moshing to a generic BANGER like Moaner, the donna summer rip off King of Snake, the lyrics and delivery of Push Upstairs. YOU BRING FCUKIN LIGHT IN? surely that is CHEESY too if you think Ring Road is cheesy.
the mongoose
10-01-2007, 04:36 PM
Yeah Ring Road vocals be whack yo! All those other songs you listed are no where near as cheesy or ackward. Only thing that I can think of that comes close is Bruce Lee which has the same energy and strange lyrics. Ring Road is a good track but it's pretty experimental and dodgey sometimes to say the least...;)
BrotherLovesDub
10-01-2007, 04:45 PM
the point is, what's cheesy to you may not be cheesy to me. personally, i find Born Slippy, TMO etc, the "epic moments" of the live set to be extremely cheesy. how can you get more cheesy than a song who's chorus is YOU BRING LIGHT IN? and another song that has all the fucking hillbillies and random people shouting LAGER LAGER LAGER? it is straight up populist cheese.

i suppose this is karl's version of bernard sumner rapping on the first Electronic album. remember Feel Every Beat? i never considered it to be a rap really, just a diff. delivery.

it's just words about what he saw walking around town. anyone can write epic tracks with hands in the air choruses and synth stabs, to me, that's cheesier than anything on this album. i'd rather hear karl rap lyrics about walking around london than hear another YOU BRING LIGHT IN or LAGER LAGER LAGER epic moment.
the real stuff
10-01-2007, 05:12 PM
I think you underestimate the challenge in writing a catchy tune ;)

born slippy was never meant to be the anthem it became, and before all the hype it was just more of karl's city observations on top of a thumping beat.

yeah, I don't see Ring Road becoming a crowd-pleaser. I don't dig it much, myself. it's pretty daft, which I think is what testudo's trying to say
BrotherLovesDub
10-01-2007, 06:38 PM
uh, Born Slippy has an epic break down, echoing piano chords and a shouty chorus. but whatever. one mans cheese is another man's big screen satellite radio show. ;)
ndrwrld
10-01-2007, 07:52 PM
i think youre putting too much emphasis on his vocals.
this song has such a wicked vibe to it.
and who's to say whats really going on inside karls mind...
the mongoose
10-01-2007, 08:00 PM
i think youre putting too much emphasis on his vocals.
this song has such a wicked vibe to it.
I think UW put too much emphasis on his vocals....ha ha:p
The song does have a nice thump to it, especially when those cool war-like drums kick in after "knock em out".
The chorus is mildy catchy too.:cool:

This should've been on RiverRun and Darc should have been on the album instead. That's my final answer Regis.
BeautifulBurnout
10-02-2007, 12:33 AM
uh, Born Slippy has an epic break down, echoing piano chords and a shouty chorus. but whatever. one mans cheese is another man's big screen satellite radio show. ;)


LOLLERZ - started my day nicely with a belly laugh.

CHEEZ RULEZ!

...and so does Ring Road - and I think of it more as performance poetry set to a beat. On this occasion I can be pretty sure that the lyrics were there waaaaay before the music was. I have often wondered which order the music and lyrics come in when working on a new piece.
jose m
10-02-2007, 09:05 AM
its great..............like walking around any suburban town in the summer........it smells of romford and you can see karl "inking it in"..........ali g :confused:
BrotherLovesDub
10-02-2007, 09:17 AM
would someone who has access to the area mind taking some snapshots to accompany the lyrics? it would be great to see these places that are being mentioned. we could do our own multimedia slideshow with pics of the area, some text and the song.
jose m
10-02-2007, 09:28 AM
thats you isn't it?
BrotherLovesDub
10-02-2007, 09:35 AM
only in Romford in spirit. my body is in Seattle.
geoff
10-02-2007, 10:18 AM
I remember that killer fan-made KOS video, walking through new york, and blurring the image with the beat. Something similar would be great to accompany Ring Road.
testudo
10-02-2007, 10:54 AM
its great..............like walking around any suburban town in the summer........it smells of romford and you can see karl "inking it in"..........ali g :confused:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qi2NYFGedec

3min in

Ali G rap
potatobroth
10-02-2007, 10:58 AM
Tell me I'm wrong... by far the cheeziest song UW has ever written (though it has become a guilty pleasure)

Darc should be on this album. SOOOSOSOSOOOOO sad

100% wrong. Ring Road is my fave on the album. I really like the chorus/pitches. :(
the mongoose
10-02-2007, 11:39 AM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qi2NYFGedec

3min in

Ali G rap

You just hit the nail on the head, my God it's uncanny.:D
dubman
10-02-2007, 11:42 AM
are you friggin serious
that's retarded.
testudo
10-02-2007, 11:43 AM
EXCLUSIVE:

UW to take Ali G on tour across UK! ;)
jose m
10-02-2007, 12:43 PM
i suppose every english guy rapping sounds like ali g just like every american guy sounds like vanilla ice........................to an idiot
testudo
10-02-2007, 12:47 PM
i suppose every english guy rapping sounds like ali g just like every american guy sounds like vanilla ice........................to an idiot

hehhehehe ;)
BrotherLovesDub
10-02-2007, 12:48 PM
i suppose every english guy rapping sounds like ali g just like every american guy sounds like vanilla ice........................to an idiot


ZING!

too true though. the ali g comparison shows the ignorance of the poster.

someone program a 909 kickdrum at 136bpm's to appease these knuckleheads.
testudo
10-02-2007, 12:56 PM
woah, kids please calm down, I know you want to score points with the boys, but c'mon... :p
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10-02-2007, 01:42 PM
I like this song! When I first heard it I knew that most UW fans would hate it, but I think it's pretty sweet. The chorus is awesome. Then again, when someone mentioned that it sounded like Freur or 80's Underworld I got all excited..
BrotherLovesDub
10-02-2007, 01:44 PM
not looking to kiss ass here testudo, just found the ali g comparison pretty weak.
Malt Refund
10-02-2007, 09:12 PM
i suppose every english guy rapping sounds like ali g just like every american guy sounds like vanilla ice........................to an idiot

LOLOL

I agree completely. Ring Road doesn't sound like rap at all, it sounds like Underworld. I love it. We should ENCOURAGE them to have more lyrics!
big screen satellite
10-03-2007, 06:34 AM
uh, Born Slippy has an epic break down, echoing piano chords and a shouty chorus. but whatever. one mans cheese is another man's big screen satellite radio show. ;)

lol

i take that as some kind of backhanded compliment...


keeping the 80's alive

you'd never get me playing anything as cheesey as born slippy :p

sigue sigue sputnik, well thats another issue...
holden
10-03-2007, 06:53 AM
Doesn't sound like rap to me, either. Sounds distinctly like Karl chanting poetry and snippets as per usual over awesome sounds courtesy of Rick. Agreed, it will divide the fans, but there's always that one track per record that gets a slagging..."Surfboy", "Bluesky", "Push downstairs", "Trim", for example.

To me, "boy,boy,boy" has a bigger 80's vibe to it, UW mkI.
phaseblue
10-04-2007, 10:05 PM
I can`t see why people have a problem with "Surfboy". I think it`s fricken awesome, and it fit`s in very nice on Dubno!

As far as "Trim" and "Boy, Boy, Boy", well let`s just say that Karl`s nonsense lyrics (although very poetic and beautiful) fit better in a different a environment of sound - and with a different delivery. I know I`m going to get heat for this, but "Trim" and "Boy, Boy, Boy" sound like a hillbilly attempt at something in the vein of electronic music. Karl`s vocals on both tracks sound like something off of a Charles Manson album (Yes, Manson did record an album with the help of Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson shortly before his arrest in 1968!) Don`t get me wrong, I think most of the tracks on OWB are brilliant and a pleasure to listen to, but to me, "Boy, Boy, Boy" isn`t one of them. The instrumental sounds fine, but that`s about it.

It seems to me that with tracks like "Trim" and "Boy, Boy, Boy", Underworld are just throwing musical darts out there and seeing if any of them stick!
aaron5000
10-04-2007, 10:38 PM
sigue sigue sputnik, well thats another issue...


What?

http://aaron5k.com/underworld/Sigue_Sigue_Sputnik__Everybody_Loves_You_.Tok_Tok_ vs_Soffy._O_Mix.mp3
Blueski
10-05-2007, 12:13 AM
'Ring Road' is a great song and the lyrics and Karl's flow is superb along with the beat.

Some of you guys should call Emerson and ask him to release an album and listen to it and start bangin' your heads.
Blueski
10-05-2007, 12:16 AM
Doesn't sound like rap to me, either. Sounds distinctly like Karl chanting poetry and snippets as per usual over awesome sounds courtesy of Rick. Agreed, it will divide the fans, but there's always that one track per record that gets a slagging..."Surfboy", "Bluesky", "Push downstairs", "Trim", for example.

To me, "boy,boy,boy" has a bigger 80's vibe to it, UW mkI.

It doesn't sound like rap, couse it isn't rap. It's an Underworld song.
And by the way it's 'Blueski' ;)