UW 2007/8 POLL RESULTS

[big screen satellite]

ok, here goes,

first thanks to those who enetered, turnout wasn't as high as expected but still, its given me some results and some interesting comments which i will give here - it at least gives the guys some feedback- even if they haven't asked for any!!!

the big news is... well wait and see.

OK FIRST OFF,

About you:

Average age of UW Poll Responder is: 30.3 years
Gender of Responders: 96% Male
Country of Reidence of Responders: UK 23% / USA 35% / EUROPE 31% / REST OF WORLD 11%
Employment Status of Responders: 35% Students / 4% Unemployed / 61% Full Time Employed
Average Number of Posts at time of response: 430
Some Favourite bands of Responders:New Order, U2, LCD Soundsystem, Genesis, The Cure, Venitain Snares, Daft Punk, Radiohead, Blur, KLF, Van Der Graf Generator, Kraftwerk, NIN, Pink Floyd Basement Jaxx, PSB's and more

Music (Format) Ownership:

Number of Vinyl owned (average): 525
Number of CD owned (average): 818
Number of DVD owned (average): 120
Number of MP3's owned (average): 8133
UW Music Items owned (not mp3's) (average): 74Album Ranked (by whole album):

1st Dubnobasswithmyheadman
2nd Second Toughest In the Infants
3rd Beaucoup Fish
4th Oblivion with Bells
5th A Hundred Days Off

Album Ranked (by cover artwork):
1st Second Toughest In the Infants
2nd Dubnobasswithmyheadman
3rd Oblivion with Bells
4th Beaucoup Fish
5th A Hundred Days Off

Albums Track Popularity By Track Ranking:

Dubnobasswithmyheadman:

1 Dirty Epic
2 Dark & Long
3 mmm Skyscraper
4 Cowgirl
5 Spoonman
6 ME
7 River Of Bass
8 Surfboy
9 Tounge

Second Toughest in the Infants

1 Juanita /Kiteless / To Dream Of Love
2 Pearls Girl
3 Rowla
4 Banstyle
5 Confusion the Waitress
6 Air Towel
7 Stagger
8 Blueski

Beaucoup Fish

1 Jumbo
2 Cups
3 Moaner
4 Kittens
5 Shudder / King Of Snake
6 Push Upstairs
7 Bruce Lee
8 Push Downstairs
9 Winjer
10 Something Like A Mama
11 Skym

A Hundred Days Off

1 Luetin
2 Two Months Off
3 Mo Move
4 Twist
5 Dinosaur Adventure 3D
6 Sola Sistim
7 Little Speaker
8 Trim
9 Ballet Lane
10 EssGee

Oblivion With Bells

1 Beautiful Burnout
2 Crocodile
3 Faxed Invitation
4 Best Mamgu Ever
5 Glam Bucket
6 Ring Road
7 Holding the Moth
8 To Heal
9 Boy Boy Boy
10 Cuddle Bunny Vs The Celtic Villages
11 Good Morning Cockerel

Single Artwork (Top 3 Favourites):

1st Dark & Long EP
2nd MMM Skyscraper
3rd Born Slippy (Tractor)

Favourite NON LP Track:

1st Thing In A Book
2nd 8 Ball
3rd= Cherry Pie / Dark Trian
Favourite Unreleased LP Track:

1st Luetin
2nd Juanita / Kiteless / To Dream Of Love
3rd Banstyle

Favourite Video:

1st Push Updstairs
2nd Jumbo
3rd Rez

Favourite Underworld Created Remix:

1st Depeche Mode - Barrel of a Gun (both Soft or Hard Mixes voted for)
2nd Orbital - Lush 3
3rd Massive Attack - Risingson

Favourite Underworld Track Remix:

1st Peggy Sussed (Pete Heller Mix)
2nd Born Slippy Nuxx (Darren Price Remix)
3rd JAL to Tokyo (Paul Woolford Mix)

Favourite Lyric - Which Song?:

many lines were chosen but most came from Dirty Epic somewhere

1st Dirty Epic (by miles...)
2nd= Stagger / Juanita
Who Do You Want To See Remix UW in the Future?:

Some Suggestions:
Underworldl! / Buji / Rhys Fulber /Al Jourgensen / Deadmau5 / Bookashade / Dirty Memebers / Simian Mobile Disco / Trentmoller / Ricardo Villalobos / Swayzak / Red Shape / Radio Slave /Unkle / LCD Soundsystem / Boys Noize / Darren Emerson! / Talk Talk / 2 Bit Pie (Fluke) /Eno / Hybrid / Boards Of Canada / Baby Mammoth / Cocteau Twins!

Average Number of Times UW Seen Live: Five

first dates ranged from 1993 to 2008!!!

Live Favourites:

too many varied answers to mention, although Rez at Reading in 1996 is popular as is Kittens at the Roundhouse in 07
General Questions:

What do you want to see from Underworld Live in the future...

this was misread by most, as 'what when playing live did you want to see' rather than refering to the website which is what it meant, but the resounding replies were:

bring back the archives,
more mp3 downloads,
more RRP's,
more unreleased tracks,
play some Freur tracks live
come to Canada, USA more often please...
and more 3 hours shows!

Some people's Poll also had these questions attached:

What Would You Like to hear from Underworld Live in the future?

replies: downtempo / ambient stye sets - almost all replies said this !!!

What do you want from Dirty Radio in the future?

replies: More of the same / ambient night / more live UW broadcasts

What Do you want to see from the UW Shop in the future?

replies: Socks / Badges / T-shirts / Photos / Art / MP3's





and here goes the big one





Overall Favourite Tracks:

1st Juanita / Kiteless /To Dream Of Love (Average Rank Out of Ten) (4.3)

2nd Beautiful Burnout (5.3)

3rd Dirty Epic (3.5)

4th Cowgirl (5.5)

5th Dark Train (2.9)

6th Cups (6.3)

7th Luetin (6.6)

8th Thing In A Book (3.3)

9th Dark & Long (4.4)

10th Moaner (5.0)

11th Chery Pie
12th Spikee
13th Jumbo
14th Banstyle
15th Kittens
16th mmm...Skyscraper I Love You
17th= Pearls Girl
17th= Rez
18th Crocodile
19th Spoonman
20th King of Snake
21st Glam Bucket
22nd 8 Ball
23rd Born Slippy NUXX
24th Sola Sistim
25th Oich Live
26th Ring Road
27th= Tin There
27th= Mo Move
29th= Little Speaker
29th= Ancient Phat Farm Coat
31st Born Slippy Original
32nd Peggy Sussed
33rd JAL to Tokyo
34th Faxed Invitation
35th Tounge
36th= Two Months Off
36th= River of Bass
38th= Push Upstairs
38th= Most' Ospitable
40th To Heal
41st= M.E.
41st= Food A Ready
41st= Peach tree
44th Best Mamgu Ever
45th 020202

the rest with single or few votes:

Confusion the Waitress / Eclipse / Puppies / Sometjing Like A Mama / Underneath the Radar / 11 Hundred Hz / Ansum / Mowed Path / Holding the Moth / Riders in the Night / Spoon Deep / Trim / Vocoder Monks / Play Pig / Doot Doot / Vanilla Monkey / Stagger / TMO (Ciafone Mix) / Bruce Lee

thats it then

Juanita is still the most popular track of choice by Underworld fans by number of votes cast... its good to see a couple of the new tracks denting the poll, especially Beautiful Burnout, it will be interesting to see if the popularity of this track remains in a couple of years time...

i'll try and summarise this poll, rather than just give the results in one chunk if i have more time...

i hope they guys at UW have a chance to see these results and the comments, especially regarding live stuff, popular tracks and also who we want remixing the boys in the furtue as there are some interesting choices and comments made here

thanks to those who took time out to vote and also thanks to Underworld, and their team for the Music.... this was about you guys after all....

Matt

[m.g.]

Thanks for all the work, Matt & thanks UW for all the rest...

[Yannick]

nice work matt

[big screen satellite]

oh and the prize winner is:

HOLDEN

for this poetic effort, which made me smile most:


Snow-thrown into the record bin, I make my decision, with your words in mind:

“This is indispensable, this is essential, and this is not to be missed.”

How right you were, I play it all night and I am brought into something dirty but epic.


Headphones block out the buzzing of ancient computer, watching progress bars crawl
Through file transfer protocols, we are sharing boots, needed again

To glide downhill through the night-snow,

Five feet hit five points and roll eight balls into the blood.

I am in over my head in Underworld.




Backing tracks to five years in the life, whether sleepless at 4 am or bringing light in.

I watch the layered films and resonate with dreams of three silhouettes behind a desk.

And when I can take no more of this wishful thinking, I’m 30,000 feet over distant skyscrapers,

Feeling geography, touching the streets of New York with book in hand as Karl might do, focusing on traffic voices as Rick might try.

And Finally, we become chemical, thousands as one, the visions made real,

Pong fantasies and sparkling suit, the strips for tracks, the historic guitar.

Every unrestrained body repeating that sentiment:

“This is not to be missed, this is Underworld, we are taken in.”



holden gets the stuff we listed previously, if you can send me your home address, i'll get -1 to send you his prizes from his end and i'll ship mine over soon.

well done, and thanks again

Matt

[King of Snake]

Number of Vinyl owned (average): 525
Number of CD owned (average): 818
Number of DVD owned (average): 120
Number of MP3's owned (average): 8133
UW Music Items owned (not mp3's) (average): 74
Holy crap, that's average? Must be some people with huge collections here.
I don't even understand how the average amount of underworld music items can be 74? I mean I have pretty much all generally available stuff (excl one or two singles) and a couple of "collectors items" and promos and I only got to about 30 items!
Or do you people just have 50 copies of each album? :confused:

[potatobroth]

well if only 10 people did the survey then maybe i could see 74, but you and i both putting ~30 means two people put 110 items and simply is NOT happening. Well unless Matt put his 1000+ and totally skewed the numbers. :)

[big screen satellite]

well, taking my 300 items out the number would be closer to 60 i suppose,and infact one of the numbers was entered as 600 instead of 60, so the average drops a bit for sure.... but nonetheless UW fans have music - and the hardcore voted!!!

and the other music averages are skewed by people with large collections yeah... someone with 60000 mp3's for example, plus someone with 5000 cd's and someone else with 8000 vinyl records...

the poll would be more average for certain had more people voted....

[BeautifulBurnout]

Sterling work, Matteus - thanks for all this. Some really interesting stats in there for sure. No surprise Juanita is still number one, but nice to see my name-sake in at number two :p

[Sorry I didn't get round to participating this, btw but I had my head full of serious work worries (resolved since Friday, thank god!) and just couldn't concentrate on this.]

And Holden! What a fantastic poem. Congrats :)

[potatobroth]

but nonetheless UW fans have music - and the hardcore voted!!!

wow. i guess if i counted all my bootlegs this number would go up, but strictly uw legit material... im shocked -> :eek: that people average 74 items. i guess that is awesome.

[Dirty0900]

I've never understood the populairty of Thing In A Book.

[patrick]

I can't understand the un-popularity of "holding the moth", although I shouldn't talk too much since I never got around to voting... Hahahaha

[TheBang]

Nice poem, holden.

So, Matt, exactly how many responses did you get? Oh, and nice work.

[BrotherLovesDub]

i wuz robbed!

[cacophony]

i wuz robbed!

yeah, i didn't know you were looking for GOOD poetry! :p

[BeautifulBurnout]

yeah, i didn't know you were looking for GOOD poetry! :p
ROFL :D

[qirex]

What Would You Like to hear from Underworld Live in the future?

replies: downtempo / ambient stye sets - almost all replies said this !!!


That doesn't make much sense to me. The live shows are suppose to be explosive and upbeat I thought whereas the more ambient/downtempo/chill was for listening at home. I can't imagine everyone just standing still watching the stage at an UW show...

[khouri]

What Would You Like to hear from Underworld Live in the future?

replies: downtempo / ambient stye sets - almost all replies said this !!!

That doesn't make much sense to me. The live shows are suppose to be explosive and upbeat I thought whereas the more ambient/downtempo/chill was for listening at home. I can't imagine everyone just standing still watching the stage at an UW show...

I suspect the sentiment reflected in that poll result is based on the frustration with the Greatest Hits-style setlists Underworld performed in 2007. The shows were unmistakably banging and danceable, but some fans on this board were nevertheless disappointed. A downtempo set would be a clear antidote, which is why, I think, that answer came up so frequently in the poll.

[psychophysio]

Thanks for the results1 It is interesting to see what tracks people like and how much they correspond to my own tastes. Go the skewed results! (the mp3s were mine, I think! - wish I had (and could store) 8000 records though...)

[Dirty0900]

What Would You Like to hear from Underworld Live in the future?

replies: downtempo / ambient stye sets - almost all replies said this !!!


That doesn't make much sense to me. The live shows are suppose to be explosive and upbeat I thought whereas the more ambient/downtempo/chill was for listening at home. I can't imagine everyone just standing still watching the stage at an UW show...

On a tape recording i have from the last time UW played T in The Park, Karl says before the set that they want to do a more downtempo set, but when there older. I'd like to see a set with something like that.

[holden]

Oh, wow, i won? :o :D
\
This makes my month! Thanks!

Thanks very much to Big Screen Matt for organizing and tallying the poll, and he and negative 1 for contributing prizes.

[negative1]

good job holden..

and too all the others that entered..
thanx for compiling the information matt..

why is the number for 'juanita' lower than
'beautiful burnout' though..or am i just not
understanding how the ranking relates to the position?

later
-1

[TheBang]

Well, the question was, list your top ten favorite Underworld tracks. And I believe Matt listed them in order of total number of times they showed up on top ten lists.

i.e. as an example, say, Juanita was on 80 out of 100 top ten lists. And Beautiful Burnout was on 60 out of 100 top ten lists. And then, based on what position it was listed in on those 80 top ten lists, Juanita's average rank was 4.3. On the 60 top ten lists with Beautiful Burnout, its average rank was 5.3.

So, although Dark Train was ranked very highly on average (2.9), it did not appear on as many lists as Juanita, BB, etc.

[big screen satellite]

Well, the question was, list your top ten favorite Underworld tracks. And I believe Matt listed them in order of total number of times they showed up on top ten lists.

i.e. as an example, say, Juanita was on 80 out of 100 top ten lists. And Beautiful Burnout was on 60 out of 100 top ten lists. And then, based on what position it was listed in on those 80 top ten lists, Juanita's average rank was 4.3. On the 60 top ten lists with Beautiful Burnout, its average rank was 5.3.

So, although Dark Train was ranked very highly on average (2.9), it did not appear on as many lists as Juanita, BB, etc.
spot on...

otherwise, a track that had one vote at say number one would have a rank of one, but was only voted popular by just one person... it was the simplest way to do it....

more people voted for Juanita in any position in their top ten and the average of these was 4.3, meaning more people put it in position 1-5 than 6-10 on their lists

it is by far the most popular track

what i might do is a poll of just the top ten tracks and get more people to enter....

this might give us a more reliable list as i think the volume of questions put some people off entering... some of the votes for the lower end numbers were poor

[big screen satellite]

http://www.darktrain.org/dirty/forums/showthread.php?p=90746#post90746

new poll of polls....

[TomTom]

I've never understood the populairty of Thing In A Book.

I have the same feelings about the Born slippy track. I love thing in a book and it's pretty much the only track I am still waiting to hear a live version of it. I do not know how many live recordings I have from Underworld and have seen them live a few times already but it seems they do not want to play 20+ minutes in a row. :D

[sunflowereye]

I have the same feelings about the Born slippy track. I love thing in a book and it's pretty much the only track I am still waiting to hear a live version of it. I do not know how many live recordings I have from Underworld and have seen them live a few times already but it seems they do not want to play 20+ minutes in a row. :D

Yeah, I too, would love to hear TIAB live. Great old skool groove. 20 minutes of bliss. True winner everytime you dim the lights. :rolleyes: Would be awesome to hear this put on as a segue between the opening dj & when the band takes the stage in ATL. The anticipation would be...

[spacejunk]

Yeah, I too, would love to hear TIAB live. Great old skool groove. 20 minutes of bliss. True winner everytime you dim the lights. :rolleyes: Would be awesome to hear this put on as a segue between the opening dj & when the band takes the stage in ATL. The anticipation would be...

Got a recording of it somewhere from Sheffield 94 ;)

[negative1]

thanx for the explanations thebang,
and matt..

yeah, i get it now...

and i've submitted my list to the new poll...

it will be interesting to see how that comes out..

later
-1

[botkiller]

Good show Matt, that's some serious data there. Numbers don't surprise me too much, I'm also glad to see some new tracks popping up in there.

[Buji]

Who Do You Want To See Remix UW in the Future?:
Some Suggestions:
Underworldl! / Buji / Rhys Fulber /Al Jourgensen / Deadmau5 / Bookashade / Dirty Memebers / Simian Mobile Disco / Trentmoller / Ricardo Villalobos / Swayzak / Red Shape / Radio Slave /Unkle / LCD Soundsystem / Boys Noize / Darren Emerson! / Talk Talk / 2 Bit Pie (Fluke) /Eno / Hybrid / Boards Of Canada / Baby Mammoth / Cocteau Twins!

I am honoured to have even been mentioned in the suggestions to remix Underworld, only just seen this!! If only it could happen!
Made my day.

http://www.myspace.com/buji

[stimpee]

ok, here goes,
Beaucoup Fish
4 Kittens
Overall Favourite Tracks:
15th Kittens
Mattis how i read it. didnt read the rest, sorry :)

[big screen satellite]

is how i read it. didnt read the rest, sorry :)

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