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Originally Posted by the mongoose
Biro the Leggy (B. Burnout) came before RiverRun as well but it's reworked to be on the album.
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Biro was never released as such, unlike the Riverrun tracks which were proper releases (albeit in mp3 only)
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Quality songs like 8 ball and Back in the Fears seem to usually get the backburner to the Ibiza "famous djs will play this!!!!" stuff (2 month off, crocodile) when it comes time to pick album tracks and most importantly singles.
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Well, what's the point of releasing a single if not for DJ's to play it? It seems obvious that the most DJ-friendly tracks would be picked to be singles. Don't get me wrong though, I love 8-Ball and Back in the Fears is one of my favourite Riverrun tracks, and would definitely not have misstood on a proper Underworld album. It's just not single material.
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Guess what I'm trying to say is, some of the better production work I've heard from these guys will only see the light of day as a crappy 192kbps mp3 and you can almost listen to those songs and tell they took longer to make than Crocodile would have. Why waste more energy on something that will be b-sided than the actual album tracks?
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well you're entitled to that opinion of course, but I respectfully disagree.
There's no way for you to tell how much time they spent on something, but obviously Crocodile has been worked on for a long time as well, since we heard it first in october last year.
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I think that the rest of the album will no doubt have songs that are in the same vein as the trippy RiverRun stuff and maybe after hearing those, I'll go, "now I see why these were picked over Fears, etc" but right now I'm thinking....
"why didn't they just rework Fears into an eight minute epic instead of making a direct to video sequel to Two Months Off's shaker drums."
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Well, uw's albums have always been a mix between dancefloor singles and more ambient and experimental work so I'd say it's a very safe bet that it's gonna be like that again.
Still can't see why you would want another version of Back in the Fears on the album though...