NUXX always played live since '96?

holden · #1 07-23-2007, 12:53 PM

Hey all,

I know there's an ongoing effort to catalog the live performances of Underworld (thanks to those involved)...
But as i sat sorting CDs this weekend (unpacking from a move!), i realized just how many UW shows have been recorded, and it seems to me, NUXX has been played at virtually all of them since this song became a hit.
I realize that the 2003 version was an effort to revitalize the song, but save the piano outtro, the live version is still remarkably the same as it always was.

Has there ever been a show since circa 1996 anyone can recall where Born Slippy.NUXX was not performed?
Interestingly, a recent Chemical Brothers concert i heard did NOT include "Block Rockin' beats", likely their biggest hit, which surprises me. Do you think ther will ever be a time when UW stops playng NUXX?
Not that i'm complaining...the song is still amazing and stirs the crows to a frenzy. Just wondering!

dubnobasswithme · #2 07-23-2007, 01:43 PM

i think that this snippet from an interview back in 2002 sums up underworld's position on this subject (link to interview = http://music.barnesandnoble.com/feat...D=344817&z=y):

[COLOR=#999966]B&N.com:[/COLOR] Do you ever get sick of playing "Born Slippy"?
[COLOR=#999966]RS:[/COLOR] No! There was a period three or four years ago when I was sick of it, and Karl said, If you went to see James Brown, you'd want him to do "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" -- how would you feel if he didn't do it? Because we jam, it becomes a thing to be manipulated and fooled with, and it changes every night enough to keep us happy. When you see 40,000 people go completely mental as you drop a chord in, it's hard not to just think, This is great! Whatever you're feeling about it as a piece of art, it's incredibly satisfying.

my guess? odds are you'll be hearing it at every underworld show

holden · #3 07-23-2007, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by dubnobasswithme

i think that this snippet from an interview back in 2002 sums up underworld's position on this subject (link to interview = http://music.barnesandnoble.com/feat...D=344817&z=y):

[COLOR=#999966]B&N.com:[/COLOR] Do you ever get sick of playing "Born Slippy"?
[COLOR=#999966]RS:[/COLOR] No! There was a period three or four years ago when I was sick of it, and Karl said, If you went to see James Brown, you'd want him to do "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" -- how would you feel if he didn't do it? Because we jam, it becomes a thing to be manipulated and fooled with, and it changes every night enough to keep us happy. When you see 40,000 people go completely mental as you drop a chord in, it's hard not to just think, This is great! Whatever you're feeling about it as a piece of art, it's incredibly satisfying.

my guess? odds are you'll be hearing it at every underworld show

thanks for this... yeah, i guess i'd be bummed if they didn't play it. I was really just wondering if on some rare occasion, NUXX wasn't performed. Unlikely, as their solo performances, being longer are likely to include more tracks and why drop Nuxx if you have the time and the fans to play it, and shorter festival gigs tend to get right to the hits.

mmm skyscraper · #4 07-23-2007, 03:17 PM

Blue Mountain

joethelion · #5 07-23-2007, 02:31 PM

and at least the vocal has been kicking around since those early '94 shows

King of Snake · #6 07-23-2007, 02:45 PM

it's interesting though that for a while they always morphed into the 2003 version when playing Nuxx live, but now they seem to play the "classic" version again (at least they did at Wild In The Country).

TheBang · #7 07-23-2007, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by holden

thanks for this... yeah, i guess i'd be bummed if they didn't play it. I was really just wondering if on some rare occasion, NUXX wasn't performed. Unlikely, as their solo performances, being longer are likely to include more tracks and why drop Nuxx if you have the time and the fans to play it, and shorter festival gigs tend to get right to the hits.

Yeah, I'm going to my first Underworld show at Central Park, and I must say, I'd be pretty bummed if they didn't play it.

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Originally Posted by King of Snake

it's interesting though that for a while they always morphed into the 2003 version when playing Nuxx live, but now they seem to play the "classic" version again (at least they did at Wild In The Country).

Yeah, pretty much from the late 2003 shows through all the RiverRun shows in 2005-2006 they did the 2003 version ending. While it was nice and I like the piano, I also missed the more improv jammy stuff that they would play before ending the song. They also didn't play the 2003 ending at SBSR, so here's hoping we see the return of the improv jams this year.

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Originally Posted by mmm skyscraper

Blue Mountain

But that was a radio broadcast, not a show proper, wasn't it?

joethelion · #8 07-23-2007, 04:28 PM

Blue Mountain wasn't a radio broadcast

I think it was more like a 'dress rehearsal' done either at the same time, or around the time of the making of the "Push Upstairs" video

mmm skyscraper · #9 07-23-2007, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by joethelion

Blue Mountain wasn't a radio broadcast

I think it was more like a 'dress rehearsal' done either at the same time, or around the time of the making of the "Push Upstairs" video

but it was live and they didn't play nuxx, right?

TheBang · #10 07-23-2007, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by joethelion

Blue Mountain wasn't a radio broadcast

I think it was more like a 'dress rehearsal' done either at the same time, or around the time of the making of the "Push Upstairs" video

So, it was done on-stage in front of, what, a small crowd or something? I mean, what made it a "dress rehearsal" rather than a regular show? Or was it like a warm-up gig for the Beaucoup Fish tour? And why doesn't anyone know the exact date that it happened? (Sorry for all the questions. I'm curious.

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