My own perfect version of OWB

[gillenium]

Originally Posted by cacophony

NEVER!

i like to heal after glam bucket a lot. and i'm enjoying faxed invitation as a closer.

Whaaaaatttt? No, Best Mamgu Ever has to be the closer.

And you GOTTA keep HTM and Ring Road. Gotta gotta gotta.

I have spoken..

[potatobroth]

01] crocodile
02] beautiful burnout
03] holding the moth
04] to heal
05] jal to tokyo
06] glam bucket
07] darc
08] lenny penne
09] small conker and a twix
10] you do scribble
11] ring road
12] cuddle bunny (abbrev. title)
13] bamboo
14] faxed invitation
15] best mamgu ever

[dubman]

even though it's a little irritating to think that this album doesnt exist and we'll just custom build our own, i did come up with a playlist whenever i want to hear it.

crocodile
beautiful burnout
holding the moth
fonestrap5
to heal
ring road
fonestrap2
glam bucket
autotrader3
cuddle bunny vs the celtic villages
faxed invitation
fonestrap4
good morning cockerel
autostrap
loads of birds
best mamgu ever
calonlan

time: 79:12
i only took out boy boy boy because i just cant stand it. ring road is still a mistake, but also an unmistakable part of the album. i like the idea of a running theme throughout, hence the scattered fonestrap tracks. adding anything from riverruns has always seemed silly.

[TheBang]

I think the point was that NUXX was not on the generally available releases of STITI. The ones that 99% of the people buy.

[geoff]

Push Downstairs is so awesome, I just wish it was an instrumental, or the vocals were somehow less jarring.

[cacophony]

Originally Posted by geoff

Push Downstairs is so awesome, I just wish it was an instrumental, or the vocals were somehow less jarring.

okay so i'm not the only one who doesn't hate push downstairs?

i don't know if i can live in a world where people hate push downstairs but tolerate something like a mama.

[holden]

Originally Posted by cacophony

okay so i'm not the only one who doesn't hate push downstairs?

i don't know if i can live in a world where people hate push downstairs but tolerate something like a mama.

Nah, i don't hate PD. My comment was that imho, while themes and call-backs are fine, it doesn't work well to include almost the same set of lyrics twice on an album. After hearing Push Upstairs, PD comes off as sounding like a remix or like there was a scarcity of ideas. On its own, it's quite nice. I wasn't too keen on SLaM for a long while until i forced myself to remix it (back in the 2003 dirty remix competition) and got interested in the bassline and female vocal clips. Still, neither are my fave.

Think the point here is, pretty much every album has that one song (or occasionally more) that doesn't resonate with you and we'd rather replace with a B side or different version. I like seeing other people's lists of ideal tracks, because changing the order or tunes can really affect the mood of an album. Like Pete Tong said (for what its worth): "Underworld really is an albums band". He's actually kinda right!

[khouri]

I wasn't really keeping up with the Underworld internet community at the time, but I seem to remember talk of a similar argument to "Please Help Me" vs. "Push Downstairs" -taking place over STITI and concerning "Rowla" vs. "Cherry Pie."

It'd be fun to go back to the beginning and plug in your favorite b-sides in place of dubious album tracks, assuming they worked in terms of time. Although I suspect that's probably been done before on a board this hardcore.

[potatobroth]

Originally Posted by johnnymetropolis

It'd be fun to go back to the beginning and plug in your favorite b-sides in place of dubious album tracks, assuming they worked in terms of time. Although I suspect that's probably been done before on a board this hardcore.

Thats a really good idea. There are on average 2 songs per album that I skip/dislike/am-indifferent-to that have same-era B-sides that I love.

Edit: wow, thats a lot of hyphens.