We need some new Underworld material!

[bas_I_am]

Originally Posted by dog

Ah what! Dubno and STITI were nothing but soul!

Yeah, thats what I said. But she grew up an Orange County, CA emo. You know - Death Cab, Pedro The Lion, Bright Eyes. So her idea of "soul" means as far from "techno" as possible. On the other hand, her tastes are evolving. check back in 5 years and we'll see if she still feels that way.

Still, there are many with refined tastes similar to my daughters (tastes I respect but don't necessarily share), who are finding the later underworld releases more to their liking, therefore countering your conjecture.

[dog]

Let's be honest, as long as you enjoy the music that's the main thing. It'd be a pretty dire situation if everyone was the same.

[holden]

Originally Posted by dog

Let's be honest, as long as you enjoy the music that's the main thing. It'd be a pretty dire situation if everyone was the same.

Absolutely! Totally agree.

And while this thread has generated some of the typical UW-related debating (e.g. what was the 'best' album?), which is fine, what i was/am really wondering is, forum-wide, why the lack of posting as of late. It comes and goes, i guess. Hope it picks back up.

[bas_I_am]

my guess....

overall lack of any music from any artist worth mentioning.

I just did a search of metacritic for dance/electronic albums from the last year rated over 80 and got only 15 hits. of those most were abstract, glitchy, ambient or neo-electro. and all of it has been done before. even in rock releases I can't find much to my liking. as a matter of fact, I think g'n'r's chinese democracy is my fav album of last year... and that is sad, isn't it?

[grady]

I don't know if the correlation between new underworld material being released in relation to the amount of discussion on the forums is that strong.

The forums seem to have their own ebb and flow to them in specific topical areas. A new album comes out and a flurry of activity occurs in the headset forum. A new film comes out and a thread may pop up in treatment, or it may not depending on the relevance and interest(or lack thereof) at a given time of year. A reboot, refit, rejiggle is always periodically needed, but then there is always the unquantifiable factor of people coming and going from forums.

There has been quite a drop off in the amount of posters who had previously been around for years. While it's always unfortunate to lose people, that's the way things go. Life imposes itself in ways that one cannot always foresee and posting messages online about a film you might have just seen or a book you just read doesn't always seem that necessary.

I like the idea of categories and separation, but that's just one man's opinion.

[dog]

I to think the whole forum needs a spring clean. Like what was said earlier, the sub forums don't make too much sense (to newbies anyway), and it's not too inviting. Dare I say ditch the brown ??!

[Champiness]

I concur. There are too many subforums here with only a few (or, in a certain case, one) thread that could easily be merged. And the Brown doesn't make you feel as welcome as, say, an image of B&W splotches Underworld-style.

[grady]

I quite like and prefer sub forums for different forms of media. The brown go? I'd rather not see that change.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Ditch the brown over my cold dead body!

I quite like the sub-forums because it keeps everything neatly in its place. I would hate to have to trawl through a "General" category to find a World thread to rant on!

No I do not suffer from OCD.

Where's the duster?

[Dirty0900]

We need this put in the UW forum sub section D.1