would you believe... - Page 2

votingfloater · #11 03-13-2006, 11:23 AM

I have a really strong visual memory from STITI coming out. I was in HMV in Princes St. in Edinburgh just meandering round when I saw the LP cover and it just knocked me sideways. I have no idea why I still remember this so well as it's pretty unusual for me; I liked UW stuff already but wouldn't have said I was a fan, and I didn't know it was an UW record when I saw it.

holden · #12 03-13-2006, 12:03 PM

Since i didn't get bitten by the electronic bug till 1997, i didn't rush out to buy STITI (was too busy with "Dig Your Own Hole" and "Fat of the Land" back then

). But i often heard "Pearls Girl" and knew the group had an unmistakeable sound. By the time i embraced UW fully in 2002, i grabbed up the back catalog in no time, but i think i bought EE, BF, and Dubno before STITI

Ah, ten years on! Doesn't make me feel too old, except that ten years ago i was in high school, playing in a band specializing in Cranberries, REM and Tom Petty covers

When i look at my music collection, or at least my cassette tapes, then i feel old... "You mean it's been 17 years since "we didn't start the fire" and 20 since "sledgehammer"?!"

Holden

lowbit · #13 03-13-2006, 01:49 PM

Wow. I guess that means: a) I've been rabidly listening to Underworld for more than ten years (loved DubNo - bought STitI immediately when it came out!), and b) from this thread, it appears that quite a few here are young enough to be my kids.

(On the other hand, I guess I can take comfort from the fact that Rick and Karl are actually slightly older than me.

)

froopy seal · #14 03-13-2006, 01:49 PM

My first Underworld experience was a radio broadcast of a live show from London (?) I tape-recorded. I wasn't into electronic music at that time (to tell the truth, into no real music at all) and was completely blown away. It must have been in 1999 since I still vividly remember the "tom & jerry" shouts from King of Snake. Did they possibly use those lyrics before? I really thought that fateful listen must have been around the mid-nineties.

However, I didn't dig any deeper into the Romford music scene. - Until a friend came up with the digipack BF album of which a *cough* copy *cough* somehow made it into my cd player. I think that's when I fell in love with Underworld.

Unfortunately, I can't remember when/where I bought Dubno, STITI, and EE.

My memory kicks back in with AHDO and I also remember buying the anthology. Presently I'm busy accumulating a "reasonable pile" (don't ask my friends about it!) of singles.

Wow! Ten years ago I had no idea what musical gems existed out there and now I'm sitting here listening to Quazar - flightrecorder (which arrived today) because Mr Hyde has a ten-word lyric appearance in one song... (I must say the whole album is astonishingly listenable.)

Cadevil · #15 03-13-2006, 03:06 PM

STITI was my entre into Underworld as well...

My friend had a copy of it playing in his...Rowla at a high volume...

Didn't end up buying it until Dec. 1997...got it as a Christmas present.

TheBang · #16 03-13-2006, 05:50 PM

So, is it Second Toughest in the Tweenagers now?

the mongoose · #17 03-13-2006, 07:28 PM

That means it was ten years ago I walked into a "Blockbuster Music" store and got it on a recommendation from the guy who worked there. Thanks random cool employee guy!

jose m · #18 03-14-2006, 02:53 AM

also great to see "dubnobass..." still in the nme 100 greatest albums.

undarrenworld · #19 03-14-2006, 03:05 AM

I was 13, when it was released.

suicidalpenguin · #20 03-14-2006, 11:56 AM

Man!
I can't remember what i was up to 10 years ago
but then again i can't remember what i was up to yesterday so it probably don't mean much

It ain't good!!