"I'm a Big Sister..." thread.

[Bargo]

I'm on my third listen now, and christ this is good. Finally I have something to replace Ansum with when I want a nice, long UW ambient piece to listen to.

I didn't honestly notice the 160kbps thing until the forum went up in arms about it, but it doesn't worry me. It's not like I'd know the difference anyway.

If anyone has trouble viewing the art, try playing the MOV in VLC, that worked for me no worries.

[mmm skyscraper]

Originally Posted by Bargo

If anyone has trouble viewing the art, try playing the MOV in VLC, that worked for me no worries.

Worked great!

[TheBang]

Here's another cue sheet. Thanks, Jan, for the initial one. Pretty sure the first part is all Peach Tree, and the last track is 11 Hundred Hz.

TITLE "I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This Is My Horse"
PERFORMER "Underworld"
FILE "05 I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and this is my Horse.mp3" MP3
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Peach Tree"
    PERFORMER "Underworld"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Mowed Path"
    PERFORMER "Underworld"
    INDEX 01 10:03:00
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Showlder"
    PERFORMER "Underworld"
    INDEX 01 14:58:70
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Wedge"
    PERFORMER "Underworld"
    INDEX 01 18:35:27
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "11 Hundred Hz"
    PERFORMER "Underworld"
    INDEX 01 28:12:44

[Banstylin']

I Agree with you TheBang, this should become the official cue sheet except I feel that 11 Hundred Hz should start with the note right away as in Jan's version so I suggest change it to :

TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "11 Hundred Hz"
PERFORMER "Underworld"
INDEX 01 28:12:44

[holden]

Loving this more and more with each listen. Certainly not as urgent as the beat-heavy "Lovely Broken Thing" or darkly lyrical as "Pizza For Eggs", but these soundscapes are just beautiful!

Anyone catching the vocal samples, some we've heard before: "I'm a lonely bollock. Sometimes, happy bollock"! Throughout "Peach Tree" there's a phased and vocoded female voice, sounds to me like "I'm not imitating..."

Also, have you noticed that this latyest River Run, but indeed all of them, have made a lot of use of inserted silences? That is, the music or Karl's vocals have short spaces of silence at various frequencies, so it sounds very spaced. "Peach Tree" does this with the two pads, but the frequencies at which they alternate are different, so that sometimes they construct and sometimes they are out of phase. Karl's vocals on "Mowed Path" are also very spcaed, making them sound "beep"-like. I think the delays are used a lot on the guitar parts on "P4E", especially.

[dog]

uck, lovely broken thing is good... but since then the series is getting progressively worse.

they need to stop releasing these b-sides and crack on with the full album!

[stimpee]

Originally Posted by dog

uck, lovely broken thing is good... but since then the series is getting progressively worse.

they need to stop releasing these b-sides and crack on with the full album!

Karl already said that these releases are from the archive and that work continues on the album. Some tracks may be considered to be b-sides, but some of Underworld's best work has been on a b-side If these releases really were slowing down their album release proper then I might see how someone could complain, but since theyve been working on the album and on the soundtrack (and now another soundtrack), your argument is a bit redundant. Horses for courses, as they say. Some like it, some dont.

[testudo]

Originally Posted by dog

uck, lovely broken thing is good... but since then the series is getting progressively worse.

they need to stop releasing these b-sides and crack on with the full album!

more like 1 a-side with 4 c or d sides (for the other RRs)...

but as for this RR i feel this is final a RR that I can
FULLY sink my teeth into (for the other RRs I could
only listen to select tracks). This release doesn't
really have stand out tracks, but it doesn't need it
AT ALL and I wouldn't want it.

...now that it has been re-encoded to 192 I have no
complaints at all.

THNK YOU uNDrWrLd

[TheBang]

Originally Posted by Banstylin'

I Agree with you TheBang, this should become the official cue sheet except I feel that 11 Hundred Hz should start with the note right away as in Jan's version so I suggest change it to :

TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "11 Hundred Hz"
PERFORMER "Underworld"
INDEX 01 28:12:44

Yeah, I was using a bad splitter on my Mac, and when I used that timing, it cut the first part of the piano note into the previous track. I tried it with Cue Splitter on a PC though, and that timing seems correct, so I've fixed it on my cue sheet. Thanks.

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Personally, I thought LBT kinda blew it, what with the first three tracks being awesome and the rest being boring as hell. I do like the sound of the release though...I think that it should be longer, as UW doesn't get much of a chance to just sit down and chill out. Sort of the direction I was expecting them to take with the RRP, but this time I don't really hear any standouts, nothing like "JAL to Tokyo" or "Back in the Fears" that could be played live.