just the little clowny boy singing live, so what are the other two guys doing really?

[joethelion]

...except for the fact that Britney is actually kinda ugly

[potatobroth]

valid

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Souless Fuckwits, the lot of yah.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Glad the people round here have better taste in music than they do in women

http://www.funmansion.com/html/Britn...-and-Ugly.html

[dubman]

there was never any good. britney has been hideous and repulsive ever since she got up in that school girl outfit and tried to bait the secret pedos with her retarded pigtail braids.

[Liam]

Ah, I guess that a (somewhat late) explanation is due. Forgive me if I sounded snobbish in my last post. That was the day after my house was burgled -- laptop with over 30 gigs of music (including all my Underworld), DJ equipment, camera all gone. You can imagine that I wasn't in the best of spirits.

But allow me to explain a little more clearly what I mean. I don't actually want to convince anyone, as I would hate to spoil the great reactions people have been having to the recent shows (I mean that). I just want to explain myself a little more fully.

The few dozen bootlegs that exist of Underworld concerts from before 1998 are, with no exaggeration, the best music I have ever heard. On stage, Underworld achieved heights that have never elsewhere been realized in electronic music. Go and listen to the European Club gig from 1996, Red Box in Dublin from 1998, Leicester University from 1994 or I Love Techno from 1998. These concerts are as complex and detailed as symphonies. They have upwards of 20 loops flowing through the mixing desk at any one time: rhythm upon intricate rhythm that utterly defy the four-on-the-floor convention that defines pretty much every other techno act ever, melodies and sounds that were never put to album. (Often I listen to a concert that I have heard literally hundreds of times before and find rhythms that I have never heard before). And the music flows. There is hardly a period of two bars that goes by without a change – drums added or subtracted, fills, crescendos, lyrics, voices, etc, creating seamless rivers of improvised energy. Sometimes there are 10 minute spells between tracks of just drums and improvisation, but the music is no less enthralling than the tracks themselves (indeed, most of my favorite moments occur between tracks).

It’s this type of thing that I don’t hear in Underworld Live anymore. There are usually only two or three drum loops going on at once, most of which we knew from the album, and there isn’t the same flow from track to track. I admit that it’s not true to say that their material just sounds like it does on the albums, but nevertheless the focus is just on their songs, and I am left yearning for the depth and spontaneity of their older material that I love so much.

I am happy that people disagree with me and have enjoyed the US shows, because it means that it’s obviously just a matter of taste and hopefully I can get into it more. They’re still my favorite band of all time and a great live act, but when I feel disappointed when I remember how their live material used to sound.

[Buji]

I have seen Underworld a few times and for me it wasnt the mixing or technical ability that made me love em, it was the atmosphere and vibe they create live. They have a great sense of when to drop the beat at exactly the right place, which lets face it, thats what gets everyone goin.
I think it's a testament to them that they are one of the only Experimental/Electronica artists that can play main stages at festivals and proper band venues rather than just night clubs, they cross over to the mainstream without losing or compromising their love for new sounds and I applaud them for that, long may it continue.

Cheers,
Jez.

www.myspace.com/buji

[galama]

DIscoball boy, the one spreading hands, swaying and jumping and lipsinging! He was a stunt double...there was a freckle on his left cheek. The real one was spectating from one of the buildings overlooking the park.

[geoff]

I'm just getting around to listening to a bunch of the 2005 gigs. (Seeing UW in person inspired me to play a little game of catch-up...)

Anyway, my point is - the amount of mixing and improvisation is astounding.

Now playing: Something that sounds like Spikee/Pearls Girl/Cowgirl (Electraglide 2005)

So, I don't think they've lost their live "touch", even a little bit...

[potatobroth]

with more albums comes more responsibility to play well known tracks. its either that or extend the show by 2 hours.

back pre-BF, the boys had a decent amount of deep cuts they could play to fill up the show. now that they have 5+ its getting harder to slip those little gems like Confusion, Twist, Air Towel etc into to the show. Just recently they've been dropping Moaner and there is already a longing for it. Imagine if they dropped: TMO, BS, KoS, Cowgirl/Rez from their show. It would be great for the super fan who has every live show downloaded anyway, but it would suck for the average fan who sees them live once or twice.

i think this most recent tour is the closest its been to the 1997-99 days (the BF pre and prior tour.) Generous improvs, fan faves mixed in with some new stuff is the way to go. I think the days of 5 Dubno tracks are done unless the show hits the 3-4 hour mark (ala Electraglide) and that's asking way too much.

Although it does open the door for the radio show now doesn't it?

For the record, I'd love to hear the "gets much better" version of Confusion .