OWB....best yet?

[cacophony]

oh god this is tempting...

the quasi-scientific approach, i mean.

[dubman]

that looks so tempting to do right now... just because i know it would turn out weird.

ah fuck it, you can just scroll over it.
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Oblivion With Bells
---
Crocodile - 8
Beautiful Burnout - 8
Holding the Moth - 8.5
To Heal - 7
Ring Road - 6
Glam Bucket - 10
Boy, Boy, Boy - 3
Cuddle Bunny vs. The Celtic Villages - 9
Faxed Invitation - 10
Good Morning Cockerel - 8
Best Mamgu Ever - 7
Loads of Birds - 8

average - 7.7
------------------------
A Hundred Days Off
---
Momove - 6.5
Two Months Off - 8
Twist - 6
Sola Sistim - 4
Little Speaker - 10
Trim - 6
Ess Gee - 7
Dinosaur Adventure 3D - 4
Ballet Lane - 8
Luetin - 10

average - 6.95
-----------------
Beaucoup Fish
---
Cups - 10
Push Upstairs - 10
Jumbo - 7
King of Snake - 8.5
Winjer - 7
Skym - 6
Bruce Lee - 8
Kittens - 10
Push Upstairs - 7.5
Something Like a Mama - 7
Moaner - 10

average - 8.2
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Second Toughest In The Infants
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Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love - 8
Banstyle/Sappys Curry - 10
Confusion the Waitress - 10
Rowla - 8.5
Pearls Girl - 9
Air Towel - 10
Blueski - 7.5
Stagger - 8

average - 8.875
--------------------------------
Dubnobasswithmyheadman
---
Dark and Long - 9
MMM Skyscraper I Love You - 9
Surfboy - 6
Spoonman - 8.5
Tongue - 9
Dirty Epic - 9.5
Cowgirl - 10
River of Bass - 8.5
M.E. - 5

average - 8.28


STITI>>Dubnobass=BF>OWB>>>AHDO

makes perfect sense to me. although all the scores seem a little harsh.

Let's add riverrun:
lovely broken thing
jal to tokyo - 9
billy goat - 8
peggy sussed - 10
dub shepherd - 9
lenny penne - 6
monkey wink - 8
witness - 6

album average - 8

pizza for eggs
food a ready - 10
back in the fears - 7
vanilla monkey - 10
flatz - 3
ancient phat farm coat - 10
play pig - 8

album average - 8

i'm a big sister etc...
peachtree - 7
mowed path - 6
showlder - 3
wedge - 7
11 hundred hz - 7

album average - 6

making it: STITI>>Dubnobass=BF>LBT=PFE>OWB>>>AHDO>>>I'maBigSi ster

[m.g.]

Mmmm... what about this one? ----> Dubno = STITI = BF = AHDO = OWB

I think the only one I could downgrade a bit would be AHDO, but in an insignificant rate anyway...

[geoff]

Croc and BB are so different in terms of feel that they deserve separate track numbers.

Juanita/Kiteless/TDOL are very similar in feel. I think uw were going for a David Lynch sort of thing. He doesn't put chapters on his dvd's because he wants people to experience them as a whole.

[TomTom]

I will never say this or that album is the best because if I listen to them, I thoroughly enjoy them all..well mabye not the beginnings with Underneath the radar but everything after that. OWB is a fucking masterpiece of music with so much variation and the only complaint I have about it is that is not long enough after a five years break and 1-2 nine minute long dancefloor killer tracks could have been added. I love the longer tracks and if it would belong to me, each CD would have their own Thing in a book-a like track.

[negative1]

Originally Posted by geoff

Croc and BB are so different in terms of feel that they deserve separate track numbers.

Juanita/Kiteless/TDOL are very similar in feel. I think uw were going for a David Lynch sort of thing. He doesn't put chapters on his dvd's because he wants people to experience them as a whole.

[ot rant]
david lynch films are great,

BUT THAT IS EXACTLY why i rip/split up his movies,
i'm sorry , but how many times am i going to sit through
the entire movie start to finish (which i try to do) everytime..

sometimes i want to jump to a certain part, or repeat
parts of it..

that's just arrogant...there's an option called 'play all'
that he should look into...

---

as for juanita/kiteless/to dream of love,

i don't know about similiar, one is definitely downtempo,
the other hard beats, and the last part is chill..

now banstyle/sappys curry definitely go togther,
but i usually don't listen to this track, so i don't know
how those would be split..

later
-1

[negative1]

( interest vs time)

Chart 1
 
Interest
High
^
|X *    *     *    *     *     *  *   *  *   #
|  X                            #         +
|    X                 #            +
|     X     #                 +
|      #X             +
|   #     X    +
| #          X   
|         +    X
|      +           X
|    +                X
|  +                     X
|+                          X
|                               X
|                                   X
|                                      X
|
___________|___________________________________> Time
Low
0           3         Years                     10
Interest vs time
legend   : X , depreciation of album that is good at start, 
               but loses interest
           + , album that is not that interesting at first,
               but improves over time...
           * , album that is good, and stays that way,
           
           # , started off good, and got better           

* = second toughest in the infants
# = dubnobasswithmyheadman
+ = beacoup fish
X = one hundered days off

at some point i need to add 'everything everything', and the riverrun releases..

later
-1

[patrick]

Fully agreed with your graph -1... (although with a minor aside: i was given STITI the year it came out and didn't like it then, but then put it on another year later and was blown away... probably after being introduced with more mainstream stuff into electronic etc)

too early to tell about OWB... i am certainly super impressed with half of the albumn, and the other half is a bit of a disintrest to me...

[gillenium]

I'm liking the album more and more on each listen through. I don't really understand all the Ring Road and Boy Boy Boy hate on this forum. I like both tracks! Ring Road is especially fun to sing along with, catchy as hell. BoyBoyBoy is very un-Underworld, I'll grant you that, but I think it's a mighty-fine take on the Rock genre.

I understand what they were trying to do by adding Cuddle Bunny and Cockerel, they were trying to make a steady-flowing album, but come on... they passed up Darc to put this stuff on? That's ridiculous. After 5 years of no album, I would expect a full-on best-stuff-we-have assault on my ears... but whatever. The album is still amazing.

My girlfriend says Best Mamgu Ever is the best Underworld track ever.

[mmm skyscraper]

Originally Posted by gillenium

My girlfriend says Best Mamgu Ever is the best Underworld track ever.

I wish it went on for longer.