8 ball is better than you think!

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Originally Posted by Leon

And there are thousands of threads on here already, so why not another one.

Agreed. I love this song and agree with all the praise listed before. As soon as I heard the layers of guitar building and building it sured this song as one of my all-time fav's. 8 Ball and Rez really do it for me, and apparently many others. Makes me feel happy to see there are so many other who enjoy this lovely song.

[holden]

"8 Ball"'s an interesting one...when it was released with "The Beach" soundtrack, wasn't there some degree of complaint that it was too "upbeat" for UW? Then came AHDO, and the good vibes continued (well, sunnier than say most of Beaucoup Fish before it!).

i think "8 Ball" captures the wonderment and awe of walking around town and appreciating your surroundings. Karl's obviously very attuned to what he see and hears (hence his notebooks and photos), but i think this track is one of his more straightforward examples.

Also, it's a great complement to "King of Snake" on the 1992-2002 compilation...such a nice comedown track.

Holden

p.s. the other "BEach" single..."Beached" by Orbital has the same uplifting vibes and similar message (though with Leo DiCaprio delivering it, for right or wrong!)

[Anji]

I have never heared 8 Ball, so can't compare? What's the deal about uploading tracks @ linking them? (as in You send it?) I have Doot Doot at work, can easily copy & upload

[King of Snake]

Originally Posted by Anji

I have never heared 8 Ball, so can't compare? What's the deal about uploading tracks @ linking them? (as in You send it?) I have Doot Doot at work, can easily copy & upload

since this is the official UW forum, it's pretty logical that it doesn't allow linking to illegaly shared mp3's of their music don't you think?

8 Ball is not even 'underated', its a second rate song that featured on a film sound track, it shouldn't even be on the 1992-2002 best of...what did it do to deserve that...?? if they had released it fully then maybe, but as it goes its a just a noodly doodly tune with some whacked out lyrics...and some geetar

well, apparently there's a lot of people who love the track so...
the anthology was basically just a singles collection anyway and afaik 8-ball was released as as single, although Japan only.

[stimpee]

Originally Posted by Anji

What's the deal about uploading tracks @ linking them? (as in You send it?) I have Doot Doot at work, can easily copy & upload

if you want to upload Doot Doot to yousendit or uploading.com etc then please make sure its at a low bit rate. 96kbps mp3 should do in this case.

as far as the song goes, i like 8ball. its great. very relaxing. i wouldnt say it sounds that old-skool. Certainly not as dated as something like "Oh". The Beach OST as a whole is a great disc of music.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by big screen satellite

i know people like different songs...and thats what all the polls are showing, but seriously do we need a thread about each one...??

Does anyone else find this comment coming from FB Matt to be incredibly ironic? Did you seriously need to beg in about 4 different threads for people to enter your UW so you could sit at your PC processing statistics and entering data into spreadsheets for 4 weeks straight so you could tell us what percentage of dirties who entered your poll were called 'Matt'?

Come on, let the people talk about 8 Ball.

[Caprice]

Agreed,

The reason i made a thread for this song was because there isnt much talk at all about it on the forums.

This track just really stands out from Underworld; to me at least.


Point is:
I just think this song deserves more credit/acknowledgement than what we give it.

thanks for all the replys so far though, its good to see im not alone in my cause.

[King of Snake]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Does anyone else find this comment coming from FB Matt to be incredibly ironic? Did you seriously need to beg in about 4 different threads for people to enter your UW so you could sit at your PC processing statistics and entering data into spreadsheets for 4 weeks straight so you could tell us what percentage of dirties who entered your poll were called 'Matt'?

Come on, let the people talk about 8 Ball.

great post!
(not meaning any disrespect to the dirtypoll of course!!)

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pwned!!1!ones!

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Has UW ever performed 8 Ball live? I think it could be as beautiful as Back in the Fears live with all those layers happening. The vibes might even be great.