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Free Music Review: crazy crazy crazy crazy
Hit: 5 Stars
I have been vexing over this review for a while.A live album needs...hmm, context I guess. So it looks like its going to be a long review.
Underworld were one of the bands of the nineties. Three studio albums - a stunning opener (Dubnobasswithmyheadman), a view from the top (Second Toughest In The Infants), and a closing chapter (Beaucoup Fish).
As if to confirm my description of the third album, Darren Emerson has left the band to develop his DJing career (develop is hardly appropriate - Emerson is one of the worlds leading DJs).
Underworld's work in the studio was only a sideline, for they were the greatest live band on the planet. A bold claim - but many thousands of fans know it as fact.
All gigs start with a room mixed with the followers and the curious. An Underworld gig always ended with a room full of crazed disciples, an orgy of sound and motion.
The songs are mixed up and turned inside out, so that the intro to one turns subtly into another. Playlists are irrelevant, and everything is mixed live so that the band can respond to the audience as they in turn respond to the band.
Karl Hyde's aura extends into the first 20 rows and his body moves like he is possessed... but always with an enormous smile on his face, matched only by the cheesy grins on Rick and Darren. Underworld LOVE to play live!
I saw Underworld three times - the allnighters at Kentish Town and Brixton, and Paris last year. Sadly the English language lacks the words to describe them properly, but I have no doubt that the mere mention of Kentish Town has resulted in a massive smile on the face of anyone who was there!
So, where does that leave us?
Everything Everything is an attempt at capturing the experience of Underworld live. I say 'attempt' because no live album can ever truly reflect the reality.
The track selection is good as far as it goes, but Underworld gigs are long and this should have been a double album - there are simply too many great songs to hold it to one disc.
But that is my only gripe. The sound quality is excellent and it brings the memories flooding back. The crowd are clearly going beserk and it makes me want to wind back the clock and be there again.
The highlights for me are Pearls Girl, Shudder/King of Snake and Rez/Cowgirl (I was never a great fan of Born Slippy).
If you have never seen Underworld live, this is probably as good a recording as could have been made, and will give some insight into what it was all about. If you have seen them, you might well find a lump in your throat and a desire to wave your arms around.
3 stars for the length... 5 stars for the music... and a million twinkling points of light for the memories
Free Music Review: TECHNO? LIVE? ....AND ITS GOOD?
Hit: 5 Stars
Techno is very difficult genre to navigate. On the one hand, you have the real artists who actually put some time and effort into their craft, then there is the stuff that's just thrown together. If I've learned anything, its that good music can be found within any exsisting genre of music(yes, even country if you can believe it). The question is how hard are you willing to search of it? For Underworld, I didn't have to search to hard. One of my friends is techno geek and let me listen to it on a car trip I took with him. It was a mix but the majority of it was stuff from this CD. I was speechless. The following week, I went out and bought this CD. Needless to say, its been making its rounds with me.Techno can a diverse palette and I think Underworld knows that. Throughout the recording, the band switches from trance, to progressive, sometimes to house(my least favorite form of techno), to ambient. There is a very unpredictable factor to this band's sound and that is what makes it all the more enjoyable. The hooks are placed in just right to catch you off guard and make you apperciate their sound even more. The energy is right on, making the crowd seem like they are feeding the musicians to play harder(by the time Born Slippy gets up on the disc, there is no sign of letting up). Each song averages about 7 minutes(so there is only a total of 8 songs, which isn't unusual for an Underworld CD) but thanks to brilliant composition and seemless intergration, the songs slip into another with almost film-like progression.
Its very easy to pawn off any genre without giving it a chance. Though I've been wanting to try some good techno for awhile, I didn't know a good place to start. Everything, Everything is more than just a good start. It's almost an essential place to start. Even as a live album I can't recommend this CD enough. Techno lovers should most deffinately apply but I suggest that everyone give it a try(also highly recommended is Dubnobasswithmyheadman, also by Underworld). Besides, you don't have to let your friends know you bought a techno CD. Especially if it constantly stays in your CD player like it does with mine.
Free Music Review: Everything
Hit: 5 Stars
Wow.... After getting this cd and coming home and listening to it , it's just amazing..... The first 3 tracks wich are obviously taken from the same concert and creating a perfect flow. Juanita is although not as long as the album version it is just as good with the karl hyde's crazy vocals. Cups although one of my favorite songs ever kind of lacks here from the lack of the vocals and the whole fist 9 minutes of Beaucoup fish. Push Upstairs is just great... It gives me a whole new respect for the song. Then comes Pearls Girl, everything from the snazzy opening to the final not of that song is just amazing. Next comes a very tranced out version of Jumbo that just makes you want to dance. King of snake is probably my least favorite song on the disc but thats just me its still good though but sounds too similar to the Beaucoup fish version (if you look hard enough you can find better versions of this song). Born Slippy is just as influential today as it was 5 years ago, with a great build up and a hook that dosent dissapoint. Even after the initial song the extra build up sound is just brilliant (if you have ever heard born slippy live you know what im talking about). But by far the real star on the CD is Rez/Cowgirl. From the opening moment Rez kicks in its just awesome then they slowly morph it into Cowgirl, the vocals just rock and after the build up it smoothly moves back into REZ just like nothing happened at all. Although this CD is great the lack of Dark Train, Dirty Epic, Bruce Lee, and Moaner hurt it. But since its Underworld and the songs are so great, and its best sounding live CD ever (excellent audio quality) it deserves 5 stars. Buy it and you wont be dissapointed.Free Music Review: my machine--this is my beautiful dream
Hit: 5 Stars
As the above quote from their song "Cowgirl" indicates, Underworld has always been a paradox of sorts--their lyrics draw meaning from randomly assembled phrases, their melodies draw warm splendor from cold hard technology, and their studio-based music somehow yields the best of live show of any band, of any kind, in the world. "Everything, Everything," their new live cd, documents their stunning live performances in a near-perfect fashion. So many peaks of transcendence can be found here--from the unexpected emergence of the unforgettable sunlight-on-the-ocean synths minutes into the jungle-tinged "pearls girl" to the relentless crunch of "push upstairs" and "king of snake" to the calming treatment afforded "jumbo" to the sheer joy audible in the crowd upon hearing the melodies of "born slippy nuxx" and "rez"--that listing them merely makes one realize how long a list would be necessary to account for them all. Had the tracks gone unnamed, one could have shared the undeniable the thrill of discovery the audience felt upon realizing what song was up next--but this thrill is precisely why newcomers to the Underworld ouevre will be just as floored by the power of this disc as old devotees.
Indeed, as dj Darren Emerson left the group after the conclusion of the tour that this album documents, the songs found here serve almost as a time capsule for future listeners to discover and marvel at. Like archaeologists baffled by the construction of the pyramids, we can but wonder how the three men who were Underworld created what they created. And we can be grateful that they did.
Free Music Review: Here Comes Christ On Crutches
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been a fan of the 'World since they first released Rez & Dubnobass.. (about 10 years ago) and I've seen them quite a few times live (never intentionally, they always pop up at festivals in Ireland). This album is a very good representation of what they perform live - their usual crowd pleaser 'Rowla/Cherry Pie' is (gladly) lacking. My only gripe is that most of the tracks are practically identical to their album counterparts. When they played at Homelands in Ireland it was interesting trying to figure out what the tracks you were listening to were going to mutate into. Highlights for me are 'Pearls Girl' (which nobody else here seemed to like) - when you hear that aggressive helicopter rotor blade noise live you'll appreciate why it doesn't need a big thumping kick drum (they also add a gorgeous angelic voice in the trancey middle bit), and 'Juanita'. I never really liked 'King of Snake' (or 'Beacoup Fish' as a whole) too much, it just seems a bit simplistic. 'Cups', too, lacks a bit as they left out the first part which is class. And as for 'Born Slippy' - must we really have to hear this track again? Anyway, it sounds like I'm bagging the album, which I'm not, I've just had them around for so long and would have preferred a more varied track-listing (Why do they never play 'Spoonman' or 'Spikee'? They drive the crowd into a frenzy). If you've never heard much of them before, snap it up before you get the studio albums as it's a good cross-section of they're three albums. Oh, oh, and I just lurvve the crowd's cheering when the tracks hit their cresendos. Tuesday, Tuesday, Whoooaahh.