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Free Music Review: Underworld were once GODS
Hit: 5 Stars
The title I have chosen pretty much sums up my thoughts about this group. Underworld was, at one time, on top of the underground techno scene (Here's a conundrum: how can one still call it underground when it actually is as popular as it is - - if you've ever been to a live electronic music concert you know what I mean). In the late 90s no group in existence could touch Underworld in song production, lyrics, and intensity. That was then, this is now. With Darren Emerson leaving the group after their "Beaucoup Fish" tour something happened to Underworld. They could never match their previous brilliance... and that is a shame. However the music will always live on - - and this live compilation of their greatest hits should please all Underworld fans. It is that last great example of what these guys were truly capable of.
One cannot truly label Underworld. Yes, their music is smattered with great examples of techno styling and beats, but because of Hyde's vocals, Underworld is soooo much more than techno and much more than techno will ever aspire to be today or in the future. I like to consider these British boys as "electronic composers" creating some of the finest music ever made. One listen to this disc will tell show you why... all fans of great music need to be exposed to the Underworld. Start with this disc, and if you don't just absolutely love these guys after one listen then perhaps you need to expand your horizons - - or narrow minds.
Free Music Review: Another great album
Hit: 5 Stars
From the album cover: Short of standing in front of the stage and stuck in between the speakers, this is the definitive Underworld live experience recorded on the 1998/1999 world tour.Most people wouldn't think that an electronica/acid/trance album would be any good as a live recording, but die-hard fans of Underworld will make the exception. Many of the tunes are familiar because they are from past albums including: Beaucoup Fish, Dubnobasswithmyheadman and Second Toughest in the Infants. They put a new twist on all their old tracks for the live audiences which to me was as good as a whole new album.
Although popular in the British underground for years, Underworld was exposed briefly to mainstream music when their title Born Slippy was featured in the movie Trainspotting that became popular with American audiences. Followed by an intense grass-roots marketing campaign by then-active label TVT records, Underworld was newly christened to US charts.
You can't really categorize Underworld in any genre of music because it's not electronica, it's not Jazz, it's not acid techno, it's just Underworld. For me, it's one of those groups where I can put all their CD's in my changer and not have to swap them for a year (Smashing Pumpkins is another).
So this album stands among Underworld's other musical masterpieces, and I would recommend it more to the avid fan than the uninitiated.
rating: 5 stars
Free Music Review: A Fearless and Brilliant Live Album
Hit: 5 Stars
Indeed, fearless and brilliant. And Underworld build to crescendo better than just about anyone I've ever seen. In an auditorium, they make thousands synch together like a single, unified organism. And on disc...wow, it still works.They bring along all their ingredients, hard-coded to sequencers and samplers and tape, and then, like a "traditional" rock band, they gauge the mood of a crowd and bend the mix to maximum effect. Listen to the way they turn "Juanita/Kiteless" inside out, all the pieces true to the original version, but assembled in a new way to create amazing new shapes. Get inside the audience-fueled peaks of "Push Upstairs" or "King of Snake" or "Born Slippy NUXX," and feel the small hairs on the back of your neck rise up. And finally, this version of "Rez/Cowgirl" leaves me winded, wired, and slack-jawed with admiration. It makes me want to jump up and down and shout and break things. It is a definitive moment in electronic music. Incredible.
For me, the best parts of "Everything, Everything" make me feel like I'm in the middle of the concert all over again. Like I'm seeing and hearing history being made before my eyes, and this is something only the best live albums of the best bands can accomplish. Buy it now, and then wonder how you ever survived without it.
Yeah, it's that good.
Free Music Review: Almost perfect
Hit: 5 Stars
This will be difficult to explain. If you've studied chemistry, you know that elements like lithium and sodium are actually metals, even though you don't usually see them in large chunks like gold or iron. Well, this album is like a huge, solid block of Art. Not just good techno, not even neccesarily good _music_, but Art. It's like all music tries to produce a certain sensation, while this is the solid, condensed and packaged version of that sensation. All of the songs are amazing, particularly the 'Juanita' part of Juanita/Kiteless, and the climax of Cups, the best part of the original song. Listening to King of Snake is like participating in some violent pagan ritual. Push Upstairs, a song I always thought was sort of weak, is vastly improved from the album version, and sounds downright unsettling with a section of synthetic heavy breathing sounds. There are freestyle lyrical additions to a lot of songs, to best effect in Push Upstairs and King of Snake, while some of the songs (Jumbo, Born Slippy) are almost completley orthodox. In fact, Jumbo is the only song which I don't think is superior to the studio version; it's about the same, but the original was great. The other weak link is Pearl's Girl, which, although it sounds extremely cool with the looped 'crazycrazycrazycrazy,' never quite reaches the transcendence of the other songs.Free Music Review: Great CD, Not as great as LIVE
Hit: 5 Stars
being a diehard underworld fan i waited for this album to hit the stores. now it has and i must say that it is a great disc but nowhere as good as a live show. to me this is like an extended remix cd. the real treasure of the underworld live experience will be the DVD next month. i would recommend this disc to any underworld lover, and to those just beginning the underworld experience if you think this is great... go see them live! listening to them live is just not the same as seeing them live... karl bouncing around the stage, the tomato visuals, the total energy they bring to electronic music... i have never seen the musicians enjoy the music as much as the fans till i saw underworld. i must recommend this as 5 stars simply because it is a great collection, though too short. as a side note to all the nay sayers of electronic music and seeing it live... when the boys were in town i took a couple of friends to the show, they love electronic music (never heard underworld) but had terrible experiences seeing it live (usually a bunch of guys huddled around racks of electronics or turntables) after that show their lives changed... it blew them away and now are underworld fans. i would do anything in my power to see them live, it will change your life. too bad i dont live in europe!