Dubnobasswithmyheadman

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Underworld

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Quite simply, this is one of the all-time best "electronica" albums out there - bar none. An essential recording in the genre. It's all here, from stomping 4/4 dance-floor tracks (e.g. Cowgirl) to trippy, spaced-out ambient stuff (e.g. Tongue, Mother Earth).

Some people may find some of the songs a little too long, or too repetitive (most of the songs are at least 7-8 minutes long, and most have trancey, repetitive beats), but if you like trance, the repetition aspect will be nothing new.

Cowgirl is one of my favorite "techno" songs ever, and probably the only song that has inspired me to play air keyboards. If this song doesn't get your ass off the couch, then nothing will. Dark & Long is just that, dark, trancey, and a good, insistent groove. Skyscraper is a little harder, with a more driving beat. Surfboy and Spoonman both pick up as they go, and Spoonman especially evolves into a good, beat-driven track, which sounds much "dancier" when played at loud volume.

With a lot of bands, I skip over the slower stuff, but with Underworld, their slow songs are always imaginative and compelling. Great songs to put on an ambient mix tape and chill out by.

Always interesting and innovative, Underworld rarely disappoints, and this is where it all started (we'll forget the Undeneath the Radar era; Underworld has achieved a stunning transformation from 80's pop weenies to electronica stalwarts with alt-cred, a transformation unlike anything except for Ministry). A must.

P.S. - if you get a chance to see them live, run, don't walk. I saw them last year when they opened for the Chemical Brothers, and by most accounts (certainly mine and my freinds'), they just blew the Chemicals off the stage.

IT'S SOOOO BORING, WITH AN ALBUM THAT STARTS WITH THE WORD 'DUB' YOU'D THINK THEY'D DROP SOME BASS AND MAKE THOSE COOL NOISES LIKE "WUHB WUHB WUHB", NOT THIS PRETENTIOUS OVERRATED WANNA-BE SKRILLEXES THAT FAIL AT THAT TOo!

Dark & Long: Good title for the name, because it felt like it would never end LOL!

MMMM Skyscraper I Love You: You think the last song was long?!? This one's like 12 minutes! Talk about wasted time, think of all the sweet drops I could've listened too in that time!

Surfboy: More like sleepboy, because this one puts me to sleeP!

Spoonman: WHERE'S CHRIS CORNELL WHEN YOU NEED HIM! This one just sounds weird and dumb, where's the solos??

Tongue: *SNORE*, this is dubstep how?

Dirty Epic: PSH, you think this song is dirty? Just wait until you hear Bassnecter's next album, called "WAH WAH WAH", now THAT'LL be a dirty epic, not some bored guy talking about phone sex or whatever.

Cowgirl: This one is dumb too, so much build-up to something that sounds like a bad DDR song, then it has a long boring outro. Someone pass the kool-aid please

River of Bass: WHERE'S DA BASS?!?!? More like River of Snores, unlike this band called "Undertalent" Bassnecter doesn't lie in his name k? he has REAL BASS!

M.E.: B.O.R.I.N.G.

This whole album is like one long bad E trip, you want REAL music listen to some REAL dubstep, these pathetic wanna-be's ride on Skrillex's coattails where they belong