https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwRMLpxjt58&list=PLE7TPCzQcrc6FwWfmZgz06Bd_Mo1r7_HJ
20 years old this year, an absolutely incredible record that is easily the rival of ANY debut album. (MK2 of Underworld that is, might as well be a completely different group from MKI)
Influenced by the same aesthetic that informed Screamadelica where anything and everything (everything!) was ripe for plundering and warping into something new.
This is one of the forerunners of the Big Beat explosion that rivalled Brit Pop at the time for popularity and exposure.
An incredibly evocative album, Dark and Long still takes me on journies every single time I listen to it.
Do you have a favourite track off this superb album? Any memories? Do you think it's an unmitigated pile of rubbish?(!)
I have tried to listen to this album several times but I was bored. I will try again.
I never really got Underworld.
It's alright. I prefer Second Toughest in the Infants. These are the only two I've heard.
I had never been a huge dance fan (no surprises there!) but I had liked some acid House stuff. Then I really started to get into stuff like The first Chem Bros album, Spooky and Fluke.
But this was a perfect amalgamation of dance and indie with a large dash of Krautrock in places (which I was just starting to listen to.)
I can't listen to Second Toughest at all. That I do find tedious.
But what do I know, I didn't like the Prodigy til I heard some of The Jilted Generation and I only listened to that because PWEI were on it.
By the way, keep these coming Grebo! It's nice to have something I like in the indie / alternative section!
Just don't get the current "indie" scene - CHVRCHES and the like...
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