Underworld Live: Everything Everything (UK)
9 tracks
Certificate: none
Running Time: 90 mins
Retail Price: £19.99
Release Date:
Content Type: Musical Recording
Synopsis:
Short of standing in front of the stage and stuck in between the speakers, this is the definitive Underworld live experience. It starts with a machine-like murmur and end with 40,000 people dancing in a field.
Pounding out anthems and improvised jams, it spans one studio album, two childbriths, and four continents, fusing the loud and fast, expansive and explosive, with the quiet and contemplative. From Glastonbury to Fuji Rock, Brussels to Chicago, `Everything Everything` captures the musical and visual energy of Underworld`s 1998/1999 world tour.
Tracklisting: Juanita/Kiteless, Cups, Push Upstairs, Pearls Girl, Jumbo, Shundder/King Of Snake, Born Slippy Nuxx, Rez/Control, Moaner. Bonus tracks: Kittens and Rowla.
Special Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Multi-angle - live footage or live Tomato video art
Out-takes (5 mins)
Program Your Own Concert
Two Bonus Tracks: Kittens And Rowla
DVD-ROM features: Weblinks, Interactive Text And Music Installation, Keyboard-Driven Vision Mixer
Video Tracks:
Widescreen Anamorphic 1.78:1
Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 English
Subtitle Tracks:
English
Music From:
Underworld
Distributor:
Visual Entertainment
Your Opinions and Comments
Glad I resisted the temptation to buy the CD. Underworld are probably best renowned for THAT song - y`know LAGERLAGERLAGER which so beautifully encapsulated the summer of "Trainspotting", a film that has yet to be matched in independent cinema.
But for us old skool U`wrld fans, this DVD is a greatest hits package with that LIVE thang thrown in for good effect.
Blimey, how can you get excited about three geezers (Emerson, Hyde and Smith) leaping around prodding and poking knobs and dials like their lives depend upon it, I hear you ask ? Well, you don`t have to.
Rather than a "look how the band play their instruments and rock in a poodle-stylee", `Everything Everything` lives up to its name. It is the ULTIMATE live band experience, `cept the guys don`t play no instruments (aside from Karl Hyde strumming a string ad nauseum during `Push Upstairs`).
See, with electropop combos it`s all about visuals and corblimeeguvsquire, you get a few included here. Bored with the band/saucer-eyed crowd scenes/occasional graphics? Hit that multi-angle button and you`re launched into a video graphic world of beauty. Bit like Whistle Test in the `70s, for us who can remember weirded out Sunday lunchtimes on BBC2, The Tomato Art graphics, normally projected on UW`s backscreen live-style, are brought to the forefront, yet blend seamlessly into the live action at the touch of a button. You can come over all Mr Video Editor by swapping from video to live action - tres cool !
Musically, this really is a feast of the boys` biggest and best stuff. Kicking off with the opening tracks to the Underboys second album "Second Toughest in the Infants"(`Juanita/Kiteless`) the vibes quickly hit the pace with ensuing storming versions of `Push Upstairs` and `Pearl`s Girl`. Before you know it 45 minutes have passed.
Bring it on to `Born Slippy` (the LAGER song) and the wholelive shebang goes A1 wappo. A percussive heavy version of the song, this take sees chopped up cuts of the crowd gone mental, the vid with Hyde freaking out in the corner with his personal stereo, and funky noise zipping round the room like there`s no tomorrow.
The audio (you get the option of 5.1 or 2.0) is fantastic - with my neighbours comfortably ensconced next door after their Friday night pub visit the volume knob on my Yammy A5 was well down, but the effects still managed to zoom around all six speakers with minimal effort, the sub booming like a jackass in a repetitive kicking competition.
The pictures are what you`d expect from a live performance - fast, fuzzy, dripping with sweat (Hyde beats Blair hands down for the world`s sweatiest shirt), with lights flashing on and off more frequently than a pelican crossing on speed - we`re talking strobestrobestrobe, darlings. Essentially, though, the piccy is focussed and clear, just like the audio.
For old timer UW fans who can boast they liked them pre-Slippy there are old faveraves `Rez` and `Cowgirl` suitably segued with a thumping, grumbling percussion track. For new timers `Jumbo` is wheeled out along with a blistering take on the Batman-track `Moaner`.
Extras are pretty low key - 5 mins of out-takes and two audio only freebie live tracks (`Kittens` and `Rowla`).
Having said that the highlight of the whole piece has to be `King of Snake`, the `I Feel Love` pastiche, which absolutely rocks the live joint, and cleverly blends in with the `Shudder` overture, as it does on the `Beacoup Fish` album.
Music video can suck. This one doesn`t. Switch off your lights, check the neighbours are out, turn the dial to 11 and mong out like there`s no tomorrow.....jazz ciggies, schmazz ciggies. You`ll be more wired than a wire brush from the planet wire after this feast and won`t feel like a late night trip to the petrol station for munchies. Instead you`ll be in the mood to hit a club !!!
Buy this dvd today, if you don`t like dance music don`t bother.