I don’t know why I’ve never posted an Underworld video here before. It’s a little bit like last Spring when I asked why I’d never posted a Pulp video here before. It doesn’t make any sense. I love Underworld. They are easily one of my favorite electronic music acts. There are few other groups that I can listen to as often and repetitiously as I listen to Underworld.
And then you have “Push Upstairs” which is my favorite track from Beaucoup Fish which is my favorite Underworld album. It is the album that I picked up way back in the late 90s that shifter my interest in electronic music from mere curiosity to full on love. I love this album and I love this song. I cannot tell you the number of times I drove home from high school with this pumping in my car as I sped up 280 or back from Tara’s house in the middle of the night or on my way anywhere. And it really holds up still. To me it does not sound dated though laced heavily with nostalgia. Compare it to other late 90s electronic music from the same era—The Prodigy or Crystal Method to name a couple—and where you’d immediately know other bands were old, Underworld has a timelessness about their music. I could and do listen to this all the time and never ever get bored.
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