Live: Everything, Everything [LIVE]

Underworld

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 12, 2000)
• Original Release Date: September 12, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: V2 North America
• ASIN: B00004X0BW
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #53,127 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
At the end of 1999, Underworld returned from their international Beaucoup Fish tour utterly exhausted. They had spent almost two years on the road, and that was enough for deck wizard Darren Emerson, who picked up his record box, jetted off to Uruguay, claimed his mantle as a globe-trotting international DJ, and turned his back on Underworld forever. Rick Smith, however, reacted to the experience of coming off the tour in a very different way. Locking himself in the studio for eight months, he watched and listened to tape after tape of the Underworld live experience, examining it, dissecting it, evaluating it. The result is Everything, Everything, a 75-minute compilation of the band's greatest onstage moments, from a rampant, super-fast "Shudder/King of Snake" to a breathtaking closing hybrid of techno milestones on "Rez/Cowgirl"--and not forgetting, of course, a frenetic thunder through the band's ultimate crowd-pleaser, the heavenly prototrance anthem "Born Slippy." To the Underworld disciple, this offering will surely come as manna from heaven. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As close to the live experience as you can get on a CD, January 11, 2002

By	Wil Wheaton "Author of Just A Geek" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

One of the hardest things for a concert album to do is capture the experience of actually being there. Sure, you can have the crowd noise, and the inevitable "Thank you, thank you!" from the band, but actually capturing the *energy* of the performance is what a live album should strive for, and this album, like "Frampton Comes Alive", does a surprisingly good job of capturing not just the sound, but the energy of the crowd. When Underworld begins to play "Cowgirl" and the crowd roars its approval, you can feel their excitement, and when the album is finally over, you want to stand up and beg for an encore.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Fearless and Brilliant Live Album, September 16, 2000

By	Eric Sena (Northridge, California USA) - See all my reviews

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.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Flippin' amazing...., September 12, 2000

By	DJ Orinj Joos (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews

To begin: I have never seen Underworld live. I want to so bad, but the last time they came to Cleveland (if ever...), I had no idea who they were. I am a huge fan, and so this is the closest I'll get (until the DVD comes out in October).

I am in awe. As soon as I got home today, I ran to throw E,E into my CD player. It is probably the best live album I've ever heard. It's very nice how the Undies chop up their songs and turn them into something different. The first three tracks are cut from the same performance, and they don't stop in between. Juanita/Kiteless to Cups is so amazing, and then to Push Upstairs....makes you wanna melt.

After that is a pretty nice version of Pearl's Girl, followed by a pretty good version of Jumbo. The version of Shudder/King of Snake is the only weak link on this disc, as it doesn't sound ALL that different, however it's still very good. After that comes Born Slippy (Nuxx), which totally defied all my expectations. Then the album closes with a wonderful version of Rez/Cowgirl. I can't say enough how great it is.

All in all, if you like Underworld, you must own this disc. It is simply amazing, and it serves as a perfect prerequisite for the DVD.