Track Listing

1. Juanita / Kiteless
2. Cups
3. Push Upstairs
4. Pearls Girl
5. Jumbo
6. Shudder / King of Snake
7. Born Slippy Nuxx
8. Rez / Cowgirl

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65122 in Music
• Released on: 2006-07-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live

Amazon.co.uk Review
Underworld returned from the Beaucoup Fish World Tour at the end of 1999, utterly exhausted after almost two years of international touring. It was the final straw for deck-wizard Darren Emerson, who picked up his record box, jetted off to Uruguay, and claimed his mantle as a globe-trotting international DJ, turning his back on Underworld forever. Rick Smith, however, reacted to the experience of coming off 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"--not forgetting, of course, a frenetic thunder through the band's ultimate crowd-pleaser, the heavenly proto-trance anthem "Born Slippy". To the Underworld disciple, Everything, Everything will surely come as manna from heaven.--Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

One of the best dance albums of all time
There is something about playing live that makes great artists rise above their ordinary level. Radiohead's live recordings are infintely better than their album versions (just compare spinning plates on I Might be wrong (live recordings) with the one on Amnesiac) And Underworld are no different: the energy captured here makes this a truly remarkable record, along with, of course, the exceptionally high standard of the music. There is not a single dud track here, just a relentless build to the euphoric climax 'Rez/Cowgirl', through some of their best work. The version of Born Slippy here will confirm to all those who under-value it due to its commercial success that this is a truly magnificent song. And Pearl's Girl will send shivers down your spine.
Buy this album: it is a little slice of genius, the definitive record by perhaps the finest dance act of the 90's.

Astounding summing up of Underworld era with Darren Emerson
I have to disagree with the other reviewer: the music on this DVD is certainly not "clinical mixing". It's exactly the opposite: an example of one of the few electronic bands who when they play live, play live. Mistakes and all. But that's what makes them great: you know they're up there making it happen as you watch, bending their electronics into doing things they weren't designed to do. The music is filled with an abundance of energy, with Karl Hyde's vocal and dancing about the stage giving the crowd something to relate to, as opposed to with other electronic bands like Orbital who really are a tad clinical live.

Things get off to a great start with a redition of Juanita/Kiteless, complete with Hyde's live vocodered lyrics. After the pumping finale of Kiteless "You should've walked away...", Rick Smith and Darren Emerson mix their way into the instrumental Cups (not the full-length album version), then the piano-led Push Upstairs - 25-odd minutes of intense music without a break.

Then comes the awesome power of Pearl's Girl. Note that Rick Smith, when mixing the live album, did make a few changes to improve the quality - the "crazycrazycrazy" sample in Pearl's Girl did not kick in so perfectly over Hyde's vocals in the live performance. Rejigging it a little when mixing the album certainly gives it added impact, however. Indeed, the entire track listing has be changed around from the order they were played at the Forest Nationaal gig from which all the audio is taken: the most obvious change being the large number of tracks which could not be included within the confines of the CD.

Jumbo, the next track, is a brilliant shimmering uplifting track, in which Hyde actually plays his guitar live for once. After that slight slowdown in pace, it's back up to full for Shudder/King of Snake. Unfortunately, I don't believe Hyde's lyrical improvisations that frequently occur in the middle of King of Snake could be included on the CD version: they certainly were on the (sadly now Out of Print) DVD version of Everything Everything. Next up is the real crowd pleaser: Born Slippy.NUXX - now world-reknowned through it's use in Trainspotting. However you feel about the track, there's absolutely no doubting the live impact. Rounding off the CD is the crown jewel: the absolute best rendition of Rez/Cowgirl ever. This is frankly unbelievable: if it doesn't send shivers up your spine when you listen to it, you're dead. Or in a coma. You get the idea.

The only disappointment for Underworld fans is the fact that more tracks couldn't be included: I highly recommend you try to find the DVD version of Everything, Everything. Included further to the CD release are the tracks Moaner, Cherry Pie and Rowla.

As a side note, Underworld are now back on the road (Sept 2002), now without Darren Emerson, but still with the genius of Rick Smith and Karl Hyde. The shows are as good as ever., complete with the new tracks from A Hundred Days Off, the new studio album.

Mind blowing breaks n beats, a must for the dance generation
This album blew me away. It is a lesson in clinical mixing from the king's of dance. The only fault with this album is that you wish that you'd been there to see Underworld live. Tracks 3,4 and King of Snake will get anyone onto the dance floor. This album is great for those not accquainted with the sound of Underworld as well as for those who are already fans.