Tonight's DVD: Everything, Everything, which reminded me of just how much I love Underworld. The video, recorded during their 98-99 tour, captures a lot of what seeing them live was like, altho they're playing to much bigger crowds than I was part of (also, even tho it's 9 billion degrees out tonight, there was far less sweating involved in watching the DVD). When I saw them it was, I think, their first show in NYC. Second Toughest... had just come out and "Pearl's Girl" was starting to get some crossover traction. But this was still pre-Trainspotting so they hadn't gotten super-huge. Big enough that the show was packed but after they did about 90 min. they left the stage and most of the crowd went home. I don't remember if we guessed they were coming back or were just hanging out having a beer. But they did, in fact, come back and play another about 90 min. It was hawesome!
Gotta say that I got a huge kick out of the Netflix reviewer who one-starred this DVD because it wasn't the Underworld he fondly remembered from Underneath the Radar. What in the what now? To me that's the forgotten album. Or, the one they made before they figured out how not to suck. Or or (put another way), before Darren Emerson joined. I guess one man's forgettable v1.0 is another's treasured gem.
And, in a further digression that will mean nothing to anyone (except possibly WTH), I was just reminded by Wiki about Underworld v1.0's even earlier incarnation, as Freur.

doot doot!