Thoughts on Barking (Track by Track)

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Originally Posted by bas_I_am

As a long time underworld fan of 26 years (I bought doot doot when it came out... underneath the radar was one of the first 10 albums I bought when I acquired a cd player for US$300) that album would be beaucoup fish. Cups is great, but jumbo, bruce lee and king of snake dig an unsurmountable hole ultimately sinking the album into mediocrity.

For me, barking hits a home run playing on the same field where beaucoup fish miserably struck out. Both were modal shifts toward the pop spectrum. BF sounded forced- barking sounds natural.

The songs from barking stick in my head; the songs from bf are easily forgotten.

And its not just one or two songs, its all the songs. What ever song is last on when I shut off my car, is the one clanging around until I get back in.

Its a pop album... a damn good pop album.
As was underneath the radar a damn good pop album.

But then there are some "art fags" who look down on pop music as if it is some lesser form. These people miss the point. Its as if one can't adore both renoir and warhol.

Ok... I lied... the worst uw album is change the weather... that is an awful pop album.

Yeah, I would suspect that if you can put up with the 80's work, then this album would be right up your alley...

It kind of reminds me of the Freur album Get Us Out of Here, if you've heard it...lots of catchy tunes, nothing really deep, but always a good listen. Exactly the album I was waiting for after their last two more "downtempo" releases.

And also, Change the Weather was better than Underneath the Radar!! UtR had 3 great songs...title track, Glory Glory, and I Need a Doctor, but a lot of it was just too campy, CtW had better written tunes throughout...btw if you like that sound, please get Falco's first album Einzelhaft, it's that kind of sound done right!!