teach me about these strange collaborations

[philth]

Looks like you got an answer of sorts on underworldlive today!

Cheers,

Philth

http://www.myspace.com/philipboyle

[crank]

well if we ever had the opportunity to hear said collaboration I would be in favor of it.

[joethelion]

hmm...

well - I guess it did have something to do with Mofo then...

although, new music, new vocal -> so maybe it was only 'mofo' in name, or like - that was the base point?

just wish it'd come out

especially as Bono said he liked it

[crank]

Wonder what the hold up is then...

crank!

[negative1]

i'm sure there's probably all sorts of legal difficulties,
especially when you have bands from other labels involved..

if they didn't think its not worth hearing, we probably
wont hear it..

on the other hand, there are a lot of underworld tracks
that i don't think should have been released, but were
(especially remixes)..

later
-1

[crank]

well, not to bring an old topic up but after browsing the u2 website I found this about MOFO:
"The song appeared on the album Pop and was used as the opening song for the PopMart tour. MOFO originally had the working title MFRR and is slang for ‘motherfucker’. The lyrics also contain several literary references including ‘lookin' for to fill that God-shaped hole’ from Salman Rushdie and ‘Still lookin' for the face I had before the world was made’ by William Butler Yeats.
MOFO was performed live for the first time during the PopMart tour opener in Las Vegas on April 25, 1997. The performance of MOFO in Capetown, South Africa was featured in Phil Joanou's 1999 film Entropy. Several DJs provided remixes for the various releases including Matthew Roberts, Roni Size, and Johnny Moy. On November 6, 1997 U2 accepted an MTV European Music Award for Best Live Act and opened the awards ceremony by performing MOFO. The Phunk Phorce Mix of MOFO was on the Planet Electrica-Protection compilation. Underworld’s version of MOFO remains unreleased."

so a bit of sleuthing reveals where the hold up is: U2. damn it all.