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Unkle — In a State
Album: Never, Never, Land
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Released: 2003
Length: 6:54
Plays (last 30 days): 3
My mind is in a state
'Cause all I seem to do is tempt my fate
Well I try every space
But all the while we're crushing at the gate

This time, this time
Reality struck me between the eyes

My mind is in a state
'cause everything I miss it comes too late
So I try and disappear
But there is only one way out of here

This time, this time
Reality struck me between the eyes

My mind is in a state
But all I need to do is change my pace
And I know there's fear to face
But happiness is firm in its embrace
This time.
This time.
This time.
This time.
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started with 8......no......9. nice sound! Never heard it before. 
The beginning sounds like a Rupert Hine song
Everyone here at at ICE HQ  be groovin’ to unkle🙃
 skuzzfud wrote:

Great tune. Love the sample of Ren hitting Stimpy with a frying pan.



Shit -- now I can't unhear it!  
Great tune. Love the sample of Ren hitting Stimpy with a frying pan.
If this plays while I am driving, just go ahead and send me the speeding ticket.  I will have deserved it.
How can a band this good remain beneath my awareness?  Parents, don't do what I did - turn the volume down.
If that piano intro had gone on for only 24 minutes more,  I would have guessed Ludovico Einaudi.
Does anyone else here catch a whiff of Nelson Riddle's theme song for the TV show Route 66?
I was waiting for the 'Missing - Everything but the Girl' lyric!
Zola Blood groove, I love it all. The Fostex tweeters are tweeting!
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells rip off, me thinks?  Yup. For sure! 

Is this the same playlist as yesterday?  Or am I hallucinating?
Love Unkle. What’s he up to nowadays? This is not recent. DJ Shadow collaboration still going on? Anybody know? Mr Bill & spouse Paradise? Up dates?
Another song I’ve never heard. Another song I believe I’ll love more and more. Haunting.
In a State by Unkle My mind is in a state 'Cause all I seem to do is tempt my fate Well I try every space But all the while we're crushing at the gate This time, this time Reality struck me between the eyes My mind is in a state 'cause everything I miss it comes too late So I try and disappear But there is only one way out of here This time, this time Reality struck me between the eyes My mind is in a state But all I need to do is change my pace And I know there's fear to face But happiness is firm in its embrace This time. This time. This time. This time.
Great track from a terrific album👍
Air drumming to this...

Love me a bit of offbeat percussion 
 jelgator wrote:

Thank you my beloved PSD button, for taking from Radiohead to here.  



Ironically Unkle has a great song featuring Yorke, rabbit in your headlights. So I bet he does not like your comment
The piano reminds me of Massive Attack's Heat Miser, from the Protection album
Good song - would love to hear Eye For An Eye from the same album 👍
yes to unkle
Look at that list of associated acts (on their Wikipedia page)! Whoa... some good'uns there.
 On_The_Beach wrote:
Yes, that piano intro is probably closer to Halloween than Tubular Bells, but there is some similarity to both.
As for the cover art, it looks like something a ninth grader would doodle during a boring History class.


That beat. Reminding me somewhat unpleasently of all these Dancin' Fools, stepping out of tune, back then and now.
 Jelani wrote:
That intro had me looking over my shoulder for Michael Meyers.{#Eek}

  Yes, that piano intro is probably closer to Halloween than Tubular Bells, but there is some similarity to both.
As for the cover art, it looks like something a ninth grader would doodle during a boring History class.
The Meat Katie vs Elite Force remix of this song is very cool too. 
Exorcist music. Splendid.
Sometimes you hear a song and it changes your life..
 Easyrider wrote:
Sublime and hypnotic 😌
 Beautiful, isn't it?

Thank you my beloved PSD button, for taking from Radiohead to here.  
Sublime and hypnotic 😌
killer bassline.
8>9, I guess it hit me at the right time...
Tubular Bells at the intro.

Liked it throughout
I hear Everything But The Girl's Tracy Thorn 
I love you.
 On_The_Beach wrote:

. . . aka Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield.
The one piano bit is similar but that's about it.
 

Yep! I definitely hear that, it's what moved me to comment 😁
Parts of this offering remind me of Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield. Sounds good!
 unclehud wrote:
United Network Kommand for Law Enforcement
 
….and Housing and Urban Development?  (lol at myself, I think of you often when Unkle is played!) 
United Network Kommand for Law Enforcement
Adore the percussion in this!
 Verpeiler wrote:
This really reminds me of "Missing" from "Everything but the Girl"


 
Had to look for this comment. And there it is! Totally agree
Song 11
Album 12
Very good
Song 10
Album 10
Radio Paradise this sunset 10
I though it was Hells Bells from ACDC 
RP is on a roll tonight. the last 2 hours have been amazing!
That intro had me looking over my shoulder for Michael Meyers.{#Eek}
They soared with us to great sonic heights with The Answer. They spun their wheels on the tarmac here. 
Interesting... Never heard before. Nice 8 at start. {#Wink}
 MSKDCT wrote:
Its ok, but RP needs to play more of UNKLE's Psyence Fiction than this album. UNKLE was great when DJ Shadow was involved.
 
I love Shadow but i think UNKLE's best work came after... Great songwriting with deep productions. This album is my favorite!
Its ok, but RP needs to play more of UNKLE's Psyence Fiction than this album. UNKLE was great when DJ Shadow was involved.
 SinisterDexter wrote:
Sounds a bit like the theme from The Exorcist.
 
. . . aka Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield.
The one piano bit is similar but that's about it.
Indeed, Godlike.
 pfreet wrote:
What is this?! I've never heard it before. Extraordinary. This is why I love RP.

This song took guts, and artistic genius IMO. Mixing in industrial sounds with orchestral movements. Yet didn't devolve into a boring disco track. Nice job.
 
 
+1
 thewiseking wrote:
eurocrap

better crap
Dirty Vegas
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TawsObcPWss

 
You're right, I think Dirty Vegas need more recognition for their body of work.  This track is great, but the rest of the album is a little out there for me.
What is this?! I've never heard it before. Extraordinary. This is why I love RP.

This song took guts, and artistic genius IMO. Mixing in industrial sounds with orchestral movements. Yet didn't devolve into a boring disco track. Nice job.
 
 Webfoot wrote:

Sorry, didn't mean to frighten you.  Maybe minimalist is not the right word. I still mostly hear the underlying groove which I find very compelling.  Other bits come and go over the top of it, but the basic groove is the strong focus throughout.

Yikes! 
Maybe minimalist means something different to me.
This sounds like Exorcist meets James Bond. 
SO True.
 colt4x5 wrote:

Yikes! 
Maybe minimalist means something different to me.
This sounds like Exorcist meets James Bond. 

 
Sorry, didn't mean to frighten you.  Maybe minimalist is not the right word. I still mostly hear the underlying groove which I find very compelling.  Other bits come and go over the top of it, but the basic groove is the strong focus throughout.
Superbe {#Daisy}
 Webfoot wrote:
Nice minimalist groove.  Love it. 9

 
Yikes! 
Maybe minimalist means something different to me.
This sounds like Exorcist meets James Bond. 
 arcade wrote:
Hello from South..... nice song

 


Perhaps a 'tich of Tears for Fears and Roland, he does, after all, have great hair.
Does anyone else hear Roland Orzabal on this song?  {#Music}
eurocrap

better crap
Dirty Vegas
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TawsObcPWss
I like this one.  Thanks, Mr G.

looks like the album isn't on iTunes (which is unusual). You're looking for "Never, Neverland" and it's on the Amazon link. (And it's excellent)


 
paisleydancer66 wrote:
Okay, I'm confused. The song "In a State" is not on this album of Unkle in the ITunes store. Guess I bought some other version through your hookup. Not happy {#Eyes}

 


{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Bananajam}{#Dancingbanana}

enjoying a little rocking moment here right now
More Uncle to the people.
now please play Train and I'll be very happy
Okay, I'm confused. The song "In a State" is not on this album of Unkle in the ITunes store. Guess I bought some other version through your hookup. Not happy {#Eyes}
Nice minimalist groove.  Love it. 9
 SinisterDexter wrote:
Sounds a bit like the theme from The Exorcist.

 
Cool, I was trying to remember just which horror movie theme that was...
This really reminds me of "Missing" from "Everything but the Girl"


Is that Sade?

If so does that make my aunt, my unkle's shortie? 
{#Bananapiano}


House music on RP........{#Angel}   (kind of anyway)

Play more!!!  {#Dancingbanana} 
More, more, more ... {#Dance}
 unclehud wrote:
Coneheads!  This band must be from France.
 
Excellent comment!
very very very good one
I'm thinking they are from Remulak, a small town in France.
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(edit) I should have read ahead.  I see that unclehud beat me to the joke.
Loving this...
Sounds a bit like the theme from The Exorcist.
 clwguy wrote:
cher who? I need to check her out cause I love, love, love this song. they're definitely loving it in the hotel room next door.
 
Seriously?
are we at the Roxbury?
fantastic.....!
 thaidirect wrote:
UNKLE and James Lavelle = Good
 
I won't mind the redundancy (i.e. James Lavelle is the judge, jury and executioner of UNKLE), but I like where you're coming from.{#Clap}

I loved Psyence Fiction at first listen. In terms of his new stuff, check out:




 ddog wrote:
Sounds like a Cher cover!
 


A bad cover at that!
 socalhol wrote:
this song puts me in a state of BLISS !  {#Sunny}                      9 {#Arrow} 10
 

this song puts me in a state of BLISS !  {#Sunny}                      9 {#Arrow} 10
UNKLE and James Lavelle = Good
{#Bounce}
Beginning of this reminded me of Chopping Broccoli
==> 8
 unclehud wrote:
Coneheads!  This band must be from France.
 
LOL! Thanks for that! 
I've been grooving on this stuff a lot lately. {#Dancingbanana_2}
I wish Bill would play from their Psyence Fiction album. Truly an underrated and great work from the 90s.

Sounds like a Cher cover!
 unclehud wrote:
Coneheads!  This band must be from France.
 
You are old! {#Lol} Er.. I guess I am, too. {#Sad} Must go consume mass quantities....{#Dancingbanana}
Coneheads!  This band must be from France.
 Papernapkin wrote:
The opening made me think of Tubular Bells.
 
Agreed, but different enough...
Anyone hear the theme to Halloween in the opening?
Puts me in a good 'State' of mind. {#Sunny}
Hypnotic {#Meditate}
That intro grabs you right away. Good tune!
Papernapkin wrote:
The opening made me think of Tubular Bells.
Yeah...I know what you mean, all though "bells" is a much nicer way of saying it...
That was kinda nice..I liked it a lot. Actually this is a nice set
The opening made me think of Tubular Bells.
Dave_Mack wrote:
Is that how they spell "Uncle" on Remulak?
hahaha! Still a 9 =)
sounds like Alien music
Is that how they spell "Uncle" on Remulak?
This album is terrific. I recommend it highly.
Disco Lives! More's the pity.
jagdriver wrote:
Opening piano riff reminiscent of Tubular Bells theme. Though nice, I agree it doesn't add anything to this track.
Yeah, I thought I was about to hear Tubular Bells also. This is not bad though. c.
jagdriver wrote:
Opening piano riff reminiscent of Tubular Bells theme. Though nice, I agree it doesn't add anything to this track.
I too thought it was Mike Oldfield. Everything old is new again....
Opening piano riff reminiscent of Tubular Bells theme. Though nice, I agree it doesn't add anything to this track.
electronicshaman wrote:
I loved Psyence Fiction but to be honest this album never clicked with me.
It's got a couple of skippers but I like most of it quite a bit. Took a few listens....
I loved Psyence Fiction but to be honest this album never clicked with me.
juliecb wrote:
Sheesh! Who pooped in your Cheerios? ...and who says "retards"?
I have to admit, it's a fixture in my vocab, but most of the time I'm referring to myself. And this is a pretty kickin' song. The repetition gives it that GOOD trancelike quality. Like the Philip Glass stuff that DOESN'T make me want to bash my head through a window! 9 from me!
folks, this is a great song and deserves a big 9!
hey, calm down... I'd rather Bill played Britney Spears than have these boards disintegrate into petty arguments. Put a lid on it, K?
harper wrote:
what a bunch of retards - "this song is scary"?? repetitive? clearly you can't appreciate beauty. go listen to your britney spears shit
Sheesh! Who pooped in your Cheerios? ...and who says "retards"?