Dark & Long

Album: Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1994)
Charted: 57
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Songfacts®:

  • Asked about his lyrics by Uncut, Underworld's Karl Hyde told the magazine they are "mapped journeys." He explained: "They start at a point in a city and I go to another point and I document the things I see, hear, smell, interjected with things they invoke in me."

    "'Dark & Long' was written in Minnesota on the prairies, with thunder clouds coming in."
  • The Dark Train mix of this song appears in a scene of the 1996 film Trainspotting, when Mark Renton is going through withdrawal.

Comments: 1

  • Rod from SwitzerlandIs there a better techno track than DnL? Maybe, but it doesn‘t really matters, does it? Can‘t tell how many times we danced into the morning when this track‘s been played. The bass, the kick, the synth, perfect. 33 years old and still rocks.
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