4. Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlLWFa1b1Bc A motherload of a drinking anthem (again, I'm trying to avoid associating driving with intoxication, but in the face of these overwhelming drums, it looks futile) the irony is that Karl Hyde is now tee-total. Born Slippy (Nuxx) was a surprise breakout hit, cashing in on its association with the 90s Glasgow heroin romp Trainspotting; a giant cinematic hit that was gravitational point for hipster cultural references for a good many years thereafter. Of course, there's plenty of drinking in that movie too, and with reverberating cries of "lager, lager, lager," Born Slippy was soon spilling across every kind of dance floor. Whilst the band claimed that they had no interest in pursuing anything in the same vein, the pressure was clearly on and the follow up album featured King of Snake, a similar blur of alcoholic surrealism. The plot was starting to unravel for Hyde. Confronted with alcoholism, he downed his last pint in 1999 and has trodden the straight and narrow ever since. Punching pattern: Get all operatic at the start with Hyde and his stream of semi-consciousness booze-jabber, then let the pounding drum triplets take you away on another blurry bout of escapist hedonism.