Talk:Born Slippy Nuxx

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The result was merge into Born Slippy .NUXX. --  Tabanger   03:35, 21 July 2007 (UTC) It is in my opinion that this article should not be merged with Born Slippy, because it is a different song and people get confused about the two enough as it is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.44.16.10 (talk • contribs) 2007-01-31

I think the suggestion is to merge Born Slippy.NUXX 2003 into Born Slippy.NUXX which seems very sensible to me as there is almost 100% overlap (I don't think there is any suggestion to merge Born Slippy.NUXX into Born Slippy) (198.28.92.5 19:43, 23 June 2007 (UTC))


 * Support As mentioned on WikiProject Songs, articles should be about songs, not singles. "Born Slippy .NUXX 2003" is clearly a remix of "Born Slippy .NUXX", and they should be on the same article.  Because this merge proposal has been open for so long, without any opposition, I am closing it and performing the merge.    Tabanger   03:35, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

dirty.org is no more, sadly enough. I have no replacement link for ^1, though. --80.57.125.248 (talk) 00:42, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Why the .NUXX at the end of the song's title?
A previous version of this article featured this information:

"Underworld have claimed that the '.NUXX' name was inspired by a computer fault that added that suffix to the name of their working files."

This has now been deleted - presumably because it was unsourced. It seems like important information to add to this article. Can anyone find a reliable source to give credence to this fact? Stuart mcmillen (talk) 01:33, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

A newby with a question
Hi. I do mean to get involved properly in Wikipedia at some point soon. I don't have the skills at the moment to put something in. I've just heard on an interview with Karl Hyde on BBC Radio Four's Front Row, edition of May 10, 2013, that the song was written after a drink in The Ship public house in Wardour Street at which the now notable comedian Bill Bailey ('a friend of a friend' says Hyde) was present. And, yes, I will learn how to contribute properly. . . that was just too good to miss. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.6.141.117 (talk) 18:44, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Requested move 6 April 2021

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) ~ Aseleste  (t, e &#124; c, l) 06:01, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Born Slippy .NUXX → Born Slippy Nuxx – Brilliant song and but rather awkwardly named, and rather title-MOS unfriendly. The name "Born Slippy" refers to a completely different song so should not be used, to avoid confusion.

The suffix "Nuxx" is a stylisation in all-caps and with a full stop, the 2003 re-release simply named it "Born Slippy Nuxx"; and it is named "Born Slippy (Nuxx)" on digital and streaming services. As it seems to be part of the title, I am in favour of the former, though the latter is more acceptable as a title than the current one too.  Lazz _R  04:46, 6 April 2021 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Added "citation needed" on "'Born Slippy' unrelated to 'Born Slippy NUXX'"
It seems to be a common (misconception/belief) that "Born Slippy Nuxx" is a remix or reworking of "Born Slippy" (no suffix) from the original 1995 release.

I'm not familiar enough with either one to participate in the argument, but it'd be great if this page could provide further information or evidence about this.

Bsammon (talk) 15:20, 18 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Looks like your request was removed without explanation recently by someone who disagrees.
 * Today I rephrased the text to describe the original "Born Slippy" as "a very different but similarly named instrumental track" rather than "completely unrelated". I'm still not quite sure that's entirely fair, though. Where Underworld's remixes end and new tracks begin is intentionally very fluid and mysterious. They are very keen on drastically changing the instrumentation and arrangement in every iteration of a song, and the "final" versions are just highlights, snapshots of the constantly evolving works-in-progress. It could be argued that they rarely actually "remix" anything, in the sense of ever really trying too hard to preserve the same "meat" of a song... and yet everything they do is a remix of sorts, riffing and improving on previous iterations.
 * "Born Slippy .NUXX" is the result of many iterations of live & studio reworkings of "Born Slippy", so it could be said to be a remix, and yet not a remix. And Underworld did choose the title themselves, so at least they think of it as being somehow related. Nevertheless, I think it's best if the article doesn't use the word remix to describe it, for now. —mjb (talk) 20:14, 9 November 2022 (UTC)