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Unkle — In a State
Album: Never, Never, Land
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Released: 2003
Length: 6:52
Plays (last 30 days): 3
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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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This could easily have been the instrumental to a track from Madonna - Ray of Light
Posted 1 week ago by lrb22    [ Reply ]
This grreat song becomes even greater when Liela Moss is the one singing [apologies for repost but those vocals remain sublime six months later]
UNKLE feat. Liela Moss - In A State (UNKLE, Redux Reconstruction) - YouTube
Posted 1 month ago by drews    [ Reply ]
This guitar sample sounds a lot like a Cabrel song (French singer)
Posted 1 month ago by thoskan    [ Reply ]
wanna move to this. Either in body or car. Exhilarating. 
Posted 5 months ago by chiperoo    [ Reply ]
Liking this, but i'm thinking 'where have i heard that percussion sound before?'
Took me a while, but i think it's this - F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. - Pulp
What do you think?
Posted 5 months ago by springof63    [ Reply ]
Should be followed by Heat Miser (Massive Attack) 
Posted 5 months ago by andrello    [ Reply ]
The intro sounds like a speeded up version of Mike Oldfield's 'Tbular Bells'.
Posted 5 months ago by Madness1954    [ Reply ]
Try the live version of this song with Liela Moss on vocals - truly sublime
UNKLE ❧ feat.Liela Moss ❧ In a State ❧ (youtube.com)
Posted 7 months ago by drews    [ Reply ]
started with 8......no......9. nice sound! Never heard it before. 
Posted 8 months ago by AngelavanGeloof    [ Reply ]
The beginning sounds like a Rupert Hine song
Posted 10 months ago by TheKing2    [ Reply ]
Everyone here at at ICE HQ  be groovin’ to unkle🙃
Posted 11 months ago by SteveInVa    [ Reply ]
 skuzzfud wrote:

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



Shit -- now I can't unhear it!  
Posted 1 year ago by tompoll    [ Reply ]
Great tune. Love the sample of Ren hitting Stimpy with a frying pan.
Posted 1 year ago by skuzzfud    [ Reply ]
If this plays while I am driving, just go ahead and send me the speeding ticket.  I will have deserved it.
Posted 1 year ago by BeanCrusher    [ Reply ]
How can a band this good remain beneath my awareness?  Parents, don't do what I did - turn the volume down.
Posted 1 year ago by itsme_bygolly    [ Reply ]
If that piano intro had gone on for only 24 minutes more,  I would have guessed Ludovico Einaudi.
Posted 1 year ago by sjccroquet    [ Reply ]
Does anyone else here catch a whiff of Nelson Riddle's theme song for the TV show Route 66?
Posted 2 years ago by Philipirata    [ Reply ]
I was waiting for the 'Missing - Everything but the Girl' lyric!
Posted 2 years ago by kbs    [ Reply ]
Zola Blood groove, I love it all. The Fostex tweeters are tweeting!
Posted 2 years ago by johnfiva    [ Reply ]
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells rip off, me thinks?  Yup. For sure! 

Posted 2 years ago by ivoryjacket88    [ Reply ]
Is this the same playlist as yesterday?  Or am I hallucinating?
Posted 2 years ago by tm    [ Reply ]
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?
Posted 2 years ago by deniseperry    [ Reply ]
Another song I’ve never heard. Another song I believe I’ll love more and more. Haunting.
Posted 2 years ago by keenevision    [ Reply ]
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.
Posted 2 years ago by Easyrider    [ Reply ]
Great track from a terrific album👍
Posted 2 years ago by Easyrider    [ Reply ]
Air drumming to this...

Love me a bit of offbeat percussion 
Posted 2 years ago by meanderer    [ Reply ]
 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
Posted 2 years ago by paloeguevo    [ Reply ]
The piano reminds me of Massive Attack's Heat Miser, from the Protection album
Posted 2 years ago by CCSandman    [ Reply ]
Good song - would love to hear Eye For An Eye from the same album 👍
Posted 2 years ago by CCSandman    [ Reply ]
yes to unkle
Posted 3 years ago by tm    [ Reply ]
Look at that list of associated acts (on their Wikipedia page)! Whoa... some good'uns there.
Posted 3 years ago by tompoll    [ Reply ]
 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.
Posted 3 years ago by (former member)    [ Reply ]
 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.
Posted 3 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
The Meat Katie vs Elite Force remix of this song is very cool too. 
Posted 3 years ago by SuperWeh    [ Reply ]
Exorcist music. Splendid.
Posted 3 years ago by horstman    [ Reply ]
Sometimes you hear a song and it changes your life..
Posted 3 years ago by bobapatatas    [ Reply ]
 Easyrider wrote:
Sublime and hypnotic 😌
 Beautiful, isn't it?

Posted 3 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
Thank you my beloved PSD button, for taking from Radiohead to here.  
Posted 3 years ago by jelgator    [ Reply ]
Sublime and hypnotic 😌
Posted 4 years ago by Easyrider    [ Reply ]
killer bassline.
Posted 4 years ago by SuperWeh    [ Reply ]
8>9, I guess it hit me at the right time...
Posted 4 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
Tubular Bells at the intro.

Liked it throughout
Posted 4 years ago by bruceandjenna    [ Reply ]
I hear Everything But The Girl's Tracy Thorn 
Posted 4 years ago by mach-hog    [ Reply ]
I love you.
Posted 4 years ago by clwguy    [ Reply ]
 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 😁
Posted 4 years ago by stegokitty    [ Reply ]
Parts of this offering remind me of Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield. Sounds good!
Posted 5 years ago by fastseamedic    [ Reply ]
 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!) 
Posted 5 years ago by lizardking    [ Reply ]
United Network Kommand for Law Enforcement
Posted 5 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
Adore the percussion in this!
Posted 5 years ago by Isabeau    [ Reply ]
 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
Posted 5 years ago by justin4kick    [ Reply ]
Song 11
Album 12
Posted 5 years ago by ExploitingChaos    [ Reply ]
Very good
Posted 5 years ago by fmirka59300    [ Reply ]
Song 10
Album 10
Radio Paradise this sunset 10
Posted 5 years ago by TerrorGovernor    [ Reply ]
I though it was Hells Bells from ACDC 
Posted 5 years ago by noe.architecte169    [ Reply ]
RP is on a roll tonight. the last 2 hours have been amazing!
Posted 5 years ago by pontfarrer    [ Reply ]
That intro had me looking over my shoulder for Michael Meyers.{#Eek}
Posted 6 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
They soared with us to great sonic heights with The Answer. They spun their wheels on the tarmac here. 
Posted 6 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
Interesting... Never heard before. Nice 8 at start. {#Wink}
Posted 6 years ago by rgabriel    [ Reply ]
 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!
Posted 6 years ago by ExploitingChaos    [ Reply ]
Its ok, but RP needs to play more of UNKLE's Psyence Fiction than this album. UNKLE was great when DJ Shadow was involved.
Posted 6 years ago by MSKDCT    [ Reply ]
 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.
Posted 6 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
Indeed, Godlike.
Posted 6 years ago by iwishyoumiracles    [ Reply ]
 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
Posted 6 years ago by Henkjan    [ Reply ]
 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.
Posted 7 years ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]
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.
 
Posted 7 years ago by pfreet    [ Reply ]
 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.
Posted 7 years ago by ciarataylor    [ Reply ]
 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.
Posted 8 years ago by Webfoot    [ Reply ]
Superbe {#Daisy}
Posted 8 years ago by Kapone    [ Reply ]
 Webfoot wrote:
Nice minimalist groove.  Love it. 9

 
Yikes! 
Maybe minimalist means something different to me.
This sounds like Exorcist meets James Bond. 
Posted 8 years ago by colt4x5    [ Reply ]
 arcade wrote:
Hello from South..... nice song

 


Posted 8 years ago by arcade    [ Reply ]
Perhaps a 'tich of Tears for Fears and Roland, he does, after all, have great hair.
Posted 9 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
Does anyone else hear Roland Orzabal on this song?  {#Music}
Posted 9 years ago by Larrygrrl    [ Reply ]
eurocrap

better crap
Dirty Vegas
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TawsObcPWss
Posted 9 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
I like this one.  Thanks, Mr G.
Posted 9 years ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]

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}

 


Posted 10 years ago by apd    [ Reply ]
{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Bananajam}{#Dancingbanana}

enjoying a little rocking moment here right now
Posted 10 years ago by niccca    [ Reply ]
More Uncle to the people.
Posted 10 years ago by oneyet    [ Reply ]
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}
Posted 10 years ago by paisleydancer66    [ Reply ]
Nice minimalist groove.  Love it. 9
Posted 10 years ago by Webfoot    [ Reply ]
 SinisterDexter wrote:
Sounds a bit like the theme from The Exorcist.

 
Cool, I was trying to remember just which horror movie theme that was...
Posted 10 years ago by gratefulgator    [ Reply ]
This really reminds me of "Missing" from "Everything but the Girl"


Posted 10 years ago by Verpeiler    [ Reply ]
Is that Sade?

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


Posted 11 years ago by snap_dragon    [ Reply ]
House music on RP........{#Angel}   (kind of anyway)

Play more!!!  {#Dancingbanana} 
Posted 11 years ago by superfido    [ Reply ]
More, more, more ... {#Dance}
Posted 11 years ago by clive369    [ Reply ]
 unclehud wrote:
Coneheads!  This band must be from France.
 
Excellent comment!
Posted 11 years ago by JIan    [ Reply ]
very very very good one
Posted 11 years ago by cinziacursio    [ Reply ]
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.
Posted 11 years ago by AvoidingWork    [ Reply ]
Loving this...
Posted 12 years ago by ncollingridge    [ Reply ]
Sounds a bit like the theme from The Exorcist.
Posted 12 years ago by SinisterDexter    [ Reply ]
 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?
Posted 12 years ago by Byronape    [ Reply ]
are we at the Roxbury?
Posted 12 years ago by LongGoneDaddy    [ Reply ]
fantastic.....!
Posted 13 years ago by miragioVision    [ Reply ]
 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:




Posted 14 years ago by Jamunca    [ Reply ]
 ddog wrote:
Sounds like a Cher cover!
 


A bad cover at that!
Posted 14 years ago by japanmoran    [ Reply ]
 socalhol wrote:
this song puts me in a state of BLISS !  {#Sunny}                      9 {#Arrow} 10
 

Posted 14 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
this song puts me in a state of BLISS !  {#Sunny}                      9 {#Arrow} 10
Posted 14 years ago by socalhol    [ Reply ]
UNKLE and James Lavelle = Good
Posted 14 years ago by thaidirect    [ Reply ]
{#Bounce}
Posted 14 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
Beginning of this reminded me of Chopping Broccoli
Posted 14 years ago by CamLwalk    [ Reply ]
7 ==> 8
Posted 14 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
 unclehud wrote:
Coneheads!  This band must be from France.
 
LOL! Thanks for that! 
Posted 14 years ago by gatorade    [ Reply ]
I've been grooving on this stuff a lot lately. {#Dancingbanana_2}
Posted 14 years ago by MsJudi    [ Reply ]
I wish Bill would play from their Psyence Fiction album. Truly an underrated and great work from the 90s.

Posted 14 years ago by Jamunca    [ Reply ]
Sounds like a Cher cover!
Posted 15 years ago by ddog    [ Reply ]
 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}
Posted 15 years ago by crockydile    [ Reply ]
Coneheads!  This band must be from France.
Posted 15 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
 Papernapkin wrote:
The opening made me think of Tubular Bells.
 
Agreed, but different enough...
Posted 15 years ago by GerJib    [ Reply ]
Anyone hear the theme to Halloween in the opening?
Posted 15 years ago by bitterdave    [ Reply ]
Puts me in a good 'State' of mind. {#Sunny}
Posted 15 years ago by peter_james_bond    [ Reply ]
Hypnotic {#Meditate}
Posted 16 years ago by WayUpNorth    [ Reply ]
That intro grabs you right away. Good tune!
Posted 16 years ago by Boston_Ed    [ Reply ]
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...
Posted 16 years ago by FallenMissAmerica    [ Reply ]
That was kinda nice..I liked it a lot. Actually this is a nice set
Posted 16 years ago by sdgserv    [ Reply ]
The opening made me think of Tubular Bells.
Posted 16 years ago by Papernapkin    [ Reply ]
Dave_Mack wrote:
Is that how they spell "Uncle" on Remulak?
hahaha! Still a 9 =)
Posted 16 years ago by Frater_Kork    [ Reply ]
sounds like Alien music
Posted 17 years ago by eastcoast    [ Reply ]
Is that how they spell "Uncle" on Remulak?
Posted 17 years ago by Dave_Mack    [ Reply ]
This album is terrific. I recommend it highly.
Posted 17 years ago by pattiecovert    [ Reply ]
Disco Lives! More's the pity.
Posted 17 years ago by macolyte    [ Reply ]
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.
Posted 17 years ago by cc_rider    [ Reply ]