Editing Beaucoup Fish (section)

==Overview==
''Beaucoup Fish'' was released after the successful single "Born Slippy .NUXX"; a single that began to define Underworld's signature sound of [[Stream of consciousness (narrative mode)|stream of consciousness]] lyrics, anthemic melodies and driving beats and rhythms. Lead single "Push Upstairs", with its energetic piano melody, exemplified this new sound.

The album's working title was ''Tonight Matthew, I'm Going to be Underworld'', inspired by the famous catchphrase "Tonight [host name], I'm going to be...", used on the British celebrity impersonation TV programme ''[[Stars in Their Eyes]]''.<ref>[http://www.dirty.org/underworld/articles-uw.php?id=60 Dirty.org]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061011172218/http://www.dirty.org/underworld/articles-uw.php?id=60 |date=11 October 2006 }}</ref> The title was changed to ''Beaucoup Fish'' ("beaucoup" being [[French language|French]] for "much"), on the basis that the tongue-in-cheek title would be incomprehensible to listeners outside of the [[United Kingdom]]. The current title comes from a sampled voice used in "Jumbo", of an American from the Southern United States using the regional pronunciation, "bookoo fish."

"King of Snake" features a tape-edited guitar intro titled "Shudder", leading into a lively house track, before fading into sampled dialogue about the [[blood sport]] of snake baiting. "Skym" is a minimal ballad, inspired by [[This Mortal Coil]] and featuring little more than a solo keyboard and light piano chords over [[Karl Hyde]]'s vocals, while "Bruce Lee" has more akin to [[rock music]] than [[Trance (music genre)|trance]]. ''Beaucoup Fish'' also features a downtempo re-imagining of "Push Upstairs", playfully titled "Push Downstairs"; only the vocal track is kept between the two. "Moaner", a song featured in the 1997 film ''[[Batman & Robin (film)|Batman & Robin]]'', is presented on ''Beaucoup Fish'' in its slightly edited soundtrack album version, previously available on an Underworld CD single.

"Push Upstairs" and second single "[[Jumbo (Underworld song)|Jumbo]]" were both hits on the dance charts and in clubs. ''Beaucoup Fish'' was well-received critically (one review calling it "[[electronica]]'s ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon]]''") and remains Underworld's most successful album, with over two million copies sold.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}