― white boi, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)
― Guuzbourg (Guuzbourg), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 21:23 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:18 (twenty years ago)
― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:57 (twenty years ago)
― splooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:59 (twenty years ago)
― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:42 (twenty years ago)
― splooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago)
And the album? Collaboration-tastic as per. Kele from Bloc Party barely blips on the radar, Anwar Superstar (anyone know more about this chap?) provides some fabulous rapping on the album's joint best track "Left Right"; and The Magic Numbers allow a track they've quite obviously written themselves - it's, yknow, an actual *song* - to be tweaked and twiddled by Tom & Ed to dizzying effect - another highlight.
That's it though, really. No huge hit, no underground floorfiller, not even Tim Burgess can save them apparently. Dullorama.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:29 (twenty years ago)
― splooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:31 (twenty years ago)
― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago)
― Guuzbourg (Guuzbourg), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago)
― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago)
― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago)
(xpost nate you are drunk)
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago)
I am not drunk. Just irritable. From all you player haters. And yes, Junior Boys BORED THE FUCK OUT OF ME. They have one good single. That's it.
― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago)
― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago)
― christopher (WHO), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 02:47 (twenty years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 02:54 (twenty years ago)
― christopher (WHO), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago)
― adam west (adamwest), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 02:45 (twenty years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 03:46 (twenty years ago)
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 12:58 (twenty years ago)
Muslim rapper from New Jersey, younger brother of Mos Def. http://www.zebox.com/goodfellamusic/music/
― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 14:04 (twenty years ago)
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 14:22 (twenty years ago)
I have listened to four tracks so far and it is the Chemical Brothers fucking with mideastern/Timbalandian/Neptunian/postpunk-disco pop conventions! What is wrong with you funhaters?! Unless tracks 5-8, 10 and 11 suck ass (and I am really not trusting the opinion right now of anyone who says they do), this is going to be their Kish Kash.
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago)
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago)
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago)
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago)
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago)
― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago)
Funny thing about the track sequencing: this is the first Chemicals record ever that doesn't follow the midtempo-funk-anthem -> super-uptempo speed funk 1-2 of their last four.
More reassuringly, they still like them some big-ass explosions.
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 19:36 (twenty years ago)
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:24 (twenty years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:58 (twenty years ago)
The Chemical Brothers - Push The Button[ADVANCE-PROMO-2005](--aps).torrent
― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:15 (twenty years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:18 (twenty years ago)
― adam west (adamwest), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:49 (twenty years ago)
mark p unwittingly otm
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago)
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:06 (twenty years ago)
* - which I actually really really loved, but never mind.
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:33 (twenty years ago)
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:40 (twenty years ago)
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:46 (twenty years ago)
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:53 (twenty years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 30 December 2004 02:41 (twenty years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 30 December 2004 02:58 (twenty years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)
hearing 'Left right' i just think they should've produced 'Mosh' for Marshall
― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)
― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)
― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)
EXACTLY.
Close Your Eyes is nice. Who are these Magic Numbers people?
Don't get me started, DC. Come to Hedonistic next Friday and i'll give you a CD innit.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)
― major jingleberries (jingleberries), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)
― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)
― surface noise slight return, Saturday, 15 January 2005 07:15 (twenty years ago)
Not so sure about the rest of it, some of the breaksy stuff is just like worse versions of old tracks.
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 15 January 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 15 January 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)
I mean "dance act collaborates with indie rapper for politically charged Public Enemy influenced 'real hiphop' track". So fucking done by now.
They're obviously great producers but you feel there's a lack of focus on this album, and while on Come With Us they channelled that lack of focus or direction into making a fairly faceless club record, on Push The Button it's like they mashed together a load of collaborations and tried to make an album of songs.
I'm not feeling it, mostly. But yeah not as bad as the Prodigy, which is scant praise. Guuzbourg otm.
Also that "The Big Jump" track would be good except for the fucking awful vocal and the ridiculous guitars.
There's alot of overproduction on the record, or parts where you feel if they hadn't got such an amazing studio the tunes might be better!
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 15 January 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)
As for this I don't know if you're smoking Dan Perry's patented loyalty brand cigarettes but Surrender/Come With Us are so much better than this record.
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 15 January 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 15 January 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)
― mike h. (mike h.), Saturday, 15 January 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 15 January 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)
TS: Loyalty-brand cigarettes vs. Haterade
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Saturday, 15 January 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)
It's hardly haterade. there's an entire universe below them that, increasingly, suffers as a result of their presence. not their fault but not a reason to praise them blindly either.
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 15 January 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Sunday, 16 January 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 16 January 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)
SO so OTM.I had a lot of trouble mustering up the interest to keep replaying my review copy.
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 16 January 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)
― Stevem On X (blueski), Sunday, 16 January 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)
When there are far superior options in 2005 such as Alex Smoke, Vitalic, Mental Overdrive, Apparat, Johan Skugge - why bother with The Chemical Brothers when they fail to deliver the goods !
The Chemical Brothers were at their peak in 1997, check the calendar year that was 8 years ago !
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 16 January 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 16 January 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Monday, 17 January 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)
― Igor Vodkpe (blueski), Monday, 17 January 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)
This seems like an unfair dichotomy to me Nate. The choice is not between the Chemical Bros and "specialisation" (by which I suspect you mean "hopeless obscurantism"). I mean, you listen to a hell of a lot of music, so if you're choosing not to investigate dance music beyond The Chemical Bros then that's a choice and not a practical necessity. It's a bit like dismissing crunk on the grounds that it's for hip hop specialists.
Of course DJ Martian's "[x] band is crap, please all listen to [insert Scandinavian art-metal band here] instead, k thanx" rants are difficult to take literally, and I might not run to his defence so quickly if I hadn't heard some Alex Smoke today and found out that he is in fact rather excellent.
That shouldn't change the fact that you're allowed to like the new Chemical Bros album; but I suspect that DJ Martian is really responding to the overwhelmingly disproportionate level of importance apportioned by the media to albums by increasingly off-their-game "big dance acts".
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 17 January 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 17 January 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 07:52 (twenty years ago)
― Stevem On X (blueski), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)
― Stevem On X (blueski), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)
And I agree wholeheartedly with the off-their-game dance act hype remark -- it's just that I'm savin' my lamentations for when the next Moby album comes out.
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)
Apparat's only really had that one Bpitch Control 12" that's been straight up danceable though hasn't he?
― itchy crabs, Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 20 January 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 27 January 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)
anyone heard the 'Flip The Switch' remix edition?
― Stevem On X (blueski), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)
― buck van smack (Buck Van Smack), Saturday, 29 January 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)
also: The Magic Numbers track is fab.
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 31 July 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 31 July 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)
On another note, I heard a DJ cut from Galvanize into a Q-tip sample tonight. How obvious is that shit?
― mike h. (mike h.), Sunday, 31 July 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)
But yeah, the DFA remix of "The Boxer" is fabulous. YSI in a minute.
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 31 July 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)
i missed/ignored this at the time. all i've heard is "surface to air", three days ago, and i'm listening to it on repeat. the reason for that, simply, is that i'm kind of pissed off/delighted that everything i was trying to do with music in 2001 was finally done properly/better/beautifully. several fucking years later, with substantially better production. fucking gaaah.
seriously: structurally, melodically, everything ... this track is what we were aiming for. if i'd written this, i'd die happy. i e-mailed it to the other guy i made music with and he just said "fuck".
It is SCIENTIFICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to make a track with chugging motorik Kraftwerk synths, New Order bass and wob-wob-wobbing electro breakdown and for it to be anything less than marvellous
dude. i can e-mail you two years' worth of demos that prove you wrong.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 4 August 2008 20:47 (seventeen years ago)