I dont know if any of you here like the chemical brothers. I have been a huge fan since i can remember and was soooo excited about the new album "push the button". I eventually got round to listening to it this week and dear oh dear it is poor. The single with Q-tip is the only good song on there....
Should i give it another listen? Any one agree or am i gonna get told off for talking about such a thing?
Lyn x
What a let down
2Lyn, you've simply got to get the hang of this internet promotion thing. See, we pay you to say good things about our artists under pretense of anonymous fandom.
When you first came to us as an unpaid intern, you seemed willing to do whatever it took to get on the "inside track" of the music biz. However, with this last little stunt (do you think we can't check your internet history?), you have pushed us too far.
Please have your desk cleared by 5:00 and security will escort you out the door.
When you first came to us as an unpaid intern, you seemed willing to do whatever it took to get on the "inside track" of the music biz. However, with this last little stunt (do you think we can't check your internet history?), you have pushed us too far.
Please have your desk cleared by 5:00 and security will escort you out the door.
What a let down
3Dylan, I think you should be forced to hand in your badge and gun for the fasion faux-pas that greets people that visit your website. Blue slacks tapered at the ankle, white socks and shiny black shoes?
You're off the case. I outta throw the book at you.
As for the Chemical Crappers, they belong to a long line of dance 'heavyweights' that seem to have become the equivalent of stadium rock bands. I'm thinking of outfits like the Prodigy, Basement Jaxx and Twatboy Slim here. So much of their output seems to be vacuous nonsense that's too consciously aimed at spastificating the gurning masses. All the breaks seem predictable, all the filtered bass lines sound the same, all the sampled whoops and yeahs sound the same.
Am I asking for too much to want these people to do something even vaguely challenging? I mean, I'm not asking Liam Howlett to listen to Xenakis and introduce probabilistic compositions to stadium-orientated-dance (SOD), but come on, a little less brainlessness would be welcome.
Push The Button just didn't even register with me. I listened to the first album at 16 or whatever and was impressed by its energy. It's easy to forget how fresh the Chemical Rotters were in the early Nineties. Over the years, a kind of collective rot seems to have set in with them and artists of their ilk. None of them seem relevant anymore. I don't even know why I care. I don't even know why I sat down with Push The button when I knew it would probably fail to impress me anyway. I don't even know why I'm writing this now.
You're off the case. I outta throw the book at you.
As for the Chemical Crappers, they belong to a long line of dance 'heavyweights' that seem to have become the equivalent of stadium rock bands. I'm thinking of outfits like the Prodigy, Basement Jaxx and Twatboy Slim here. So much of their output seems to be vacuous nonsense that's too consciously aimed at spastificating the gurning masses. All the breaks seem predictable, all the filtered bass lines sound the same, all the sampled whoops and yeahs sound the same.
Am I asking for too much to want these people to do something even vaguely challenging? I mean, I'm not asking Liam Howlett to listen to Xenakis and introduce probabilistic compositions to stadium-orientated-dance (SOD), but come on, a little less brainlessness would be welcome.
Push The Button just didn't even register with me. I listened to the first album at 16 or whatever and was impressed by its energy. It's easy to forget how fresh the Chemical Rotters were in the early Nineties. Over the years, a kind of collective rot seems to have set in with them and artists of their ilk. None of them seem relevant anymore. I don't even know why I care. I don't even know why I sat down with Push The button when I knew it would probably fail to impress me anyway. I don't even know why I'm writing this now.
What a let down
4Bugger, i think i have gone to far
Next time i will be nicer and talk in a much better tone
sorry
Next time i will be nicer and talk in a much better tone
sorry
What a let down
5The Chems (that sounds like faux-English journo critspeak bullshit doesn't it?) had one good song in their entire career: "Get Up On It Like This" from the Loops Of Fury EP. Everything else is as Rimbaud III has described it.
Lyn, don't feel so bad: try a Crap/Not Crap and really put them to the test!
I'm gonna catch him anyway. 'Cause I'm a loose cannon, and this time it's personal etc.etc.etc.
Lyn, don't feel so bad: try a Crap/Not Crap and really put them to the test!
Rimbaud III wrote:Dylan, I think you should be forced to hand in your badge and gun for the fasion faux-pas that greets people that visit your website. Blue slacks tapered at the ankle, white socks and shiny black shoes?
You're off the case. I outta throw the book at you.
I'm gonna catch him anyway. 'Cause I'm a loose cannon, and this time it's personal etc.etc.etc.
What a let down
6I really have a soft spot for a few Chemical Bros. songs, including but not limited to "Life is Sweet" and "Piku." Their "Live at the Social Vol. 1" mix cd has some excellent tracks on it as well.
You have to keep in mind, this is basically dance music. Dance music isn't meant to be intellectual.
You have to keep in mind, this is basically dance music. Dance music isn't meant to be intellectual.
Rick Reuben wrote:You are dumber than week-old donuts.
What a let down
7I liked their "Blue Monday" homage with Barney Sumner on vocals. It was really good. Was that called "Surrender"? Good song.
matthew wrote:His Life and his Death gives us LIFE.......supernatural life- which is His own life because he is God and Man. This is all straight Catholicism....no nuttiness or mystical crap here.