Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own POLL*

I listened to DYOH when it came out, but wasn't club going age, sure.

10 and loving it, pilly-willy apart

It's not even about being club-going age, I'd have thought; it'sabout finishing your A Levels and driving around Torquay in your mate's dad's SEAT Ibiza listening to Primal Scream and Chemical Brothers and the dub remix of One Big Family by Embrace.

Refusing to parse the phrase "pilly-willy apart" in case it's sexual.

Most of us doing the hard love for DYOH were 18/19 when it came out?

oh man, I wish

I think Ronan may have a point with Come With Us; that vies with Dig Your Own Hole as my favorite Chems album.

xp: lol Nick

I was... errrrmm... 27? 28? I spent a lot of time in the UK that summer, and the Chemical Brothers were *everywhere* so I just have a lot of nostalgic appreciation for this album. They headlined some festival that I went to and it was just magical.

I have the same kid of pavlovian response to Cornershop's Brimful of Asha, too. But, funnily enough, the same time and place made me absolutely hate Fatboy Slim.

oh man, now there is someone whose music has not aged well outside of a few key songs

"santa cruz" amirite

DYOH and possible the chemicals in general is all about one hot sunny day in a park just outside of brighton.

It's not even about being club-going age, I'd have thought; it'sabout finishing your A Levels and driving around Torquay in your mate's dad's SEAT Ibiza listening to Primal Scream and Chemical Brothers and the dub remix of One Big Family by Embrace.

― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:18 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i was with you all the way up to the end there

TS: havin' it in Ibiza vs havn't it in a Seat Ibiza

vs. neverhad't in a seat

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OK, OK, Ok, enough Chemical Brothers for now. The 90s are over. I'm gonna go off and listen to Connan Mockasin until I puke. Even if his voice is so fey he makes Bobb Trimble sound like Danzig by comparison.

I can't even imagine that level of feyness. He must be made of meringue.

HE TOTALLY IS.

I only realised after the fact that Kate's CATM reference springs from an LOTP support-slot. I thought they were a special secret only I and other student radio DJs knew about, having received their single in the mail about a year and a half ago

Sorry I'm just not cool enough to be a student radio DJ.

::rolls eyes::

Oh that magical circle where the special people get promo CDs from jobbing indie bands in the post.

No, I mean that I thought they were, like, totally and utterly obscure, and that people only heard them if their PR company sent them their records xp

Exactly, Matt

Only student DJs actually get excited about getting CDs from jobbing indie bands. Bitter, jaded ex music journos tend to file all promo CDs in the Round File.

I chucked about two dozen promo freebie bollocks things in the bin last week. I've not even written for anywhere in MONTHS. Leave me alone.

Believe me, it got less and less exciting after the first half-dozen

(Not to try and OUT-INDIE Louis or anything, but I did actually find out about Connan from some genuine Teenagers - I have my ear to the ground of today's modern yoot, me. I find out about bands the old fashioned way - I read them getting slashed on LiveJournal!)

I still have huge piles of unlistened-to near-certain-crap lying about, and have fantasies of one day remixing them all together into a brilliant work of epic genius

Oh man Kate that is unimaginable

back with another one of those block rockin' beats

I am sorry for making this thread about Connan Mockasin and Bobb Trimble fey out-indie-ing each other posturing. (That is some slash that needs to happen... hrmmm...)

Ooh ooh yeah, Big Beat, electro, um, Chemical Brothers, yeah. HEY GIRLS. HEY BOYS. SUPERSTAR DJs HERE WE GO!

getting promos as a student was like Christmas every day. i got Middle Of Nowhere a few months before release, before internet leaks really took off.

Great finds in student radio promo piles: years ago when I first worked at the library and it was the music & film department, we had the old uni radio vinyl collection, which was mostly utter shit (a Momus 12", I mean, COME ON), but in amongst all the crap I found a 12" copy of the Lazarus EP by the Boos, and a 12" of Blue by Bark Psychosis. So it's not all total crap. Just most of it.

getting promos as a student was like Christmas every day. i got Middle Of Nowhere a few months before release, before internet leaks really took off.

― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, February 24, 2009 5:22 PM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

samesies... not too many rap cds. we had handsome boy modelling club.

those were the days when you actually got good things in the mail

like, in our radio library, there's actually quite a lot of good stuff from the 90's/early 00's, but the recent additions have seen some crazy drop-off

you hardly ever got American music

even music hacks seem to have to go into the record company offices to, like, hear what they're meant to be reviewing nowadays. *shakes head*

ANYWAY.

who is this doin' this synthetic type o' alpha beta psychedelic funkin'

i actually like this idea of hearing an album for the first time with a bunch of people in similar position in same place tho

it's like FILMS omg

k-hole & electrobank my favorites when i last listened to this (july 24th, 1998, 3:43-4:46 pm). went w k-hole cuz it's too short, which is always nice

lol

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

"Where Do I Begin". This is my least favourite Chemicals album and I have no idea why people consider it their best. I like their underrated noughties work generally much better, although the debut probably remains my favourite Chemicals album.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I think this is almost the perfect outcome

I guess I'm just another un-hip late comer to the Chems who worshipped Surrender apon release and thought Dig was feh, aside from the awesome-even-to-idoits Setting Sun... all of which makes me the height of douche baggary.

i wanna know what geir thinks of the last 90 seconds of his favourite track

This record sounds so good to me now, first time listening in probably over a decade. Even the overplayed at the time "Setting Sun" is sexy as hell.

I love ILX.

K Hole!!!

So so dope

Their first album too, is a lot more banging than I remember.