Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own POLL*

STOP AGREEING WITH ME. IT REALLY FREAKS ME OUT WHEN YOU DO THIS.

Phew! Thank God I'm not the only one.

Louis and Kate, up a tree, listening to p-r-o-g.

It would never work. He prefers Nu Secret Machines to School of Seven Bells.

OUCH

(I suspected that comment on the '08 albumz thread wouldn't pass unnoticed)

Actually, Louis, what's yr take on Justice? They sample Goblin, they are prog as fuck, ILX hates them.

This question is a total deal-breaker as to whether we can be sneaky sneaky progfriends or not. ;-)

omg you just referenced connan and the mockasins

like, that song is both one of the most disturbing and yet enjoyable NZ creep-pop romps I've probably ever heard

Have you seen the video? It's... so utterly wrong and yet so strangely right. I dreamed about those little dancing doghead girls last night.

GET A ROOM

The bit with the spiralling trombone zoom-shot is actually ingrained onto my mind

Answer the question! Jooosteeeece. Chemicals Brothers for the naughties or ironic sub-Daft Punk wank?

It's important.

Also, Kate, have you heard the B-SIDE? It's called "I Nude You" and is actually even scarier/creepier/weirder than SSD, until it decides to turn into an epic and actually rather enjoyable acid guitar-solo

I uh haven't heard much Justice, but I've not been particularly fond of what I've heard, although this has only been from a couple of very fleeting listens

my lovely thread...

Enjoy, HKM:

That middle-eight is like the end of Irreversible but with even more implicit psychological trauma

Sorry, Enrique. :-(

Too much Turkish Delight. It has the same effect on me as carrot cake.

That middle-eight is like the end of Irreversible but with even more implicit psychological trauma

― I want sprinkles (country matters), Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:42 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

straight to 102 motherfucker

Dorian's OTM here - what's so great about Dig Your Own Hole (and Exit Planet Dust, and by extension Orbital's Brown album) is that they helped define an approach to how a dance album should work, ie like a DJ set.

whoa there, how is DYOH like a DJ set? The actual style of music on that record veers it so far away from a DJ set it's untrue.

At least Surrender (and the actually v good Come With Us, anyone want to stick neck out and say it's their best record) had more straight up dance tracks on them, even amongst the overdone collaborations.

The real tragedy was that shit one with the Secret Machines and stuff on it.

maybe favourite chemical brothers record

how is DYOH like a DJ set?

like a big beat dj set... not literally; it's a 60min LP, but it does pretty much what dorian says.

The actual style of music on that record veers it so far away from a DJ set it's untrue.

The actual style of music is irrelevant. It is like a DJ set in that it mostly flows together and has an obvious shape to it. Maybe "mix album" rather than DJ set though.

CONCEPT ALBUM is the phrase that's an elephant in the room here.

No it isn't.

the chems positioned this as 'the sgt pepper of big beat' for real

― meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:23 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I like this record but it has aged really badly to be fair. Surrender or Come With Us both top this for me.

tho they prob have aged badly too

I don't think I've played any of them in at least five years actually but strangely Surrender is the only one this thread has made me want to go back to.

i think surrender might be better but this was more ehhh personally significant.

Charming biographical insight.

i try not to go over on to two lines, disrupts the cut n thrust <- ilm pro tip.

Ronan repping S and CWU rather than this because he's younger? Most of us doing the hard love for DYOH were 18/19 when it came out?

Matt, you contributed to the WATN thread and that came out less than 2 years ago IIRC

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

Errrmmmm... not quite. God, you youngsters.

oldsters more like. i was 16.

saw 'em live on the DYOH tour...fucken quality rave that was

how old were you? you must have been about 11.

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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