Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own POLL*

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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

meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link

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

Local Garda, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link

tho they prob have aged badly too

Local Garda, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

David Bentley: Rhythm Ace (Matt DC), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link

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

meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link

Charming biographical insight.

David Bentley: Rhythm Ace (Matt DC), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link

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

meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link

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?

Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link

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

I want sprinkles (country matters), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link

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

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

Sneaky Sneaky Prog Friend (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link

oldsters more like. i was 16.

meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link

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

I want sprinkles (country matters), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link

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

Ed, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link

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

Local Garda, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link

10 and loving it, pilly-willy apart

I want sprinkles (country matters), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link

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, 24 February 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link

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

Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link

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

Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

Sneaky Sneaky Prog Friend (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link

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

Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link

"santa cruz" amirite

I want sprinkles (country matters), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link

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

Ed, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link

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

meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link

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

O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link

vs. neverhad't in a seat

I want sprinkles (country matters), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link

This thread has been locked by a mean administrator.

Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

Sneaky Sneaky Prog Friend (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link

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

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link

HE TOTALLY IS.

Sneaky Sneaky Prog Friend (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link

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

I want sprinkles (country matters), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link

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

::rolls eyes::

Sneaky Sneaky Prog Friend (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:11 (fifteen years ago) link

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

David Bentley: Rhythm Ace (Matt DC), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:13 (fifteen years ago) link

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

I want sprinkles (country matters), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

Sneaky Sneaky Prog Friend (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link

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

I want sprinkles (country matters), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link

(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!)

Sneaky Sneaky Prog Friend (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link

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

I want sprinkles (country matters), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link

back with another one of those block rockin' beats

meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link

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!

Sneaky Sneaky Prog Friend (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link

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, 24 February 2009 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link

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

I want sprinkles (country matters), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link

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

I want sprinkles (country matters), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link

you hardly ever got American music

O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link

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*

meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link

ANYWAY.

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

I want sprinkles (country matters), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link

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

O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link

it's like FILMS omg

O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link


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