Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own POLL*

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

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"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.

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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.

First album weirdly not talked about much, I find?

I've always kinda felt the first two albums were secretly way too tuff n ruff outside the singles for a lot of people, Surrender seemed to be greeted with a lot of pent up enthusiasm amongst friends of mine who wanted a dance album that was "crossover" in substance as well as reputation (to be fair they were all 17 years old).

Opposite here. Surrender was not well greeted as far as I remember. Way too diluted and Britpoppy.

yeah I was reading magazines and on a bunch of dumb mailing lists at the time and it seemed like a lot of people were not a fan of Surrender - though I liked it quite a bit

I do revisit Dig from time to time and I agree, it ought to sound terribly dated by now but it still rules.

I haven't heard surrender for a while but memory is a couple good tracks and mostly disappointment.

rarely listen to exit planet dust, dig your own hole or surrender (lol @ my last post itt), but all 3 still sound great when i do, especially dig. massive, mighty, and dated just right. beyond the odd stray track ("star guitar"), i'm not much interested in what came after. so put me down with the hivemind, i guess.

Star Guitar is great yeah.

I definitely remember Surrender being met with mild disappointment compared to the first couple, especially given the monstrous single that preceded it. Then again it was 1999 and that was happening with most of the big album dance releases.

the best thing about the first album is that there's no Noel Gallagher on it. Somehow I really like the Tim Burgess track.

His voice is so fx'd up, tho (Noel's), it's not blatantly obvious that it's hum

him

rediscovered my love for this and EPD by adding them to my workout playlist. they always deliver too.

This has always been a favorite of mine. From start to finish it is damn solid and the last 2 tracks create a hugely epic ending. I'd probably vote for Elektrobank.

I was recently stoked to discover Got Glint off of Surrender heavily sampled Bernard Fevre. I was recently listening to Cosmos 2043 and Earth Message was essentially a stripped down version of the song. Fun times.

RE: Surrender (upthread), I remember liking it quite a lot at the time of its release, even if (or because?) it was different from the (studio) albums that proceeded it: https://web.archive.org/web/20010112123300/http://www.skinny.com/music/reviews/1999/06/html/chemicalbros2.html

I heard Surrender as the crossover hybrid that appealed to Friends of Tim F; its more accessible aesthetics as a set list complement to the to roughest moments of Exit and Dig. (Fwiw, my friends and I were in our mid-20's.)

I always forget how aggressive and just loud "Setting Sun" is.

When I was 17 it sounded very dangerous and intense and sexy and it still kind of does.

I also remember Where Do I Begin completely blowing my mind at the time, the idea of a "singer songwriter" doing a looped, four-line, wistful poem over a druggy backwards guitar sample and then going into a massive breakbeat. My god that sounds terrible when I write it out but it's sooooo good.

25 years... Time can be scary sometimes.

all the alt mixes on the reissue are really good. Especially the one of it doesn't matter. Listen to that one with some good headphones and you'll have a good time.

Might have to pick it up, I bought the original LP back in the day without a way to play it and when I finally got a turntable I found out I got two of the first record

Surprisingly this record actually sorta holds up

Yeah, it slaps.

Perfect album that changed my life when I was 9

"sorta"?????????