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Exit Planet Dust
The Chemical Brothers
1995
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Like a review? Give it a thumb up to help us display relevant reviews!A favorite back in high school. Love the way it flows from track to track. It's cool that it works equally well as dance music and as a headphone ride. Starts with a Kraftwerk sample so you know they know their shit. I like the additive/subtractive way layers of elements/loops are used to build dramatic song structures. Tracks 1-6 are like the party and 7-11 are like the after-party. Used to put "one too many mornings" on mixtapes.
A soft focus laser (like the green ones in clubs that pan around) trained squarely on your pleasure zones that hits (tickles?) the spot more often than not. Agreeable by design, which isn't an issue here because the Brothers' dedication to making techno enjoyable for a wider audience means an appreciation of pop song form and healthy servings of beats. I tip my hat to them for their public service.
oh man, have i been waiting for this one. this was my first introduction to them, in the fall of 1995. i was super-leet, working in a computer lab, shuttling around my newton and an internal hard drive in the pocket of my mechanic's jacket. i'd remove the drive from a computer in the lab & install mine, write my papers or whatever, then put it all back together and go back home. and read the collected sherlock holmes on the bus back & forth on my newton. this is another 7-star album for me.
Everything I want out of an electronic music album. Literally bopped my head from start to finish.
I discovered The Chemical Brothers, like many people, with the follow-up to Exit Planet Dust, the also amazing Dig Your Own Hole, and back in the day getting my hands on these albums wasn't that easy. Even considering that, I hate myself for not having listened to this album in full back in the day. I only knew a few songs, which I thought were great, but listening to the overall album is a whole another experience. Damn, guess I'll be listening this one on repeat these days.
Really enjoyed some of these tracks. As with most electronic music, I can only listen to a few tracks before needing a break!
Cet album des Chemical Brothers m'a mis dans une colère noire. Il faut savoir que les Chemical Brothers ont coûté leur place dans la liste des 1001 à mon groupe favori, My Chemical Romance. En effet, seul un seul groupe de chimie pop pouvait être ajouté à la liste par Robert, qui a donc preferé les frères à la romance. Seulement, on se rend rapidement compte que ce choix est une erreur. Très vite, les Chemical Brothers vont effectuer leur première bévue: le substrat de soude est mélangé avec la solution aqueuse, ce qui provoque une légère odeur de brulé très désagrable dans le laboratoire. Ensuite, l'un des frères va venir renverser le contenu de son erlenmeyer sur le microscope du coin de table, ce qui démontre le peu d'aise avec laquelles les Chemical Brothers maniaient leur matériel. Enfin, le mélange acide nitrique/magnesium opéré ne prendra jamais la couleur bleue attendue. La comparaison fait très mal avec leurs camarades de classe de My Chemical Romance, qui dans le même temps ont obtenu deux prix nobel de chimie pour leur travaux sur l'arbre de Diane. Un scandale de plus à l'actif de Robert, qui n'en finit plus d'enchainer les décisions douteuses.
Un album caractéristique des Chemical Brothers. Ceux-ci se présentent d'abord en blouse blanche à l'entrée du laboratoire et s'avancent chacun vers un robinet. Ils se munissent alors d'eau distillée et commencent à rincer une poignée de tubes à essai ainsi qu'un bécher. Une fois ceci fait, l'un des brothers verse délicatement de l'eau dans un tube alors que le second brother y ajoute de l'acide éthanoïque. Ils étalonnent ensuite le pH-mètre avec les solutions tampon 4 et 7 et agitent la solution dont le pH est mesuré. L'examinateur les interrompt soudain et leur demande de se verser chacun un litre d'acide chlorhydrique dans la bouche. Les Chemical Brothers s'exécutent naïvement. Quelques secondes plus tard, les deux sont transportés d'urgence à l'hôpital et laissent ainsi leur matériel chimique dans le laboratoire.
Hugely underrated album from hugely underrated pioneers of big beat and electro. This is a belter!
A veces la electrónica me cansa porque me parece que puede ser muy monótona, pero con este disco no me paso, tiene varios moods (?) y es muy disfrutable
It's cool to hear electronic music that isn't just club music. This works just as well for simply setting a mood.
Surprisingly good! A nice mixture of chill, focusing and energising music, great for working to
Quality. Maybe a tad relentless at points Could do with some more variety between songs. The first six easily could all be the same song. Also didn't know they used to be called "the dust brothers"
- this album rocks but maybe dwells on some loops a little too long. - I forgot how much fun it is to work to big-beat, album is almost too dance-able to go with spreadsheets. - undersells its bass and guitars, oversells the phasing square synths. - fairly repetitious structure in most tracks (strong & creative intro, energetic beats to 3/4 mark, then a downtempo loop breakdown that's a little too long) - second half is a strong shift, astute ordering. - The Matrix 4 can't come fast enough.
Really enjoyed this. As always, what I expected was vastly different than what I received. Added to library.
Gyors, felpörget, egyáltalán nem egysíkú vagy unalmas. Get shit done érzésem van amikor hallgatom. Fogom még hallgatni.
I always liked "Dig your own hole" better (especially the buzz saw solo), but this one is great too. Very innovative, great beats. No song is a filler. And nice that they've put the more upbeat songs to the start and the more chill songs to the end. I absolutely see the impact it had at the time it came out.
I LOVE this! What an incredible debut album from the 70s fashion cover design to the songs. I've definitely been missing out for the last 16 or so years! At any rate better late than never. This album is aggressive in all the ways great dance music should be. It starts off with the promise "The brothers gonna work it out" then spends the next 49 minutes doing just that. The first half of the album fires on all cylinders. Ferocious! Then we get to enter "Chico's Groove" where the Brothers take things down a notch leading the beautiful "One Too Many Mornings" and into a perfect wind down. I kept cranking this up as the album progressed. So good that at times it had me wondering if someone dropped an E into my sparkling water... It will be tough to name a favorite song from this album. A fantastic masterpiece of EDM from start to finish!
I was excited to see The Chemical Brothers pop up on the rotation. I am familiar with this duo in association with other artists of the style music, but didn’t know the album. It definitely lived up to my expectations. I loved it.
Fucking love Chemical Brothers. One of the first bands I ever really fell in love with and they still have a special place in my heart. While I think they got even better than this debut, it's still absolutely killer.
I never thought I'd like me some electric guitar and drums. Chemical romance are crayyy boi
reminded me of being a seedy teenager in the late 90s, and of all those seedy cunts that listen to this type of tweaker shit. great album
Awesome relatively unknown Chemical Brothers album (atleast for me), brings me back to the rythem bangers of the 90's
This album is pretty dope - lots of really catchy loops and beats. 'Three Little Birdies Down Beats' and 'Chico's Groove' are the highlights for me. Easily a 4 star, closer to 4.5
I'm giving this a 4/5 solely because this type of music was in nearly every damn movie i watched growing up in the 90's and 2000's. From "Swordfish" to "The Matrix" this type of music is ingrained in me to like.
Pretty good house/electronica, but I prefer their tracks without vocals to the ones that have them.
Un disco muy prendido, para pasarla a gusto y en tachas. No tengo mucho que decir, me da energía y levanta el ánimo, puro party y mi parte favorito es la triada de los beats: "Three Little Birdies Down Beats", "Fuck Up Beats" y "Chemical Beats". 8/10
Pues bien en general, la primera parte del disco me pareció bastante divertida, movida, uplifting, etc. Agradezco que no haya lyrics realmente aquí. Aun así, conforme más avanzaba el disco me empezó a perder poco a poco. La que más disfruté fue Three Little Birdies Down Beats, porque sus beats son muy característicos de los noventa. Mood: Rave en la carretera a 180 kms/hr
This should not expand dong. But it does. (☉_☉). Na moral nao sabia que eu curtia Chemical Brothers mas ouvi duas vezes, back to back, e tomei um lsd. Produtividade no trabalho aumentou em cents%. Todos os fornecedores receberam pagamento adiantado e o salario de Fevereiro ja ta na conta. Three Little Birdies Down Beats eh a stand-out track. Perai que meu chefe esta me ligando
I would like to come back to this album in the future. Have heard one offs by the CBs, but never an album beginning to end.
Funky start. All the songs just are continuous which is cool. EDM. Fav songs Chemical Beats Three little birdies down beats One too Many Mornings
Good one! Groovy funky dancy beats, interesting vocals and just an overall good presentation. Seems more mature than 1995!
The first half of this album is fantastic. As someone who's never listened to the Chemical Brothers before, the first six tracks make it clear why they're so legendary. Awesome big beat tracks that flow into each other with classic acid synths and samples coming and going to keep it constantly refreshing. One of my favourite albums of all time is Daft Punk's Alive 2007, and this sounds like the precursor to that album. Then there's the second half... this half is honestly mediocre. The heavy dance beats give way to five mellowed out and honestly boring tracks. I have no desire to relisten to any of these tracks, and when I revisit this album I won't bother with them. First half: 5/5 Second half: 2/5 Total: 4/5
Great production and interesting variation in styles. Really enjoyed this record. Not quite 5 star material but would listen again
Carefully crafted from start to end. Love the transition from high energy to down low a little more than half way. Embodies the mood of all the movies and video games of the late 90s to early 00s... but came out in 95! What a pioneer. Main downside is repetition which was a bit too much for me to handle at once.
It was good but as an album it was very repetitive. I'd happily listen to individual tracks again but probably not a full album
I'm not at all educated in dance/electronic music, but what caught my ear was the finesse of the layering and the flow of each song. Will try to implement this into my road trip playlists.
Excellent debut released in the midst of Big Beat, a genre which produced a lot of brilliant records but was also quite one dimensional. Chemical Brothers did use this a template but added elements of techno and acid house on the likes of Somg To The Siren & Chemical Beats. The chilled Chico’s Groove brings some respite and the Beth Orten collab on closer Alive Alone is my favourite of the Chem Bros slower vocal tracks.
Sounds like taking LSD during a rave in the middle east. It's also good music to play in the background while coding. 3.9/5
Cool rock electronica fusion. I appreciate the roomy kit sound. Playground For A Wedgeless Firm is probably my favorite track.
This was definitely a step above most electronic dance music stuff. Still not my cup of tea, but every song was solid. Could imagine a DJ in a 90s rave just throwing this album on and just stepping away for an hour and no one would complain.
I enjoyed it, good vibes and electronic beats. More on the chill end especially on the back half, so it was some good background music for work. I'm a sucker for when songs lead straight into each other.
30. Exit Planet Dust - The Chemical Brothers 11 tracks. Not something I would usually listen to but despite it being an early album is very good, (and even better via headphones). Had me absolutely hooked from the get go and made me go looking for more afterwards. 4/5
Exit Planet Dust was an interesting listen. It did sound like it came from the 90s electronic scene. The tracks which all bled into one another had that gritty sound that seem related to the Achtung Baby through Pop U2 albums. It kept my attention throughout though with its every changes collages of sounds and beats. I enjoyed the second half more than the first from Chico's Groove to the last track, Alive Alone.
A brilliant debut that holds up today, a testament to them that they have six albums even better than this
It wasn't the right mood for this sound the day it was suggested but I do appreciate and like this style of music. I just wasn't interested in it at the moment.
Not generally my cup of tea, but there is a consistently energy level and tone that makes this a fine listen.
I've been meaning to investigate The Chemical Brothers for a while but hadn't gotten around to it. Glad this project gave me an entry point. This was a great soundtrack for my afternoon walk. Tempos were lively and kept me moving. I like it as background for work and kitchen grooves while making dinner. It's hard to distinguish between "songs" --- it's just one long dance party. Today that matched my mood and agenda perfectly.
I quite liked this. It's not something that you can just sit and listen to, but it sure makes a good, energetic soundtrack to anything you do to it. Electronica, especially without melody or vocals, can sometimes bore me, but I didn't get bored with any of it.
Great album, flows from style to style effortlessly smoothly. It goes a touch hard core dance for me at parts which brings down the rating to 4 but it’s still excellent
A brilliant debut that holds up today, a testament to them that they have six albums even better than this
There were a couple of songs that were very good. I really like that early EDM sounds.
Great album. Always have loved the brothers. The most melodic of the big electronica bands imo.
Loved this album. I had missed Exit Planet dust back when it came out...didn't start listening until Dig Your Own Hole. I think this is now my favorite Chemical Bros release. Love the slowdown songs at the end of the album. 4/5
Chill beats, pretty 90s electronic, has some nice droning and echoing that makes it less synthetic. I think 4 is pretty genorous but I do quite like this album, and hey, The Brother's gonna work it out!
This album is a little dated but still a joy to listen to. Beth Orton providing some of the vocals is also A+
3/30/2022 Today's Album: "Exit Planet Dust" by The Chemical Brothers - You know how a few reviews ago I was complaining about 2 albums having rather mediocre rapping, but the beat production being fairly good in comparison? Well, this album is like if they just removed the rapping and showcased how cool those beats are, but how stale they get over time. I am not saying it really sounds bad, as the production quality is rather high and a lot of the beats feel really energetic and danceable, but a lot of them after the first 2 tracks, Leave Home and In Dust We Trust, just feel really repetitive and don't really have interesting progressions despite how decent of beats they are. A lot of them also have elements that just drown out the rest of the beat and sound straight up ugly, like on the track Song To The Siren. (Probably intentional now that I think about it). That being said, they still sound like beats that would be fun to get totally lost in at a club on hard drugs and are somewhat enjoyable sober. The track Chemical Beats brings things back a little bit with a really long build up and a pretty solid drop into some added percussion and slightly more beat variation. It isn't a great track to me personally, but I can tell that there is a tad more variety with what it is trying to do. The track Chico's Groove takes a complete left turn and has a really cool synthetic and chilled-out groove to it. It's actually really pleasant to listen to and has a nice variation and bassline throughout. One Too Many Mornings follows this trend of pretty decent tracks, with a really nice chill beat joined by this angelic voice. It captures the feeling of waking up early after a night of partying and trying to start your day. Life Is Sweet is the first track to feature vocals in it, and I actually think this album would have sounded nice with some more. That being said, I enjoy that most of this album is instrumental. It's a pretty great track that leads us into the last 2. Playground For A Wedgeless Firm is kind of a strange noise rock experiment, with this weird descending synth and some horror strings in the back. Kind of weird, but then it leads us into the finisher, Alive Alone, which is another song with vocals, this time being female. It's sort of a spacey outro with lyrics contemplating life and relationships. It's a pretty solid track that ends this record off on a really nice note. Overall, this record really surprised me. I thought a lot of the beats in the beginning were really basic and boring, but the ending really popped off with some awesome material. Check this out if you like club music with some subtle tracks thrown in. Score: 8/10 A slow-burner, but worth it! Highlights: Leave Home, In Dust We Trust, Chico's Groove, One Too Many Mornings, Life Is Sweet, Alive Alone
Fucking great ravey album. Every track is straight fire and they flow through each other so seamlessly. Had a great time listening to it
#2 that I've encountered now in the Big Three of Big Beat, having heard Fatboy Slim prior and expecting The Prodigy to pop up at some point. I wasn't so impressed with Fatboy Slim's work, but I can get behind what The Chemical Brothers are doing with their debut. Layering psychadelic textures over groovy drum breaks, Exit Planet Dust exists in a perpetual party that is dense in soundscape. It's worth noting that Song To The Siren is the first-ever Big Beat song, being released as a single all the way back in 1992. This makes The Chemical Brothers he inventors of Big Beat, essentially, so their debut really cannot be understated. While not their best work, Exit Dust Planet is an important foray into the great club music of the 90's, especially in the UK. Also worth noting that this music is extremely repetitive. Take that as you will.
I fucking love this album. It's music that you can really dance to that somehow feels more meaningful. It's also an absolutely stellar debut album. I think that Dig Your Own Hole is better overall, but this is one not to be missed. Every song works in the context of the album. Big Beat is one of those musical movements that I would have loved to be able to be around when it was in its early days. I'm not sure that Big Beat gets its due with regard to its influence on modern music. So much of what has happened in EDM and hip-hop is using this style as its skeleton. The Chemical Brothers are the best part of that, turning out banger after absolute banger 4/5
Definitely just feels like generic 90s electronic to me now. Nothing too spectacular sadly
It's like a 3.5. This is really good electronic music with some alternative and rock undertones. Most these songs have a really nice beat - Very 90s Tom Cruise action movie vibes. The downfall is that it is solely electronic. No lyrics, just pure upbeat electronic. It'd be cool live, and it's great background for work or maybe skiing, but I wouldn't play it in most situations.
This felt like the ambient soundtrack of a sonic game. Fun, techno-y, and mostly instrumental.
Not bad. Generally not something I listen to all the time, but I like it in the background while working. At a club or rave it would be fun for sure. Also TIL that this is considered "Big Beat", which I looked up on Wikipedia. At first I thought it was acid house. I do like the breakbeats.
Some pretty cool beats, definitely would have listened to them back in middle school real hard, but a tad bit repetitive for me.
missing the nimbleness and texture of their best work but a taste of things to come (you know, at first i put 'dexterity' in place of nimbleness/texture, but the more i think about it, i think dexterity works)
I actually owned a Chemical Brothers album in college. You know, the one with the “back with another one of those block rocking beats!” song. I like this stuff in small doses and this album is no exception. I forgot they did the score for that flick HANNAH. Which, btw, is way better than the score for the new MORTAL KOMBAT movie which I just watched the other night. I don’t know where I’m going with all of this, so I guess I’ll just exit planet dust.
So I noticed that this even pre-dates Fatboy Slim by a couple years. Like Daft Punk, they were very influential, and like DP, I think some of their later LPs that brought in different vocalists and experimented with different styles were more interesting.
The phases of my listening experience were: Phase 1: (1st 3 songs) I love this shit. Phase 2: (Next 3 songs) Are these brothers going to mix it up a bit? Phase 3: (Track 7) They mixed it up! Yippee! Phase 4: (Track 8) I like that they mixed it up but don't care for what they mixed it with. I'm getting bored. I hope they go back to the Track 1- 6 style. Phase 5: (Track 9 - Life is sweet) Sweet is not the word that comes to mind. I'm struggling. (Track 10) I'm not going to make it through the whole album. Phase 6: (Track 11) Hey that's Beth Orton. We like her. I think I'll make it through the whole album! Being able to finish listening to the whole album is not my test for a 3 rating. Let's just say the album didn't end strong. I did like the dance club stuff at the start - or more accurately, I project that I would have liked all six tracks if I were listening to it in a dance club in the mid 90s rather than listening to it in my kitchen in the early 20s.
A surprisingly relaxing album, it's perfect to have on while working, it doesn't distract from the task at hand but decorates the space around you with sound instead. It's a nice place to spend some time.
I like me some chemical brothers. I do seem to be giving everything a 3 these days.. Struggling to expand my rating range
Pretty good, not exactly my style of music, but I can see myself being in the mood for it.
I remember when Chemical Brothers were emerging into the music scene. I didn't listen to them much, but I remember "Leave Home". I may know some of the other songs, but after a while it's a little hard to distinguish one song from the next. Would I listen to this again? Maybe not. There are some interesting sounds, on some of the tracks and the album does okay for me as some background music. I liked some tracks: "Three Little Birdies Down Beat", "Chemical Beats", "Chico's Groove". As a whole, the album gets a 3.
Why do I like this more than Eno or Gaton Project? A little more variation? A little more aggression? I don't know. But I do. Still, around the halfway mark - backgroundsville.
I’m in to the house/club/trance-y music. It allows me to turn my brain off and just feel the groove. This is an a reputable example, not a shining star.
I listened to a little bit of these guys when I was in high school and had no idea they'd been around for so long. The sound here is definitely a bit different from what I knew of them but still equally not totally my taste. The whole album flows well enough - the songs are all fairly similar - but I couldn't shake this cloying grunginess that I felt throughout the album. Made the rainy weather here that much dingier.
I had this album on in the background for many a homework session in high school because it’s not too slow but also not too distracting. Background music is all its good for though.
Reflections of a reformed raver... Yes, in college, I was a raver, and yes, I wore big doofy JNCOs. I was not a candy raver (no rainbow jewelry), but definitely hung out with some. I am so sorry to report that I have pretty much no pictures of that time. Such a shame... But the point - I listened to a lot of techno and electronic music from 98-02. And it was stuff like the Chemical Brothers that primed me for that in the mid-90s. It was their second album that I had more exposure to, not this one, but it's fingerprints are definitely on my musical journey in my late teens. So looking back, through significantly less bloodshot eyes, how does it hold up? Pretty well I think. I think there are more/better breaks on "Dig Your Own Hole," and just an overall positive evolution of their sound, but "Exit Planet Dust" is still good. The first half dragged at times, with sections going to long before a break or a new sample, but the second half was better. Apparently "Song to the Siren" was what got them their break, but it was my least favorite on the album. If you need to get in the right mood for this album, just imagine 20-year-old me (looking 16) in my enormous pants trying to do the liquid hands thing.
This is not what I expected. It's...okay. I'm sure that if I was into electronic music, this would be a seminal work, but it's just kind of noise to me mostly. Not bad, per se, though.
Big beat bombast, sirens and guitars - what’s not to love? Great hooks and lovely soundscapes the album has a good flow and delivers a few bangers as well. Still sounds great today but probably hints at the greatness this band will go on to achieve rather than delivering greatness itself.
Pretty cool music. I think I had never heard a song from this album despite not being a complete stranger to The Chemical Brothers. But I think it's pretty neat.
Olisin halunnut tykätä enemmän. Levy alkoi parilla kunnon bangerillä ja aloin jo innostua, sitten oli vähän yksitoikkoisempi ilmeisesti livebiisi ja loppulevy oli sitten sellaista enempi minun mielestä tunnusomaisempaa Chemical Brothers -jurnuttelua.
Classic electronic still sounds a lot better than most stuff today. But have to admit I got a bit bored on this listen and probably wouldn't come back to it again for a while.
Not entirely gripping enough to demand full attention. But definitely not bad playing in the background. I imagine that for some things it'd be pretty great as background music, for example for action video games. For working, OK but not the best. Rounded down from a 3.5.
I like the Chemical Brothers and their dancey electronic music. I also liked the break from the streak of pretty generic 60s music I've had all week. But I fail to see the "greatness" of such an album. It's good! I like it! But is it one of the 1001 most important albums? Or one of the 1001 I NEEDED to hear? Idk.
I wonder what it’s like to have written the album that inspired 10 Fast & the Furious movies
This was ok, hasn't got most of my favourite chemical brothers songs on there though. Found a few tracks quite boring
of this genre, the chemical brothers are my favorite. Their music is always driving forward.
Tried listening to it whilst driving fast in my car, as it seemed to be the right environment (no clubs or drugs where i live), but still didn't really tickle my fancy. A fee if the mkre melodic skngs appealed, however.
Bwam-dit-dit-dit-dit-duh-dum. Bwam-dit-dit-dit-dit-duh-dum. Bwam-dit-dit-dit-dit-duh-dum. Bwam-dit-dit-dit-dit-duh-dum. (x32) Best track: In Dust We Trust
This would be great music to have in the background if I wore a trenchcoat and was invading the industrial district of a city trying to find an underground criminal network. Jokes aside it's a solid instrumental album - industrial techno sounding and it really sounds like the music in tons of videogames I played growing up. I have a preference for some of their later work which is more vocal heavy (aka they exist).
This is a good record, though SUPER abrasive and unpleasant for the cold november morning I had to listen to it. I just want cocoa and comfort!
I’m in, characters fizz over the membrane. There’s risk here, but no jeopardy: they might notice something’s different, can happen, they’re not total brats; but I’ll be in El Salvador - Dios, Unión, Libertad - by the time they’ve got a handle on the damage. I’m riding higher, every touch magnetic, the thrill in the code adrenaline-sugar-seduction. Underneath the beat of the taps in the deep dark humming between those bleeding pixel greens though, it’s her. Raven-haired, always somewhere else, her. But there’s no place in the interface for her, and she isn’t hiding. I keep looking all the same.
*Not quite sure how to describe this. *90's Techno/EDM? Uses guitars, drums, bass, synths, vocal ad libs, DJ scratches etc. *Up tempo and kind of gritty sounding *Song transitions are really good *Wouldn't be surprised if these have been sampled in rap/hip-hop tracks
What? I'm supposed to listen to an album from the Chemical Brothers and it doesn't include Block Rockin' Beats? And that wasn't their stuff in the first Matrix? That shows what I know of them coming in. Didn't know they were from Manchester (though much happier my cousin in-law from there and I bond over Oasis). It was surprisingly good...at least to start. Leave Home and in Dust We Trust had me bopping along. From there it went from meh song to good song and back again for the rest of the album. But it didn't grow on me with more listens.
The songs do tend to blur together on this, but that's how I always feel about techno. Eminem said it best: "Nobody listens to techno!" I like the groove, it's good background music. But there's nothing here that stood out.
Big beat bombast, sirens and guitars - what’s not to love? Great hooks and lovely soundscapes the album has a good flow and delivers a few bangers as well. Still sounds great today but probably hints at the greatness this band will go on to achieve rather than delivering greatness itself.
Kom mér mikið á óvart - er ekki mikið teknó/electró tónlist en það var mjög skemmtilegt að láta þessa plötu renna í gegn þegar ég var í göngutúr með Bond í dag. 3/5
It was good, but there were lots of repetitive points in each track that could've been reduced. It's the equivalent of using "very" while writing an essay xD
Bit too fancy for me. Some good stuff on there but didn’t blow me away and turn me into a fuckin rave ed
Roher und Breakbeatiger als spätere Chemical Brothers Sachen. Prodigy ist da (Music for a jilted generation). Trocken und tanzbar - aber auf Albumlänge bissl ermüdend.
Hui die geben schon Gas! Is mir heut a bissl zu stressig, aber wenn man Energie loswerden will, passt das schon.
Upphafslagið er alger banger, mjög góður tíundi áratugur. Restin er fín, en ekki nándar eins eftirminnileg.
This is the debut album from the Chemical Brothers, formerly Dust Brothers, which are an edm DJ duo from London. After a few years of remixing songs and DJing in clubs, the duo saw an opportunity to bring electronica music to the young people of UK - and the world - who were so craving a new take on edm music. This album was a big hit in the UK, staying on the charts for 5 years. Only half a year after release, this album was certified platinum in the UK. The album did well in the US too. It was one of the first few European post-techno edm albums that gained popularity in the US. The music on this album inspired similar projects from Fatboy Slim and Daft Punk. I knew immediately that I would like this album, since I saw it was edm music, but the music has a nostalgic vibe to me because it was released before I was born. Listening to old edm music is super interesting, because you get a sense of how much the genre has changed over just a few decades. I highly recommend this album to any fan of edm/dance music!
Niet hun beste, en hier en daar wat teveel van het goede maar kan dit toch altijd wel waarderen.
No screeching. Hooray!! A nice calm background beat session with subtle layering. Doesn't get too repetitive, and a nice groove to crush through some work. I particularly liked the last song "Alive Alone" - a bit more mellow. Ethereal, even.
the phase pans are very of the time, prefer the sparser bits and really needs to be experienced live, as its not great car music
Oe vandaag weer zo'n klassieker: Chemical Bros! Ik denk dat het misschien wel 20 jaar geleden is dat ik dit album nog gehoord heb!! Klinkt allemaal toch wel heel lekker. Mijn favoriet: One Too Many Mornings ***
Good electronica album. Not something I’d listen to much, but can see why folks enjoy it. Good rhythms and changes
Hard, fast. An album that flows well, almost a little too well. It's easy to get lost in the groove and not realize what track you're on. Think it finishes a bit weak, as well. Favorite tracks: "Chico's Groove", "One Too Many Mornings"
I know this was groundbreaking stuff at the time, but sounds like some standard beats today. Fun though.
Not my cup of tea so my opinion might not be 100% relevant. Some nice stuff, not amazed but also not dissappointed. I'll try to listen to it few more times in following weeks.
The Chemical Brothers did not have any hits in The Netherlands as far as I know. Althoug I like electronical music this album was not for me. Only the number Alive Alone had something.
Idk these all sound like 90s pump up jams. "Chico's Groove" was really the only one that caught my ear.
This sounds like a soundtrack from the Matrix and similar to that series it hasn’t aged very well and sounds dated. The beats and loops are incessantly driving and propulsive but there simply isn’t enough variety in tempo or mood. Kraftwerk and Aphex Twin did it much better. Apparently they mix it up near the end of the album but I fell asleep by song 6, too little too late for me.
I can appreciate this for what it is, but it's simply not my cup of java. It's a big sounding record, a kitchen sink approach to the arrangements (preferable to electro minimalism in my opinion) but doesn't float my boat
This somehow had more going on through its repetitive beats and samples than LCD Soundsystem (my only other real point of reference for this; it’s not my thing, really). I couldn’t tell you why - it felt a little more handcrafted perhaps? A little more longing darkness? But still, this kind of fare does nothing much for me. Giving it 2 because I think that’s what I gave LCD Soundsystem and I preferred this.
Ok. Gav mig många härliga nostalgi-vibbar till FIFA 99 och Fatboy Slims The Rockefeller Skank. Vissa låtar blir för repetitiva, men då är jag inte heller något technohead. Men föredrar 90-talets techno före dagens!! Bästa låt: Leave Home. Alive Alone också bra.
good music for maintaining tension in the scene where they plan/execute breaking into a building and hacking the mainframe
Not really a genre suited to album listening. Overly long and repetitive tracks (and irritating vocal samples), plus none of the bangers they had on some of their later albums.
Olipas raskasta kuunneltavaa. Ei ollenkaan oma genre ja tämä oli vähän yksitoikkoista jopa muihin kuulemiini Chemical Brothersin levyihin verrattuna. En usko että tämä on suuri edelläkävijäkään ollut, kun ainakin Prodigy on tehnyt ~saman jo aikaisemmin ja vieläpä paljon paremmin.
Not sure I do understand the sense or right of existence for this kind of music but at least it had some melodies, even though one heard it all after 30 seconds of the song
Tried starting and finishing this on 3 different occasions and was never in the right mood. Sounds like it's got some potential but not suitable for the times I listened
I dunno, this may have been groundbreaking at the time, but it's just cliche now. Not a particularly compelling album in 2021. Maybe if I was rolling on molly, as the kids used to say.
2.9 - There's obviously something special here that I'm not getting. Maybe I'm missing the cultural context, maybe I'm not taking the right drugs, maybe I need to be dancing at some sweaty rave. But I'm just not moved by any of this. At best, I feel it's good background music that might help with studying or coding.
I don't know much about electronic music, but the Chemical Brothers seem pretty good at it. I can appreciate some of the grooves on this, but overall electronic music just isn't my thing. Too repetitive, not organic-sounding enough. Maybe good on a sweaty dance floor when I was in my 20s, but not something I would listen to again. 2 stars.
Just beats and essentially DJ music. It wasn't bad. Not an entire album of this is necessary.
Hab mir irgendwie gestresst und gehetzt gefühlt beim hören. Könnte in einem Fetzengeschäft für Teenies laufen
An album with some interesting hooks and loops that provide an interesting listen. A lot of the tracks overstay their welcome, with loops getting a little bit repetitious too quickly. It's dance music with a pop flair, and it's done well enough; but I feel everything could be condensed and you'd have a more listenable and less tedious album.
The sound of mid-90's British mediocrity. At least this one doesn't have the (or any?) awful Noel Gallagher Beatles rip-off atrocity. Still rings with the banshee wail of Beth Orton unfortunately. She must curse Dido frequently, wishing she hadn't hitched her frail wagon to these losers.
Could not finish it, which makes it an automatic 1 in my book. Its not irredeemable, which I guess places it on the higher side of 1, but its still a 1 for me. DJ Shadows Endtroducing has a similiar vibe, but is easily 20x better.
Is this the fast and furious soundtrack? Only listened to two songs but I think I got the idea
batidao tchurupuipupupupuuu 200% chato pra caralho fiquei com tanta dor de cabeça que a minha dor de cabeça teve uma dor de cabeça vai toma no cu de quem sugeriu essa merda
Não curto eletrônica, achei que ia ser uma tortura ouvir o álbum inteiro pq tava tudo repetitivo e boring pra mim Mas eu acabei gostando da Chico's Groove, e depois disso ficou um pouco mais enjoyable Mas prefiro Cazuza ou barão vermelho
Too harsh for me, I recognize that it's not terrible music, but I absolutely could not get through it.
Why is this on the list? I could have definitely died without hearing this and had 50 minutes of my life back to listen to something useful.
Didn't even attempt to finish this one. Sounds like the music that opens an edgier-than-average turn-of-the-millennium romcom. Dreadful.
This kind of music only exists to provide a rhythm for people at a club to dance to. Just listening to it is obviously going to be very boring.
Not my style of electronic music at all. I could've tossed a 2 it's way for being competently made and whatnot, but God did it annoy me before it's run time was up.
The album starts off weak. I don't know why people think that just repeating the same lyrics over and over makes for interesting or fun listening, but it doesn't. Maybe I'm just not in the mood for an electronic dance album, but none of the beats stood out to me in a way that made me excited.
Did not like it much. Too much "wall of sound", and I didn't notice any nuance or musicallity.
After the first 90 seconds of listening to this tripe, I felt like I was in a training montage of a 90s-00s sci-fi, action and/or thriller flick. I hated this shit at the time, and it seriously hasn't aged well. Had to turn it off after 8 minutes. Absolute garbage.