Exit Planet Dust

A tiny bit repetitive, but that's also the genre of music (sampled)

This is so good!

Good, sometimes great, crowd-pleasing 90s big beat electronica.

didn’t hold up as well as i had hoped, but still brought me right back to the era

Meh

Sounds like the feeling you had walking the hallways of middle school after first cup of coffee you had as a 7th grader. 7/10

Chill 90s electronic album. Not my fave of the genre, but a good time. 3/5

Electronic music has never been my jam. Its good for being in a club or something, but you dont sit down and listen to it like a regular record.

While far from life changing, this album made for an okay listen in the background of a normal work day. While the instrumentals were at times repetitive erring on boring, there were a few songs that stood above the rest. Opener Leave Home feels like it was made for a preparation montage in a heist movie; Chemical Beats, while repetitive, had some nice underlying modulations and I enjoyed the ropey synths; One Too Many Mornings felt a bit like a Gorillaz cast-off, but in the best of ways; and I actually sort of enjoyed the weirdness of Playground for a Wedgeless Firm. For me this is a solid 3.

Hell yeah this rules. Can't help but compare it to LTJ Bukem because we just had that, but this was better beats, had more direction, and was a more appropriate length. Great album to lock in to

Listening to 2 90s electronic albums back to back with this and LTJ Bukem was certainly a move...just not a very good one. After 3 hours of 90s noises I feel like I have one of those brain slugs from Futurama on my head. Much worse than their other album we had.

Some pretty great working music that I was buzzing along to. Really enjoyed Alive Alone at the end.

Never will be a fan of this kind of music.

7 a.m. on a Sunday morning immediately after listening to W.A. Mozart's 'Missa brevis in D Minor, K. 65' was possibly not the best time to listen to this. This probably works very well at a rave. It does nothing at all for me outside of that context. It gets my 'alright if you like that sort of thing...' default of 2/5.

Just noise. Washing over me without any real engagement tbh.

Peak EDM

p757. 1995. 2 stars. Rating if you were in a field attending a rave on a warm summer night in 1995, totally off your tits on E: 5 stars. Rating at any other time or place: 2 stars.

Infinity/5 stars!! Great album! Great band!

you're telling me they have 2 albums on the list and Mariah Carey can only get 1?

49 damn minutes of WOMP woo woo woo WOMPPPP woo woo

Э. Медленные вещи звучат неплохо. Суровая электроника - очень устарело. Лучшая песня - One Too Many Mornings.

Alltså, bitvis kan jag känna att det är lite fräckt med den hejdlösa synthen, men det går över.

listening when: during my hot girl walk thoughts: BANGERRRR. finally. all instrumentals tho very few vocals but so good. would listen again. rating: 8/10

I love the Chemical Brothers.

I know dig your own hole a lot better, but this is just as great, I love big beat, spent a good few years in the 00s djing breakbeat which was what this stuff evolved into. It was nice when electronic artists were treated like bands, and you’d get a full album. I know it still happens to an extent but the focus seems to be more on quick fix singles. So yeah I’m a dinosaur. Anyway this is tune after tune, and it stays true to the big beat manifesto: BIG BEATS ARE THE BEST, GET HIGH ALL THE TIME!

cute album cover

Good EDM. Hits pretty hard.

Good easy listening music

Sinceramente, no tengo ya paciencia para estas trituradoras mentales.

Es un estupendo disco de musica electronica que, sorprendentemente, no extiende su estadia asi como los otros que hay en esta lista.

This is an album I didn't need to listen to before I die. Dated, repetitive and failed to interest me in any way shape or form. I can usually find some kind of redeeming quality to art however came up empty with this one. Sounds like music that would be playing at the beginning of Blade. 1/5 stars

база классика основа. классно погулял под них утром и вечером почитал

Kind of weird but I liked it. Could be fun for snowboarding

Slight fault that most tracks are slow. 4/5

Köyhän miehen prodigy. Ihan kivoja tamppausrytmejä

Ei sitä parasta mutta kelpo kuunneltavaa 3,5⭐️⭐️⭐️

It drones a bit, but I enjoyed this debut, and in general really like The Chemical Brothers.

I suppose this was alright, maybe better than the other one. But it is unclear why this band has two albums on the list. I think I would like the album more if it was uploaded to YouTube with jellyfish dancing to it in Spongebob's house

I was not high enough on ecstasy to enjoy this. I can see why it's good rave music, but that doesn't make it good music. In fact, it may make it bad music.

I’m sure it was influential or something but it was mostly boring

Leave Home Chemical Beats Life Is Sweet

Nothing like a cracker of an electronic album to chuck on in the afternoon during a workout! I was already familiar with The Chemical Brothers somewhat through 'Hey Boy Hey Girl' and 'Galvanize', two sensational dance tracks, but their debut album, 'Exit Planet Dust', is such a dense, well-produced and creative adventure in electronica that serves as a perfect companion to staying focused and pumped. Britain certainly saw some outstanding electronic acts emerge in the 1990s, and The Chemical Brothers is, for good reason, one of the more prominent ones. Much like The Prodigy and Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers turned house and rave music into genuine chart-topping sensations in the late 90s, and 'Exit Planet Dust' was just the start of this Manchester duo's meteoric rise. I swear there's more influential British acts from Manchester than there is London. Did I mention this is a cracking record to work out to? Best songs: Leave Home, Life Is Sweet

It takes a great song to get me excited about ED music. Personally I didn’t find any on this album. Hard to rate cause I’m just not into this genre.

Хороший дебют й взагалі хороший альбом, досі добре слухається. Є як досить щільні танцювальні бенгери так і більш спокійні такі повітряні треки. Якщо прибрати за дужки Prodigy, то The Chemical Brothers з відривом кращий big beat гурт, який досі видає хороші релізи (No Geography 19 року дуже хороший)

може це і не самі сильні роботи кемікал брозерс, але як альбом вони працюють дуже круто

Uninteresting

".....I'm in."

Essential listening

Typically excellent stuff, really enjoyed three little birdies down beats

5 stars

Not for me

Ear worm extravaganza

Their later stuff is definitely better

Fun sound makes you groove

Learning that I'm not a big fan of electronic music. Not for me.

It could be used for background noise but it is so boring even for that.

Banging album that was played a lot when growing up. One.of a few dance albums that defined the era.

some of it isn't quite homogenous. but overall great.

Monotonous.

I felt like it was the intro from start to finish. Not even the same song but just the intro.

started out promising but lost me early. chemical brothers are the best of the genre just not my genre and no great songs to elevate the album.

Situational album for me. Since I stopped rocking bombers in abandoned Halifax warehouses I typically throw on the brothers if I have an unpleasant job to do quickly. They have a better album than this - best listened to after 10 hash hot knives staring at two weeks of dishes in an antigonish basement apartment.

Add this to the list of albums I never checked out because I knew exactly what they sounded like and I was right. It’s hard because it’s not unlistenable but it’s just really not music I care about or would ever put on. Time to rethink my rating system…..

Felt like one continuous track. Raving was not my jam.

MEH

oppressively redundant

i like this. good walking album. still trynna figure out if its a good studying album bc it gives me the will to study

A lot of this just felt a bit directionless to me. I think maybe it’s just the way I feel about the genre, but it’s definitely an issue of accessibility for me. ⭐️⭐️

Gets a bit grating in places but overall a decently energetic electro album. Great to work or workout to. 3/5

I prefer their later music, this is a bit too sandy and repetitive.

Is just all sounds the same. Could not tell when one song finished and another began.

Have a couple of Chemical Brother albums, not this one though. I have heard it I think. As far as electronica/dance music goes, Big Beat ain't my thing. It is cool to hear the drum and bass some prominently though. They have released better than this. 3 Heard before? Maybe Owned: No 19/1001, 19/78 (24%) Will I get? No

C’est quand même bon The Chemical Brothers mais cet album ne m’a laissé ni chaud, ni froid.

Again, just decent background music, but otherwise pretty dull.

We really enjoyed this, the kids said this is songs either created by aliens for humans or by humans for aliens.

I can see this music as being quite exciting in a nightclub, but I'm not so sure it cuts it as an album.

Looking forward to hearing this one. I've never listened to The Chemical Brothers before, though I'm familiar with the great music videos that Michael Gondry created for the band. This album cover is pretty sweet, too. Definitely one of my favourites from the list. I know I'm in for a rock/electronic affair, so I may as well just crack this one open. Yeah, not bad. Very of-the-time, though that's far from a complaint. I dig this brand of sample-heavy, bassy electronic music. My only real gripe is that the track durations really dampen the appeal of the music. There's a decent number of things going on with these songs and an admirable level of variety, though that lustre is stretched real thin over it's 49-minute runtime. "Leave Home" goes on for much too long, though it's a pretty decent listen. That warm, reverberating guitar during the bridge sections is killer, and I like those sweet drum breaks and atmospheric, electronic sounds, too. "Three Little Birdies Down Beats" is quintessential 90s electronic. The rave sounds are pretty neat, and I enjoy how the track continually lays on the pressure. "Chico's Groove" is pretty cool. More of those bassy, ambient sounds, and I enjoy the cosmic atmosphere. The softer tones at the beginning and end of the track are interesting, too. I quite liked them. Book time. Influential within it's genre. Charted well. Yeah, I'm favourable to this pick. The sound is pretty distinct, and it appears to have a solid critical and commercial backing. I cosign this inclusion.

First 6 songs are good. The first song is chad. 2nd half is 🍑

I’d love to dance with them in a club. I listened to the album while chilling on the couch what was not ideal - around chemical beats I got a bit bored and quite happy about the following psychedelic, calmer pieces. In the right setting every piece is brilliant.

"Mister Anderson." "My name is Neo." You can call it techno. You can call it EDM. I call it trash.

Favorite: Chemical Beats

Total banger. There are a couple spots where I felt like I was trapped in the Matrix soundtrack. But overall this is a very listenable album with a lot of musical layers.

I liked it. Despite my deep aversion of trance music I think this one as a unique attempt at it. The live Song to Siren was a nice nod to the 1990's rave scene with what I presume to be a full rendition with improve laid on in some respect. Life is Sweet featured Tim Burgess from the Charlatans, great tight groove with light lofty melodies. I liked that one the most. Despite only my 3 start ranking, this one is a good heady trip through modern love at the hand of trance tunes. Dig it.

Repetitive and droning. Some of it's OK, but it's not for me.

I thought I liked The Chemical Brothers more than I did this album. They’re from the UK, right? Maybe I’ll like the other 60 albums of theirs on this list better. It’s not as good as Madvillainy.

DNF

Ok just not my style

So ... Techno, specifically big bang, is the center of my musical universe. Everything else trickles out from there. I don't even feel I need to mention that The Chemical Brothers are the epitome of big bang techno and more or less gods among the techno set. Not every single song on every single album is amaze, but there are amazing songs on every album. Exit Planet Dust is no exception. If you are into techno or techno curious, this is the meat of it right here. Nuff said!

Dank

Varied and really well done

there's nothing left to say about this kind of dull vacuous electronic music so instead I'll give my review for The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014): not very good, a lot of the dialogue is very poorly written but there's some decent spooky images and you could probably do worse for a group horror movie watch but you could certainly do a lot better

Maybe this is better at the club? This just all ran together in my ears.

As far as electronica albums go, this really wasn't so bad!

different. usually don’t listen to EDM/experimental music like this. 2/5

My first introduction to Chemical Brothers were the singles from Dig Your Own Hole, and it wasn’t until Surrender that I really became a fan, probably because they were hard to avoid at that point. Whilst I kept up with them to a point, I have been less engaged with their most recent offerings. However, I have spent a lot of time going back to listen to their first 2 albums. This is about as pure an album as they come for this genre, and something I’ve come to appreciate more than some of the big collaborations that came later. I might prefer Dig Your Own Hole, if only for the Private Psychedelic Reel alone so the only question is whether their impressive debut gets 4 or 5 stars. The sequencing is great and it blends seamlessly, offering big beats early on and bringing some of the more chilled tracks in the second half. The transition from Song to the Siren into Three Little Birdies Down Beats is a highlight for me.

This was entertaining enough for background music while I was busy, but wasn’t keeping my interest when I was paying better attention.. decent beats that seem to fit what I remember was popular at the time. 3/5

Of the two big "Big Beat" groups, i.e, The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy, I've always preferred The Prodigy on ridiculousness factor alone. But the "chunkiest drums" award has always gone to TCB for me. The drum arrangements and mixing are easily the best part of their music, and the best part of this otherwise rudimentary debut. 'Cause yeah, admittedly this is nowhere near as good as their follow-up and magnum opus 'Dig Your Own Hole', but it still manages to kick ass in its own way. The opener was pretty solid, though it sounded like a lesser version of 'Block Rockin' Beats' at times. But it's really the run in the second half that won me over after a pretty underwhelming first half. 'Chemical Beats' was your typical adrenaline-pumping, funky sample-based, crunchy loud drum-machine TCB song, while the following 'Chico's Groove' and especially the serene and sublime 'One Too Many Mornings' go in a much softer direction. Honestly, that latter song was as close as you can get to proto-vapor wave or Clams-Casino-type cloud rap in the mid-'90s. 'Playground For a Wedgeless Firm' was also pretty neat, a beat that sounds like if EL-P produced a Memphis horrorcore song. So yeah, not the most consistently enjoyable (though honestly super sonically consistent) album out there, but there were certainly some highlights here and some genuinely cool moments.

This was ok but I didn’t love it

> The Beatles Finally a good English electronic album

Love this. Hypnotic beats that pulse and hum with energy and drive. This was instrumental in bringing electronic music to the masses and foreshadowed the band they were to come. Not quite at the same level as their following album, but excellent none the less.

Føles som å vær på klubben i en Blade film.

The thing is, I've just never really liked Big Beat. Give me proper techno, give me IDM, give me cut up sample jazz or Jungle/DnB. Or, if you must, give me the madness of The Prodigy. But this? Leaves me utterly cold. I wasn't crazy about this stuff then, and I'm surely not now. Aged like milk music for racing videogames (literally, here). And no, the last tracks just step on the brakes; that doesn't make them better. I didn't find this as obnoxious as Fatboy Slim's "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" but it's not far off.

Repetitive AF. I guess if you like techno/electronic it might be appealing, some of it has a nice groove.

Weird techno shit that all sounded the same - in fact, exactly the same sound as a trash compactor crushing a stereo playing Nick Cave!

Great background music and some excellent beats. Nicely produced. It did get a bit samey after a few songs, although I guess predictability is something this genre relies on. Docked it a star on that basis.

I do enjoy some Chemical Brothers now and again

Not really my genre. I can appreciate what is being done here and some elements I enjoyed, but ultimately will not revisit.

Heavy beats to start with, but felt it dipped after that.

All beats

Likely won’t listen often. But I did enjoy this.

This definitely reminded me of my childhood. Truly ahead of their time and their own style of pop punk.

Started out so hyper strobe light 90s rave again I felt like I was in the movie Go. It calmed down found some grooves but it was background music. Innovative, creative but background music.

Great pumping album

Could be an alternate soundtrack for The Matrix. Vocals jumpscare near the end (best track in the album).

More 90s British electronica. While this is arguably on the upper echelon of my enjoyment scale for electronic music I can still never get into it fully. I will concede that each track feels unique, unlike an artist like Aphex Twin, who's entire discography seems to blend into one endless, unlistenable drone of ambience. This is dance music which is actually danceable, which is something I cannot say for other dance albums i've listened to (hello orbital :))

What an awesome experience this album is. Such an interesting blend of drumnbass, triphop and industrial sounding electronic music. I didnt know i was a fan of this. So many tracks that build up well themselves and work together greatly.

Ok album

Bland monotony.

Loved this in 95! Excited to hear it again. Leave Home is possibly one of the great tracks ones of any debut album, and then to follow that with In Dust We Trust secures this albums status as an all time 90s classic. Cover art is timeless, classic 👌.

If I were in my 20s, out all night at raves, I’d be shouting four stars without hesitation. But today, I’m more observer than participant.

Kinda good but also uninteresting

I remember dancing to this in the club. Listen to it three times today.

FAT BOY SLIM VIBE

3- Stars (7/15)

Excellent electronic dance music with a rock sensibility, the album starts with “Leave Home”, probably the best track, driving and powerful with a bass player upfront and centre. It is the first of six songs with are mixed and run together like a DJ set. The second half of the album is more chilled with nice vocals from Tim Burgess, from the Charlatans, on “Life is Sweet” and Beth Orton on closer “Alive Alone.” I really like the record. Nice cover too with a hippieish-looking couple walking along a verge of an American road.

Two stars is being kind. Too many electronica albums on this list.

Fun, catchy, and infectious from start to finish. A debut that set the tone for what The Chemical Brothers would become, it’s an album that still holds up as an energetic and engaging listen.

Even though this album may not be as energetic or atmospheric as some of the most notable works of this genre, it has a sound that I dig a lot and I'm a fan of, as it is very consitent and rich in details. There a lot of build ups (even though some don't reach a good high point, like in the opening track) and some nice passages, specially in the latest tracks. Overall, is just a fun album. I don't really have anything more to add.

Imprinted into my brain from childhood. A1 album

8 Needed that

Don’t worry, that was the music, not me, coming through in that last review. Honestly. I’m fine. Chemical Brothers, no comparison. 2.5/5, rounded up because I like some of their other stuff

I get it, crate digging sample kajiggering is no less creative than writing a new melody verse chorus verse. A record with practically no performed recordings. Progressively it gets into molecular gastronomy where flavor dissolves into a chemical equation. These guys got a lot better at the alchemy later on.

This was awesome, I need to listen to more of these guys

Yawn.... Why was this album added to this list?

The impetus for a lot of bomb tracks in the electro dance world. Thanks UK!

A fantastic debut, although they would climb higher over their next few releases. This is the start of Bug Beat having a moment in the sun.

Not my type of music

Heard of ‘em but never really heard ‘em. And I was ok with that. Now I’ve heard ‘em. But did I really hear’em?

This was ok. I liked the beats but they got a bit repetitive It did pass the time while I was painting furniture though so 🤷🏻‍♀️ 3 ⭐️

Favorite Track: Alive Alone

Decent stuff here but they don’t even come close to Underworld for me. 3/5

Maybe my favourite electronic albums of the 90s. Bring the rave to your pad anytime. I have vivid memories of throwing this CD on and tripping hard on LSD and mushrooms in the late 90s. Fuck yes, every track is so good!

Yeah, canny fine, I can't believe this is on the list though? I wouldn't have given Chems the plaudits except for Dig Your Own Hole?

Dark, ethereal, kind of like a soundtrack for Matrix movie

Genuinely thought this was a made up band from Peep Show so I was just picturing Jez at the keyboard the whole time.

Store indenfor big beat som er at tage de her tunge break samples fra tidligere rock, soul, jazz, blues numre osv og så bare køre godt igennem på kompression, bas og distortion og sætter tempoet ned til lavere BPM. Super danceable og tog inspiration i acid house, rock, hiphop og breakbeat. Det er sjovt for jeg har lige lyttet til Bongo rocks apache osv som er en af de mest samplede numre indenfor genren. Hele albummet er godt og sammenhængende og der er nogle fede overgange så det er nemt at lytte til som helhed. Det minder mig bare lidt om noget jeg gerne ville spille for andre til en fest fordi det lyder lidt retro og nemt at gå til.

Only beats

This is Scooby Doo chase music. That early 2000’s action movie club scene music. Not bad honestly just got boring towards the end.

Me agrada a ratos, pero no sé escuchar esta música

Great to listen to while working, but overall just not really my vibe.

This reminds me of like video game music, I just feel like I'm at a menu or loading screen or something as I listen lol. Was honestly super great for work and made it easier for me to lock in and stay focused, but not necessarily anything I would want to listen to casually and not sure if I'd go back personally.

First half was great, second half lulled and despite my attempts to lock in, this insisted upon becoming background music. I enjoy electronica but can't say this album rocked my world.

This was very Matrix. Apparently they did the fight club soundtrack under their former name, too. Feels very representative of 90s action movies. Kinda loved it tbh

The album had a movie soundtrack feel to me. I thought they did a good job of adding/changing a layer right as the phrase was about to repeat too many times. Not something I would listen to again but I could appreciate it as a basis for the genre.

Mehhhhh. Started to drag but twas ite overall

The genre isn't something I would normally like but this album surprised me

Ech i co ja mam zrobić. Nie umiałam przesłuchać tej płyty jednym ciągiem. Męczyła mnie. Momentami była ciekawa, miała coś w sobie ze ścieżki dźwiękowej do jakiejś gry. Ale no nie jestem w stanie dać więcej niż 4/10, bo męczyłam się bardzo o wręcz zmusiłam się, by ją skończyć. Nie lubię elektroniki no.

нет ностальгичных треков, поэтому в целом дискотехно не пробуждает ничего во мне

An ok background sound kinda album. Not one I would go back to. 6/10.

I really liked Let Forever Be so I was expecting to like this album, but it's was just too repetitive.

Was alright, but not something I would listen to every day

I’ll rate it a 3/10 good vibes for a function some 90s edm type shi

As good as this style of music can be, it trys to be varied and interesting but in the end feels so similar and long.

No thank you this time again. Not for me

Not my cup of tea. It felt repetitive and very high energy. I was exhausted by the midpoint of the album

Ça ressemble un peu aux Dust Brothers. C’est pas de la musique que j’écoute normalement, mais c’était un bel album et de la belle musique.

solidno i ugodno za pozadinu, ne smeta, nije moj đir, al ničim me ne vrijeđa, neki momenti fora

Astounding album. The samples are incredible and the songs are very well put together. It takes me elsewhere 4.8

-i listened to this shortly after being introduced to The Chemical Brothers through Dig Your Own Hole, which honestly sounded very similar to this album here. i don’t think it’s bad, but i guess it’s kinda hard for me to get into how repetitive and samey it sounds -don’t get me wrong. tons of bops on here. it was great to have on in the background while i cleaned my room but that’s about it -Favorites are Leave Home and Chemical Beats

This was tough. The sound is pretty cool, but a couple of the song felt ultra similar and it took me a loooong time to get through. Kept having to take breaks and walk away from it. I don’t think it was just the lack of lyrics. I don’t know. Something was missing for me. Sometimes I wanted to give it a 2, I’d really hoped to give it a 4… so I guess a weird 3.

Nije ovo na razini dig your own hole ili surrender ali je fora

Such a cool sound. Definitely informed electronic music of the late 90s and 2000s. More mellow than I would have guessed

Much better than their sophomore album.

Noise

Well, some nice beats but in the end very conform over album length.

Sweet groovy listen

Gets a little repetitive after a bit and I went looking for music with lyrics. I think it would be great background music for playing video games though.

It was better than Snivilisation, but I still didn't like it. Chemicals fans will go crazy about this one

I guess it was okay enough. Kinda just had it as background music while doing some cooking

Very 90s in vibe, but they kinda helped make that vibe a thing.

Very good background music- but still background music.

Reminds me of late 90s action movies

I’m not much into this genre, but Chemical Brothers were clearly ahead of their time; trailblazers. This record has a cool, funky groove, but with an electronic twist. Dug it.

Having moved on from the Dust Bros, the Chemical Bros are still trusters of dust, as they clarify on the second track of this record. In reality, however, they're closer to something alchemical: their genius is sample-based and organized around making the big breakbeat even bigger than it is. Before Fatboy, Daft Punk, etc., the duo from Manchester, much like Philip Glass in the realm of European forms, alchemized the repetitive into something less redundant than a whole lot of apparently variegated popular music. +, as the cover-art couple distills - a couple that brings to mind Dylan and Suze Rotolo on Freewheelin' - there's something so 90s-optimistic about this LP that it's as if The Stone Roses' up-for-whatever slant is tautened + purified.

Meh. I see why this is popular but it didn't do anything for me.

Enjoyed it more than I expected since it's not normally my jam. Bonus points that one of them apparently went to my high school. Good background work music, and felt a bit like being in a Guy Ritchie movie

Really solid, love the songs w the female singers. Agree that it’s great working music. FIVE!

I don’t really think elelctronic/ dj albums like this and fatbot slim are for me. Especially the looping spoken word or vocals

Cool

Great for what it is but not quite as good as I remember it being.

Fairly interesting production, this type of music just tends to blur for me and a lot of the songs were just there

Top notch instrumentals 👌

Eh

In 1995, Exit Planet Dust crashed the polite Britpop party like a gatecrasher in mirrored shades, announcing the Chemical Brothers’ mission to make big beat loud, swaggering, and faintly dangerous. From the adrenalised thump of “Leave Home” to the woozy swirl of “Life Is Sweet,” it stitched techno, hip-hop, and rock into one euphoric Frankenstein groove. Nearly three decades later, it still feels like a love letter from a parallel universe where the bass never stops and the future always dances.

Pretty samey but I did have a good time listening

great album

I forgot how much I enjoyed this kind of music.

An exceptionally fun album. Lots of standout tracks (heart of glass, one way or another, Sunday girl, I’m gonna love you too). Very engaging throughout. No skip album

Wow those songs were repetitive, wow those songs were repetitive, wow those songs were repetitive.. I was tempted to repay myself 25+ times like song #3 musical phrase which then changed one aspect of the riff and repeated that at least a dozen times. Then to mix it up, it layered the first phrase and the second phase and repeated that! Ok maybe for the dance floor it makes some sense for repetition but even then this was overkill. For listening to an entire album of this not on a dance floor this was beyond painful.

This was pretty fun!

Couldn’t get into it

Solid instrumentation to match up with solid dance beats. The album is among their best.

I generally do not like electronic music, but I love the Chemical Brothers. Great beats and generally interesting music. Liked Songs Added: Leave Home In Dust We Trust One Too Many Mornings Life Is Sweet Alive Alone

There are tracks that don't irritate the shit out of me,.~the first half. I do like these guys typically, but not for such a duration.

Very solid! I can see myself returning to this.

Club "music" sucks donkey farts. This is one stinky donkey. 0 starts if I could.

Classic

I think this album was a little too annoying for me. For most of it, it is just the same beat blasted over and over again. It probably sounds a lot better in a club or something, but when I'm home and listening to this, it just feels weird to me. But if I'm being honest, EDM, House, or club music is not something I really like or care for. In conclusion, I found it to be really repetitive and just annoying to listen to after a while. Again, almost every song is just the same beat looped over and over again for five minutes. It's just confusing to me that they turned this into a whole studio album. Favorite Tracks: Leave Home, One Too Many Mornings Rating: 2/5

Noisy. A bit of a slog.

For the genre I guess this is pretty good. Not my go to when I'm looking for something to spin, but not something I feel the need to turn off when it's on. There is some good stuff in here, for certain, but my ability to ascertain the skill of musicianship or production in this is pretty limited. Sounds good enough to me, if I'm not trying to calm myself down anyway.

I was expecting nothing, but it was not this and thank goodness for that. I had a ton of work to do and honestly this was perfect background music.

Just reviewed KLF - The White room album yesterday, and gave that a (maybe generous) 5 star rating. On paper this album should be very similar to that, and should also fit me very well. I’m not sold though, and here is why. This album is too drums focused and almost resembles some slow bpm version of drum n bass at some points, which I am not a fan of at all. In general it has quite weak basslines and leads, nothing that interesting. It sounds a bit like boring The Prodigy at times. It had some ok songs here and there, but nothing that exciting. A bit of a letdown generally. Cool band and record name, but nothing that blew me away.

Okish electronic 90s album. I just miss any of the stand-out Chemical Brothers hits. Good to listen to while working and the final track "Alive Alone" was my favourite. That track felt more like trip-hop e.g Massive attack or Portishead.

first listen big beat is so cinematic

Didn’t leave much of an impression

Pretty similar beats for the six song medley to start, improved as it progressed. Meditative background music for monotonous drive across Mojave Desert, looking for sand people or storm troopers to attack. L = (2.0*s) Movie score for interplanetary Star Wars film. J = (2.4*s) Didn’t know these brothers are Brits, we’ll be hearing them again.

The Chemical Brothers are the electronica band that got me into the genre. Although it was their 2nd album (which I expect to get a spot) that hooked me, their debut is a worthy lister. The Dusty Bros bring simple, solid beats with B-Boy edge. All tracks good. A side pops with a little more energy. Side B mellows out but has my favorite track "Playground for a Wedgeless Firm." Not much to it but it just works. Their CDs were warped from so much play in my discman no doubt. Exit Planet Dust gets high rank from me not just for the tunes but also for their influence on me as a teen...4.3 starts.

Glad to see The Chemical Brothers make the list. Exit Planet Dust is a fun album and fine entry point for making electronica more mainstream. Props to The Chemical Brothers for popularizing the genre in the 90's. Even if they have some superior work later in their discography Exit Planet Dust is still gem of a release and great debut effort. It fizzles a bit by the end of Side B, but there is more than enough on this to carry it through as a solid entry. 3.33 stars

Fine? Not my thing

It's a nice background listen, but forgettable. 2.5 for me.

"Hey, Tom, listen. I've made my laptop make this 4 second loop of a drum beat." "Brilliant, Ed, let's just repeat that exact same thing for 3 and a half minutes and call it a song."

THIS ROCKS

yes, Chemical Brothers kennt man!

Sehr elektronisch. Gefällt auf seine Art.

Solid electronic music that knows when to end the damn song.

Definitely felt like I was running around in the Matrix. Got kind of old pretty quick.

Leave Home 2.8 In Dust We Trust 2.4 Song to the Siren 2 Three Little Birds Down Beats 2 Fuck Up Beats 2.1 Chemical Beats 1.7 Chico's Groove 2 One Too Many Mornings 1.8 Life Is Sweet 2 Playground for a Wedgeless Firm 2.2 Alive Alone 2.4 Score: 2.127272727

All time classic

Solid album. Really enjoy their approach to EDM

Sounded very 90s and easy electronic music listen but ehh.

I do t understand people who just listen to EDM and go to EDM concerts. I get it in like the context of video games and such, but like, it’s painful just to listen to.

Beep boop

Oh, hey, these are the guys that made “Galvanize”. I hear that song everywhere. If I’ve said it once, I’ll say it 1000 times, Electronica is never going to be unenjoyable for me to listen to. This is a little basic, nothing spectacularly out of the ordinary, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it. Sick beats to rock your head to and make the work day go by super fast, as is usual for the genre. However, I’m going to give this one a 3 because I don’t think any favorites easily jumped out at me. Nothing that made me really say, “Damn, that kicked ass.” Nevertheless, still an enjoyable experience. It’s like a 3.4.

buiten de singles was de rest instant skipbaar

Very enjoyable - liked "Chemical Beats"

Very nostalgic. The formula would improve with Dig Your Own Hole but still great stuff!

Ah my rave days still live within me. But I prefer Dig Your Own Hole.

Music for a 90's hacker/spy movie. Love. 4/5

This kind of techno industrial was never my deal.

It’s interesting but I’m kind of bored/too repetitive

I just can’t understand why anyone would want this from their music.

Just a solid ass listen… what can I say

Kinda forgot that I was listening to this at a couple points but I made me happy

i feel like i hear about this band a lot ... but i actually dont think that is true .. i think theyre the band called my chemical romance. and this is the first time ive listened to either my chemical romance or the chemical brothers. the brothers are good ill see about the romance some other time

I quite like it but could only give 2.5/5

Well, that was different. This album was pretty decent, but I’d say it was bogged down by one major flaw. The first three songs, Leave Home, In Dust We Trust, and Song to The Siren, were all musically interesting, with good use of effects and beats. Song to The Siren really caught my ear with its ethereal sounding electronic backing vocals. But the album seemed to hit a wall at Three Little Birdies Down Beats. This song, and the two songs following it all sounded the same to me, and curbed the interest I had in the first couple songs. The album sounded good, but it didn’t really catch my ear after that. Not a bad album, but besides the first three songs, nothing I would really go back to.

Not quite The Chemical Brothers' strongest offering, but a mightily impressive debut album wherein the group didn't wait around to firmly cast their imprint into the UK electronic music scene, and many acts have since borrowed its nuances, ensuring that it retains a significant legacy befitting of this list. Of their discography, this album does perhaps sound the most applicable to the mid 90s era, with a somewhat dated sheen to it, although not one which compromised my enjoyment whilst revisiting today.

I liked this a lot! I was vibing with it just about until the 9th track, "Life is Sweet". I still enjoyed the entire thing, but once that longest track was 2/3rds through I was getting a bit tired of it. Still great! I just think the highlights are from the beginning to the middle of the album! I would give this an 8/10

2.5/5

Just as I thought I was starting to get into electronic music of all times I get this served up. Sounds amateurish. Soundtrack to some shitty 90s movie about computer hackers probably.

Very interesting stuff

Nice electronics, vocals and sampling. Cohesive and enjoyable record. Was expecting metal, definitely wasn't metal lol

1/5

First half is like DJ set, second is more spaced out. Loved this.

Mich berührt diese Musik nicht, für mich ist es ein Hintergrundgeräusch, eher nervig, trotzdem besser als das letzte Album, das ich von denen hatte. 1 1/2

Hadn’t heard this one before but was quite familiar with the follow-up having owned a copy around the time of its release. I think this one is comparable to the other, though maybe slightly less interesting without the big time features.

great Electronica

Honestly, I like both electronic music and trip hop and this album doesn't scratch either itch. Some interesting moments at the beginning and end of the album but otherwise pretty lacking. 2/5

Please save yourself the time and go listen to something of more substance & innovation from a similar time period - try Chicane's "Far From The Maddening Crowds" a much better debut electronica album that's elysian and full of dramatic melodies, bright textures, better breakbeats, and REALLY good buildups/breakdowns. Much like the grammys, it seems like the chem bros have made an album therefore it should be celebrated. All other electronic music can go out the window!! Only partially kidding. This albums inclusion on here induced a lot of thoughts about this lists relationship to what it calls 'electronica'; The genre wouldnt be one of the lowest rated if the list had some electronic albums with actual teeth or innovation to them. Instead, albums like this sit in an uncomfortable sonic no-mans-land, stuck between the vitality of something like The Prodigy's "Fat Of The Land" and the monotony of Moby's "Play". Are there quality moments of life on "Exit Planet Dust"? Sure, the looped roland saw synth on "Three Little Birdies Down Beats" is solid. The thumping, saturated low end kick on "Fuck Up Beats" is especially impressive for it's time. This album features many instances of buildup into beat drop techniques that wouldnt become popular until later. "One Too Many Mornings" even gives a great downbeat moment to breathe. But nothing truly unique lasts long on this album. I feel like everybody loved or loves the Chemical Bros for how clean and accessible their production is. Its gets too squeaky clean for me, there's often no edge, angle, or teeth to this project. I am left in a melodic fugue state, remembering almost nothing from this record. I feel lulled out. I dont feel lulled into a blissful 4-to-the-floor trance, I dont feel lulled into a bass-induced euphoria, I dont feel lulled into a scifi universe, I dont feel lulled into a warehouse rave even. Just lulled out.

Kickstarted a whole new era in ad music for cellphone plans, frozen yoghurt chains, gyms, and eco-friendly detergent commercials. Not that bad, not that good. Just… there.

I used to listen to a fair amount of this genre, so revisiting feels a bit surreal. The repetition doesn’t hit the same for me now and I don’t connect with it like I once did. Still, I remember how fresh and exciting it felt at the time, and it’s clear how much it influenced what came after. “One Too Many Mornings” still stands out and holds up beautifully. And “Life Is Sweet” delivers with that gritty, dirty beat that gives it real texture.

I remember when big beat hit and I was working at Tower Records. It didn't really grab me the way it seemed to grab everyone else. I tended to seek out more adventurous sounds created by Future Sound of London, Ninja Tune artists, Aphex Twin, and Orbital to get my electronica fix. I know this is their debut so it broke ground, etc., however I emphatically regard Dig Your Own Hole as a way more textural, exciting, and less repetitive record over this one. Some of these tracks seem to only work at 110 dB while you're on MDMA and it shows. That said, Chico's Groove and Alive Alone do indeed seem to capture that pre-millennium sense of hope, wonder, and anticipation, (if only meant as comedown tracks as the sun came up and you were trying to find your car at a desert rave in 1995).

I just don’t like this type of music. At least this was better then the previous album of 90’s Gap background music.

First few tracks are ok then it starts getting boring. They seemed to only have a few ideas.

4.5 / 10. Not being the biggest fan of this genre I can’t say I found this album particularly note worthy. To me it felt like someone messing around on fruity loops for an hour and then split it up into separate tracks. Some catchy hooks and energetic beats but overall not my thing

Most of the stuff on here is better than their hits. Enjoyed listening to it whilst working. Leave home is a banger. I understand that the repetitiveness is part of the genre however it does get a little tiresome after a while

81% Best: Leave Home; Three Little Birdies Down Beats; Chico's Groove; Life Is Sweet Must-Hear? Sure

As a rock/indie fan i never properly got into the Chems until after this album and have never been motivated to go back. This just works for me as a complete album, unencumbered by the presence of a massive hit single (or at least one i recognise). All albums can also be improved with a sprinkle of tim burgess. I suspect i have all the albums after this or have certainly listened to them, but as it turns out the one i have previously ignored is their finest, most distilled collection of their craft

This just wasn’t for me. I don’t mind some of their later singles (especially the ones which have vocals), but this just didn’t do it for me.

I like a lot of later Chemical Brothers singles, so I think I was expecting to enjoy this more than I did. I've ended up with no real strong feelings about it either way, other than the low noise in Three Little Birdies Down Beats that sounded like someone was hammering on the door and made me feel weirdly anxious. It's the first album in a while that I ended up listening to the morning after because I had a couple of false starts, but I liked the second half better than the first. 3/5

I can dig it, although some parts can become a bit repetetive. 3/5

I usually listen to my daily album while I’m exercising so days like this are fun.

Not that good

Solid but uninteresting. 2.5⭐️

Classic 90s electronic. Alive Alone was great stuff altogether. Decent listen, probably won't return but may check out more of Chemical Brothers' discography.

They’ve got the sound but not the hooks they’d have later Still would sound great if I was 20 and in a club rather than 44 and watching Antiques Roadshow

Listened to this while playing Scholars of the South Tigris. I lost. This album totally brought me back to my early college years. Not as great as some of the other similar albums of that era...but still super fun!

Fittingly was heading to Manchester where Ed and Tom formed the band, -can we call The Chemical Brothers aband?- on the day the algorithm gave me this, A gtreasure.

3.1 1x worth a second listen

More EDM repetition. big snoozefest.

Good

Enjoyable album. I can't help but think that the faster songs are the ones that kick in the a 90s action film when something cool is about to go down.

I loved every track on this on first listen. Another listen diminished it slightly but still a very high 4.

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If you like walking around feeling like you are in the Matrix - this is the album for you.

I am in no way a usual fan of EDM, but The Chemical Brothers have a different take on it, and it’s one that I really enjoyed. There’s much more of a rock-style sensibility to this than the usual “doof-doof-doof-doof”, and it works for me. At times it felt very Screamadelica-y, and that is one of my favourite albums, so today was a good day.

An impressive debut with better still to come

There is a harder edge to this debut than the later albums that I’ve heard, potentially with less of an eye on being a commercial success. Not a criticism of either mode - both are great. The first half is full of unforgiving, relentless beats. Each song digging deep into a groove and never letting go. Three Little Birdies Down Beats goes particularly hard. The Manchester influence is there, shades of Baggy in Chemical Beats. The second half flexes to something a little more airy and open. I like the female vocals on closer Alive Alone providing a beautiful contrast to the thick clicks, thrubs and snaps around them. An impressive debut!

Relentless fum, tickles the same part of my brain as good trance.

Damn, I do not have robot ears!

In my collection from back in the day

This just seemed like one long rave mix. Fine for what it is I guess but the best part to me is the ‘69 Roadrunner on the album cover.

The right sound for the right setting. Mid-day lunchtime listening not advised to give it a fully honest and measured review. Still…I can dig this when my next rave comes a callin’.

I liked how this started, but like the rest of this genre it all just got way too repetitive for me. I’d probably prefer this to others in the same category, but wouldn’t ever choose to put this on.

This is just background music. And if you pay too much attention you’ll go insane because it is just too damn repetitive. They didn’t even come back with a block rockin beat! Now I’m gonna go take the blue pill (or was it the red one) and go king du some agents.

A solid electronic album that would benefit from listening in the right setting. Examples: hacking a mainframe; infiltrating an underground vampire rave; coked-out crime spree. Hits a bit different while doing finance things in front of a computer as your kids scream in the background... still an enjoyable listen, but not likely one I will revisit unless partaking in the aforementioned activities. 3.25/5

I just can’t get into this stuff, too repetitive

I surprisingly loved this. A really great introduction to the genre, one that I would’ve never listened to before trying out this challenge. I’ve relistened about five times already. Something so satisfying about the steady flow of it, and the progression between songs was so smooth!

great background music

If I was on mandy it would be a 5 Favourites - Leave Home, In Dust We Trust, Chemical Beats, Life Is Sweet