Exit Planet Dust

Good one! Groovy funky dancy beats, interesting vocals and just an overall good presentation. Seems more mature than 1995!

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.

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.

Meh.

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’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.

Classic. Their best album.

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

Just not my thing

pretty bangin

Really good and well put together album

Not a big electronic music fan, this was pretty good but not really my mood today.

Top notch. Kind of psychedelic/electric?

Surprisingly good! A nice mixture of chill, focusing and energising music, great for working to

68. Joy Division

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.

6/10

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.

Nice little blast from the past. Sounds so dated now. Perhaps because it is?

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.

Never really listened to them, not bad

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.

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.

Where it all began.

Чемикал

Pretty good, not exactly my style of music, but I can see myself being in the mood for it.

Great stuff. Love some of the beats.

It's cool to hear electronic music that isn't just club music. This works just as well for simply setting a mood.

Everything I want out of an electronic music album. Literally bopped my head from start to finish.

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

Excellent dance album that sets their future sound

Awesome album, I realy digged it.

Good but as always quite repetitive.

Nick thought it was a belter

I like me some chemical brothers. I do seem to be giving everything a 3 these days.. Struggling to expand my rating range

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

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

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

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.

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. 

awesome start - ends a bit weak

No me gusta mucho la música electrónica, así que ñe

Classic shit.

Good stuff. trance like, but funky too

This was better than I was expecting. Hasn’t dated as badly as their contemporaries

Regrettably this didn’t do it for me

2/5

Fuck off Chemical Brothers

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

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.

Electronic. Interesting but not in my rotation

Excellent mood and vibe. A little surprised at the lack of Dancy stuff.

En su estilo. Pioneros. Con ritmo

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

Meio doido demais pra mim hoje, mas tem dia que pode ser legalzinho.

Guay

Really enjoyed some of these tracks. As with most electronic music, I can only listen to a few tracks before needing a break!

There was a part that sounded like fart noises

Interesting.

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.

Schon zum mitwippen aber nicht meins

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

Somewhere between eminem and black sabbath.

Techno smells

This didn't do anything for me at all. Probably a product of its time.

Amazing stuff

Pretty good house/electronica, but I prefer their tracks without vocals to the ones that have them.

4 star

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.

Fine...

is okay

Super bon album, les sonorités classiques des frères chimiques!

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.

Dig it

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.

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)

Idk these all sound like 90s pump up jams. "Chico's Groove" was really the only one that caught my ear.

I recognize how important this album is, and I finished it. I don't like electronic music.

Excellent, hard driving dance pop.

Good background music, chill beats.

Some pretty cool beats, definitely would have listened to them back in middle school real hard, but a tad bit repetitive for me.

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.

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.

So nice to get something DIFFERENT!

I had this CD in my car for ages. The Chemical Brothers are GODS in their field.

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.

This felt like the ambient soundtrack of a sonic game. Fun, techno-y, and mostly instrumental.

Not my favorite

1 star. Didn't like at all.

Great for a listen while on a run

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.

Definitely just feels like generic 90s electronic to me now. Nothing too spectacular sadly

Is this the fast and furious soundtrack? Only listened to two songs but I think I got the idea

Nice album. Not too much standout songs, but good study music.

3.5. All of this sounded like it should be a in a Matrix film

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

Liked at the time, but doesn't hold up. (2.6)

Awesome relatively unknown Chemical Brothers album (atleast for me), brings me back to the rythem bangers of the 90's

Nice album thanks the chemical brothers

electronic?

hard to judge, its good funky electronic music

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.

Not bad but not really my cup of tea either

It's pretty fun techno/house. Not really my genre but I still enjoyed it

1995: Leave Home, Life Is Sweet

Not good, I did not like this.

interesting. normally not a fan of the "edm"kind of music but this is enjoyable!!

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.

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

Nice

Good background music to work to. Not very memorable to me, but I still enjoyed it.

Hugely underrated album from hugely underrated pioneers of big beat and electro. This is a belter!