Come on Bosco! You purposely missed the shot!

I might have to do a response video....you know.....a shot from full court

Big ups Don Bosco!

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Who of us is the talking dream basketball going to visit next?

hahaha bosco you nutter!

love it.

Thumbs up, Bosco

Man, Bosco, this is not a game!

Bosco, on 25 October 2014 - 3:09 AM, said:

Oh come on, just because I said it would fit inside and it did not trust me.

It was right, but still.


Speaking about which, that song was not made by the Chems. No, I swear it wasn't. So please close this thread, thanks.

I have enjoyed the discussion - especially the dream sequence, ha! There is a lot of honesty in these pages as well as respectful discourse. It's so hard defending your tastes and opinions sometimes, yeah? It seems once again the Chemical Brothers have managed to divide the camp. You either love the track, or you loathe it. But the clashing of opinions, it gets people talking, speculating, gives us bone to gnaw on as we trudge through this long wait until the end of time or the next Chemical Brothers release. Whichever comes first. And if Tom and Ed can get their fans engaging in conversation (even if one side of that conversation is not agreeable) that says something about how their music makes us feel. Even after all these years. And I remember those love it-or-hate-it Golden Path days!

I'm a bit late in the game here, but I posted some initial thoughts in our little closed Facebook group. I thought well, I'll consider the context and give it a bit more time to see if some of those feelings could soften a bit. So here I am, and honestly, I still find this tune a difficult one to swallow. I get that this is new territory, it s trap or whatever the young whippersnappers are listening to these days. I like what I like, and when I don't like something - well, opinions. Everyone's got them. I guess the thing that stuck out initially and still sticks with me now is this doesn't feel like a Chemical Brothers song to me. And because I'm not feeling it, I'm struggling to hear it. I don't like saying that, because even though there's some songs of theirs I don't froth at the mouth over, it's 99.9% of the time anything but a struggle to hear the Chems out. I've mentioned here a few times in the past that there is a uniqueness to their music, these sounds and the way they are textured into their songs - you can hear trace elements of these sounds weaved throughout their history. It's like their fingerprints, you can sense them all over the tracks as you journey from song to song, album to album. And this history builds a familiarity. An "aw yeah, that's the Chemical Brothers" familiarity we've heard whenever Zane or Tong premiers a new Chems track that whips us all into a frenzy. There is something in this new song that's missed me, or maybe I'm just missing the point all together. I totally respect the differing opinions here, and know some of you love the track and that's awesome. You don't need to justify why you like it, or explain what it is into oblivion. But I'm glad you did, because maybe it might not make me love the song but it will help me understand it a bit more.

Then again, it's just a song. In a vast desert between albums. A song for a movie geared toward people who might not have heard of the Chems who might listen to this and think "hmmm, I'll poke around iTunes and see what else they got going on" and discover this great band we know and love. I'm not disappointed in them at all, as they need to evolve, adapt, stay relevant, reach out to different audiences, collaborate with people we don't expect. That's cool. I'm just sittin here with you guys waiting for the next thing Tom and Ed want to throw our way.

whirlygirl, on 30 October 2014 - 5:07 AM, said:

THIS IS NOT A GAME!

whirlygirl, on 30 October 2014 - 6:07 AM, said:

Whirly good to see you back here! While I'm with you on the bulk of what you said, I'm afraid I don't agree with one little detail: the chemical trademark. I think you can clearly hear that it's one of their creations (even though it's not a landmark of their catalogue whatsoever). You have the nasty synthesized bass wobble and the Scale-like arpeggio which is distinctively chemical (and unlike everything else in the business). Maybe it's the way the vocals have been incorporated into that song, which indeed sound very unchemical and put at least me off the most. However, I believe at the core it has that chemical footprint - but it is not consequent enough.

Csar, on 30 October 2014 - 9:01 AM, said:

Thank you, Csar - see that's exactly why I like these discussions. I may not hear it through your ears but this adds another layer of understanding which can help open my ears the next time I listen.

Fucking Miguel ruined the song. Bottom line 100% blame

chemicalreaction, on 03 November 2014 - 1:17 PM, said:

Even worse, the crap he says doesn't make sense!

(allow me to demonstrate my 'lyric translation' for yall! This is the best of my ability as I only got half thru the song!)


NOW WHATCHA LEARN LET IT KILL YOU
SHOPPER NO PRESSURE THANK YOU DIAMOND
ALL EYES ON ME LIKE A CRA DANGA
DAT ME! JUST PLAY AROUND YOU LIKE A JAMMIN

WAIT...HEARD THE GAME CHANGE THE GAME
WORD TO GHOST THATS MINE HIT HER
YOUR ALREADY LIVING IN A MUFFIN HUH!
MY WIFE IS LIVING FOR FOREVER

I NKOW WHAT IM DOING
I KNOW WHAT IM DOING
I KNOW WHAT IM DOING
DOGGIE BAG REVOLUTION!

THERE IT IS
THERE IT IS
THERE IT IS

HONOR OF A GUT
EVEN WHEN IM UNDER FIRE BITCH
YOU NEVER SETTLE ILL JUST STOMP THEM WHAT
BUT I AINT NOT TO TOUCH

lol! I think it goes more a bit like this:

inchemwetrust, on 04 November 2014 - 9:08 AM, said:

We need Fatlip to fix the lyrics...

I know it was meant as a comical approach but "LIKE A CRA DANGA" is actuall "LIKE A CONDUCTOR". See, I'm a lyrics wizard . But as such I too struggle quite heavily with understanding his mumbling.. But it's probably for the best.

I'm happy with Inchems' version. Fixing the lyrics won't make them any better than that.

inchemwetrust, on 03 November 2014 - 11:08 PM, said:

Bwah!

I have been listening to it on headphones before giving final judgement.
Offcourse I got very excited by the notion of an new Chemical Brothers track. That it is produced for an soundtrack doesn't have to be a bad thing. I favor Keep my composure on the Heroes soundtrack over the Brotherhood edit.
But This is not a game feels easy. Miquel is incredibly bad in delivering his lyrics and the beats during the verse are from a tuned done Scale. But the idea of a Lorde colab is great and the beats on the chorus are amazingly phat.
So this sounds to me a lot like an easy song made for a soundtrack, trying to bring the music to new, young people, keeping (some of) the fans happy with the phat beats, hinting on what is coming in the near future.
And that's ok in my book.