Thank you whirly ! (the song is called "Enter Sandman", no "the" but that's not a problem...)

I'm relieved that their refusal doesn't come from an evetual bad opinion about Metallica...but I'm not sure that Tom doesn't lie when he says that they don't take drugs hm...what ? "K-Hole "? "Private Psychedelic" ? "Acid Test" ? *whistles* :D

So, could I find the first version of HBHG elsewhere that in anti-nazi ? (unmixed)

Heh. The whole "do Tom and Ed do drugs" and allusions to their song titles has been a consistant topic of debate here on the forum over the years. I don't know about their college days or when they were younger, but as far as Tom and Ed are in the present day - definitely no ketamine, acid, or pot for that matter.

We didn't have a journalisitic Q & A session but my husband embarrassingly enough asked them about drugs point blank when we met them. And asked them if their name Chemical Brothers was because they'd done a lot of chemicals together. They sort of giggled when asked, said no and I felt their reply was honest - so 'nuff said and moved on to the next topic. Drugs don't seem to be their thing nowadays. Tom's a family man and truth is Ed has an aversion to marijuana and is rather low-key as well.

They do like like a drink or 2, though!

In my opinion, It doesn't matter if the Chems do drugs or not. I still got love for them. And if there honest about their answers,and not shying away from such questions, I even got more respect for them. Unconditional 'chemical respect'!

Song titles and lyrics is always interpreted differently by many people. So like Whirls said, let's move on!

If anyone's interested There's an old thread (linked below) that talks about the Chemical Brothers and the drug/music relationship.

http://www.thechemic...e=3&replies=120

The first part of the thread is typical forum blah blah blah about drugs and music, but later on someone popped up saying they'd found an old scan of a French interview that's quite a candid (and rather amusing) look at the boys' younger and wilder days. And there were a couple of French people on the board at the time that translated.

Take from it what you will but remember this is quite old and isn't necessarily a reflection of how they are nowadays. I can't find the original scan (for some reason this particular interview is very hard to track down) but I suppose it's for the best. :P

Thank you ! I don't need a translation if it's in french ! :D

Edit : shit, the link doesn't work anymore...I had to read the translation, but that's not a problem : we know that they were under the influence during the creation of the Private' now !

Anyway, thats quite interisting : I would have thought that they took LSD but they seem not to appreciate it...

This interview is very funny ! That's cool to learn a bit more about the chemicals experience of the chemicals' !

@Maboul59: I don't remember a song called "Acid Test". Source?

Q: When will they release "Hot Acid Rhythm 2" ?

Most likely, he means "The Test," from Come with Us.

Yeah, that's what I mean :) ("Did I pass The Acid Test ?")

I forgot to ask this one : I bought, last week, the vinyle version of Exit Planet Dust. Why is the tracklist different from the CD version ? (Life Is Sweet and Playground For A Wedgeless Firm are permuted with Chico's Groove and One Too many Mornings)

The various media, as well as regions, on/in which albums are released may cause the contents of the albums or releases to change depending on a few things. For instance, bonus tracks are often put on albums released outside of the region in which the artists are based to try to persuade more people to buy them who might not be familiar with the artist.

In the case of this vinyl LP, I would guess, for length reasons the songs fit better together on the different sides of the records when paired up like they are.

If this is indeed what you purchased: http://www.discogs.com/release/77215

It would be an interesting listen to flip on the "D" side of the album with the three most chill tracks on the album:

D1 Chico's Groove

D2 One Too Many Mornings

D3 Alive Alone

That would make for a good mini-Back-to-Mine mix. :)

Yeah, that's the version I have. But is there a version with the same tracklist as the CD ?

I know that the recent Japanese CDs reeditions (the ones in a sleeve box, like vinyles, but it's a CD) have the same tracklist as the LP....that's strange, I prefer the normal one (with PFAWF just befor the end).

Oh, and I have to ask a stupid question : I read on many posts that the CWU era website design was fuckin' great...did someone take a screenshot ? :D (as I read on the posts, it looked very good)

There were 2 forum layouts during the Come With Us era.

I don't know if anyone bothered with screen shots of the old forums, but some of us were around back then. The first layout (and first forum the Chems every had) was designed in a drop down style - sort of like a tree. It sort of looked like:

COME WITH US IS RAD!!!111 by Biff

..........no it's not, it teh suck - ChemiCali

.............no way, you're lame Come With Us

is rad - Biff

..................OK, I like it now. ChemiCali longer exists and must've been having a bad time of month - whirlygirl

_____________________________________

The first layout was cool looking and a lot of people liked it, but to me it was a hard to navigate and find older posts. Instead of there being page threads and forum pages and subforums, you just scrolled on down the page to view what was said. There was also no registration process. Anyone could sign in and post so there was a lot of potential for trolling. I wonder if this has been archived somewhere...? Hmm.

The second design was your typical phpBB layout similar to the one imaged below. It was this way for a few years.

[addimage]http://www.python-fo...reenshot18.jpeg[/addimage]

Of course this design was real easy to navigate since the format is so familiar. You could quote and easily search for posts and you could post images. But it looked like every other forum out there. From a moderating standpoint it was easier to track posts and edit and delete. But there were some major security flaws which were a serious pain in everyone's ass. Toward the end of the old forum's days, the place was littered with literally dozens upon dozens of spam bot posts which cluttered the forum and made it a super bitch to moderate unless someone babysat the place 24/7. One day the administrator decided to filter the swear words so "cunt" was replaced by "pink flower" and "fuck" was replaced by "Chuff" and other such nonsense. So we had to come up with clever ways to spell out our curse words. :lol: The real fun part was when the admin (who decided to show up after being awol for god knows how long) accidentally disabled the moderator, so the place filled up with so much spam even Ed came on to ask what the hell was going on. You also couldn't edit your posts, which was a bit annoying.

When this forum came into existance a short while prior to We Are The Night, it looked really exciting: edit button (yay!) vivid color scheme, looks original (there's no other forum like it out there that I've seen). And it serves a basic purpose - to post, say your piece, and move on. And no more spam! But alas, this place is unfinished. I'm not sure what happened. When the new forum came into existance the admin came and said some changes were going to be made but perhaps those changes will come at some point in the future. No matter how much we've complained, things remain the same. :lol:

I quite like the way the forum is now - warts n'all. As I said it serves it's purpose and what's really important (in my opinion) is all the content - every post from the first phpBB forum's inception through right now - now has been saved.

Thank you very much for these explanations...but I meant the design of the SITE ! (not the forum) :D

I read, on the forum, several comments about the CWU era site and, as I have understood, the design was awesome. So I would like to know what it looked like...

I'm surprised that even a question like that can get answers : that's something I like with this forum ! :)

Aaaah. OK - now I see what you mean! I guess I spent/continue to spend too much time on the forums. :P

The site design for the Come With Us era was done by Intro. Check this out (you'll have to copy and paste the whole bit into your browser):

http://web.archive.o...calbrothers.com

Most of the links from way back (and I spot checked a fair amount on the site) are pretty much dead ends. But hopefully that should give you the gist of what the old site was like.

It's kind of fun going back to the 2001 Astralwerks/Raft/Chems stuff too.

And if you want to go even further, check out the links in the first part of this thread here:

http://www.thechemic...page&replies=12

Thank you very much ! :)

Edit : DAMN ! The CWU era site was in flash and it doesn't work any more ! >_<

Ah, so much nostalgia for the CWU website design. :D

I -loved- that design, and was very sad to see it go. Okay, so basically I loved the fact that when you were there the colors changed and you got to feel a bit tripped out by the psychedelic design. It was a great internetz expansion of the music.

The site's current state is a change for the better from the PTB design, though. :)

Did just someone take a picture of the CWU design ? :(

Any chance of a dl for Saturate/Believe live?

You're going to have to find yourself a bootleg recording of a live set.

http://www.mixwalla....lectronica.html

Any sets from 2007 on have the Saturate/Believe on the set.

There is the VIDEO from T in the park 2008 including Surface To Air, Under The Influence, Saturate and Believe. Check the chems bootlegs download thread... (you can also find it on youtube)

Q: Where did I get my sig? Is that really my poster signed by T and E?

A: No. The pic of that poster that is signed by T and E was found on flickr. The actual poster exists in a record store in Seattle Washington.

Unfortunately it's not for sale! :(