Im sure this has been done in the past however its time to get some fresher opinions on things.



warning this thread is not for the weak!!!!!!!



I don?t wanna hear peoples opinions about how they think that all the albums are equally good or its too hard to decide......I would like to hear everyone?s ranking of the albums: Exit Planet Dust, Dig Your Own Hole, Surrender, Come With Us, and Push The Button from 1-5. With 1 being the best and 5 being the worst ( or least appealing, for those who believe the word worst is to harsh.)

The Singles 93-03 album should not be included in this ranking nor should any of the mix albums.



Here is my list with the highlights from each album



1. Come With Us

(Highlighted track(s)on the album)

- Come With Us

- It Began in Afrika

- Star Guitar

- Hoops

- Denmark

- The Test



2. Dig Your Own Hole

(Highlighted track(s)on the album)

-Block Rockin? Beats

-Electrobank

-Setting Sun

-It Doesn?t Matter

-Get Up On It Like This



3. Exit Planet Dust

(Highlighted track(s)on the album)

-In Dust We Trust

-Three Little Birdies Down Beats

-Chemical Beats

-Chico?s Groove

-One Too Many Mornings



4. Push The Button

(Highlighted track(s)on the album)

-The Boxer

-Hold Tight London

-The Big Jump

-Surface to Air





5. Surrender

(Highlighted track(s)on the album)

-Out of Control

-Let Forever Be

-The Sunshine Underground (however, in my opinion I believe this is the worst placed track on the album especially after Let Forever be)

-Hey Boy Hey Girl

-Surrender

I though about this and I can't do it!!!



I really thought at one stage that Dig your own hole was my favorite album but now I find that I love the rest just as much. Come with us and Exit Planet dust are probably the two I've listened to the most over the past few months...but I guess its just what I'm in the mood for that very moment. Sorry to ruin the point of this thread Bosco..

01. Dig Your Own Hole



Stand-out tracks: All 11 dope



02. Exit Planet Dust



Stand-out tracks: Leave Home, Song To The Siren, Chemical Beats, Chico's Groove, Playground For A Wedgeless Firm, Life Is Sweet



03. Come With Us



Stand-out tracks: It Began In Afrika, Star Guitar, Hoops, The Test



04. Surrender



Stand-out tracks: Under The Influence, Out Of Control, Got Glint, Hey Boy Hey Girl



05. Push The Bollock



Stand-out tracks: Believe, The Big Jump, Marvo Ging

1. Surrender

The Sunshine Underground (still my favourite chems track)

Under the Influence (My speakers still remember it)

Music:Response (it's got what I want, it's got what I need)

Out of Control (no comment)

Hey Boy Hey Girl (no comment either)

All the others are so great (except Let Forever Be, I never liked that track that much)



2.Dig Your Own Hole

I love ALL tracks but especially Piku and The Private Psychedelic Reel



3. Exit Planet Dust

Song to the Siren

Chemical Beats

Leave Home

One Too Many Mornings

Love all the others except Playground for a Wedgeless firm



4. Push The Button

Believe

Surface to Air

Come Inside

Marvo Ging

The Big Jump

Galvanize





5. Come With Us Not their worst, but the less good imo.

My Elastic Eye

Come with Us

Denmark (wicked bass line)

Hoops (Ok Ok, I like it, BUT EBW6 is a hundred times better)

It Began in Afrika

Perhaps when I was first starting to get into the Chems, I might've been able to rank the albums. But now I can't, so I'm sorry for not being more straightforward. I have too many memories that have woven themselves into the very fabric of some of the songs and each album signifies some kind of turning point or chapter in my life so far. At best, I can only scatterbrain this about in an effort not to turn this post into a novel. ;)



I can only place (notice I didn't say rate!) the albums as they relate to me personally - Words cannot accurately describe how deeply personal Surrender is and always will be and how it came to me when I needed it most... Dig Your Own Hole as their most groundbreaking solid and experimental - r.e.s.p.e.c.t. for forever changing the way I hear music... how Come With Us taught me to give music and love another chance... how Exit Planet Dust personifies the good times... and how Push The Button was able to create good memories while managing to dust off fond old ones at the same time...

i wont chew you two girls out for being undecided.......but how about growing some balls you two, and make a list :P !!!.........or are the women only weak??? ;-)

Bosco Escribi�:

i wont chew you two girls out for being undecided.......but how about growing some balls you two, and make a list :P !!!.........or are the women only weak??? ;-)

[IRONY]Undecided girls... how strange is that . [/IRONY]

ready, set here goes:



1. Surrender

all awesome but Hey boy hey girl and Sunshine underground.



2. Push the button

---> Same again but probably The big jump



3. Dig your own hole

---> not a clue! :?



4. Exit Planet Dust / = Come with us

EPD - Chemical beats / CWU - Star guitar



Sorry for being a boring bastard but its difficult for me to explain why I rate these albums in that order, I think a lengthy discussion over a pint is required! 8)

man its like asking who is your fav. kid like whirlygirl once said(i think)

but i have balls and i am gonna use em...

1. Come with Us - From the opening track to Hoops this album beats all.Pioneer skies and denmark and some test ofcourse being the down side to the album but individualy these tracks are awesome.

2. Dig Your Own Hole - where do i begin....hmmm....TPPR...dig your own hole into > Elektrobank into> Piku, Lost in k-hole(OMMFG my current fav.)

3. Push the Button - Galvanize, Believe, Surface2air,thebigfuckinjump...i am tired of telling everybody how bloody good this album is.

4. Surrender - the most experimental(in sense exploring different geners) album from the supastar djs

5. Exit Planet dust - yeah life is sweet when you leave home.

This is really hard, really really hard... here I go:



1). Surrender (1)

2). Dig Your Own Hole (1)

3). Come With Us (1)

4). Exit Planet Dust (2)

5). Push the Button (2)



Now I'll try to explain... Overall, I really like almost all the songs on Surrender and it's my favorite album art work. Dig Your Own Hole, I like almost all the songs on it, though I'm not much into Don't Stop the Rock and it was also my first Chem album. Come With Us is also very good but there were a few let downs like Pioneer the Skys. Exit Planet Dust really growed on me and I enjoy all the songs on it, just not as much as the others, its a classic. Push the Button is last because, well... I just am not feeling that much magic from it and really, I only LOVE like half of it.



But really, the first three kind of tie for first while the last two for second.

I am ( Like usual :-// ) with Whirly on this one.



All of the albums mean something different to me. Come with us got me into the chems , Push The Button came to me when i was very down and surface to air got me trough it , Dig Your Own Hole and Surrender are both albums that ive listened trough so much and have great memories on with friends , travelling and stuff , and Exit Planet Dust reminds me a lot of all the traveling i did. Might not make sense to you , but it does to me. I can't simply rank them because there all in a different place in my life. MUSIC wise - if i would loose all my emotions - i would say Dig Your Own Hole is my favorite.

Jeanie Escribi�:

I am ( Like usual :-// ) with Whirly on this one.



All of the albums mean something different to me. Come with us got me into the chems , Push The Button came to me when i was very down and surface to air got me trough it , Dig Your Own Hole and Surrender are both albums that ive listened trough so much and have great memories on with friends , travelling and stuff , and Exit Planet Dust reminds me a lot of all the traveling i did. Might not make sense to you , but it does to me. I can't simply rank them because there all in a different place in my life. MUSIC wise - if i would loose all my emotions - i would say Dig Your Own Hole is my favorite.

Marry me!

Jeanie Escribi�:

I am ( Like usual :-// ) with Whirly on this one.



All of the albums mean something different to me. Come with us got me into the chems , Push The Button came to me when i was very down and surface to air got me trough it , Dig Your Own Hole and Surrender are both albums that ive listened trough so much and have great memories on with friends , travelling and stuff , and Exit Planet Dust reminds me a lot of all the traveling i did. Might not make sense to you , but it does to me. I can't simply rank them because there all in a different place in my life. MUSIC wise - if i would loose all my emotions - i would say Dig Your Own Hole is my favorite.

that reminds me of what my brother told me about Dig your own hole : that when he discovered it it was at a party with his friends, especially one friend that killed himself a few years after, and that the album reminds him of this friend and the good times he had with him...

Ben_j Escribi�:

Bosco Escribi�:

i wont chew you two girls out for being undecided.......but how about growing some balls you two, and make a list :P !!!.........or are the women only weak??? ;-)

[IRONY]Undecided girls... how strange is that . [/IRONY]

bwahaha!!! So true, so true!!



Chicks are allowed to be indecisive, it's what makes us girlies real women!



;)

Surrender is my most listened to album and includes my fave chems track - Out of Control



But I love Push the button too... Oh fuck it, I can't do it - I love them all equally!

As much as i love all my Chemicals, there are those songs that stand out which are:



1. Dig Your Own Hole



Block Rockin Beats

Dig Your Own Hole

Elecktrobank

Setting Sun

It Doesn't Matter

Don't Stop the Rock

Get Up on it Like This

Lost In The K-Hole

The Private Psychedelic Reel



I can't decide on a favorite track but it would probably be TPPR cause i enjoyed that alot at the concert. As for the album, this just scrapes favorite followed by...







2. Surrender

Music Response

Under the Influence

Out of Control

The Sunshine Underground

Hey Boy Hey Girl****

Surrender



Hey Boy Hey Girl is probably my most favorite song by the chemical brothers. I'm not sure though... when i hear any chemical brothers song i say ''YEAH DEFINATELY MY FAVORITE'' X-D







3. Push the Button



Galvanize

The Boxer

Hold Tight London****

Believe

Come Inside

The Big Jump

Close Your Eyes

Surface to Air



It's hard to say about favorite track on this album. But I love HTL it reminds me of traveling and i love travelling. It also reminds me of the time i went to dublin to see Coldplay.. it was a really sunny day that day.. Its wierd.. Anyway.. HTL my favorite on that album.







4. Come With Us



Come With Us

It Began In Afrika

Galaxy Bounce

Star Guitar****

Hoops

The Test



I really like this album, cause Star Guitar is on it and SG is one of my favorite chem tracks. Not taking the spotlight away from the rest of the songs, just SG is wonderful :)







5. Exit Planet Dust



Leave Home

In Dust We Trust****

Three Little Birdies Down

Fuck Up Beats

Life Is Sweet



Nothing much to say about this album, other than, In Dust We Trust is my favorite track..







The A List

1. The Private Psychedelic Reel

2. Hey Boy Hey Girl

3. Hold Tight London

4. Star Guitar

5. In Dust We Trust



Im sure most of you know how that list came about. Really it was to have a look at how it would work out.. I would probably put HTL to number five though cause i like SG better than HTL.

Girlelectric Escribi�:

Oh fuck it, I can't do it - I love them all equally!

let me guess... You're a girl ? :D

Ben_j Escribi�:

Girlelectric Escribi�:

Oh fuck it, I can't do it - I love them all equally!

let me guess... You're a girl ? :D

eventually one of the girls will break down and give us their rankings.......if its not one of these 4 that have already posted, it will either be someone new, Chrisman (or should i say Christinawoman after his sex change operation), or the fun loving XxxsarahxXx and xxxlolzxXx!

Okay, I'd been avoiding having to do this, but here goes.......





1) Surrender

This album is stone cold classic. While perhaps not as innovative and ground-breaking as Exit Planet Dust or Dig Your Own Hole, Surrender is the sound of a group at the top of their game, with the world at their feet.



The opening volley of Music:Response, Under the Influence, and Out of Control is colossal and undeniable. The epic Sunshine Underground, chart-topping Hey Boy Hey Girl, and the funky Got Glint? are other highlights, though there is truly not a weak track on this album.



If I were to recommend one Chems album to a newbie, this is it.



2) Dig Your Own Hole

Another classic. This one pushes the envelope WAY out there, breaking new ground and shoving breakbeat techno well into the mainstream. Elecktrobank and The Private Psychedelic Reel are the highlights, clear examples of bombastic psychedelic madness. Setting Sun is another smash, melding the sounds of two of the Beatles' descendents (Oasis and the Chems) in a hardly-predicted way.



This is not an album to sit around listening to: this is an album to take drugs and go fucking nuts to.



3) Push the Button

The best-sounding of all the albums, the production here is exquisite. Opening single Galvanize is a terrific call to arms and the soaring Hold Tight London is beyond description. However, the album highlight is clearly the closer, Surface to Air, with its euphoric beats and shimmery synths. A couple tracks don't grab me very hard (Come Inside and Shake Break Bounce), but the highlights are stunning.



4) Exit Planet Dust

Although I listen to this one the least, it cannot be denied for its ingenuity and mold-shattering status. Chemical Beats is a classic. Leave Home is a classic. Life Is Sweet is a classic. But don't forget about In Dust We Trust, Three Little Birdies Down Beats, Alive Alone, etc. There is a vitality and a sense of urgency to this album whereby you can FEEL that something new is being created. It began here.



5) Come With Us

This is hard for me, as Come With Us was my favourite Chems album. And being in 5th place here is no slight to the album. Come With Us is a terrific opening track (I dare say the best opener on a Chems album) and The Test is perhaps the best closer to an album (well, The Reel and Surface to Air, but....). In between are plenty of highlights, from It Began in Afrika to Denmark to Hoops to My Elastic Eye.



There is nothing wrong with this album at all, it just doesn't QUITE reach the peaks of Dig Your Own Hole, Push the Button, or Surrender. Still a stunner and still one that rocks my stereo very frequently.

Bosco Escribi�:

Ben_j Escribi�:

Girlelectric Escribi�:

Oh fuck it, I can't do it - I love them all equally!

let me guess... You're a girl ? :D

it will either be someone new, Chrisman (or should i say Christinawoman after his sex change operation)

I didn't dare saying it :)