Exactly mx. While I do listen to stuff on my discman quite alot, I think the best way to listen to alot of stuff is havin a spliff, cranking it up, lying back on the couch and closing your eyes (or turning out the lights). The spliff is optional, chems albums always take me on an amazing journey if listened to this way, but it does help to add to the experience ;)



Wrekked train: The artwork helps to define an album - I always love looking through the sleevenotes on the way home on the bus for a new album before listening to it. It gives the album a space to fill, an idea. Sure the music speaks for itself, but something visual to associate it with, especially something that has been hand picked as the best to represent the album by the artists themselves really makes the music much more meaningful. The Chem's album covers have always related so much to the music, I find it quite hard to contemplate listening to the album without seeing the artwork in my own hands (obviously not always both at once). The idea for the cover of DYOH was found in a bin outside their studio - I think that says alot about that album.



And when you talk about hearing the tracks on radio1 etc., I don't mind that, 1 track doesn't make an album. Even 11 tracks don't make an album... unless they're put together in exactly the way the artist intended - with artwork, in a specific order and purchased from a record store. I wouldn't get pissed off if I heard tracks from the album on the radio before the album came out because they're crappy radio quality and they only work as teasers for the whole album. They don't spoil the album for me liking downloading the whole thing as mp3's would. I've heard the underwater song and would you like to... on that live set, and it blew me away. I know the album is going to be amazing, and I'm prepared to wait for the proper official release.

Ah, out at sea. During a drama-filled period of my life a number of years ago, I briefly lived on a boat for almost 2 months (not living out at sea, I lived in the slips but I did do a bit of sailing in the open waters...) My absolute favorite records to listen to at that time was The Verve "Storm in Heaven" and This Mortal Coil "It'll End In Tears." Both outstanding records, really atmospheric, and very therapeutic for me. There's something about them that moved gently with the current and when I hear those records now, I think back to that time. It feels like another lifetime.



Some really good times listening to a good mellow record (for me) is real late late at night/early morning when the world is still asleep. The sky outside gets paler and paler before the sun comes up. I love that, but don't get to experience it that often anymore.

i've grown up on an island in the baltic sea... and it was always good to be next to the water, to stand on the beach. i know that now, as i am 21, but didn't recognized that when i was a child. it just felt good.

i've listened to the verve's urban hymns cd once when i was on a ferry from calais to dover. it was dark and stormy and i was almost alone on the upper outside deck. when we came near the british coast and all the lights came up... and the chalk cliffs... that was amazing. where i grew up, we've had about 120 meters high chalk cliffs as well. everytime i leave england after having worked there i leave by ferry and i am always up there to see the cliffs disappear and i've always got music with me.



as well, it's just very good to sit on the beach with my ex-girlfriend (who might be girlfriend again soon) and listen to belle and sebastian or mogwai. good that she lives next to the north sea, here in bremen is just the river weser and that is a shit :(

wayno52 Escribi�:

hey, an underworld fan, too, eh? of course! would you recommend beaucoup fish and second toughest in the infants, 'cause they're on sale for pretty cheap at HMV ($69 HKD, which is like less than $10 USD :D)... yeah, I'm going to get them for sure.

Yeah mate, totally! They are fantastic albums, I'd recommend both, as well as "dubnobasswithmyheadman". Superb.

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last one was a bit poor, i think they were missing darren.

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Is that two months or something? I was unsure whether to get that album.

that record was okay

iguanapunk Escribi�:

Is that two months or something? I was unsure whether to get that album.

Yeah, me too. I thought it might be a little uninspired after I heard the single they released to promote it (100 days off), but I guess it's unfair to judge a whole album on one song.

I thought 100 days off was a slamming track. That whole album, listened to in one sitting while you are messed up on something (anything) is banging. I love it.

yes, 100 days off, was good. the album wasn't as good as earlier underworld stuff but still okay

I thought AHundredDaysOff was really good. It was the first Underworld album I ever got, just about a year ago, and I hadn't heard much Underworld before, just Born Slippy, Moaner, that's about all. It really got me and another friend into Underworld. I really enjoyed 1992-2002, my next purchase, so much that despite having probably a lot of the best tracks on that compilation, I just got Beaucoup Fish and Second Toughest in the Infants, the latter of which I've just started to listen to (so far so good!) and the former I've found is really great!



Yah, track 2 of STITI just came on - kiteless - super nice kinda drum'n'bass (!) sound - fast but at the same time beautiful and chilled

oops! I'll catch myself before anyone else does... Track 2 of Second Toughest in the Infants is "banstyle/sappys curry". mmmmm, curry 8)

mmmmm skyscraper... i love u... need to listen to this one again!

Boy with the Golden Eyes Escribi�:

mmmmm skyscraper... i love u... need to listen to this one again!

Yeah, that's a quality song! Nice and relaxed house, not out to prove or force anything, just glides along...

anType Escribi�:

ALL...i repeat ALL the Underworld albums are MUST-have. No excuse

sure they are excellent. 8)

chemicalfan Escribi�:

Boy with the Golden Eyes Escribi�:

mmmmm skyscraper... i love u... need to listen to this one again!

Yeah, that's a quality song! Nice and relaxed house, not out to prove or force anything, just glides along...

that's exactly what comes to my mind everytime i put it on. So soothing.

mx chemical Escribi�:

anType Escribi�:

ALL...i repeat ALL the Underworld albums are MUST-have. No excuse

sure they are excellent. 8)

NO! :x the first underwold albums, those rock-somethings, are awful }:-@ :x

Boy with the Golden Eyes Escribi�:

mx chemical Escribi�:

anType Escribi�:

ALL...i repeat ALL the Underworld albums are MUST-have. No excuse

sure they are excellent. 8)

NO! :x the first underwold albums, those rock-somethings, are awful }:-@ :x

whatever goldie...