Great story, Whirly. I know exactly what you mean.....



Push the Button really has provided me with some exquisite moments, that leave me with a great feeling.

The songs Hold Tight London, Surface to Air, Star Guitar, Chico's goove, The Private Psychadelic reel, One too Many Mornings, and some others make me feel, like ecstatic or something, i dont know, just extremely happy for no reason, wanting to be in love, they just make me happy no matter what. Yesterday, when i saw the "summer is coming" topic and was cruelly reminded by myself that my summer's going to suck and i have no life, i didnt study at all for my english final that was the next day(today), instead, i just listened to te chems for like 2 hours, mainly the songs i mentioned, but a lot of others, and i was just uncontrollably happy, i actually wanted to hug the forum :-// .



Btw, i think ive been listening to the chems for around a year now :D :D :D 8) , although i dont have the exact date, i think this is within a week of it. Ive decided that they are my favorite producers of any kind of music on the face of the earth.



Also, if i met any girl (my age, of course) that was into the chems as much as i am, i think i would instantly and uncontrollably fall in love with her.

Uh oh. When you start ditching out on school work to listen to the Chemicals, you know you have a problem. But at least you're happy for it.



Hugs right back at you, Flaming Dead. :)



We gotta get you to a gig where you can meet a girl who really digs the Chems.

Fuck how cool would it be to have ya'll at my side during a Chems gig. If we all get the emotionens we usually get during a Chems gig ( WE LOVE YOU TOM ! WE LOVE YOU ED! , Dancing like monkey's , Thanking god for that amazing moment , crying , laughing , jumping 3meters up in the air , etc. ) It's gonna be a good night X-D

No , Honestly , we really should arange something so we can alle go to a Chems gig togheter.

Imagine i f i ever get really rich cause i did a great modelling job ( but i mean REALLY rich ) you can alle stay at my cool big place in London and we all go togheter! Ah yes that would be the best! But unfortunatly ...



8O Dreaming , Dreaming 8O :'(

Jeanie, it would be the ultimate to go to a Chems gig with everybody here! I was thinking about how cool that would be when we were arranging the Coachella meet up. But to see a gig in the mother country... lordy. World, watch out! I don't know who'd bring the roof down - us or the Chems! It would be a scene!



It was so cool being with Darkstarexodus and Electronic Battle Warrior, especially since it was their first time. All that buildup beforehand and Darkstar keeping track down to the minute til the Chems came on, and EBW (bless his heart he had such a terrible cold) he just went crazy with his screaming. The enthusiasm those two had, with the combined enthusiasm of everyone around us - just so awesome!



And they got to see a grown woman of 33 lose her shit and go nuts like a 15 year old at a Beatles concert. X-D I must've looked like a dork but I don't care!! Ah memories...

Fuck yeah! Dont care about that! I must have looked...well...hahahahaha. But i dont care! because everybody was INSANE! This guy behind me kept screaming " ELECTRONIC BATLLE WEAPON! ELECTRONIC BATTLE WEAPON!" Whahahaha and than this other guy , off his face " This is it! This is my church!' And nobody cares! The crazier u are , the BETTTER!



(Plus , Tom and Ed look like maniacs aswell moehahaha. We are not alone hahaha )



Bloody hell. i dont think i ever went that crazy.

Yeah, I'd say this past Coachella topped my crazy list of crazy times I've had at shows. Even when I was a teenager and in my early 20's seeing my favorite band back then, I managed to maintain - you know different shows have different vibes and such. But when I saw the Chems the last couple of times, there was no holding back. Esepcially last month. Oh my god, I didn't know what to do with myself! I seriously lost control. Plus being so close and feeling all that energy, it's really infectious, the only thing you can do is go crazy. I don't think 'stash has ever seen me in such a state! It's kind of scarey to think all that energy and music has that kind of power over people. It's almost funny (if you were Tom and Ed, that is X-D ) muahaha!!



And that guy who was off his face at the gig you went to, saying this was his church... X-D 'stash said the same thing. Hell, I was saying the same thing!



No wonder we're so evangelistic. ;) We would love everybody we know to come with us to chur... I mean, a Chems gig!

Chemicalism.

hell yeah 8)

whirly reading your posts in the last page made me wonder. has anyone ever told you are a very good storyteller ? no, really. They read like something off a mystery novel.



We arrive in glittery, neon lit Las Vegas around 4 in the morning and every hotel on the strip is booked solid. We continue driving around looking for any place to stay as the sun begins to wash over Vegas - exposing the city for what it is - gritty, grimey, smog laden, and ugly. That time when the vampiric city sleeps before it wakes up at nightfall and bathed once again in neon camoflauge.

haha very good use of descriptive writing. you should def. consider writing for some magaznie or newspaper or something. X-D

hehe :-// Thanks chemicalreaction, that's very sweet! I really do enjoy writing, I love throwing around descriptive words when trying to get a feeling across - makes it more interesting for me and hopefully people who read.



I'd love to write for a magazine or paper, but it's a hard thing to break into. The only thing I've ever had published was an angry anonymous letter featured in a widely distributed (free) local rag!

the coolest thing about that morning is that we both felt exactly the same way.

hehehe, I remember me going every 20 minutes: "Only 6 hours and 23 minutes left until the Chems!" .... "only 4 hours 12 minutes to go"....... "5 FUCKING MINUTES!!!!!!!"....... :D



That weekend was one of my life highlights. Will never forget it. In the next year I'd really like to see a Chems show with some of you Brits and Europeans on the board.

Dude, Darkstar, we rented this flick, called 'The Saddest Music in the World', it was fucking weird as hell, but funny too, and it kinda followed the "Winnepeg is a Frozen Shit Hole" theme... I tottally thought of you.

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Dude, Darkstar, we rented this flick, called 'The Saddest Music in the World', it was fucking weird as hell, but funny too, and it kinda followed the "Winnepeg is a Frozen Shit Hole" theme... I tottally thought of you.

Yeah, that's by local director Guy Maddin, who is supposed to be really good, but shockingly enough I've never seen any of his films. I really want to rent one of his earlier works, a horror flick called "Tales from the Gimli Hospital", Gimli being a small Icelandic town about an hour north of here.

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Uh oh. When you start ditching out on school work to listen to the Chemicals, you know you have a problem. But at least you're happy for it.



Hugs right back at you, Flaming Dead. :)



We gotta get you to a gig where you can meet a girl who really digs the Chems.

Nah, i dont think its a problem, i hardly study for anything anyway and still manage to pull Bs at a private school 8) , and i think i did well on that exam, anyways.



And about that forum-wide gig, YES! WE SOOO NEED TO DO THAT! Jeanie, get rich and quick cuz im broke. X-D

To go along with the whole topic of feelngs projected by chemical brothers songs, as ive posted in many topics, i just got surrender, and when i listened to out of control on it , it projected the same kind of feeling i had when first heard the same song on the singles disk around a year ago, strange thing, though, that song hadnt made me feel like that since the first 4 or 5 times i listened to the track (like i said, around a year ago).

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hehehe, I remember me going every 20 minutes: "Only 6 hours and 23 minutes left until the Chems!" .... "only 4 hours 12 minutes to go"....... "5 FUCKING MINUTES!!!!!!!"....... :D



That weekend was one of my life highlights. Will never forget it. In the next year I'd really like to see a Chems show with some of you Brits and Europeans on the board.

Hahaha when i was in London , my best friend was in Amsterdam , and than 5 min before the show he texted me " 5 more minutes" and then i called him when it started and i held my phone up in the air that was cool. And also i called my other friends who were all chillin toghter but they said the only thiong they could hear were my screamings haahaahaha X-D

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To go along with the whole topic of feelngs projected by chemical brothers songs, as ive posted in many topics, i just got surrender, and when i listened to out of control on it , it projected the same kind of feeling i had when first heard the same song on the singles disk around a year ago, strange thing, though, that song hadnt made me feel like that since the first 4 or 5 times i listened to the track (like i said, around a year ago).

I don't mean to go on a complete tangent here, but I'm really excited about you discovering this record. It sounds like you've already been affected by it in a good way, your response sort of reminds me of me. X-D Aside from how it made me feel when I first listened to it... everyone I introduced the album to said it brought on a lot of memories and feelings, sort of pulled them from the subconsciousness (as hokey as that sounds).



There are things about this record that changed the way I felt about music, helped me fall in love with music again and realize that at that period in my life I was really missing music (didn't listen to much of anything for a while up to that point) I definitely feel it forever changed the way I heard music, and listening to everything else has never been quite the same. It even helped shape the way I listen to and feel all the Chems records. Honestly. music:response couldn't be a more fitting description of the whole of Surrender.

Now...i dont wanne get all emotional here and stuff.

But this is one off the reasons why i spends every single free second on this forum...i mean , u peeps are discribing my feelings so well. I can recognize myselff in a lot of posts , and most of u guys actually understand the stuff i'm talking about , and vice versa...

I mean , look at this



"I definitely feel it forever changed the way I heard music, and listening to everything else has never been quite the same."



Ow. I couldn't have said it any better...but this is not just Surrender for me , but almost every Chems song.

And when u said somewhere that " The music found u when u needed it " Something like thhat...yeah man 8O That is so fucking ME u know , that is me at the start of this year..PTB just came out.

I was in NY and i was in a bad period of my llfe....i remember , everyday in the NY Subway listening moslty to Hold Tight London and Surface to Air and Bloc Party's " Like eating Glass" ... and it's like , i dont know...i needed it u know , this songs even tough they dont have lyrics its like they gave me answers or somrthing.



Okay i'm not weird or anything haaha i just dunno how to discribe it!