I was thinking last night about some Chemical Brothers songs that I'm afraid will blow out my speakers. Namely the speakers in my car. I have been lucky so far, but there's always those close calls.

Here are songs that seem to scare my speakers:

It Doesn't Matter - that deep throttling bass that sounds like it's plummetting to the center of the earth pushes the evelope here.

Under The Influence - bass test is right, those swooping bass drops make my car doors (where my speakers are) vibrate.

Do It Again - this song is made to play loud and those thick, heavy beats pulsate with shocking magnitude.

Believe - the reaallly low frequencies of that song definitely give my speakers a work out. It also makes my rearview and sideview mirrors shake ever so slightly.

Electronic Battle Weapon 7 - this one's special. Those storms of rippling beats tests the strength of the stock stereo system in my car. It's weird because it's almost soothing as I can feel those ripples in my car seat. Like an audio masseuse, haha.

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For the sake of silly conversation, has anyone blown a speaker out either in the car or at home or whatever - when listening to the Chems? Which songs frighten your soundsystem?

funny you mention. I took a copy of the Koko show onto a CD and edited the audio so that everything but the really low bass was compressed. So when Galvanize starts you get that punch of the kick drum that feels like a defibrillator. My goal was to get that live feel for the bass in my car. But Saturate really took the speakers in for a test and now there's a ghetto rattle to them ever since I played it... Well worth it though.

Great topic btw, props to originality.

I don't think I've ever successfully been able to listen to Under the Influence without some kind of sound problem. Untamable.

Not Chems, but I managed to blow up a set of speakers with Leftfield's Live at Nottingham Liveism bootleg. Inspection... Check One!

I made a thread on how The Big Jump made an ornamental elephant on top of the TV take a big jump to the floor.

I remember going to the NEC Motorshow years ago around the time of Surrender's release and hearing Under the Influence in a properly kitted out car - WOW. I'd never felt a bass drop like that in my life, it was incredible and I could tell my body didn't know what was going on

Music Response wrecked my old speakers. :)

The sunshine underground did it once and it was good.

Biff, what audio program did you use to alter the Koko show? Is it something that would be fairly easy to do? Have you tried doing that with other gigs?

iggy, hehehe now that you mention it again, I remember teh elephant story! I recall how you blew out those creature speakers (or maybe they just broke) shortly after you got them.

ahh yes, the weird Alien Creature speakers, heap-o-shit. Couldn't handle the basslines, and I'm all about the basslines

Under The Influence is out to kill every speaker in the world.

UTI has to be the Chems speaker destroyer. Althought I once played Lobotomie by Mr Top at a club and the engineer looked very worried, said it was like a helicopter was landing on the dance floor, which I thought sounded amazing :) the speakers held out though.

Prescription Beats almost killed my speakers AND me the first time I blasted it out. It was awesome and terrifying! I loved it!

In an, erm, "experiment" with DIA, (I blasted it out of my dad's for-live-performance-only JBLs to see what would happen to me.) I just about peaked the speakers and nearly killed my self just by listening to it that loud. Those speakers are resilient, though. Now I WANT to kill them.

Semi-unrelated, but...

Flashback didn't kill my speakers, but it did get me way over excited while trying to get on the freeway. Did a 180 in my Trans Am. Again, terrifying AND fun!

Martin2006, where, pray tell, can one find that Leftfield bootleg on-line?

the sound quality of Bose is incredible. but their products break so easy! DIA sounded amazing in my dad's car stereo (it's a Bose). we had it blaring, the subwoofer was having a heart attack, it was vibrating so much. Except UTI still takes the (bass) cake because we had it turned down very low, and the subwoofer was still vibrating a ton.

(and more about Bose(a little OT)) I had the Quiet Comfort 3 Headphones only for about 3 months before the sound stopped coming out of one side. They also made this weird scratching noise. So I wouldn't necessarily recommend Bose, because they're expensive and break easy.

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don't listen so loud. you'll fuck your ears first. :)

um, when the chemical brothers came to Toronto in 2002 I think they blew the built in sound system at the venue.

I'm thinking Keep My Composure is going to have some close calls for a few of us... Guess I'll find out when I drive today.

Also, Whirly, I used Sound Forge for customizing the bass on the Koko show. I'd send you a copy, but that'd have to be if you agree not to press charges for any damage done to your stereo.

Setting Sun is actually shockingly powerful through a proper system. That massive sub bass hit in the beat can be very dangerous to lesser car stereos.

I think the one song that nearly blew my speakers and have blown friend's speakers is actually Rockafeller Skank, during the breakdown. Prescription Beats is a close second to almost-speaker blowage, on my end!

Biff - where's the Koko show (the first part anyway) available to dl?

Ta much

matty303 - enjoy!

http://www.2bitpie.n...20Nottingham%20[Disc 1].rar

Now don't you all go leeching my bandwidth too much :p