whirlygirl - I'm insanely jealous that you got to see them live already, that always makes any album that much better. (Short story... my best friend was not down with Chemical Brothers, really didn't like Come With Us, but I dragged him to a show in NYC and Come With Us was on his stereo blastin non stop for months :)

But they have no plans to tour the US yet... I wish I could just hop a plane to Europe to see them, it would be worth it!

And now that you say it, I took a listen to the older albums and a lot of them are with the 4/4 beat, but I never really noticed it until It Began in Afrika.. that song didn't sit too well with me. And this album definitely has its share of breaks that I didn't notice so much on first listen.

And I agree that Come With Us had rougher transitions than others, especially Surrender. This one works like the earlier albums like you said (good points!)

My expectations for this album were also like unrealistically high, and the album didn't blow me away the first time I heard it like I imagined it would, so I started out on a bad foot. It's definitely growing on me each time though.

One more thing I like about Galvanize is that they do the type of beat drop that I usually don't like... kind of like the anti-climactic half beat drop before the whole beat drop... (am I making any sense?) and it just works perfectly in Galvanize, it gets me so pumped haha.

And so far.. favorite tracks: Galvanize, Believe, Marvo Ging, and I think surface to air is getting there.

Ok that's the end of my random thoughts on PTB :)

I've been listening to PTB when im in bed at night lately on my discman, Hold Tight London is so relaxing and emotional its beatiful, You also pick up more sounds and beats when listening to it on headphones rather than on a stereo player or whatever.

danguarda Escribi�:

Galvanize is hot, I'll excuse the cheesy lyrics because... well they always have a hot single with cheesy lyrics. (Hey Boy Hey Girl, Block Rockin Beats, exept of course on their best album, Exit Planet Dust... that was just golden).



= Danny G

"Brothers gonna work it out" from Leave Home. I find that just as cheesy as "Back with another of those block rockin' beats"



Surface to the Air was used in a soccer match promo for England-the Netherlands tonight on the BBC

Joslyn - I agree... they are on the same level; they mean the same thing pretty much: this beat is sweet.

New theory on galvanize though:

Galvanize means to stimulate to action, and Q-Tips finger is on the button... and an ominous robotic voice is telling him to push the button:

Q-tip is saying it is time to take action: it is time to blow shit up. What will he blow up? Is he saying Britain has a nuke pointed at the US and that it's about time to use it??

It goes in line with Left Right which also has a political, let's take action kind of message.

:)

Some of these posts are amazin, some plain fun.

I wish I could get some time to post more, but can only say this album is a fuckin bomb alright. It's been growin and growin.

Hold Tight London is too fuckin beautiful. It could kill me on a trip.

Ok, I wanted to get a good two weeks of listening, before I read other peoples' views n stuff, so it's the weekend, n since this thread is long, I decided to print just the text n take it home..

after a good hour of editing and taking out everything but the mssg bodies and handles, and reducing the font to 8, I still have 64 frikkin pages of notepad shite to read..!!! :?

Whirly.. congrats.. u've created a M O N S T E R!! X-D

:-D hehe.



Looking foward to your opinions, here or on Messenger (which I'll try getting on tonight.)

Expect for hereing STA and CI at wolves and glasto i hadn't herd any of the ablum in a gig/clubs until last thursday night. I was at student night at a club at uni, then i herd the metalic sound being looped, it was the start of galvanise, i went mad, whilst other around me didnt know what was bout to be dropped. I found this is a brilliant club tune that brings people who are into different music together. It really went off a treat. I now cant wait to here this tune live in its best form.

following on from my last post, i really think this album was some tracks ie glavanise, believe, CI, STA and HTL that were made to be played live.

ACIDCHILDREN Escribi�:

I like the way this album includes aspects from the others.

Yes. :P

was thining about this today and theres only a few people who own the jap cd that could anser.



People say they dnt like the sudden ending to STA, well does the inclusion of giant on the album make the ending any better? Personally i really like the STA ending of the album.



What style is giant is it a pumping club tune?

ACIDCHILDREN Escribi�:

was thining about this today and theres only a few people who own the jap cd that could anser.



People say they dnt like the sudden ending to STA, well does the inclusion of giant on the album make the ending any better? Personally i really like the STA ending of the album.



What style is giant is it a pumping club tune?

is more like a normal b-side it doesnt change very musch the end of the album is something like morning lemon. the best parts is the fucked synth wwwwwrrrrrrooooooouuupppppppp.

I hate to compare PTB to any other of there albums but I'm going to a little. I found that I latched on to it alot like when I first heard DYOH or Surrender. I listened to it 5 or 6 times in the first two days and it built up really fast on me. the only tracks I don't enjoy too much are shake break bounce and Marco Ging. I found that CWU took a while for me to get use to for some reason (honestly Afrika took some time for me to love) so this one I was throughly impressed when I listened to it for the first time. Love the album (as always)

WHY COMPARE albums bros?? They'r totally different individual experiences on their own.

I agree each record is an experience of its own, all their records can stand alone in that there is something uniquely powerful about all of them, each take you on a different journey and that sort of thing. Yet I can see comparing Chems records to one another - you can hear their trademarks all over the place on each record, these chemically identifiable sounds that are unmistakably Chems. Passed from one record to the next. Listening front to back their entire catalogue can be one long journey in itself. Kind of like once giant concept, one giant idea that's ever evolving (no I'm not high I'm perfectly sober! And I know I'm probably not making any sense so bear with me!)



Anyhow. It's almost eerie how they can do that consistantly through 5 studio records, retain their style all the while evolving at the same time to create something fresh.



Not to put them up them up on a pedastal more than I already have ;) , but that has got to be a hard thing for any one person to do successfully (let alone 2 people) without some part of the music being compromised in some way. No small feat by any means, and it's good to recognize that when you're so familiar with their catalogue.



Word from a couple of long standing Chems fans (Exit and Dig Your Own Hole purists) I've known for a while is that they too haven't listened to a record this much since Dig Your Own Hole. I think it's a good thing, and you're not alone in your thinking Rynostar.

whirlygirl Escribi�:

Word from a couple of long standing Chems fans (Exit and Dig Your Own Hole purists) I've known for a while is that they too haven't listened to a record this much since Dig Your Own Hole. I think it's a good thing, and you're not alone in your thinking Rynostar.

Heh. Yah, a LOT of EPD/DYOH purists HATED surrender, and basically wrote the chems off. Then when CWU came out they didn't care -- until they caught a whiff of Star Guitar -- which brought a lot of them back to listen to PTB.



Personally, I thought Surrender was incredible - such a departure, yet still in line with them.



BTW - Was there any difference in the songs on the advance copy (bootleggers called it Rising Fenns, after the pre-title of the song?) or were all the tracks unchanged?

evermin Escribi�:

whirlygirl Escribi�:

Word from a couple of long standing Chems fans (Exit and Dig Your Own Hole purists) I've known for a while is that they too haven't listened to a record this much since Dig Your Own Hole. I think it's a good thing, and you're not alone in your thinking Rynostar.

Heh. Yah, a LOT of EPD/DYOH purists HATED surrender, and basically wrote the chems off. Then when CWU came out they didn't care -- until they caught a whiff of Star Guitar -- which brought a lot of them back to listen to PTB.



Personally, I thought Surrender was incredible - such a departure, yet still in line with them.



BTW - Was there any difference in the songs on the advance copy (bootleggers called it Rising Fenns, after the pre-title of the song?) or were all the tracks unchanged?

Yeah, those Surrender days were harsh, lots of heat going on with the mailing list... it really divided up the Chems fan base. I was new to the list at the time, and never got into much debate when it came to those discussions - the discussions kind of scared me at first. Surrender was one that both sides of the camp were passionate about.



I don't say a whole lot about Surrender here, mainly because it's too deep a personal record for me, it came to me at a time in my life where I needed it the most... and sometimes I'm a wordsmith but I can't do it justice on how it changed the way I listened to music. Forever. It's just one of those things. I've gotten over the nagativity that surrounded that record. People have their opinions, I guess, and their reasons - so arguing something that close and personal to me is quite pointless. I hear it through my ears and heart, other people have their own way of listening to it...



So anyway, I'd like to know what's up with the advance copy myself - if there's any differences between it and the release. I have a promo, in a gray outer cardboard sleeve (blue inner cardboard sleeve) that was made in Holland, and it's the exact same Push The Button as sold in stores.

whirlygirl Escribi�:

So anyway, I'd like to know what's up with the advance copy myself - if there's any differences between it and the release. I have a promo, in a gray outer cardboard sleeve (blue inner cardboard sleeve) that was made in Holland, and it's the exact same Push The Button as sold in stores.

Heh. Actually, I meant the Surrender advance.... I think it was S.B. or IrishFan that said their promo 12" of PTB were unmixed - but the CD promo is the same as the actual release.

i don't have the promo so doubt i said that. i only have the official release.

Oops- Trying to cut down on the caffeine, I can tell this isn't going to work if I want to actually function at half normal brain capacity!