I think that Push The Button is a good album but not the best. It's better than Come With Us, which I think is what they were going for since many people did not like that album particularly. However I thought the musical direction they are going into is more pop and less of the hard hitting bass and beats that we're used to. It sounds like they were making these songs to be more of pop songs with more focus on vocals. I mean the songs are good but not as complicated and hard hitting as say Dig Your Own Hole or Surrender. For example listening to Setting Sun and Galvanize you get a totally different feel. Take the vocals away from Setting Sun and it's still a killer track... however take the vocals from Galvanize and you can tell something is missing. These songs were made for more singing and less music and in that way I think this album is lacking. Still love the album though just thought I'd point out the musical direction that the Chemical Brothers may be heading towards.

I'm going to guess, thnikaman, that you like Homestarrunner. No? My favorite character would be homsar, which I just happen to be wearing a tee with him on it right now. :P

Thnikkaman Escribi�:

I think that Push The Button is a good album but not the best. It's better than Come With Us, which I think is what they were going for since many people did not like that album particularly. However I thought the musical direction they are going into is more pop and less of the hard hitting bass and beats that we're used to. It sounds like they were making these songs to be more of pop songs with more focus on vocals. I mean the songs are good but not as complicated and hard hitting as say Dig Your Own Hole or Surrender. For example listening to Setting Sun and Galvanize you get a totally different feel. Take the vocals away from Setting Sun and it's still a killer track... however take the vocals from Galvanize and you can tell something is missing. These songs were made for more singing and less music and in that way I think this album is lacking. Still love the album though just thought I'd point out the musical direction that the Chemical Brothers may be heading towards.

that was my initial reaction aswell but now i do see the beauty behind this album. Not all music needs to be layered 50 times. They made this album work with the least number of layers and stuff and in the end i think it works just fine. You are hearing only THE best of the best on this album. It totally rocks!! easily their best work YET>

Very true. I have mates that love nothing but 'gangstar' rap, and they love the whole album (cept maybe hold tight and close your eyes). The chems have really reached out for some new audiences in this one. PTB is becoming quite popular over here, which was not the case with CWU.

I was talking with the EMD rep who came into my work the other day, and he said that Push The Button is pretty much set as the Chems best selling (in the US)work to date. So far.



It is #1 on the US Dance Charts for 2 weeks now. And that is saying A LOT!



I had a customer last week who heard Come Inside playing in the store, came up and asked me who it was, and he bought Push The Button for that song alone. We actually had to have more copies of this record sent in, because we've sold a bunch plus this month it's featured in 2 places within our store - the Try Something New Rack and the Chainwide listening stations. (plus a couple copies in the Employee Picks rack ;) )



Things are looking good in Chemical land. I am very pleased with how well this record is being received and I am so happy for the Brothers success - they worked so hard on this record and they should be proud. Better yet, all this success is like giving all those nasty magazines reviewers the middle finger!!

chemicalreaction Escribi�:

that was my initial reaction aswell but now i do see the beauty behind this album. Not all music needs to be layered 50 times. They made this album work with the least number of layers and stuff and in the end i think it works just fine. You are hearing only THE best of the best on this album. It totally rocks!! easily their best work YET>

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Nice once, chemicalreaction.



I agree that there's a lot of songs that sound less layered - Believe could this bill, maybe Come Inside, maybe Left Right - But only to a point. It's strange because I hear sooooooooo much going on in this record. With each listen, I hear more. Sometimes a part in a song will catch me off guard, like I've never heard it before. Especially with headphones, there's subtleties I don't catch while in my car on on a boombox or home stereo.



Push The Button is more dense than the first listen suggests.



It's not often a record will test my aural perception. But the Chems always manage to do it and this record is no exception. I think that's yet another reason why I find the music so endearing. I am being honest when I say that the doors to that perception have been opened by the Chems with each of their records, and there is no going back. Ever. It's like hearing things with a new pair of ears, like they are constantly being challenged and that's a good thing. But tough for a lot of other music - my standards have become quite high!

the best part is when you listen the records with headphones is another experience with an audio-system you can feel the bass and pound but with headphones you can listen every little detail and sound on the record and every time,at least in my case you listen different combination of sounds.is hard to explain it but is amazing.

I understand what you mean.



It's all about the environment - it has a lot to do with your perception of the music. The environment is either one that surrounds you that you have no control over, or the one you make where you have complete control.



Between a home audio setup, your car, and headphones - the headphones are going to be the most intimate environment because there is less interference from outside noise. It's just you and the music that way - no other cars on the road, no hum of the air conditioner going on, nobody yelling at you to turn it down. ;)



But I'm not saying one environment outweighs the other. I love listening to music in my car, and I like listening at home or at work or whatever. It's all what you make it.

i was reading a article where it said that ptb sold 60,00 copies in th uk in the first week and does any think that the explosion sounds in the boxer sound like the ones in elektrobank

irish fan Escribi�:

i was reading a article where it said that ptb sold 60,00 copies in th uk in the first week and does any think that the explosion sounds in the boxer sound like the ones in elektrobank

Safe to say I haven't made that connection yet, but of course I'll be listening to the record again today so I'll be sure to keep an ear out...



But I did think the explosive crashes in Left Right sound a bit like the ones in Elektrobank.

It's all a big explosion in the mind. The think the artwork is perfect for the album.

chemicalreaction Escribi�:

It's all a big explosion in the mind. The think the artwork is perfect for the album.

I like the album artwork, but I really liked the stuff better on surrender and CWU... whatever it's called, printing or something?

Screenprinting, yes.

Everyone, get ready to see Come Inside in almost every action movie this summer.



Just watch 8)

either that or hold tight london in every car commercial.

and where will we find marvo ging?

whirlygirl Escribi�:

I was talking with the EMD rep who came into my work the other day, and he said that Push The Button is pretty much set as the Chems best selling (in the US)work to date. So far.



It is #1 on the US Dance Charts for 2 weeks now. And that is saying A LOT!



I had a customer last week who heard Come Inside playing in the store, came up and asked me who it was, and he bought Push The Button for that song alone. We actually had to have more copies of this record sent in, because we've sold a bunch plus this month it's featured in 2 places within our store - the Try Something New Rack and the Chainwide listening stations. (plus a couple copies in the Employee Picks rack ;) )



Things are looking good in Chemical land. I am very pleased with how well this record is being received and I am so happy for the Brothers success - they worked so hard on this record and they should be proud. Better yet, all this success is like giving all those nasty magazines reviewers the middle finger!!

Wow, didn't know that the US have a dance chart at all? Concerning electronica they are still a developing country and so i'm deeply surprised the chems have been number one on the charts for 2 weeks. I see the US is adaptive. X-D



But apart from this i hope the brothers never will make an albums that aims just to sell millions, means i hope they won't compose mainstream-mass-compatible music in the future. Someone mentioned it in another thread concering the beats of some of former albums which were a bit to 4-4 dancfloor-like what i would say as well, in some tracks there's more potential concerning. Don't get me wrong i love these songs too but in some cases i get the feeling, man, it could rock more with (short) breaks or variations on the beats(Marvo Ging is one of them, brilliant but it could be rockier..) As for me breakbeat is the ROCK among electronic music... but probably just for me...

That don't means all has to be breakbeat!!!

whirlygirl Escribi�:

Better yet, all this success is like giving all those nasty magazines reviewers the middle finger!!

Ha X-D ha, lovely...

whirlygirl Escribi�:

I was talking with the EMD rep who came into my work the other day, and he said that Push The Button is pretty much set as the Chems best selling (in the US)work to date. So far.



It is #1 on the US Dance Charts for 2 weeks now. And that is saying A LOT!



I had a customer last week who heard Come Inside playing in the store, came up and asked me who it was, and he bought Push The Button for that song alone. We actually had to have more copies of this record sent in, because we've sold a bunch plus this month it's featured in 2 places within our store - the Try Something New Rack and the Chainwide listening stations. (plus a couple copies in the Employee Picks rack ;) )



Things are looking good in Chemical land. I am very pleased with how well this record is being received and I am so happy for the Brothers success - they worked so hard on this record and they should be proud. Better yet, all this success is like giving all those nasty magazines reviewers the middle finger!!

It was #69 for it's first week on the complete Billboard Top 100. I haven't checked up to see if it's still on the top list but being in spot #69 is def. not bad - of course, If I had my way, It would have been the number one album. In terms of you working at a store and having seen someone buy the album at that moment - are you a US resident? I know that I was in a local Hastings recently and they were playing the album but when I told some of the people working there how great the music was they gave me odd looks and told me they had no idea what the music was and that they couldn't help me find it. Thing is, I told them I already had it and that I wanted to see if they could tell whoever put it on that a customer approved of it - no luck. I was flat out rejected any help on that. I'm not sure how store's work in that sense but It felt extremely akward... and they only had 2 copies in the store, anyway. It's been selling here, obviously, but not as much as I would have hoped - the best comparisson I can make is that label-mate Air reach #33 or something on the Billboard Top 100 in its first week here. THAT was incredibly impressive. I was sure that the Chemical Brothers would sell more than Air but I was sadly dissapointed at their debut figures. Still, Not TOO Bad. It's always getting better.

Isondil, yes I am a U.S. resident.



I work at the uber corporate record store chain, Tower (thinking about making a job change, not sure yet) and it is mandatory we play new releases... but we try to play things in the store that the people working the floor know something about. It's impossible to keep up, really, and a lot of the time I tune stuff out or I don't much care for it. But come on, it's music, you can find something to talk about even if it's about an artist that you're not familiar with - but yeah, it's kind of a bummer when you go into a music store and you want to chat with someone about what's playing, and they look at you like you're crazy. But anyway, our store has been playing a lot of Push The Button - I insist on it when I'm out on the floor or stuck covering for someone on a register!!



The response to Push The Button so far has been really good, really encouraging! And of course I love telling people "that's the Chemical Brothers" when they ask "who is this playing right now?"



So far my store has sold 69 copies of Push The Button and we had to order more and yes, I check every day to see the totals ;) That may not sound like much, but my store is like the megalomart of music, we have a lot of product and generally electronic music doesn't sell that great - just not a strong demographic I guess. But my store is only 1 store out of several in the area, plus factor in that Tower's a a big chain that's actually doing it's own to promote Push The Button.