Hey I didn't get any stickers when Come With Us came out!! }:-@



I got a stack of poster flats for Singles and some post card looking things.



For Push The Button my store didn't get any promo materials except for a few copies of Push The Button (mine is the lovely euro promo) and some buttons the EMD rep brought in. I signed up to be a part of that street team dealie, and got sent a bunch of poster flats, pins and stickers and some more post card things advertising the release and featuring Galvanize. I used just about every pin and sticker as giveaways with the cd. Customers love free stuff!



As for the flats I still have a bunch left over.

this website sells the chems pins if anyone is interested.

http://pinstand.com/pins/chems.html

yeah but pins sux as hell :/ It's a little... has been :)

mippio Escribi�:

got laughed at by some people in a car as i walked along the street jacking to my ipod and singing along to the live version of out of control :-// X-D

Did you sing the etchy part ? :D

jerky part*



sorry :-//

Ben_j Escribi�:

jerky part*



sorry :-//

dnag right dawg 8) and i did the obligatory hand wiggle as well

stuck up for tom n ed on another board being slated by some geezer who prob hasnt been out in 5 years



http://www.4four.org...p?p=70118#70118

Right on, mippio! Mr. Thackeray may have his opinions but he needs to back them up with something substantial, not just call them "students" or whatever his insult of the week might be.

yeh that thackery geezer looks like a bit of a twat, i think he's one of the most cynical people ive ever seen spouting rubbish on message boards.



he's just bitter because he forgot how to dance years ago and just likes to sit and critiisize from the comfort of his pc :P ;)



(hopefully ive been forgiven for my 'ed cant mix' faux pas last year now :-// X-D )

Ah mippio *hugs*



All is forgiven I'm sure.



God knows I've had a couple of Chems related faux pas myself!

I saw this thread the other day on a random board , and this geezer was kind of talking about PTB and totally talking shit about every song on it. If somebody doesn't like PTB , well we all have different opinions , but at least say something that makes sense. This boy was so hypocrit , he went something like



" Left Right is something the Chems should never have done , stick to what you know , this is so un-Chems! "



And than he went



" Surface to air is so similar to so many of their song , it's just another TPPR , we know that sound by now "



Offcourse i told him if he decides to post something bad about such a great album , at least post something that makes any friggin sense.

I don't really post on other messageboards since there's not enough time in the day. :P I'll lurk, that's about it.



It sounds cheesy but I feel a sort of motherly instinct to protect the Chemical Brothers and the music. I know everyone's free to have an opinion and there's always going to be people who don't like what they're doing, but it would take everything for me not to go off on some long winded smack down to protect our Brothers.

Yeah i just lurked there and when he said that i registerd.



But yeah i have to same. If somebody doesn't like it and they can tell me why , fair play. But saying Tom and Ed are a bunch of students ( never knew students where about 35 nowadays ) or whatever , that kinda gets me anoyed man. I mean i dont like Eminem either but i respect him muchos u know

whirlygirl Escribi�:

It sounds cheesy but I feel a sort of motherly instinct to protect the Chemical Brothers and the music. I know everyone's free to have an opinion and there's always going to be people who don't like what they're doing, but it would take everything for me not to go off on some long winded smack down to protect our Brothers.

You don't look old enough to be Tom and Ed's mum, whirly. X-D



I just pity the fools who diss the Brothers.

Tom and Ed are all my children now!!

whirlygirl Escribi�:

Tom and Ed are all my children now!!

Eek, don't put on any scary clown make-up!

Jeanie Escribi�:

I saw this thread the other day on a random board , and this geezer was kind of talking about PTB and totally talking shit about every song on it. If somebody doesn't like PTB , well we all have different opinions , but at least say something that makes sense. This boy was so hypocrit , he went something like



" Left Right is something the Chems should never have done , stick to what you know , this is so un-Chems! "



And than he went



" Surface to air is so similar to so many of their song , it's just another TPPR , we know that sound by now "



Offcourse i told him if he decides to post something bad about such a great album , at least post something that makes any friggin sense.

Criticizing PTB doesn't bother me that much, even though I think it's a superb album (probably only Surrender tops it for me among the Chems releases). However, the two statements that person made are ludicrous.



Left, Right sonically is pretty different from anything they've done before, but they do have a long hip-hop-history and have worked with superb rappers before.



To compare Surface to Air to The Reel, though, just defies belief. Surface to Air is simply stunning, but if I were to compare it to any Chems track it would be Star Guitar, not The Reel. STA is pure heavenly bliss, saccharine sugar pumped straight into my veins. TPPR is psychedelic beat-heavy mayhem, pounding other universes into my skull.

I agree with Darkstar on the comparison with S2A and Star Guitar, this would have been alot better.

This shows too, that the guy didnt have a clue what he was talking about then, so thats basically the end of that,

If it were a true meaning it would be coming from a true fan, not just some guy who compares two songs from the one band that arent the same

Well...



I'm not about to go defending the guy on the correlation he made between The Reel and Surface To Air. But I did read in Rip & Burn magazine (it was the first issue, I believe) a brief interview with Ed who stated himself that Surface To Air was most like the Private Psychadelic Reel. If I remember correctly he said the similarities weren't in how the songs sounded alike but how they were structured that made them most like each other.



I tried looking for a link to that article, but even on rip & Burn's website they had nothing for the Chems. I swear I'm not making this up!!



I do think the offending guy is off the mark though if he's saying that Surface To Air and the Reel sound alike. They don't - even if one can compare how the songs are structured, they don't have the same feeling. At all. I mean for one, the Chems wrote those songs at very different periods in their lives so of course they are going to feel different, have a different vibe. There ain't nothing like the Reel, in my opinion that song is sacrosant. Nothing can touch it, it's in a league of its own...

Exactly. And i mean if u think STA and The Reel are the same , okay okay. BUT saying 3 seconds earlier that they shouldn't change their sounds so much with Left Right is fucking hypocrit.



Anyways.