tom_rowlands_chemical_chi Escribi�:

I took my boyfriend to a chemical brothers concert.



we drove around listening to Push The Button starting from Believe. Then skipped back to galvanize after hold tight london, then sat through believe again...



I love believe so much.



And i love my boyfriend so much.



Isnt that a handy coicidense!

I hate people who skip through albums, i hate it so much :x , especially people who like a song they have heard on the radio so they buy the album but as soon as they get it home they skip right to the track they have already heard and listen to it on repeat.

Yeah, my brother does that as well. He buys an album and only listens to about 3 tracks. Then plays them again .

I don't see anything wrong with skipping tracks as long as people are enjoying the songs. Even for the people who buy the album just for one song - there is the off chance that one day they might decide they're too lazy to press repeat and give the whole album a chance.



Believe is one of chi's favorite tunes - maybe listening to it brings back awesome memories of when she saw the Chems with her boyfriend, maybe it holds other memories for her as well.



I admit now that I am very familiar with Push The Button and am in love with it all over again, I will find myself skipping to the tracks I heard live - not all the time but once in a while. Between the studio version and the bootlegs, I hear the songs differently now and there are things I didn't notice in the (studio version) songs before. Maybe it's just a little experiment in my head I'm conducting, for what reason I don't know. ;)

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it was the same with delirium corda by fantomas. 70 minutes and just 1 trk. almost impossible to hear. the new fantomas record has 30 trks in 40something minutes. weird art-music. love it, anyway :D

Boy with the Golden Eyes Escribi�:

it was the same with delirium corda by fantomas. 70 minutes and just 1 trk. almost impossible to hear. the new fantomas record has 30 trks in 40something minutes. weird art-music. love it, anyway :D

And the Anti-Nazi mix of course.

tho that was for other reasons, i suppose :D but you are right

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they ain't too bad, not really. just nothing i would buy or that could serve the taste of music of most of the forum users... but when heard in some good club... not too bad

Boy with the Golden Eyes Escribi�:

it was the same with delirium corda by fantomas. 70 minutes and just 1 trk. almost impossible to hear. the new fantomas record has 30 trks in 40something minutes. weird art-music. love it, anyway :D

Three the hard way by Dj Scud, Bombardier, and N1tro: 47 tracks, 67 minutes(?close enough. itunes says 1.1 Hours).

anType Escribi�:

by the way, speaking of My Chemical Romance the emo band - is it really shitty? Heard of them a lot but never actually heard anything by them

I've only heard the one single from their album and it was okay, but pretty generic emo-punk-pop. They opened for Green Day here on Tuesday, but I bitched out on going.



Fantomas is a really interesting band, and I wish I'd caught them at Coachella, but they were on at the same time as the Chems, and, you know...... Mike Patton is tremendous though. I like both Tomahawk albums and saw Tomahawk open for Tool on the Lateralus tour. I can proudly say I saw Mike Patton get fucked in the ass by a giant deer. :D

fantomas are playing the hurricane festival in germany this year. but as it is a one-hour ahow only, on a hot and sticky afternoon and the timetable doesn't fir into my plannings... i don't think i will see them

Tonight it was Push the Button that we went for a drive and listened to. 'Close Your Eyes' was her favourite track (and it's mine too, after a special sunrise moment a while back), while 'Galvanize', 'Believe', and 'The Big Jump' also got top ratings (this track is growing on me so much after seeing it live).



After the album was over, we just kept driving and had a great conversation about the album, the Chems, music, and human existence in general. I get so chatty after listening to the Chems with someone who really GETS it that a good conversation was inevitable.



She still prefers Surrender, but admitted it was a close call. I think Music:Response and Under the Influence give Surrender the edge for her.



(Probably there will be an update in this thread next weekend too; maybe Dig Your Own Hole, I'm thinking....)

My boyfriend and I had some great loving to Orange Wedge once 8)



And close your eyes is now our 'special' song

kwiddle Escribi�:

My boyfriend and I had some great loving to Orange Wedge once 8)

Funkalicious. That would be a fun track for it, for sure.

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kwiddle Escribi�:

My boyfriend and I had some great loving to Orange Wedge once 8)

Funkalicious. That would be a fun track for it, for sure.

i cant imagine a cople making love with electronic battle weapon 6, or a remix of ebw7 "YOU ARE GONNA HAVE MY CHILDRENS NOW" X-D

robot.mx Escribi�:

Darkstarexodus Escribi�:

kwiddle Escribi�:

My boyfriend and I had some great loving to Orange Wedge once 8)

Funkalicious. That would be a fun track for it, for sure.

i cant imagine a cople making love with electronic battle weapon 6, or a remix of ebw7 "YOU ARE GONNA HAVE MY CHILDRENS NOW" X-D

EBW6 would be hectic....... *grabs American EP on way out to pick up girlfriend* ........ not sure I'm physically capable of this........ 8O

The song Hold Tight London has become very personal, it's become part of a memory from over ten years ago.







On Christmas Eve 1994, 'stash and I hopped into the backseat of his sister's Toyota Tercel and drove across the chilly desert to Las Vegas in the dead of night. Soon to be mother and sister-in-law along for the fuckwitted adventure, which I'll spare the details of.



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.



Eventually, we find one room available at the La Concha hotel. We were downright exhausted - too tired to turn back, and far too tired to get married if we wanted to remember any of it.



We check into the hotel and it's hideous. At the time it was under renovations, but the part we stayed in still had the frayed red carpet lining the hallways, paintings of conquistadors on the walls, and mirrors on the ceilings. And the old musty hotel smell, the kind of smell that says the walls have a million stories to tell if only walls could talk.



We get inside our room... Sleep deprived and relatively doped on vicodin (long story short, 'stash had surgery not too long before) we hopped in the shower and collapsed on the bed which at the time, was the most comfortable bed in the world.



And the way we lay there in each other's arms, the inside of the room and the grimey morning bustle of the city just seemed to melt away - nothing else existed or mattered. No past, no future - just the present moment of holding each other as we drifted off to sleep. It was at that moment we held each other tightly that I knew I wanted nothing more in the world than to be in that moment, it was where I wanted to be...



And that's what Hold Tight London reminds me of.

Awwww :-// That is so...so...beautiful. Really. Story's like this always make me go " Aaaaah how cute! " hahaha. Really.



I get unexplainable strong feelings from songs sometimes.

Whenever i listen to One Too Many Mornings , Chico's Groove , The Test , Surface to Air , and a couple of other Chems songs.. i get a little...i dont know. A little bit emotional maybe. This songs reminds me of traveling , the traveling i do , the places i go , the people i meet , the experience's i have. They give me such a strong feeling . I dont know why. This songs reminds me of how fucking great my life is , that i have the oppurtunity to travel the world. I saw many things in my short life than most of my friends will see in their life's , but sometime's i forget that because it can be a lonely and hard job. This song reminds me of how great my life is,

I know it sounds weird and all but i cant explain it either haha.



And some songs make me feel like i'm in love , but really in love. But i'm not. It's weird. It's a weird thing what they do to us !!!

It is amazing how music can bring about such feelings, how it can trigger memories (and in my case above, how a song that wasn't even in existance all those years ago can somehow manage it's way into the framework of a beautiful memory.) I love it when you hear a song that can make you feel so much larger than life and world itself. What's amazing to me is that music we really connect with can take you to another place, or bring you to a place where you've once been. The emotional response to music can be overwhelming, how it can burn a pathway in your brain. The power of song can never be underestimated!!



Push The Button is one of those landmark records for me, I think. It came out at a very exciting time, my 10 year anniversary and how we celebrated that in London - it was practically my soundtrack to that trip. It reminds me of why I am still in love with my husband, why I'm still in love with London, and it will always serve as a reminder of this point in my life where everything is OK and I am happy where I am.



Surrender is one of those records that played a big part in dragging me out of a very bad emotional state - it's such a personal record for me, one of those situations where I didn't find the music but instead, the music found me. I know a few of my Chemical friends don't care for it, but to me it's just not something worth arguing over really, I'm convinced I'm hearing the record differently than they do. I'll never forget listening to it for the first time, how it conjured up all these past memories of my life before my son was born and it gave me the power to get my life back and start living again, start being in love with my life again...