Chemical Brothers : Galvanise







It?s the arse-end of 2004 and the only people who still give a shit about The Chemical Brothers? new album are those who?ve had their critical facilities eroded by bad ecstasy/aspirin/rat poison (delete according to dealer). So how do the Chems wipe away their image as ageing student raveheads? By drafting in a load of guest vocalists, of course, and releasing the first fruits of their labour to iTunes in the year?s most barren week of quality singles.



Not that ?Galvanise? ? a chrome-plated collaboration with Tribe Called Quest rapper Q-Tip ? is merely the sweetcorn in this week?s turd of releases. In truth it?s as fresh and funky as Ed and Tom have sounded in an age. Shimmering strings, a huge breakdown and lyrics about ? hey! ? the party being ?over here?; the end result is luscious future-hop that?ll restart parties in the heads of all who cross its path and not just those dribbling E victims still trying to drink the green goo out of their glowsticks.

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Chemical Brothers : Galvanise







...the only people who still give a shit about The Chemical Brothers? new album are those who?ve had their critical facilities eroded by bad ecstasy/aspirin/rat poison (delete according to dealer).

Say wha?? heh. ;)





Anyway - a positive, albeit underhanded review. And us fans even get a mention, wow.

yes, us few idiots waiting for that album. not nice. that one will be no.1 again so they should shut up... :( :x

It's been said before, and it'll be said again, NME are a bunch of tossers. The sentiment was there, but even journalists working for The Sun are better than the NME numpties who write the articles.

are they?? in the sun on friday it said that tim burgess had left the charlatans. which was very strange cos he looked every bit part of the band the day before at brixton.

Figure of speech, sneaker.

The Sun is hardly known for it's quality journalism, I was merely saying that NME is worse!

Not in terms of accuracy, which is where it counts I guess, NME just can't write aritcles for all the tea in China.

I hate critics with a passion. These people seem to forget that they are being paid just to listen to music. Do they have to take a bitter or ironic attitude at every thing they review? Fuck them.

I think a lot of music critics are jaded, hence the sometimes bitterness that comes across in their reviews. Sure they get paid to listen to music, then write about it. But you have to think that after some time, after hundreds of reviews (even writing reviews for bands they don't necessarily care for) the job's gotta wear a person down. Critics don't always get the same luxury as fans, at least as far as we can read..



Yeah, it's fun listening to music at our own leisure, what we want when we want and how we want. That's what's great about being a fan, and imo that's what's great about reading fan reviews because at the core... bias aside, there's a certain amount of respect and objectivity for the music presented. As fans (of any kind of music, really) I'd like to think we have a certain level of understanding of the band and where they're headed and where they've been - I think that's important in terms of perspective that other fans can relate to. As fans we don't have to break everything down, critique it, then present our constructive criticisms for the large-scale magazine reading masses to review.

I think it's very harsh to write to your readers of people "who still gives a shit about the Chemical Brothers". It's the same with Prodigy. These are 2 bands who are the biggest inovators in the dance/electronic music genre. And they are still relevant as f#ck!!! If you go to a club and a latest Chems or Prodigy ( or Underworld/Orbital or a band like that) the crowd still goes mad. Music critics are just more in to "real" bands (singer,guitar,drums). They don't see a wider spectrum of music and people loving music.

DYOH and MFTJG are the most important dance/electronic albums of the last century and the Chems (and Prodigy) are still evolving and growing and getting better (certainly not worse!!).

Not like the Rolling Stones who everyone still loves and who haven't done shit for years.

Joslyn posted:

Not like the Rolling Stones who everyone still loves and who haven't done shit for years.

Apart from an 'updated' greatest hits album every Christmas. The likes of Queen and Elvis must have released loads of them by now . Suppose this is all done by the record companies, so yes the artists haven't done shit for years.