TSD =/= Single material

Really just look at the fav lists posted in this forum and in general!

It's going to bomb.

And that's what I fear. All the ignorant will associate Chems=Slamon Dance....

I suppose. It's a song that won't make sense to a lot of people, but I think it will appeal just in immediately form factor, in a sort of campy 80s-early 90s hip-hip way.

I don't care much bout the rock drill there, but all rights reversed was their best bet, i think so too. simply because it's one of the most powerful vocal tracks on the album - saturate/ burst generator? are people living in a dream?- those songs are awesome rave stuff/ music - would they really sell in 2007 as singles? get real fans. :(

also, this is weird - when we first got the leak everyone liked the salmon dance, and thot it could very well be the second single, now it's quite different i see, n agree.

heard the album on cd the first time today, and have mixed reactions for now. love the album, but it makes u feel you're growing old. it's a weird feeling. i agree with antype - some of the b sides kick more ass than half this album, but it's just change. everything changes, so have the chems. pretty much in a decent chemical way, just that i can dont yet connnect with the folks who say this could even think this could be called the best chems album ever. i hopefully wont. it's just the chems today.

i'll prolly change my mind anyway so u shouldnt have read this post.

but the chems are certainly growing old in the studio - one's definitely a parent. with tracks like das spiegel and harpoons (I was actually underwater in a cartoon film and a fish!).

i'm sure the live show will still keep them top of their game for a long time, but I feel this album starts off and stays really big till saturate and then starts undulating a bit too much. I love all the vocal tracks on Do It Again - kickass - except the lead vocal. I love The Pills Won't Help You Now for now, but Battlescars sounds like a very different chems - the cd quality's definitely leaps ahead of the mp3s i was hearing but i certainly miss bigger funkier drums + chemical sounds all over - they'r almost not there on this album - which is quite a bummer, as even PTB tho quite tame compared to earlier albums had kickass songs with kickass BIG drums. I've just heard it twice, but I think there are certainly weak tracks on the album. personally i never found any chems weak till the last album.

On a sidenote the drums on Saturate still don't sound as dirty as they do on the EBW vinyl.

The do it again intro sample is certainly changed from the leak version.

Well, I've already met quite a few people claiming they are HUGE fans of the Chemical Brothers because they like 'Galvanize'. "What do you think about The Private Psychedelic Reel then", - I usually ask. "The Private Psycho Doodly-what?", - those people usually say. Bloody R&B crowd.

Ooooh, R'n B, buuuhhh. Not that i hate it (some good stuff's there: Umbrella's got such a fuckin' great beat!!! Probably the only true beat amongst that genre). But the music is saturated with R'nB and their folks.

And please Jackie: they get old in the studio??? Wtf is dad? They still have that inexorable sound they ever had (noisy, tweaky, loud (AMMC!!!)). Different but truely chemical.

And Harpoons is a brilliant transition to The Pills. It's got a little Sigur Ros attiude. So nice. They could make motion picture soundtracks! Ah, they've already done the Fight Club one :lol:

I still think the song is funny. I think it will be a fun video. I'm not sure if it would sell. But if they made We Are the Night or Burst Generator (expecially Burst Generator), I would buy it!

we are the night for the next single!

I wonder if they will put EBW 9 on the single. BTW does it have a title yet?

er, csar, they didn't do fightclub

that was the real dust brothers...

i made up a title for EBW 9, I just call it "Calculations".

HAHAHA or Equation.

Wow...wow. I'm curious to see the sales on this, either really good or bad. I hope it doesn't become one of those songs that people not familiar with the chems associate them with.

A:"The chemical brothers, didn't they do that salmon dance?"

B:"No!"

I call it Calculations cause of the words in the beginning, durrr

I know SENSATIONS GENERATOR!!!11ELEVEN

Jack: I see what you are saying about how the Chems have changed and whatnot, and of course they aren't getting any younger.

If music is a means in which the soul can speak, then an older and wiser Chemical Brothers will come out when they're in the studio. They can't keep banging out tracks like they did when they were in their 20's when life was different for them.

I like this evolution of the Chemical Brothers, and We Are The Night makes a lot of sense to me. The music seems relevant, songs I could feel an instant connection with and perhaps being in the same age group as Tom and Ed, I can see what they're getting at and why this has come out in their music. Evolution is par for the course when a band has been around for a while. It's just a matter of whether or not the fans want to follow...

In my opinion, releasing The Salmon Dance as the next single means target consumers are not core chemical fans.

They should have picked All Right Reversed or Das Spiegel.

I wonder what the cover would be for The Salmon Dance?

Yeah!The Salmon Dance!I like it!But I hope in Burst Generator track..it must be the next single!

Imo, TSD needs some work...The beats are way too simple...And for those who like to compare it to Galvanize, I think the beats were a lot more interesting...If TSD is the next single, I hope it gets some re-work or maybe some good remixes...