I never thought I'd start a topic on this. I've never had that one favourite song on any Chems album - they're all album experiences - but this time I can't get over how good Horsepower is.
So thought would check with folks who have decided to not wait till cd release - any one particular tune that really gets u wet?

I love all the tunes, they will go through a lot of dynamics over thousands of hearings in the next few months, but I get so excited when Horsepower kicks in - there's something so cool and evil about it. it's got baaad written all over it. I think it'll destroy dance floors.

K+D+B reminds me in someway of Das Spiegel - only it's bigger.

love dissolve right now. it's like let forever be and sunshine underground having sex. another world is also very huge - loving the dreamy vocals on that.

at last, further is one big awesome track / concept / experience which blows my mind

I can't still decide which are my fav songs on Further, very different dynamics with each song.

But there's definitely something really intriguing about Horsepower. It's like Ed slipped Tom some coke one night while Tom's wife n kids were away, n they had a blast making this steroids crazed monster! it's a pure battle weapon, - simple, heavy dark groove - the ole skool meet new production techniques kind. It's evil but really cool.
It was a bonus pleasure to find out that the horsey sample's comes from worthy lineage.

My favorite part is the whole thing. I mean, EVERY SINGLE track is 10/10. That's never happened before since the beginning of time.

k+d+b is epic

but really the whole thing flows so well, i think this is their most cohesive album to date

it makes me happy

Snow, Dissolve & K+D+B

Escape Velocity and Horse Power

Also Dissolve and K + D + B are cool too.

Exactly the same of Maboul

I don't know... I don't know yet what my favorite song is.

I woke up this morning with the pulsating sounds of Another World coursing through my brain.

The oceanic Wonders Of The Deep took my breath away unexpectedly this afternoon on my way to pick up my son from school.

Snow gives me chills that run from the tip of my head down to the soles of my feet.

I admit I am partial to Escape Velocity for personal reasons I don't care to get into right now.

I could go on, at great length (and I will, muahaha) about every song and how they make me feel, and the images they conjure up in my mind's eye.

I love them all!

I was never any good at choosing just one Chems song, anyway. But it's fun reading what other people think. I can't wait until everyone has a chance to chime in!

i also find it kind of weird, that further has no track on it which must grow on me. first listen: i love them all. call me insane but i think the heavy easy listening of further is some kind of a disadvantage (a minus).

example: every chems album has this track on it, which you can feel/understand after quite few listens for the first time

the fact that this chems album is SO easy to enjoy makes further a grower for me to find some difficulties in it...hopefully someone can understand my point

You mean - in the sense that since there are no growers (or camp dividers like, for example, Left Right or Salmon Dance) then there is the possibility the listener could suffer from a case of album burnout?

I'm not sure if that's a disadvantage yet (to me, personally, anyway) but I can see your point. It's easy to burn out on an album - it's happened to me with Chems albums, and other albums by other bands I love. Right now I'm trying to look at the advantages, though. I can say I am 100% without a doubt pleased with this album. I find that refreshing for a change. There's no growers, there's no "oh I heard that song when they played it at Coachella and I 'get it' now" or "I gave that song a few more listens and now I enjoy it". As much as I love the Chemical Brothers, there have been songs that I was initially on the fence about. But this is different. Love comes easily with what I'm hearing on Further since the first listen. I haven't felt that way at first listen since - I really can't remember! So it's been a long time. I'm going to enjoy that feeling for now and not worry about how I might feel later on.

That statement on not having to grow on you, wow. That's the perfect way to put it. Further is just it. There's always one track on every chems album that clicks for me on the first listen - One Too Many Mornings from EPD, TSU from Surrender, We Are The Night from WATN, to name a few.

All of Further was like that. It's one 51 minute journey through euphoria. Horse Power took a second listen, but beyond that the whole thing blew my mind. When listening to other music, it feels so strange. I think, 'there should be groundbreaking visuals to go along with this, why aren't there any?' Further, even after listing to it for about the 16th time (I think, I've lost count), is still beyond comprehension. It's still so far above
anything I've heard before.

I'm really liking Dissolve right now. Awesome 60's psychedelic style, and downright trippy visuals. I'm sure it'll change soon.

I think I'm going to start working on my jumbo size review of Further. We'll see how it turns out (though I doubt I can top that one Bosco posted).

listening (and only listening) for the first time was yesterday laying on my bed after work, i had just bought it and didn't know what to expect.
My face clenched up so tightly in anticipation for the beat to finally drop in Escape Velocity, going through the bars in my head i thought i may be able to guess when it would explode, turns out when I guessed and when it actually dropped were about 18 bars apart (though I cant remember exactly because when it did I forgot all about counting and just burst out laughing with happiness)

Then Another World came on and i didn't know what to think.
when its nostalgic yet futuristic and almost sad breakdown comes in with that pulsating kick and the vocals.
my gosh I didn't want to move ever again.

and the second listen a couple of hours later was coupled with the visuals and at that same point of the record I tear'd up.
just sat there in with my eyes encased in my own tears.

also fuck yes Horse Power

that's all that comes to mind now I'm gonna try and sleep more with Further.
best yet.

M

love the post Letittakeyou! here's to more sleeping around with Further - have a great family too!

Whirly - this is really strange but I've never had a problem with almost 99.9% of chems songs - never didn't like anything first and then grew to like it, yes grew to like a lot of songs much more with repeated listening.

let me be honest, I was looking at shameless fanboy appreciation for Horsepower when I started this thread - it's not my "fav" song - but it's something that stands out on Further. Just like Swoon does.
I'm still not settled completely with Wonders of the Deep - if you are talking of just the audio experience it leaves me a bit unsatisfied - not a very typical chems ending.

just wanted to say I agree with Jacksrevenge on the final moments of Further, I think because of the trend of closing tracks of Chems albums
I expected a mass, progressive, euphoric ending in the same mould of "Surface to Air", "Private Psychedelic Reel" or "The Test".
I was hoping that something huge would come out of the twinkling last seconds of this record and take us somewhere else, not the case,
however I have absolutely nothing to complain about. It was perfection.

I love all the tracks, but my favorite is probably dissolve. Also wonders, i made a longer version of wonders so know its better.

letittakeyoutothestars, on 11 June 2010 - 03:55 PM, said:

It's really strange how one moment can make a change sometimes in how u connect with something or not - my connection with further happened today evening, i was hearing it in full at peace the first time in 6 days- and I swear I was plain stunned by Wonders of the Deep ending to the Further trip. It's just gorgeous. It still feels like something bigger is beginning again, It's perfect.
Infact this topic is so fucked up. I'm playing it the second time now, n I love every moment of the album - it's a complete album experience to me just like every other chemical brothers album now. the magic has struck! fantastic! wish I could take a week off from work.

n the euphoria strikes big in Swoon.

Dot it, even just a day off work. I'm going to take a day soon and go through the entire catalogue.

letittakeyoutothestars, on 11 June 2010 - 09:28 PM, said:

Doing that chronologically would be completely awesome. You know, start from Song To The Siren and work your way up.

yeah man for reals. plus all b-sides after the album they spawned from.
thats like a day right there.