Well i dont take many drugs , or often , and i decided recently not to do any anymore because its not good for me.

But fuck. Imagine this album on E!

Ok. That is really the last i'm gonna say about it untill the release date!

ARGH

I'm making plans for an e fueled listening party the same way people plan for their weddings.

I'm definitely (most prolly) gonna hear this album on A sometime or the other, but I really mean it when I say it's been blowing me to bits without any substance in me. I anyway just did A, weed. and E prolly 4 times in my life.

And Stash - I know exactly what u mean bout that incident. Incidentally when Come With Us was released, I had been goin nuts on it, and had carried it to Kodi, a beautiful hillstation - GREEN fairy land and had dropped some shrooms the first morning of landing, they grow their all over in the hills. I had a great trip. Then I was greedy, and I wanted more, so I dropped some more too soon, and the body builds a resistance if done so fast, so I didnt trip that hard, and I broke my vow of never doin A in kodi (we called it the holy shroom land), and dropped some A I had on me, and their - as soon as I drop it, I get a ph call from my girlfriend in delhi - 2500kms away - there had been a huge huge fuckup, and we were over (we were separaed for 7 months hence, she's my wife today!), and I remember just then playing on the cd - The State We're In - I badly din't want the trip to kick in, but it kicked in hard with all the A added in,- those beautiful hills, the sid kickin in HARD (the greedy pig in me had given in to my vow), and there were the chems with "never said it was sunshine, but u took it all the time, all at a time, all the time, now let it show u how, how it feels to be true." I can't explain what they did to me, I was fucked beyond repair, the trip kicked in right there, went on for hours and was straight hell with the girlfriend news in my face, and the sid n shrooms goin nuts in my head. I couldn't hear that tune (one of my favs on that album - that keyboard part KILLED SLAYED ME) for months, till I got her back. That tune still freaks me, tho again now in a beautiful way.

They've always had the messages, and they give u the answers right when u want them (or don't). Tha's why I worship em. Floyd and Maiden used to do that to me. Me n my best friend would be talkin/ wondering something, and a lyric would come right outta the song answering exactly what we were wondering or feeling.

Haha, our druggie days, our fav we fucked up, but llet's do it again line was, but of course, IT DOESN'T MATTER, IT DOESN'T MATTER!"

Also, alltime fav line "brothers' gonna work it out! Hehe, leave it right there.

I remember telling just that to chemdup before the NYE gig, and they did work it out!

CHEMS FOR GODS!

Now back to the album. Or shalln't we?

JR, that's why I absolutely, positively, refuse to ever answer a telephone when I'm on acid or shrooms. Just... No. Don't answer the door, don't pick up the phone, nothing. Nothing good ever comes of it.

I have to say, that like many chems albums, it sounds like a drug trip... there's the ominous come-up, the rush, the 'oh my god what have I done?' part after you take another pill, the fucked up bit later on where it all goes pear shaped and some coked up freak is babbling at you about salmon, then the fuckin' next morning looming over you like a death sentence.

I really should have let whirly write that, she's faaaaaar more eleoquent about the Brothers than I am.

Oh my good I can't stand the anticipation! It really sounds when reading the reactions that this album is THE ALBUM. I haven't heard it yet..A little because I don't know where to get it, but mostly because it feels better to listen to the real thing.

And why all the drug talk guys?

Love is truly all

anyone else think that about 3.20 in on the pills sounds a bit like grandaddy? no diss at all. just his voince and also the "doop doop" synth

Uhm, maybe because they're called 'The Chemical Brothers'?

You don't like the drug talk, you're in the wrong fuckin' place.

Chem'd, Grandaddy? you mean he sounds elderly, or is there some singer called Grandaddy I do not know?

"Uhm, maybe because they're called 'The Chemical Brothers'?"

Hehe, good one mate!

wow, i leave the board for a day and all this happens, well i haven't heard the album yet and i don't want to hear it yet so this isn't the place for me.

any luck with myspace stash? if not, what's your email?

...nothing to do with this topic or my insanity related to it...

i mean the band grandaddy from a few years back!

the crystal lake....that tune....sounds kinda similar

God I so want to listen to this album. You are all evil

Stash - I kinda looked at floyd and the Chems albums a bit differently - they are the only two bands that for me seemed to follow exactly the erowid acid graph. Drop, kickoff, MAD RISE part, TOTAL MADNESS (Sometimes psyching like the floyd stuff, or the bad trips where u lost it and want it back in some kinda control), the beautiful settinling feeling - the plateau, and the LOVELY comedown, in Floyd the acid graph would be a whole album as well as one long epic song, usually the last one - Echoes kindsa stuff, with the Chems it'd be the whole album - the most beautiful part would be the beautiful comedown - acid never leaves u'r body abruptly, however amazing or fucked up the peak that night has been, the plateus nice, and the slow gentle comedown is beautiful, u always feel good about all that u've seen, realised, MAY need to work on in u'r life. See what I mean with the parallels??

I don't do crack or anything else so I won't know, but I suspect it's the acid graph the Chems have always nailed. I've never found their comedowns depressing - they'r always beautiful - however chaotic, mad energy the peaks/ midscetions may be, the latter part of the albums/ comedown. the last few acoustic or epic songs leave u with that lovely feeling, the only fuckup is the Chems albums are an hr, the sid trip's 6-7 hrs, so u need a lot of Chems. :)

Floyd later mostly got too psyching and scary/ self introspecting only, for me, the Chems are pure portals on sid - they cease to be music on heavy sid - cease to be songs as we know them in reality, just sounds and beautiful or scary parts that are portals to entirely different ever changing worlds.

Damn, loadsa drug talk here, do we talk about the album? Did Ed really approve discussing the album, or someone bluffed? I checked the current txt - it doesn't say so, but if Ed did, let's bring on the real geekiness!

Altho I'd be the last person to discuss parts (the synth at 1.14 or the breakdown at 2.20 blah blah) - to me they'r beautiful songs with much deeper emotional touchpoints, mostly at wholes.

Does anyone remember the fear of having overplayed EBW8 to have it on the album? I'm eating my words myself - I love that tune so much that I can't fuckin skip it (or haven't) even once till date, I love it so much on this album. Everything fits so well.

I just wish they gave us these albums much faster - fuck the money and business part and the virgins, and whatever - an album every year is what we need, and am sure they can do comfortably. They'r obliged to, they make music that means TOOOOOOO much to people, unlike most regular good bands. They'r not a Fatboy or a BT, they'r fucking GODS.

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Whoa! 2 Vinyls like Come With Us! I for one am getting two of these to start with - trust me folks, invest in a mid end dennon or whatever rocks u'r boat, and hear the Chems on LP - I thot I'd heard it all on cds, till I heard the Come With Us LP - it's a different world!

I wish I could somehow find someone soon to carry this down, paying the price of the LP's fine, the fucks charge almost 3 times that to courier it to me! :(

Ed approved it, but it was a ruse so he could see who had downloaded it, so when we go to the shows he can have the bouncers kick our asses.

and biff, you're gonna need to hold tight.

oh yeah, who's the girl on Modern Midnight Conversation?

I know this is probably a blasphemous question...

...but can somebody point me in the right direction to WATN?

I can't stand it anymore. I need a listen...

I just added my MySpace link to my profile...

...a little help? Please...

::hangs head in shame::

nope!

no links or pointing to album.....sorry!