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I like the art. And I will pick up my copy later so I can review it.

the art work is probably the best thing going for it!!!

wait when does it come out in the US? I checked amazon and it said release date of sept 15th.

Yeah, I only heard the first half of the record and the other half at intervals. It's a shame that the second half doesn't live up to the first. Then again, this is opinion. I did like what I heard though, I'll have to wait and stick it out and see if this record has staying power.



It's one thing for a casual fan to be disappointed, but I hope the hard core fans at least feel this was worth the wait.

The vocals are really irritating me. "Action Radar": annoying, "Phoenix": just terrible, "Girls": too repetative, "Memphis Bells": pointless, and "The Way It Is": too weak.



Actually, other than "Hotride", what the hell is with all the female vocals throughout these tracks? They don't fit at all with the Prodigy sound or attitude and they seem to have taken the place of Keith and Maxim's usual aggressive input!



The Prodigy vocals of albums past seem to have gone. They've been kissed to death with hot pink lipstick. :(



Also, what's the go with the breakbeat in "You Will Be Under My Wheels"? Liam must have accidently loaded a rimshot sample instead of snare in Redrum. X-D

It is true that Liam used reason for this album. Maybe thats why its disapointing (I have yet to hear it for myself)

Thor_Saytyr Escribi�:

It is true that Liam used reason for this album. Maybe thats why its disapointing (I have yet to hear it for myself)

most of it was from live insturments that were played and then seq'd through programs like reason. There was a long interview I read a while back where he spoke about it.





It isn't great and it isn't bad overall.



I hate Hotride and I love Spitfire.

I find a relieve to read so many bad reviews about this album. Let me explain why.

I've been a fan of the Prodigy ever since I heard G-Force on a house compilation album back in 1992. I loved them ever since. It was great to see that "my band" reached great hights with TFOTL. BUT when I saw them on a festival tour with that album there were all this little 14-16 year old girls screaming "Keith!!!!" pushing and shoving in front of the stage. I hated that. I still loved their music but hated what they had become.

Liam noticed that when he released BGAT.

And now he's back with a fresh but hard new album. Is doesn't sound as groundbreaking as MFTJG and TFOTL but I like it.

I have it since friday and with my first listen to it I was a bit dissapointed as well but I love it now, also thanks to the bad reviews.

Also for those of you who don't know, and some just don't, Maxim and Keith are part of the band but were never meant to be part of the music making. That's all Liam. I am very curious though how they will do this album live.

So, AONO, great album. Maybe not as groundbreaking what some were hoping for (myself included but what did they expect. We had to wait 7 years!).

Favourite track: mmm I think "Action radar" or "Hotride". I love "Medusa's path" as well (as a nice lovesong :) )

But anyone who rips MJ"s "Thriller" like that has done a great job.

I'll see some of you at their tour.



Prediction: Next Prodge album will be out before 2007. Mark My Words :D

the problem with the prodigy is that they are a band who and not only about the music, but a band who relly on an image. for serious music lovers the image thing can get in the way.



i liked music for the jilted generation, it was a ballsy album full of genius. i loved the collaboration with my then favorite band pop will eat itself. i loved the narcotic suite, i loved the flow of the album. i loved the fact that the way they got away from the whole rave scene sound that they had previously embrassed and pioneered.



fat of the land however was a bit too... i don't know. there are some great tracks like smack my bitch up, mindfields and funky shit. but the album seemed to be all about shocking people. whether it was smacking bitches up or the keith shock value on the promo videos. i don't know the image over took their music, they were a household name and became tabloid fodder. i don't think there is anything wrong with mass appeal. but they bacame to big for the wrong reasons.



i have seen the a couple of times. once in 96 at brixton where the crowd were jumping up and down so hard the floor gave way and the show was stopped while they sorted the problem out!! they put on a good show. but to me it is a pantamine. for fuck sake the decked the academy stage out like a living room, with the pat butcher-esque tiger skin wall paper that they used on the cover of the firestarter single.



i think personally if liam wants to be a serious musican he should dump the other 2 muppets, they are his akilles heal. back in the rave days they served a purpose, the interface between the music and the crowd. but now i cant see what purpose they serve, apart from generating the 'image'. its easy to say dump them, but there his mates. rule number one of life - you dont stich your mates up. the whole prodigy machine got way out of its depth after fat of the land. no wonder liam has found it such a head fuck to make this album. i think he made the right decision to drop keith and maxim from the album. but i think the revivention should have been more radical. maybe he should have killed of the prodigy years ago and taken the pressure of himself. i have no doubt of his genius. and without the tag/pressure of the prodigy maybe he could make something more worthy of his skills.



just for the record i have heard aono twice. it came across as a very average album to me. nothing worth the wait of 7 years. fuck being a prodigy fan, i'll stick with the chems.

Well said.

i think it was a good balance between talking shit and making sence personally!!!

Let me just say one thing.



An assload of people hated CWU when it first came out. But what do we think of it now. I like CWU alot and so do alot of other people.



I really like the mp3 I have of Girls and I heard Medusa's path on radio 1. I have to say that I Liked both of them ALOT. I dont have the album so i cant make judgement on it.



As to what sneaker beat said about their image. yeah I think it is pretty rediculous. I think it's a necesity to have an image when someone is emerging because that's how PR works and gets people talking about something. But I mean the whole dressing up like boys playing with make up the first time is old and annoying. The chem's have a definite style but they dont have to dress up in stupid clothes and have spiky hair.

hey the chems exude class, thats how they have made the mark on dance music!!!



as for people disliking CWU, fuck 'em. i remember the time when the current www.thechemicalbrothers.com got relaunched. it was around the time that CWU was leaked over the net. i remember reading the old style messageboard and people were saying that the album was a fake and refused to believe it was the genuine artical. when obviously listening to it, it could have only been a genuine chemical brothers production. i also remember alot of those people said that surrender was a duff album and where had the beats gone that had been on the first 2 albums. to say surrender was a weak album is lunacy. it is there crowning glory!! there finest moment!!! although chemical 5 seems to have a very strong vibe to it thanks to miloco communications!!! i must admit that CWU didn't draw you into the music in the same manner as the first 3 albums did with me. it was a bit more of an album that grows on you rather than being sucked in on the first listen.



i cringed with the intial backlash of come with us. all these people being so negative about the new album and it was 3/4 months of release date. i dont think anyone one this forum would say it is an average or bad album. i gotta say it is my least favorite (note that i have put that positivly and not as a negative), but that is testament to the sheer class of the first 3 albums!! the chems have never let us down, and i don't think they are about to either!!!

my point by referencing CWU is that people generally dis like change (new albums by artists) but with over time, it grows on them.

Wow, if I weren't sitting here with a lot of hair dye sitting on my head waiting to burn the fuck out of my scalp, I'd join in with a super lengthy post! ;)



Good points were brought up by everyone.



I think in general, people are resistant to change and music is a very fickle thing when it comes to people's tastes. When you're heart is really set on something and you are given something that doesn't live up to these visions of grandeur you had, it's no wonder you're let down. I think that's what happened with Come With Us. People were expecting one thing, and they got something that completely veered off the path some people felt the Chemical Brothers should've/would've/could've gone in. Talk about a head fuck. I know for me, personally, I did not go into Come With Us with an open mind AT ALL. I can happily (and sheepishly) say I have been eating my words ever since. It wasn't until my husband said, "you know, come on - it's not as bad as you're making it out to be" and he was right. It was definitely a grower and there is an overall positivity that surrounds the record that really strikes a chord with me.



As for Surrender - I know plenty of people that really hated that record. Plenty of these people that were and still are very loyal fans despite them not thinking that everything the Brothers touch turns to gold. It's all a matter of taste and I won't go around speaking for them and what they feel when they listen to the music - they're not me and I'm not them, but I've heard all their explanations before. They simply don't like it and that's fair enough, to each their own. Personally I have nothing against the record as it saw me through some very personal times and it will always have a place somewhere within me. But I've already been through that before at length somewhere on here before...



and I really have to get this hair dye out of my hair!

Listened to it without headphones today (finally!). I have all the AONO tracks turned up loud except "Action Radar", "Phoenix", and "The Way It Is". I don't skip them, i just turn them down.



All the other tracks sound awesome, and those vocal samples I had issues with don't stand out as much on the stereo.



Wake Up Call has to be my new favourite track. You betta WAKE UP!!!



This album has got a massive sound. It's definitely punktronica and it's still a 9/10 for me.

Bangin! that is how I would describe album, that is all.

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my point by referencing CWU is that people generally dis like change (new albums by artists) but with over time, it grows on them.

thing is as (most) chems fans we are used to change. dyoh to surrender was a complete change and like wise to come with us. bands are ment to evolve, sounds have gotta change there no fun in stagnation. if the chems came back with an album which felt like one of the previous i'd feel cheated. change is a good thing, we are not 60 years olds yet!!



i think the prodigy change is a different kettle of fish. instead of a more natural progression of sound its more an anti-reaction to what has gone on before. there style of change is very fickle. the prodigy make fashionable music. fashion is something so ugly that it has to be changed every 15 minutes, but style is something versitile....

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