...and let's try to keep this positive, or at the very least, logical. Let's breakdown some of the tracks and talk about what's going on in them, how it makes us feel, what we like about it, and even what we don't like about it.



If someone wants to start a rubbish thread slamming Push the Button by interjecting two word reviews (Shit Snadwich reference from Spinal Tap), go right ahead but leave this thread alone - all I ask is that this thread thread stays somewhat intelligent and relatively clean. Please pretty please with sugar on top???



OK - who wants to go first, or shall I?

you go first since I don't have a copy and haven't listened yet! (though my Japanese copy could be coming today! :D)

All right, no better place than to start with the beginning.





At least with Galvanize, most people have heard it one way or another by now. So hopefully more people will chime in.



I think as a single, this song is pretty strong. I liked it when I first heard it via radio stream, but like other people's thoughts here it was sort of a grower. And by "grower" that means I wondered how it was going to work within the context of the whole record.



And imo it works well, and my "concerns" about it fitting into context were put to rest. It's a straight up great start to a record, World the Time has come to push the button. And the song has a really positive vibe which I like. Q-Tip's rapping is top notch. I know people accuse the Mid East influence as being commercial, but I don't hear anything commercial at all. If it works, don't fix it.



It also sounds dope cruisin down the street in your car.

whirlygirl Escribi�:

At least with Galvanize, most people have heard it one way or another by now. So hopefully more people will chime in.

ah, good point, I do have the Galvanize single, so I can certainly comment on that. I've been looking forward to this sort of thing because I feel that I don't personally say much about the chems music a lot, and that to try and do so might help my ability to be more expressive about it and to feel the music more even.



So I'm listening right now to my single. I agree whirly, I really really enjoyed Galvanize when I heard that first radio stream. A lot of that, I think, was the excitement of a Chems world premiere like that.. but nonetheless I do love the track! One thing I'd like to say is that I would like to hear it live because I don't always feel the intensity in it. Upping the volume sometimes helps that, too, but I don't want to do that in my apt. right now and bother the neighbours.. When I listen, I long for something like 'Come with Us' (the track, that is), which sort of had those strings but faster and more intense, I really dig that. Don't get me wrong, I do like the track, but to really feel it, I need to hear it live, I think... I need to hear the Chemical Brothers live!! Just once, please!!!



On the other hand, I can really get into this third track on my single, more with every listen...

"YOU ARE ALL MY CHILDREN NOW!!"

hehe..

It's a great pumpin' tune like the last Battle Weapon (*drools*).

whirlygirl aka I'm-so-cool-cause-I-have-a-car :P Escribi�:

It also sounds dope cruisin down the street in your car.

I wish I knew what that was like.. heh, I'll have to bring it with me on my next visit back home..

the boxer



fresh and funky as hell love the vocals love the orange wedge synth i love all on this track.



hold tight london





favorite female vocal ever great tune one of my fav this tracks makes me feel goooooood.

i wqill post more thoughts onPTB when I get some free time. It just takes too long to type with one good hand. should get the other one out of the cast in two weeks.



i will tell you that Galvanize is getting pretty decent amount of radio play on Atlanta's "new-rock" station. This track does not fir their normal format at all. Good news huh? I would think that it means that people have been requesting it and I would think that it also means the next single from PTB will get some radio play in Atlanta. .......Come With Us got ZERO esposure in Atlanta.

I'll get back to you on this one next week.

See I have this problem. A problem wherein I don't own the album yet.

Well GLAKO, I do look foward to what you have to say. 8) And souphead, it's a shame your right hand is out of commission because from what you wrote about the record recently, I think you'd have a lot more insightful thoughts to post. I did enjoy your left-handed thoughts on Left Right though. Definitely food for thought.

I've no clue when I'll see my disc from hmv in the post. Long time till i'll be posting here again.

You're lucky Souphead. Radio in my humbly pathetic small town is shit. I'd probably have a subdural hematoma if I heard a Chem track on the radio here. Although my last time in the Atlanta area, I quite enjoyed DaveFM. I can't bear 99x anymore.

wayno52 Escribi�:

ah, good point, I do have the Galvanize single, so I can certainly comment on that. I've been looking forward to this sort of thing because I feel that I don't personally say much about the chems music a lot, and that to try and do so might help my ability to be more expressive about it and to feel the music more even.

If there's one thing I like to do, that's talk about music. I pretty much talk about it all day at work. Then I come home and talk about the music I *really* love with people who feel very much the same way. It's very gratifying, and reading other people's thoughts offers different perspectives, a new way of seeing and hearing things. I love it when people are willing to share little life experiences that have to do with the common bond we have here which is music. I think that's why I love reading live reviews, and with the upcoming tour and record, it just adds to the excitement of music as a whole.

wayno52 Escribi�:

So I'm listening right now to my single. I agree whirly, I really really enjoyed Galvanize when I heard that first radio stream. A lot of that, I think, was the excitement of a Chems world premiere like that.. but nonetheless I do love the track! One thing I'd like to say is that I would like to hear it live because I don't always feel the intensity in it. Upping the volume sometimes helps that, too, but I don't want to do that in my apt. right now and bother the neighbours.. When I listen, I long for something like 'Come with Us' (the track, that is), which sort of had those strings but faster and more intense, I really dig that. Don't get me wrong, I do like the track, but to really feel it, I need to hear it live, I think... I need to hear the Chemical Brothers live!! Just once, please!!!

You know, for the first time in god knows how long, years probably, I listened to a record 2wice through on my headphones uninterrupted. I just don't have the time these days to devote that much time in one sitting to doing only one thing. The whole thing about sitting down and doing nothing but listen to music is a weird concept to me, because I am always doing something else too. But after hearing Push the Button at various volumes in my car and on my home stereo, I really got a hankering for hearing it as loud as I wanted and the only way I was able to do that was if I put my headphones on and cranked it up. Now back to Galvanize - I was hearing all kinds of things in that song that I wasn't hearing before. I can't even properly describe these sounds, because they're those kinds of things that you need to hear in order to "get." If that makes any sense! There is a lot of depth and subtleties (and not so subtleties) that go unnoticed unless you give them your full undivided attention.



And like I mentioned before in another thread, this record is very conceptual. Once you get past the first song, the second falls right into place. Same with the third song and every song after that. This record is very... very cohesive. Each song is only a piece of the bigger picture. You know the Push the Button art with the cogs and gears inside the head? These songs are the cogs and gears in motion that make set the entire record in motion as one idea.



At least, that's what I've gotten out of it already.

Quote

I have yet to get my hands on this tune. Of course I've heard it in the Chile set, but I can't imagine the sound quality does it justice. Still a slammin track, you can hear the energy, I can imagine the crowd went ballistic. When I hear this live, I'm a-gonna lose it!

For what it's worth, here's the Rolling Stone review of PTB



The Chemical Brothers



Push The Button





Originally released: 2005

Astralwerks Records



*** 1/2









It's been a tough season for the former great hopes of electronic music -- the recent Fatboy Slim and the Prodigy releases ranged between middling and drecky -- but there's hope for stadium-ready dance music in the Chemical Brothers' fifth studio album.

Push the Button keeps to a formula familiar to followers of the U.K. duo, opening with a block-rockin' break-beat track ("Galvanize," a hip-hop romp with Q-Tip on the mike), closing with an extended jam (the acid-trip carousel soundtrack of "Surface to Air") and, in between, delivering an album full of beat-wise psychedelia.



Highlights feature two vocal newcomers: the gentle lilt of Anna-Lynne Williams from Trespassers William lends an affirming beauty to "Hold Tight London," and the urgent yelp of Kele Okereke from Bloc Party makes "Believe" a club-anthem-in-waiting. "I need you to believe!" wails Okereke. And by the end of Push the Button, we do.







BILL WERDE

(Posted Jan 27, 2005)

Thesouphead Escribi�:

i wqill post more thoughts onPTB when I get some free time. It just takes too long to type with one good hand. should get the other one out of the cast in two weeks.



i will tell you that Galvanize is getting pretty decent amount of radio play on Atlanta's "new-rock" station. This track does not fir their normal format at all. Good news huh? I would think that it means that people have been requesting it and I would think that it also means the next single from PTB will get some radio play in Atlanta. .......Come With Us got ZERO esposure in Atlanta.

Galvanize is getting some love on a radio station here, Indie 103 - though I've been too fixated on my latest obsession to bother turning the radio on!



I think it's great that Galvanize is getting played, it is a good sign that people must be requesting it!



It was a shame with Come With Us, because that record didn't get any exposure here either. I don't think I heard one song off Come With Us played on any of the radio stations here. Which is a shame. Had Indie 103 been in existance then, The Test would've gone over real well.



Another thing I want to bring up, speaking of "getting the word out." The record store I work in has received no merchandising materials for Push the Button. The rep (who I rarely see) had nothing to give me as far as posters or even flats go... at least not yet, he better hurry up if he wants that stuff up and on the sales floor before I leave for vacation. We didn't even get stickers or post card thingies. I got that stuff shipped straight from Astralwerks with no prompting or anything when Singles came out, so I wonder why nothing for Push the Button. I even emailed Astralwerks inquiring about promoting the record in some way, and I've gotten no response. I guess Southern California isn't an area where the labels are pushing the button!

robot.mx Escribi�:

the boxer



fresh and funky as hell love the vocals love the orange wedge synth i love all on this track.



hold tight london





favorite female vocal ever great tune one of my fav this tracks makes me feel goooooood.

Oh my god, it's getting late! But I want to add some more thoughts to these 2 tracks - at least a few thoughts I might add on later.



What's interesting about this track is that while it has a fast, catchy poppy sort of feel, it gets you movin and it's got a fantastic groove to it that doesn't subscribe to any particular genre. You can't quite pigeon hole it, and that's brilliant! Yet I think it carries a bit the whole Manchester vibe - then again, Tim's singing on the track so it's only right to keep things in tune this way. ;) I like the way Tim Burgess' vocals have evolved over time. If you play Life Is Sweet back to back with The Boxer, you can see he's trying new things with his vocal range. And that's just 2 Chem collab tracks, not counting the evolutionary process of the Charlatans.



Now Hold Tight London is just simply gorgeous. Just a lovely track all around. I could probably write an entire page that would take a year to load on just this one track. It's haunting and ethereal, and the melody takes your ears through this incredible sonic landscape. What is really genius about this track is how the vocals seem to drift in and out of the textured sounds. Everything seems in balance and in perfect harmony. The vocals don't dominate the track, the track doesn't dominate the vocals. Another thing I'd like to mention is the beat. If I'm not mistaken, it's the same quick paced tempo as The Boxer. But the drum kick is a lower pitch, and it reminds me sort of like a heartbeat. Like someone mentioned in another thread, this song feels like a slow energy moving throughout your body - and I have to agree, that's a great description of how the song makes you feel!

DELETED

believe/hold tight london.





nice transition i love the boom tas boom tas frsssssssssssssssss then you are on hold tigh london excellent.



*frsssssssssssssssss= with this sound your head almost explode. 8)

anType, you will be blown away.



I was expecting a good record, even a damn good record. But I was not expecting this!! This one's far exceeded my expectations!

whirlygirl Escribi�:

anType, you will be blown away.



I was expecting a good record, even a damn good record. But I was not expecting this!! This one's far exceeded my expectations!

with the chem�s i always expect the unexpected.

robot.mx Escribi�:

believe/hold tight london.





nice transition i love the boom tas boom tas frsssssssssssssssss then you are on hold tigh london excellent.



*frsssssssssssssssss= with this sound your head almost explode. 8)

Ah yes, that fizzy sound... when I first heard that in my headphones, I was taken aback because it seriously did not sound of this earth. It's very high pitched but it doesn't hurt your ears. What's weird is that, I could feel the speakers crackle ever so slightly against the little nub of my ear that covers the earhole.



Now I know I don't have the greatest headphones, but they aren't terribly shitty. The sound was not distorted at all during the fizzy part.



It's just a weird sensation! X-D

whirlygirl Escribi�:

robot.mx Escribi�:

believe/hold tight london.





nice transition i love the boom tas boom tas frsssssssssssssssss then you are on hold tigh london excellent.



*frsssssssssssssssss= with this sound your head almost explode. 8)

Ah yes, that fizzy sound... when I first heard that in my headphones, I was taken aback because it seriously did not sound of this earth. It's very high pitched but it doesn't hurt your ears. What's weird is that, I could feel the speakers crackle ever so slightly against the little nub of my ear that covers the earhole.



Now I know I don't have the greatest headphones, but they aren't terribly shitty. The sound was not distorted at all during the fizzy part.



It's just a weird sensation! X-D

after i play this part on my big stereo, my father say me wtf was that? sounds chemical.(he didnt know was PTB)---->with this face 8O.















X-D