yes the break and build it up is the best part of the track and that stupid twat start talking!!!!! }:-@

Im not sure if I want to listen to it...Im afraid i'll be dissapointed

OMG! 8O I JUST LISTENED TO IT!!!!!....IM FUCKING SO EXCITED!!!!...IT'S FUCKING WICKED!!!

Well, I'm not dissapointed. This tune is really good. The string parts put me off at first, they sounded too much like that TCM song "American Way" or like something from the new Prodigy album, but I got over it pretty quickly when the beat dropped in 8O. That bass is huge! And the groove is funky as! Q-Tip is tight, and I like the signature Chem's synthy bits around the place. I think this is the slowest dancefloor tune the Chems have ever produced...?



But I've gotta say it - it seems a bit commercial. It's by far the best hiphop/r+b tune I've heard in many years (since Hello Nasty and it's respective singles), it's absolutely massive, and the Chems have just showed everyone up by rising the bar yet again... but it's not different enough. The singles from CWU were really groundbreaking stuff, completely fresh to my ears, so much so that I had no idea what to think of them for the first 5-10 times I heard them. But with this song, it sounds just like so many other r+b songs that've been released, only much better. Not different, but the same and better. You don't listen to it 3-4 times and go "that's real weird... but for some reason I really like it" and then begin to understand why after hearing it a few more times - you can get right into it straight away. But that's kinda what I like about the Chems... they so different from most stuff on the radio that it takes you a while to get into it, but once you understand it it just keeps getting better and better.



Don't get me wrong, I love this track and have been listening to my little recording all day (and will be buying the mp3 on Monday), but I'm just a bit taken aback. This is the most "normal" sounding Chemical Brothers track I've ever heard! I'm so used to new releases being so different from everything else, so instantly Chemical Brothers. But this is so clearly an r+b/hiphop song. It's like Tom and Ed have gone "well, we're getting pretty damn good at what we do, let's do some more conventional songs... but do them a shitload better than anyone else". And they fully have - Galvanize rocks harder than any other hiphop/r+b out there!

i dont know if i like galvanize and r&b being used in the same sentance!!

That is pure wrongness!

the version played at bugged out was at least 6-7 mins long which was really cool.

after listening around 30 times galvanize i think the "dont hold back","my finger is on the button" is very adicitve, i�m really liking this track every time i listen it, first i tough it was tooooo slow i was expecting the speed of not another drugstore, but now i thinjk is very good the way it is, in someway is very different from the others singles, and i cant get out of my head the damn mid eastern sounds. 8)

sunshine boy Escribi�:

the version played at bugged out was at least 6-7 mins long which was really cool.

:o really?



that means more breaks,more build up, more robotic voices, more MAD BASS. i hope the album version is the longer version. (!)

ok so second listen for me.....it has hit me a lot more. it is a fucking topper tune!

it is growing... by every time you listen to it.



when i first heard that q-tip would be on there i just thought "ah, no, breathe and stop" - remember, that was in one of their mixes (think it was in glint / dusted decks but am not too sure) and i knew that'd be a hiphop-based one. that's where they come from so i awaited some dust-brothers-like tune... and it really is though it's totally different. it IS slow (just remember her jazz) and it is something others have done before, the chems did not... it's so much better than other same-sounding stuff to compare it with. big respect to tom and ed...



it's not groundbreaking... fuckin' great one...

Absolutely brilliant! :D Tom & Ed, you just don't know how to make a bad song do ya! That 'my finger is on the button' hook line during the breakdown is pure class - a typical Chems moment! I absolutely cannot wait to get my sweaty little hands onto a copy of this track and throw it into a mix of my own! }:-)



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I don't know why everyone's annoyed about the talking at the end by zane lowe, this is radio1/commercial radio remember. If you want a better recording get the mp3/cd! Makes you appreciate that crystal clear version even more.

Radio 1 isn't commercial radio :? and also when a song is premiered for the first time on radio it would be nice to hear it in its entirity.

dont worry galvanize is getting daytime radio play on radio one now!! they is plenty of opertunites to hear it with out the kiwi talking over it

Well I hardly ever listen to Radio 1 in the daytime so it's all about waiting for the single.



I remember the first time I heard HBHG on the radio, and actually not liking it the first time I heard it! :o Now, it makes me wet.

This track is getting better by the day, I listened to it on headphones and it was 10x better - there were noises I hadn't heard before (like at the beginning). Also I was able to decipher the lyrics a bit more - that eastern strings sample is stuck in my head! :D

iguanapunk Escribi�:

Well I hardly ever listen to Radio 1 in the daytime so it's all about waiting for the single.



I remember the first time I heard HBHG on the radio, and actually not liking it the first time I heard it! :o Now, it makes me wet.

I remember the same thing with Star Guitar. I'd already got IBIA, and loved it. But when I first heard Star Guitar on the radio, I couldn't believe it, I really didn't like it. It seemed like a trancey piece of rubbish, like something Dave Pearce would play! The first listen is not always the best, now I love Star Guitar. It goes to show that regardless of first opinion, you've gotta listen a few times to appreciate Chemical works. Part of the appeal, I think!!

i heard star guitar first on the promo copy of cwu and remember just asking myself "wtf ist THAT???" X-D

amazing, it's a massive classic one now...

Fucking amazing song!! Very different, and you will love it more each time you listen to it!!!!!!!!!! I feel that the album will be full of new stuff, things that makes our taste of music always fresh!