In my highly drunk mood I thought of this: What are Tom and Ed's favourite album, single, remix and all time track.



Album: that's easy, they have said that Surrender is their best album they made.



Single: Hey boy, hey girl why: It's the only single hte made on their own that hasn't been remixed. TPPR and IBIA are official release but never mend as real singles. IBIA was a club hit which gone too big and TPPR was a release made either for the fans or themselves. both have no videos.



Remix: That's a hard one but I think it might be "Voodoo people" cause it's the one which is the most criticly aclaimed ( I'm also a huge Prodiy fan so maybe that's why I hope that's what they think)



All time track: TPPR cause it's a favourite live track of themselves and it was released as a single which I think it was never mend to happen but it did because it is so damn good.

If it's not this one it's "The sunshine underground" because (also according to Tom and Ed) it has the same feel as TPPR (sort of a sequel) and then their own favourite tracks come from the same favourite album.



What do you guys and girls think?

P.S. the Test, Let forever be and Setting sun are also unremixed tracks but that are collaborations with singers.

Ed's fave track: chemical beats, Tom's: TPPR. No time to list other thangs, must eat.

I've read the same thing GLAKO did in regards to their favorite Chemical tracks.



I've also read that Tom is extremely proud of The Sunshine Underground and I have to say that the last time I saw them live, they really went all out with it, heads down intently and immersed in their gear - in the condensed set (it was about an hour long) they played the whole of TSU pretty much from start to finish. TSU was a bit unlike the other songs they had in that particular set where they mixed and matched different beats/blips/beeps/hums/etc. to formulate intros to other songs, almost like they were mashing up their stuff... It's kind of hard to explain but I get the feeling that that song along with Star Guitar were meant to be showcased as the set's peaks.



As far as It Began In Afrika, Joslyn you are correct. That song went over really well in the club rounds, people (fans, dj's I assume) started asking where they could get it, hence the early release of that single. The move to release that song months before Come With Us' release was praised by a couple of magazines - one in particular saying "let's see Britney Spears do that for her fans."



On the downside, I was reading a not-so-flattering review of Singles 93-03. I can't even remember if I read it online or in a magazine at my work. Anyway, the reviewer was really upset that It Began In Afrika wasn't put on the singles cd, despite it being the unexpected hit that it was. The guy said - here you go Nerdcore, get ready to be pissed off - "they didn't put It Began In Afrika on the Singles because they (meaning Tom and Ed) don't like it. I mean, what gives? I found the statement a bit ridiculous especially since he wrote it as though he was speaking for Tom and Ed, and I had to laugh. Then he bitched and moaned that the Singles didn't flow like a true Chemical Bros record, and that the songs should have been mixed into each other; intros/outtros - then closed the review calling Singles a "missed opportunity."



Anyway. Sorry for the last bit, but it just came to mind. What a downer!

I THINK TEY DON�T PUT "IBA" BEACUSE THERE IS SPECIAL SINGLE (I THINK THIS SINGLE IS A VERY COLLECTIONABLE SINGLE) OR MAYBE TO

PUT IN THE JAPANESE VERSION TO SAY THAT THE JAPANESES ARE SPECIAL FOR TOM & ED?

I read that tom and ed's favourite remix was of the manic street preachers everything must go which was cool because it just happens to be my favourite too :)

Cool! its also mine :)

My favourite is probably the nine-acre dust remix.



naaaa na na na na etc.... :D

Bug Powder Dust remix and Release Yo Self remix are both sweeeeet 8)

i like voodo people it was the first chem�s remix that i listen....

I don't own many remixes the chems have done :'(

Out of the ones I've got, it's gotta be the spiritualized remix, such a fantastic track.

I'm still looking for the everything must go single (CD version), it's never for sale on eBay!



The only other remixes of the chems I own are their remix of Song for Shelter (it's mad!), and their remix of Swastika Eyes (reminds me of out of control a lot for some reason - not just Bobby Gillespie!)

chemicalfan, you are a fan after me own heart. Their remix of Spiritualized IThinkI'mInLove is hands down my fave Chemical remix. It was already a stellar song on its own, and it was hard to imagine it being any better - but lo and behold the finished product remix n'all is just so perfectly beautiful in every way. Still gives me goosebumps just listening to it.

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Bob Dylan

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I like the remix they did for "Song For Shelter" from Fatboy Slim, I think it rocks! 8)

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