• Music
  • Chemical Brothers - Desert Island track

Scuba definitely needs to have a manta-man talk about that album.

Not sure if anyone mentioned this… the Chem’s remix of Spiritualised… fucking immense

23 days later

Reading Festival 1999.
17 year old me was ripped a new one by Atari Teenage Riot, Roni Size, Breakbeat Era, u-ziq and The Chemical Brothers.

So it all started with them. I was front row when they dropped The Sunshine Underground and It Doesn’t Matter.

Great gateway, and they still know how to make a great tune and have stuck to their guns.

Also, Digweed dropped Star Guitar in his encore on Sunday night and it’s still a belting tune

If you go back through this thread, it’s mainly the loosers in life who don’t like them, Millsy, Zackster etc etc.

    Star Guitar and Afrika are the only original Chems tracks I play. Star Guitar is their stand out for me. Most of the other stuff is guff to me. Remixes on the other hand…

    Smallman1 you’ll listen to, wear or pay hunky gypsy builders for any old shite, so you know, do one.

    Here’s 3 live electronic bands who shit all over the chems.

    Leftfield
    Orbital
    Underworld
    And another newcomer
    Bicep

    The chems were wank at V festival early 2000s. Luckily Orbital came on and destroyed the place after but for an hour or so the dance tent was bolloxed. Just a load of student types whooping to it. Only time I’ve seen them Tbf but once was well enough. Star Guitar Heller remix is boss and I did actually quite like Out of control remix by the bald one but it aged baaaaadly.

    Smallman1 If you go back through this thread, it’s mainly the loosers in life who don’t like them, Millsy, Zackster etc etc.

    Stu thinks the Chems are gabber whilst I understand they are music for babies. 🤝

    I thought you hated Bicep Derm?

    Music for bedwetters or something like that?

    More lies?!

      Smallman1 i was disappointed to see him big up them, however saying someone is better than the Chems is hardly a ringing endorsement. Same could be said of Basement Jaxx for example.

        Think Derm’s just trying to look contemporary on the basis that his last night out was to see Sasha in Blackburn in 1985.

        jonattonyeah 1997 was a pretty exceptional year for albums. Dig Your Own Hole, Fat Of The Land, New Forms, Homework, Colours, Modus Operandi, Orblivion, ESCM…

        And that’s not even getting into the likes of OK Computer, Bricolage, Life After Death, et cetera.

        1995 was the best year in my lifetime for music:
        Tricky - Maxinquaye
        Radiohead - The Bends
        Pulp - Different Class
        PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
        Goldie - Timeless
        Rocket From The Crypt – Hot Charity
        Pavement – Wowee Zowee
        The Verve – A Northern Soul
        The Charlatans – The Charlatans
        Garbage – Garbage
        The Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust
        Spiritualized Electric Mainline – Pure Phase
        Massive Attack V Mad Professor – No Protection
        Money Mark – Mark’s Keyboard Repair
        Wagon Christ – Throbbing Pouch
        Leftfield – Leftism
        Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
        Genius/GZA – Liquid Swords
        Sonic Youth – Washing Machine
        Stereolab – Music For The Amorphous Body Study Center
        Bjork – Post
        The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
        Neil Young – Mirrorball
        Bomb The Bass – Clear

        Probably loads more too

          bosstrabs a lot a great albums there

          Would add Aphex Twin …I care because you do

          No Eternal - Power of a Woman in there.

          A huge faux pas, sold over 2 million worldwide.

          • Dan replied to this.

            Dan Heard Blocko play the Father’s of Sound remix of said track.

            Yes SD!

              alistair Can you name the track (no googling) which it samples?

              bosstrabs The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

              Bloated nonsense compared to the two brilliant albums before it.

              bosstrabs Genius/GZA – Liquid Swords

              Overrated.

              bosstrabs Pulp - Different Class

              Really?

              bosstrabs Tricky - Maxinquaye

              Underrated.

                Amps Yeah, but I can’t somehow magically transport Siamese Dream to 1995 can I?

                I still reckon it would be difficult to come up with a year that tops 1995 for music.

                I haven’t even included What’s The Story Morning Glory and various others that many people rate but I think are dogshit.

                Supporting my thesis of ’95 being a high point for music:
                *NB, just to be clear, I don’t rate all these albums, but some people highly rate albums on this list.
                University Throwing Muses
                Me Against the World 2Pac
                Orbus Terrarum The Orb
                Ventolin Aphex Twin
                King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime Faith No More
                Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version Ol’ Dirty Bastard
                Alien Lanes Guided by Voices
                The Infamous Mobb Deep
                Green Wheels Merzbow
                Tilt Scott Walker
                Tales from the Punchbowl Primus
                Infernal Love Therapy?
                Red Medicine Fugazi
                Sleater-Kinney Sleater-Kinney
                Brown Sugar D’Angelo Debut
                Foo Fighters Foo Fighters
                Guru’s Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality
                Soup Blind Melon
                Southpaw Grammar Morrissey
                Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot Sparklehorse
                Coast to Coast Motel G. Love & Special Sauce
                On Echobelly
                Paranoid and Sunburnt Skunk Anansie
                Exit the Dragon Urge Overkill
                Ima BT
                Tragic Kingdom No Doubt
                Fungus Amongus Incubus
                Sunny Day Real Estate Sunny Day Real Estate
                Labcabincalifornia The Pharcyde
                Bif Naked Bif Naked
                The Ghost of Tom Joad Bruce Springsteen
                Mr. Smith LL Cool J

                  bosstrabs Supporting my thesis of ’95 being a high point for music:
                  *NB, just to be clear, I don’t rate all these albums, but some people highly rate albums on this list.
                  University Throwing Muses
                  Me Against the World 2Pac
                  Orbus Terrarum The Orb
                  Ventolin Aphex Twin
                  King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime Faith No More
                  Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version Ol’ Dirty Bastard
                  Alien Lanes Guided by Voices
                  The Infamous Mobb Deep
                  Green Wheels Merzbow
                  Tilt Scott Walker
                  Tales from the Punchbowl Primus
                  Infernal Love Therapy?
                  Red Medicine Fugazi
                  Sleater-Kinney Sleater-Kinney
                  Brown Sugar D’Angelo Debut
                  Foo Fighters Foo Fighters
                  Guru’s Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality
                  Soup Blind Melon
                  Southpaw Grammar Morrissey
                  Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot Sparklehorse
                  Coast to Coast Motel G. Love & Special Sauce
                  On Echobelly
                  Paranoid and Sunburnt Skunk Anansie
                  Exit the Dragon Urge Overkill
                  Ima BT
                  Tragic Kingdom No Doubt
                  Fungus Amongus Incubus
                  Sunny Day Real Estate Sunny Day Real Estate
                  Labcabincalifornia The Pharcyde
                  Bif Naked Bif Naked
                  The Ghost of Tom Joad Bruce Springsteen
                  Mr. Smith LL Cool J