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Um, I just figured Tom and adam were shooting the shit with each other.

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I wish they made still made stuff like My Mercury Mouth. That's a good track.

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"we are the night" at number 1.

its really nice to see that they're still popular. i like the new album. i think they changed the way of doing things. as an old new order fan, these synths reminds me "tecnique" a lot, i still like the way they cut a song from original 12 inch - like all the early new order 12 inches -

i had a feeling that many interesting tracks will come as b side.

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All Rights Reversed rocks my sox.

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piss-weak effort imo. lots of chemical-brothers-by-numbers.

'the salmon dance' is a fucking insult.

i suppose it's better than their last album; but that set the bar pretty low.last track's pretty nice; but there's an awful lot of dross to wade through to get there. very, very disappointing.

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Oooh.

Salmon Dance is the next single - hahahaha :)

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Ditto. Really really grew on me. Pretty damn surprised actually.

"A Modern Midnight Conversation" is the official treadmill theme song of the year!:cool:

This album is not the Chem's best but it's far from terrible.:)

Out today in the US, can't wait to pick it up.

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You're right, it isn't their best. It's actually their worst!
Yup, release day in the States. First CB's album i haven't preordered or picked up release day since, oh, Dig Your Own Hole...makes me sad.

Is "Salmon Dance" really going to be the second single? What radio station's gonna play that? I think the Dr. Demento parody program has been off the air for quite a while...

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well - I just got the album today... I did download the tracks a while back, but decided not to listen to it too much - or at all as it got close to the album release date, so it'd still be somewhat 'fresh'

I will say that it can't be their worst album, as it has at least two good tracks on it (unlike Push the Button)

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ok wait...

are you guys on crazy pills or something?????

while - no, this isn't their BEST work ('surrender' in my opinion) but this certainly is UMPTEEN times better than "Push the Button"

and you know what? I'd even go as far as to say that the Salmon Dance is better than a good bulk of ptb

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It sounds as if it is you who is on the pills... :cool:

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i have been listening to a recording of the Brothers' show from 7/3/07 in Munich, which you can dl here:
http://stealth.to/?id=0n2176o792tlllkincmjg8nf9bpup8

A great setlist, including some tracks from the new album, which actually sound pretty decent mixed in with the classics!
1 - Intro : No Path to Follow
2 - Galvanize
3 - Burst Generator
4 - Do it Again / Get Yourself High mix...
5 - Hey Boy Hey Girl
6 - All Right Reserved
7 - Out of Control / It Doesn't Matter mix / Leftfield - Open Up mix...
8 - Templation/Star Guitar
9 - Surface to Air / Under the Influence / It Doesn't Matter
10 - Saturate
11 - Believe
12 - We are the Night
13 - The Golden Path
14 - EBW7 / Chemical Beats
15 - A Modern Midnight Conversation
16 - The Sunshine Underground

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Yeah I think new tracks sometimes sound better with old tracks. Underworld and New Order livesets are other good examples of this.

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Oh wow, thanks!:cool:

Do It Again and Get Yourself High mixed together sound like they are just one song!

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too bad the recording is in wma format :(

and about "how bad" the new album is...

you're telling me that: "Saturate (EBW)" "All Rights Reversed" "Salmon Dance" "Burst Generator" "Harpoons" "The Pills Won't Help You Now" are all crap? (Do It Again... isn't bad per se - but that does get a bit too "justin timberlake-y" for me)

Push the Button is the ONLY chems album of theirs that I intentionally left off my iPod... I mean - there were only two tracks that I even somewhat dug on it -> Believe (at times, but it's still a bit too 'meh') & the last track (forget the title)

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I'll give you Saturate and All Rights...

Hold Tight London is one of the finer moments in the CB catalog...the Boxer is good...

To quote someone else on the board...the Salmon Dance is an insult!

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I've had the last verse of Battle Scars in my head the past week. That, Das Spiegel, and All Rights Reversed are all great tracks no matter what anyone says. The rest ranges from average to good. The Salmon Dance has great beats behind it, but they lyrics don't do much for me. When Fatlip says "Who's hungry?" I always think, "I could go for some salmon."

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yea - the lyrics are pretty bad on 'the salmon dance' buuuuut

they're nearly not anywhere as bad as on "Galvinize"

b/c at least with Salmon Dance, it's supposed to be a bit of a silly track, you know?

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Do a quick search for "Chemical Brothers Munich 2007" and you'll also find versions in mp3, if that's any more desireable. It's no flac or lossless format, but for an audience recording, it sounds pretty good.

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FUCK 'SILLY', if 'silly' means shite like that. you have to wonder where their quality control's at sometimes...


lionjoe - it does have some nice tracks, and is better than 'push the button'; i like 'we are the night' for its sparkles and keep going back to 'the pills won't help you now' because it does everything right (for me) elsewhere, though, there's just so many weak tracks. but if sales keep them touring, then fine!

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Hear hear. Salmon Dance is the single worst Chems piece I've ever heard.

And yeah as I've said on many an occasion, I welcome new albums in circumstances like this because it means a tour.

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nah - silly doesn't always mean shit

I mean... take the Digital Underground's "The Humpty Dance"
key lyric - "I once got busy in a burger king bathroom"

I'd rather take stuff like that than
"cause there's a party over here, so you might as well be here, where the people care"

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difference, the humpty dance is good. and the salmon dance sucks so much that it hurts people that haven't even heard it yet

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Well, even though i told myself not to, i'm a Chemuical brothers completist to this point, so i broke down and bought "We Are the Night" last week.:eek:

It is actually growing on me, and on repeated listens, i am finding it more enjoyable, or at least less offputting than Push the Button. :p

I'm even making it through "Salmon Dance" without FFW, but mostly just to laugh at how ridiculous it is. Some of the Sammy the Salomn and Fatlip dialog is just too goofy. But the rap and the atari melody are still lame.

I find i am really enjoying the faux-live feel of "We Are the Night" and the nice builds of "Saturate", "Burst Generator" and parts of "Modern Midnight Conversation" (could do without the latter's disco queen vocal, though).
Still, it's a shame the last two records, and even the new tracks for the 1993-03 collection have taken a while to grow on me and more than a handful of track are just unenjoyable to me. Sad, because i'm the guy with the Chemical Brothers bumper sticker on his auto and still getting big grins from the first 4 records.

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haha...for all you haters
CD
1. Salmon Dance - radio edit
2. Electronic Battle Weapon 8

7"
A. Salmon Dance - album version
B. Snooprah

12"
A1. Salmon Dance - album version
A2. Electronic Battle Weapon 8
B1. Salmon Dance- Crookers mix
B2. Salmon Dance - Herve mix

and theres a video for the Salmon Dance...very silly.

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that's the remix of the year. a 'must' listen

select the top track for a listen

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loads better than the original, but that's not saying much

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Video is pretty cool. At least it's pretty original and it's expensive looking..... Click

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Oh wow, that's unexpected. "Bitches Bitches Fuck Fuck" = massive :D

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i love salmon dance. i like this album. still, its better than simian shite disco, justice fucking cross.. overhyped.

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great video!

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http://www.nme.com/news/the-chemical-brothers/30201

The tour dates are:

New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom (September 21)
San Francisco, CA Concourse (28)
Los Angeles, CA Nocturnal (29)

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wow... what a US tour

:(

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there will be more dates.
specially a Toronto date. :p

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LOL @ the thread title

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it doesnt look like the Chems are going to add any more dates than whats on their web site.
FUCK !

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Well, once again, the Grammy Awards give the Chemical Brothers the nod strictly on name recognition, not quality.
"best" electronic album: "We Are The Night".
:rolleyes:

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f_ck the grammys

seriously

they don't count

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Get Yourself High is still a great track

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which isnt on We Are The Night.