new chemical brothers album and tour

[gambit]

It's better than Push the Button, but worse than Come With Us (great album, damnit!). Some bits in the middle I like quite a bit, and overall, it's put together pretty well. Other parts are rather questionable (like The Salmon Dance). Maybe 3 stars. So I guess I sorta like it.

Go on. Tear me to bits.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by adam

If it'll make Tom feel cool, he'll do it.

Fuck you. I'm sick of you riding my coattails.

[Ally]

Originally Posted by Tom

Seriously. People who say they like this album are liars. Flat out.

Liars.

Seriously.

You talk some power of shite by the way.

[adam]

Originally Posted by Tom

Fuck you. I'm sick of you riding my coattails.

Fuck you, too. I'm sick of you passing your smug little judgments. Why don't you actually, you know, express your opinion in ways with which people can engage?

[Tom]

As if I'm not engaging.

Maybe you need to drop the pseudo-intellectual act and fucking lighten up.

I feel like spooning my eyeballs out when I read your cack sometimes.

[adam]

Originally Posted by Tom

As if I'm not engaging.

Maybe you need to drop the pseudo-intellectual act and fucking lighten up.

I feel like spooning my eyeballs out when I read your cack sometimes.

Pseudo-intellectual? For trying to explain my opinions a bit instead of just sneering at the people who disagree with you?

[ndrwrld]

tom = detour ?

[holden]

Take it outside, you guys

I'm seriously hoping this Lp will grow on me, esp. as i haven't heard all the tracks (some apparently not on their myspace page).

But "growing on me" and new Chemical Brothers LP were never synonymous prior to "Push the Button".

[dubman]

Originally Posted by ndrwrld

tom = detour ?

tom=detour=adam, more like.

alias case solved!

[dubman]

Originally Posted by holden

So i just listened to the new album and, well, just as many said above, it's not pretty to my ears.
There are a few tracks with some promise (great builds and sounds on "Burst generator"; "Saturate" a.k.a. electronic battle weapon 8 or 9 is pretty fresh), but too too many retreads of their back catalog. For example, the track "We are the Night" sounds very similar to the end part of "Sunshine Underground" and even includes sounds i know i've heard from Surrender's B-sides. "Do it again" is like a watered down "get Yourself High". the closing track, "Battle Scars", with it's vaguely Johnny Cash vocal and theme, is an uninteresting revisit to "The Golden Path". And then, there's "The Salmon Dance"... the vocal sounds like when they showed breakdancers and rappers on Sesame Street in 1983. Unfunny and embarrassing. i kept thinking of when Moby interviewed Mr. Fish on his 18 B-Sides DVD. This, too, should have been an outtake. The album opens and closes wih no fanfare, unlike all their previous albums that came out swinging and ended with a jubilant end-of-nighter anthem. Maybe a third of this record is catchy, but nothing groundbreaking or exciting, and- too many fast-forward-inducing moments.
i wished it wasn't the case, but yeah, downward spiral from "Come With Us".

i agree with all of this except for the bold part.

salmon dance isn't nearly as cool as that.

i went through this one again just to give gambit a fair shake and i got a better impression overall, but it's not good by any stretch. it's just... not so disappointing.

and please do can the "you just diss it/like it because it's cool" schtick. it's not even an argument, it makes you look bitter and with nothing really worthwhile to say.