The Crystal Method - Vegas

[pafufta816]

Originally Posted by den

Wow this thread is old. And a concert based on tweaking filters a bunch sounds kind of lame to me. I refer to my post above from more than 2 years ago. No offense, but there are two bands that I used to like kind of sort of, but now I irrationally completely and totally dislike forever, soley because of opinions on the dirtylist long ago. Those two bands are the Crystal Method and Moby.

way to think for yourself :P j/k

[holden]

Oh man, back in 1997, i used to listen to Vegas almost constantly. Well, alternating with Dig Your Own Hole!

I still enjoy Vegas, it has a dark atmosphere and some cool beats...especially "Trip Like I Do", "Bad Stone" and "High Roller".

But TCM has had a bit of an identity crisis. At the start, they were supposed to be the US's answer to the Chemical Brothers and big beat stylists. With "Tweekend", they started adding more live guitar and rap, and even worse, with "Legion of Boom", using the abyssmal Wes Borland. But i agree with Mongoose, even those albums have some fun tracks ("Wild Swet and Cool", "Tough Guy", "Bound Too Long", heck even "Born Too Slow" come to mind.) In their DJ sets and Community Service mix albums, it seems TCM want to be breakbeat nowadays. I guess this is "evolving", but it also seems a little bit go-with-the-flow.

I actually like the "Drive" EP...just a cool uptempo mix, never mind the recycled tunes.

[gillenium]

I don't really understand all the Crystal Method hate either. My theory is that TCM was compared to the Chemical Brothers so much, Chems fans were like "TCM are not as good as the Chems..." and it just escalated from there. Many people seem to think TCM are the cheap U.S. knock-off of the Chems, when they actually aren't all that similar at all...

They were the reason I got into electronic music, and I think their impact on the genre is undeniable. That being said, they have been in a weird identity crisis for a couple of albums. They need to reconnect to their roots and give things another go. Vegas still sounds as ground-breaking to me now as it did when I first heard it!