The Chemical Brothers - Further

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Originally Posted by Eikman

what an awful track.

http://robertchristgau.com/

[Eikman]

what's up with xgau?

[Champiness]

Originally Posted by Eikman

what an awful track.

Are you kidding me? It's like their equivalent of Juanita (length regardless)!

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Originally Posted by Champiness

Are you kidding me? It's like their equivalent of Juanita (length regardless)!

k, caaaalm down, it's not THAT good.

[Eikman]

Originally Posted by Champiness

Are you kidding me? It's like their equivalent of Juanita (length regardless)!

now that's just blasphemy. juanita is a beautiful and epic SONG, while this is merely an uninspired attempt to revamp one of those "psychedelic" sounding tracks the Chems do since 1995.

but yeah, i suppose this one will be BIG with the lager lager shouting chav crowd at glasto and the likes. all it needs is a PHAT light show and a blaring sound system so that you can't really hear the piss-poor melody they got going on. i mean, the "salmon dance" was shite too, but at least it didn't drag on for 12 sodding minutes.

NOW GALVANIZE! *opens a can of stella with his teeth*

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Originally Posted by Eikman

what's up with xgau?

if you're going to dismiss all kinds of good music with just a sentence maybe this guy can give you some pointers

[Champiness]

Originally Posted by jOHN rODRIGUEZ

k, caaaalm down, it's not THAT good.

Sorry. It's just that seeing someone criticize it that harshly made me a bit defensive. But seeing as it's only two people on here who seem to hate it I've cooled down a bit. Eikman, you have the right to an opinion. I just don't see what your problem with it is - if this is "mainstream" or just poor, what would you have them doing? Underworld covers?

[Eikman]

Originally Posted by Champiness

Sorry. It's just that seeing someone criticize it that harshly made me a bit defensive. But seeing as it's only two people on here who seem to hate it I've cooled down a bit. Eikman, you have the right to an opinion. I just don't see what your problem with it is - if this is "mainstream" or just poor, what would you have them doing? Underworld covers?

calling a song "awful" is not exactly harsh. and i don't care if it's "mainstream" or not, but it is just a weak song IMO. predictable and downright annoying after 6 minutes.

oh and please, no underworld covers unless they are pre-AHDO

[holden]

ok, no one is doing UW covers. Sure, we compare to what we know. But the Chems have never really been on the same wavelength as Underworld. Big beat in one corner, with delusions of psychodelia and hip hop versus something entirely more progressive and genre-bending in the other under world.

Still, i'm not disappointed after hearing but ONE new Chemical Brothers track. I like the concept of "Further", i like the long instru jam of this track, and i hope it's sustainable over a full LP. If the Chems have the guts to make a mostly instrumental record of sustained jams, it'll be an improvement over the last 2 LPs and more in the spirit of their first 2 records.

[chems1919]

The cover for the album:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA600_.jpg

Looks awesome; reminds me of the artwork for elektrobank.