Monday, April 01, 2002
How Cool Are These Guys?
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Good Music By Good People: The Chemical Brothers
O.k., here's the skinny: the Chemical Brothers rock. Not only are they innovative and timeless, but their music just plain old makes you wanna get down on the dancefloor.
Take "Surrender," their 1999 album ... like, damn! It starts off slowly and you're kinda like "hmmm, I don't know about these guys..." but by the time the 3rd track slides into the 4th, you find yourself somewhere between wanting to wet your pants and/or running around Tabaret Lawn, naked, at night, re-directing the sprinklers.
Not only is "Orange Wedge" a slick venture into good scratching fun -- reminiscent of Daft Punk's "Rollin & Scratchin'" (Homework, Track 8) -- but the beat just keeps it laced with sweet, sweet consciousness ... "mmm, goes down smooth" you say? You bet your tuition it does.
Next, they fool you into thinking, "gee, that 4th track sure did have a happy endin', pa ... I think I wanna take a bath." Stabilized after that one, you are then faced with "Let Forever Be." C'mon, how poetic is that? Enough about that, you're into PacMan styles now: if you've made it this far, it is, most assuredly, too late to turn back.
Now, "The Sunshine Underground" is a superior trek into the unknown parts of your head -- the part that keeps you listening, like during that 45 second lapse in between R.E.M. dreams and your alarm clock. Kids: this is the moment to live for.
The rest is monumental, but too much so for a VP like me so it remains that these remains are, as they say in Ontario, "yours to discover."
Czech it.
S*
2002.08.01
Good Music By Good People: The Chemical Brothers
O.k., here's the skinny: the Chemical Brothers rock. Not only are they innovative and timeless, but their music just plain old makes you wanna get down on the dancefloor.
Take "Surrender," their 1999 album ... like, damn! It starts off slowly and you're kinda like "hmmm, I don't know about these guys..." but by the time the 3rd track slides into the 4th, you find yourself somewhere between wanting to wet your pants and/or running around Tabaret Lawn, naked, at night, re-directing the sprinklers.
Not only is "Orange Wedge" a slick venture into good scratching fun -- reminiscent of Daft Punk's "Rollin & Scratchin'" (Homework, Track 8) -- but the beat just keeps it laced with sweet, sweet consciousness ... "mmm, goes down smooth" you say? You bet your tuition it does.
Next, they fool you into thinking, "gee, that 4th track sure did have a happy endin', pa ... I think I wanna take a bath." Stabilized after that one, you are then faced with "Let Forever Be." C'mon, how poetic is that? Enough about that, you're into PacMan styles now: if you've made it this far, it is, most assuredly, too late to turn back.
Now, "The Sunshine Underground" is a superior trek into the unknown parts of your head -- the part that keeps you listening, like during that 45 second lapse in between R.E.M. dreams and your alarm clock. Kids: this is the moment to live for.
The rest is monumental, but too much so for a VP like me so it remains that these remains are, as they say in Ontario, "yours to discover."
Czech it.
S*
2002.08.01
