New Chemical Brothers single featuring Wayne Coyne (yes I know)

I wish they'd leave the collaborations behind, it just sounds like all the others, fairly slickly produced rock with a big hippy part.

Okay, this *is* a joke isn't it?

-- Tom (freakytrigge...), July 31st, 2003. (later)"

lol
pretty much what i was thinking
(and i suspect i might like some of the flaming lips stuff,i want to hear zaireeka or whatever its called...)
i liked the collaborations on dig your own hole and even the one after,but its gone a bit far

- burnt-out folky chick (Sandoval, Orton)
- drug-damaged high voice dude (Donahue, Coyne)
- big-vowelled salt-of-the-earth Britrocker (Gallagher, Ashcroft, Tim Charlatan)

I am not a massive fan of the genre these days but I know it's a broader vocal church than this!

Tom, have you heard the song? FWIW, Coyne doesn't use his 'high' affected voice, he uses what I suppose is his 'natural' voice (as heard on that Okie Noodling thing for anyone familiar with that). So I suppose it's more drug-damaged salt-of-the-earth folky.

...for most of the song anyway.

so wayne coyne is from the flaming lips?

Uh, it came out in 2001. Or is that what you meant?

K-Os keep sending me emails about their web-only (I think) MP3 releases etc. I'll dig out the URL, I seem to remember some pretty fine crunchy electro stuff.

I am very happy that Wayne, here, doesn't use his trademark fingernails-on-a-chalkboard falsetto.

Who wrote the lyrics? They're a bit clumsy.

(Tangentially, I'm pissed that "Music: Response" is not going to be on the 93-03 singles comp.)

For a non-indie singing Chemical collab, check 'Not Another Drugstore'. Possibly their best b-side, not least because it features some of Justin Warfield's best rapping, ace effects, a truly funky beat, fun references to lots of their past work (lyrically and musically) and, more importantly, is the first track they've done/released with a rapper (without the use of Fatboy-style helium shit too), a fact they seemed to forget themselves in last month's Jockey Slag and worse, stick the dodgy remix from the mix CD on the best of. As good a move as leaving off 'Music: Response' and Dave Clarke's 'Chemical Beats' remix.

It's actually The Chemical Brothers featuring the Flaming Lips.

that said, the track itself is just... I'm still trying to figure out if it's a joke or not? What the hell is up with that twee flute playing?? Also the highlighting of each line with hilarious studio effects - "he pointed to the graveyard..." *church bell rings*, "and I was confronted by a powerful demon force" HUGE POINTLESS WHOOSHING SOUND and so on.

i was laughing so hard at this i had to take the cock out of my mouth

Who would bet against a mag run by bugged out bigging up the chems for god knows what

I do have to say the sirens went off when someone on that page cliche-claimed 'The Golden Path' is "the best thing they've ever done". I mean, spare me, and I haven't even heard it yet and geez, Wayne Coyne is the singer and this type of collab went wonky 'round 'Dream On' and sucked by 'The Test' (they really let Ashcroft's mediocrity drag them down that time).

The Rapture review was going okay too, until they ended it with that stupid phrase they've named their CD series and they used the opinion of a member of Fopp records like they matter. The controversy of placing a negative opinion on the album of the month page was undone by the girl whining about 'overhype' and 'punk-funk pish' in a way that makes one want to listen to it to make sure she's wrong.

Also Jockey Slut call any dance music with a nice bassline "punkfunk" now aka "rock". It's a pisser. The new Chems is about as DFA as having a shave.

The B-side to this "nude night" seems ten times better.

I feel for you, Tim. That CD reminds me what a loser I am for not buying Daft Punk's 'Mothership Reconnection' remix. I have a talent for not buying great records on sight. Hope you score a proper copy soon.

My point was more that Muzik seems (seemed) to be getting better with every issue, while Jockey Slut is stuck in a cul-de-sac.

Any CD that makes my close-minded brother (last 2-years d'n'b only, this year hip hop/50 Cent only, next year garage only, probably) go "what is this shit?" in mondo annoyed tones is classic, Tim, it makes my house love all the more worth it.

The B-side to the Wayne Coyne tragedy is called Nude Night and is pretty acidy and quite good.

I never really understood all the hype for Chemical Brothers, it always looked like some sort of conspiracy of UK dance mags. The debut was unbearably boring (esp compared to all those other & better big beat producers at the time) and Dig Your Own Hole also had one good single & tons of filler. They've become as boring and devoid of fun as Dirty Vegas and Groove Armada by now. As far as ex-big beat celebrities surviving on lots of collabs go, give me Junkie XL over them any day.

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Their hype has a lot to do with their DJing in the beginning and their early shit was very energetic for the most part-they had this knack for crossing ambient and rave with the Bomb Squad. Their mix CD for Heavenly is super-inspired and I've loved it for years and their pop sense is very good-check that story about Chris Evans trying to play soon-to-be no.1 'Setting Sun' at 6am and withdrawing it in late '96. 'Boring' is also one of the oddest words to describe the debut (okay, it doesn't do anything for you, but it's hardly a background record), even tho' it hasn't aged totally well. Also, who were their peers at the time other than Fatboy and the uninteresting (better than 'boring'?) element of Wall of Sound?

That's not faint praise in my book! But the point stands.