I challenge thee...

[Dead_Meat]

To find a better song than

The Chemical Brothers - The Golden Path

It starts, with a beat, a beat so condusive to getting down and funky, yet so simple, it beats at the very heart of the part of your soul that says 'yeah baby, you go get down and lose it like your body suddenly became a clone of a funk God and you can shoe shuffle, swing step and just wave your ****ing arms about like they're on fire and the only source of extinguishment is in the very beat-laden air above you'.

Then, the lyrics, a light-hearted lilt about being dead and not knowing you are, a meeting with the devil, and a plea to God to save him..

All the while, the beat continues, incessant with it's imploring for your very molecules to give up their boring humdrum circulation of the inner core and spin out of control in a wild swirling maelstrom of pure, sheer, unadulterated dance-inducing groove.

Then, the beat increases, the tempo and tone adjust, making you want more, want to know the solution, want to see how far it will take you, whether the temp can continue at the breakneck pace it started with, the pace that made you need to drive quicker, to walk quicker, to do whatever you were doing quicker, just so you can be carried along with the frenetic pace and enduring and utterly unstoppable bass hit.

Chemical Brothers, I salute you, please forgive me, I never meant to hurt you, or not to hear this song for two years.

[Zar]

britney spears - hit me baby one more time

[Dead_Meat]

Why?

[Nofutcha]

i said on these forums once that the chemical brothers would be one of the contempary bands remebered for generations afterwards. I was mocked by ignorant plebs.

[Evergreen]

Fatboy Slim - Bird of Prey

Cause when listened too with the right equalization and good enough speakers it will flash you back to the wonderful decade of the early 90's and how the hypnotizing digital piano/instrument (hard to describe) samples remind you of every snes game that involved shooting things you ever played.

[Tomkat]

Are you drunk?

[Weeks]

Flaming lips + The Chemicals ace.
The chemicals have the beat and the lips have the uplifting lyrics.

[Deffeh]

rip

[Baron Morte]

actually i would say estranged by guns because the word estranged does rock (check www.dictionary.com) and such word does not exist in portuguese, which made me go

[Deepflow]

rage against the machine - killing in the name of

[Structural Integrity]

Apocalyptica - Drive
or the Prologue of their Reflections album.

Fatboy Slim has a few VERY good songs that put you right in a trance.

[Deepflow]

music taste is subjective shocker!

[Marilyn Manson]

Wolfshiem - Once in a Lifetime.

Or anything by Apoptygma Bezerk.

[JBOY]

Counting Crows - Mr Jones

Great lyrics, Great guitars, kinda uplifting, but depressing at the same time.

It's all good.

[DukePaul]

Nowhere/Catastrophe by ULVER

[KaosTrigX]

Here you go:

Voltaire - Feathery Wings

Far better. If you disagree with that I can give you many others. :\

[furball]

Robbie Williams - Angels
Oasis - Sunday Morning Call
Oasis - Stop Crying Your Hear Out

Originally Posted by Evergreen

Fatboy Slim - Bird of Prey

Cause when listened too with the right equalization and good enough speakers it will flash you back to the wonderful decade of the early 90's and how the hypnotizing digital piano/instrument (hard to describe) samples remind you of every snes game that involved shooting things you ever played.

The lad has a point.

For me, the best songs are those with the power to send a shiver down your spine. The first three all do that, while Bird of Prey is indeed an underrated classic.

Sunday Morning Call was the only decent song on the Standing on the Shoulders of Giants album (rightly slated), while the other two all have that power about them.


Thinking about it, some of Coldplay's second album also fits those qualities (I'm listening to it right now). The Scientist, perhaps, Clocks (live @ V2003), In My Place?


Maybe add to that REM's Everybody Hurts.


furball

[Stew]

I can't stand bird of prey - that whole album was a right let down for me.

[furball]

Actually, I found Bird of Prey on a compilation album from 2001 - I don't have any Chemical Brothers or Fatboy Slim albums.

[Belgarath The Sorcerer]

Originally Posted by Dead_Meat

To find a better song than

The Chemical Brothers - The Golden Path

FYI Old_Man, The Golden Path was released on 15th September 2003, not two years ago.

Better songs? That's a tough call... maybe:

The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy, Hey Girl
Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
The Prodigy - Out of Space
The Prodigy - Everybody in the place
The Prodigy - Voodoo People
The Prodigy - No good [Start the dance]
Greenday - Basket Case
GreenDay - Good Riddance (Time of your Life)
The Manic Street Preachers - Faster
The Stone Roses - I am the Resurrection
Primal Scream - Loaded
James - Sit Down

[furball]

Add onto the list:

Manic Street Preachers - A Design for Life

[Deathjam|wee]

the whole of fatboy slim - better living though chemisty album is

but everybody needs a 303 is :supercool:

[Dace]

What you suggest DM is not so much a challenge as a request to list the first songs that come into your head.

[Marilyn Manson]

That is a challenge for someone of DM's age.

[Dace]

DM is so old that birthdays weren't even invented when he "came into the world"

[Tomkat]

Nonentity, you listed a whole load of songs I'd listen to when I was feeling relaxed or depressed, not uplifting...

[furball]

Originally Posted by Dead_Meat

To find a better song than

The Chemical Brothers - The Golden Path

I find mine better

If you want an uplifting song, go to my post on the "Cheery, uplifting songs" thread.