It has to be Exit Planet Dust for me. The Chemical Brothers generally use sounds which are annoying and piss me off. They've gotten worse and worse by doing this more and more. Also a lot of the vocals suck on their tracks, with a few exceptions like Galvanize. Mainly though not cool. Luckily Exit Planet Dust was more balanced and the beats were phat!...

Exit Planet Dust bitches!

I voted Dig Your Own Hole..

But the 2 first albums are both perfect IMO

1. Dig Your Own Hole (1997)
2. Exit Planet Dust (1995)
3. Come With Us (2002)
4. Surrender (1999)
5. Push The Button (2005)
6. We Are The Night (2007)

1. Come With Us (2002)----brilliant, "Denmark" is still the best chems song for me, outstanding. Hoops is brilliant. 10/10


2. Dig Your Own Hole (1997)----9,5/10 "Where do i begin" best tune!!

3. Surrender (1999)----9/10 "Hey boy, hey girl" is rockin. Best tune here.

4. Exit Planet Dust (1995)----8/10 "fuck up beats" best here.

5. We Are The Night (2007)---- 7.5/10 because of "saturate". If this song wouldnt be on this album, i will change my rate then to 5/10.

6. Push The Button (2005)----6.5/10. Nice album. Good piece of music. But not the best. Galvanize, Believe, Come inside are the songs i listen most from this album.


Top 3 Chemical tunes:

1. Denmark
2. Saturate
3. Hoops

the one where they werent lame

1. Denmark
2. Elektrobank
3. Setting sun

1. DYOH
2. EPD
3. WATN / Surrender

everything else was a slap in the face for true fans.

Worst track ever: The Salmon Dance. Avoid this tripe at all cost.

I love the feel and the synth-sounds on the first two albums, it formed my youth and general feel of life, so I will be eternally grateful to the Chemical Brothers. But in some aspects I'd rather have them quit after DYOH (or after Surrender) and left me with this feeling of them being the gods of smart BigBeat. Somehow like Liam.

Did you notice? All the 'BigBeat' veterans got lazy and / or stupid: Chems (although they might say they sound like they always wanted to, now), Fatboy has become a total Jerk and Liam got pretty lazy and coked up.
Lunatic Calm is totally dead, Junkie XL is trying to stay alive with his stuff.

Without a doubt, the best album for me is Dig Your Own hole. If I have to be honest this one is among my top 10 all time albums. But in the late 90s Chemicals used to rock they were my second favorite band. I remember getting up early preparing for school always accompanied by DYOH on MC, every morning for a very long time. And I still enjoy this one. Surrender & Exit Planet Dust have their moments but can't compare with the 97er
Back then, I also especially enjoyed the Brothers' traditional little "cameos" in the videos...You remember "Hey Boy", "Block Rocking", "Setting", "Outta Control", "ElektroB"...

Nice Times

Star Guitar
My Elastic Eye
The Test
Hoops
Denmark

Come With Us must be my most favourite Chems album for sure.
Although i do worship Saturate, Elektrobank, Setting Sun, Hey Boy Hey Girl etc....

EDIT: Goddamn it, how could have i forgotten Chico's Groove and If you Kling to me, I'll Klong to you

cant wait.

Loops Of Fury

off their twitter acc:





so it seems they are already mastering new album quite unexpected, there were no info about then for last 2 years.

nice surprise it'd be then

According to their Twitter account (i just hate twitter) and some speculations on their forum, their seventh album should be released in a few months time, which, if you ask me, isn't quite logical and realistic to me.
No forum revamp, no singles announcement, only crappy twitter updates....