The Chemical Brothes ft. Richard Ashcroft - The Acid Test

As the inaugural post and the song that made me think of creating this blog, I apparently hold a place of honor for the Chemical Brothers. I had always liked the big beat sound (Prodigy, fatboy slim) but it was a sound that was abusing its privileges and was being thoroughly over-played. I liked "Block Rockin' Beats" and "Hey boy, Hey girl" but never enough to buy the album (back when we used to buy albums.)

In Jan 02, I was working at the now defunct Record Exchange in Raleigh, NC and we got the promo copy of Come With Us. I threw it in the player and didn't think anything of it, and then this song comes on and it was one of those moments when you know you're hearing something you're going to play to death and love forever. It was also one of those moments I replayed the song in-store several times, way too loud, but wound up selling several copies of it, in the process (a la high fidelity, a feat I was able to accomplish several times with such strangely unpredictable albums as The Who's Quadrophenia and Peter Gabriel's Ovo.)

The video = awesome. The song is even better. Every time a new C.brothers song comes out, I get so excited thinking it's going to be this great, but usually it isn't. My 7 year old niece thought the video for Salmon Dance was cute, but the song was just a "Meh" from me. Star guitar's Michel Gondry video is the shit, but otherwise, I keep holding out for another home run from Manchester.

This song officially makes me think of: the Record Exchange. (A word of "warning": this fact may become a trend!)