Customer Reviews
in my opinion "THE BEST" - By: a_burn, 26 Jun 2007 
i have all the albums (apart from we are the night) & i think this has to be the best. yes the beats are quite simple, but they are genius! very addictive listening if yourin the mood.
tracks 1-6 are quite simply brilliant. "leave home" is a brilliant start to the album & probably their best piece of work. another track is "three little birdies down beats" this is very repetitive, but is a tune which will get you dancing. "f*ck up beats" is basically a follow up beat to "chemical beats" & they both mixin very well. from track 6 onwards the pace of album slows & is more relaxed, track 10 is very weird but is something different to listen to.
if you havent got this album then buy it! i worried that it may sound dated butin reality it doesnt, as a matter of fact it sounds more up to date than most of the trash thats currently out there.
lets hope "we are te night" is a good release & not like the weak "push the button"
a legendary album - By: M. Jones, 24 Sep 2006 
Took me a while to buy this, ten years after its release. I thought the beats would be quite dated,which is kind of true,but then it was recorded 12 years ago. It starts off with a stomper ,`Leave Home`. which i first heard 10 years ago, & its a great start. `In Dust We Trust` is ok, has some interesting scratchy sounds. `Song to the Siren` is great,consisting of a whiny female vocal which may sound bad but is good.the next track`3 little birdies down beats` is repetitive but energetic, `fup beats` is kind self explanatory,`chemical beats` is slightly annoying after a while, tracks 7& 8 are slightly dull. `Life is Sweet` is possibly the best track. track 10 is weird, the album finishes with `Arrive Alone` with vocals by beth orton. Possibly the most normal track on the cd. Overall a very dark & disturbing album, unlike anything else outin 1995. i give it 4 stars cos i think tracks 1,3,5 & 11 are worth buying it for. Its not as good as `dig your own hole` but for a debut its good. the beats are slightly dated but are certainly different. Might be a bit weird for some, but if you like messed up beats to be cranked up loud this is for you.
ein klein elevator music?! - By: , 23 Aug 2005 For a while I used to believe that the Chem's singles were the only audiable listenable stuf they could produce, & the rest is just to fillin the gaps, but this album prooves otherwise. At times they're tunes can be very scary & one can imagine the madness you can sucumb to on drugs, however I think they're music suggest some drug inspired look into the darkr aspects of the human psyche. This album is not as scary as the likes of setting sun & the surrender album, & is great to listen to if your mashed, sounding more 'chilled' than they're later stuff.
The first and the worst - By: , 18 Feb 2005 
Releasedin 1996, this was the Chemical Brothers debut album. Unfortunately, it is also the weakest of the Chem's collections. Not to say that this album is awful -in some instances it is actually very good - but compared with the other musical gems that Ed & Tom have released, this is simply not up to standards.
The first 6 songs do not show off what the Chemical Brothers are good at - they are simply a collaboration of uninspiring melodies, slow, tame drumbeats, & a few unusual sound effects. 'Chemical Beats' is a good example of this, having the same dull repetitive bassline throughout the duration of the song, with a few odd vocals thrown in. Of the six, some of them had great potential, for example 'In Dust We Trust' started off with some funky scratching, as well as a dark bassline. This could have been built up to something spectacular, but instead an apathetic beat is added, & that's the end of that. 'Song to the Siren' also isn't that bad, having a powerful drum beat & mysterious siren-like vocals; the best song out of the first half of the album.
After hearing these songs, I wasn't entirely optimistic about hearing the second half of Exit Planet Dust. But listening to this half was like stepping into another album. The last 5 songs had what the first 6 didn't - power. They had catchy melodies & lyrics, great drum beats & the funkiness that you expect from the Chemical Brothers. It made me frustrated, as I knew the chemical brothers could produce some top-class tunes, & they proved thisin the second half of the album, yet they couldn't do thisin the first half. Especially as they had some tunes with a lot of potential. Surprisingly, the songsin the second half are slow & chilled - usually you except the fast-paced 'big-beat' Chem's songs to be the best.
Exit Planet Dust, although being the weakest Chem's album, does,in some instances, show off some of their great musical talent. It's just a shame they could only limit it just to one half.
pop - By: , 08 Jul 2003 the most poppy of their albums i think. still worth a listen.
