The Chemical Brothers Singles 93 03 Rar: The Essential Guide to the Duo's Career

"Tomorrow never knows what it doesn't know too soon," brays Oasis singer Liam Gallagher on 1995's "Morning Glory". I still don't know what that means. One year later, the author of those lyrics was getting beaten at his own Beatles-worshiping game on a track that owes some of its block-rocking beats to Revolver psych-out "Tomorrow Never Knows". With rave sirens, screeching guitars, and a buzzing midsection where the bottom drops out like you're going over a dip on the freeway, "Setting Sun" summons up the Fab Four's trailblazing spirit better than Oasis ever could alone-- though Noel Gallagher's hallucinatory vocal sure helps. Acid house met acid rock, and for a moment it sounded like tomorrow had come today. What makes this track so enduring, though, has less to do with innovation or the short-lived "electronica" movement than the music's pure, unbridled joy. Who knew the Chemical Brothers could outdo the Gallagher brothers when it came to hedonism, too? --Marc Hogan

The three singles from The Downward Spiral map out the basic elements of the Nine Inch Nails sound, with "March of the Pigs" and "Hurt" offering the band's aggressive and fragile extremes, and "Closer" serving as the center, the essence of Trent Reznor's vision. In retrospect, the fact that the chorus has Reznor screaming "I WANT TO FUCK YOU LIKE AN ANIMAL!!!" is only one reason why "Closer" was an unlikely crossover hit. The song shifts from slinky disco to industrial rage to a densely layered extended instrumental outro, the entire time expressing a mixture of bluntly stated lust, despair, anger, and conflicted spirituality that still seems too extreme for pop radio. Even still, it's easy to understand why this was the NIN tune to break big-- the hooks are immediate and the groove is strong, like a Prince or George Michael hit filtered through Reznor's glamorous nihilism --Matthew Perpetua

The Chemical Brothers Singles 93 03 Rar

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In the vast ocean that is NWOBHM, Wolfbane contributed 2 drops of singles, and total of 6 songs, that were later rereleased as a compilation by Shadow Kingdom records. The band played a Sabbathical heavy metal, with occasional mythical references like this song here, Elric of Melnibone which describes the Eternal Champion. 2ff7e9595c