Line #55 Music/TheChemicalBrothers


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The Brothers gonna work it out.]]
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4	The Chemical Brothers are a British ElectronicMusic duo, consisting of Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands. Active since [[TheNineties 1991]], they are credited with bringing the "Big Beat" subgenre to the mainstream, alongside Music/TheProdigy, Music/FatboySlim, The Crystal Method, and associated acts.
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6	From 1992 to 1995, Simons and Rowlands called themselves The Dust Brothers, after the US production duo known for their work with Music/BeastieBoys. While it was chosen as homage to the latter, the original Dust Brothers threatened legal action over the name. From then on, Simons and Rowlands were known as The Chemical Brothers, starting with their debut album, ''Exit Planet Dust''.
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8	They are notable in being one of the few truly arena-sized electronic acts in the world. Their live acts comprise large screens displaying psychedelic images, strobe lights, and lasers that project over the crowd.
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10	They have also played at many major festivals, including Glastonbury, Fuji Rock, Reading, the [=HFStival=], and Leeds festival. They currently hold the record for most gigs performed in a year at the Brixton Academy.
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13	!!Discography
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15	[[AC: Studio Albums]]
16	* ''Music/ExitPlanetDust'' (1995)
17	* ''Music/DigYourOwnHole'' (1997)
18	* ''Music/{{Surrender\|Album}}'' (1999)
19	* ''Come with Us'' (2002)
20	* ''Push the Button'' (2005)
21	* ''We Are the Night'' (2007)
22	* ''Further'' (2010)
23	* ''Born in the Echoes'' (2015)
24	* ''No Geography'' (2019)
25	* ''For That Beautiful Feeling'' (2023)
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27	[[AC: Soundtracks]]
28	* ''Film/{{Hanna}}'' (2011)
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30	[[AC: Live Albums]]
31	* ''Don't Think'' (2012)
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33	[[AC: Compilations]]
34	* ''Brothers Gonna Work It Out'' (1998)
35	* ''Singles 93–03'' (2003)
36	* ''Brotherhood'' (2008)
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38	[[AC: EP's]]
39	* ''Fourteenth Century Sky'' (1994)
40	* ''My Mercury Mouth E.P.'' (1994)
41	* ''Loops of Fury'' (1996)
42	* ''Come with Us/Japan Only EP'' (2002)
43	* ''[=AmericanEP=]'' (2002)
44	* ''Live 05'' (2005)
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47	!!Tropes appearing in The Chemical Brothers' music:
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49	* AlbumTitleDrop: The name of album ''Push The Button'' comes from a line in "Galvanize". ("The time has come to (push the button..)")
50	* BandOfRelatives: Averted. They aren't actually brothers, though they've run continuously with the same lineup for over twenty years.
51	* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: The music video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti4ip8zQyrc Let Forever Be]]", directed by Creator/MichelGondry, features a woman constantly moving through sets via bizarre transitions and choreographed movement between the woman and her countless duplicates. Probably the only one to involve a drumming hobo.
52	* ByWallThatIsHoley: Seen in the music video for "The Test", with a barn house falling onto the protagonist.
53	* CentipedesDilemma: [[Music/ATribeCalledQuest Q-Tip]]'s lyrics in "Galvanize" reference this:
54	--> ''If you think about it too much, you may stumble trip up,\
55	Fall on your face\
56	(Don't hold back!)''
57	* CheapHeat: During their live shows, they'll often display [[https://www.countypress.co.uk/resources/images/16900735/ a visual shouting out the city or festival they're performing in.]]
58	* ChekhovsGag: The "Live Again" video begins with the camera panning around a woman's caravan, including the absurd detail of a lone tentacle protruding from her sink. It's not seen again until the climax of the video, when an imposing-looking UFO hovers over the woman, and the [[TentacledTerror tentacle emerges from her caravan door and ominously wraps around her.]] The scene cuts away before we can see what happens next, and [[TheUnReveal we never do find out what exactly the tentacle belongs to.]]
59	* ContinuityNod: ''Exit Planet Dust'' refers to their time when they recorded under The Dust Brothers.
60	* CreatorCameo: According to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setting_Sun The Other Wiki]], they have played cameo roles in many of their music videos.
61	* DanceSensation: "The Salmon Dance": tells the listener how to do the titular dance, lists facts about salmon, and has a verse where Fatlip describes other people's reaction to the dance.
62	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The cover art for ''Dig Your Own Hole''.
63	* EpicRocking: Some songs of theirs can get pretty long, such as "The Private Psychedelic Reel", which is 9 minutes and 22 seconds long.
64	* FadingIntoTheNextSong: The band made use of this on a few occasions:
65	** The first six tracks on ''Exit Planet Dust'' are entirely gapless. Also, on the same album, "Life Is Sweet" → "Playground for a Wedgeless Firm".
66	** ''Dig Your Own Hole'' has "Elektrobank" → "Piku" and "It Doesn't Matter" → "Don't Stop the Rock" → "Get Up on It Like This".
67	** ''Surrender'' has "Under the Influence" → "Out of Control" and "Got Glint?" → "Hey Boy Hey Girl" → "Surrender" → "Dream On".
68	** ''Further'' starts off with "Snow" → "Escape Velocity" → "Another World".
69	* ForeignLookingFont: The band logo uses an Arabic-styled font.
70	* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''Singles 93–03'', consisting of singles released from 1993 to 2003, and ''Brotherhood'', which contains various hit songs and two new ones on the first disc.
71	* HyperDestructiveBouncingBall: The main focus of "The Boxer" music video is a basketball that bursts out of a boy's bag and rebounds everywhere, making a mess and causing chaos wherever it bounces. Good grief, that thing just ''will not die''.
72	* IAmTheNoun: ''We Are the Night'' follows the plural form of this sentence structure.
73	* TheInvisibleBand: The duo make brief cameos while remaining otherwise absent from their music videos. They're the skeletons exiting the car at the end of the "Hey Boy Hey Girl" video, for example.
74	* InvoluntaryDance: The "Do It Again" music video, where two brothers use the hypnotic music to help them acquire money from a bank.
75	* LoopedLyrics: "Star Guitar" combines this with SingleStanzaSong, due to the following being the only lyrics in the song:
76	--> "You should feel what I feel, you should take what I take."
77	** Plenty of their songs with sampled vocals do this, like "Block Rockin' Beats" [[note]]Loops the lyrics "Back with another one of those block rockin' beats"[[/note]], "Hey Boy Hey Girl" [[note]]Repeats "Hey girls/B-boys/Superstar [=DJs=]/Here we go!" many times, mainly in the intro[[/note]], and "Elektrobank" [[note]]The lyrics "Who is this doin' this synthetic type of alpha beta psychedelic funkin'?" are repeated continuously at some points[[/note]].
78	* LongestSongGoesLast:
79	** ''Dig Your Own Hole'' closes with "The Private Psychedelic Reel" (9:22).
80	** ''Come with Us'' closes with "The Test" (7:47).
81	** ''Push the Button'' closes with "Surface to Air" (7:23).
82	* MickeyMousing: The music video "Star Guitar", directed by Creator/MichelGondry, is a simple but very effective version of this: footage from seven trips on the same train was spliced together and meticulously edited so that every passing building appears on beat, the sun rises and sets with the synth swells, and the train slows down and speeds up with the intensity of the song.
83	* TheOner: The "Star Guitar" music video, despite being obviously CGI. The various components of the song are displayed as objects passing by when looking out of a train window.
84	* PunnyName: ''We Are The Night'' has a song named "All Rights '''Reversed'''", a play on the phrase "All rights reserved".
85	* SwallowedWhole: The song "Come with Us/The Test" features Weston being approached by a curious blue whale, which she then swims into the open mouth of.
86	* UnrelatedBrothers: They aren't real brothers.
87	* WordSaladLyrics: "Elektrobank":
88	--> "''Who's this, doing this type of synthetic alpha beta psychedelic funkin'?''"

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