Hi! I'm Tyler, but you can call me ; or semi or colon or whatever. I'm a youngin in Philadelphia and the Chems have kinda always been present in my life (my dad used to play me Galvanize a ton) but when I heard it again in the ad campaign for the Oculus Quest 2, I went back to it and randomly decided to check out the artist.
I've always liked dubstep mostly; I enjoyed some EDM but by the time I discovered the Chems I probably didn't like it if it wasn't dubstep. But when I checked the Chemical Brothers youtube channel and saw a cool looking robot on the thumbnail of a music video for a song called "Believe," I thought I would check it out. I thought the song was pretty good, and the music video was pretty weird, but quickly moved on, thinking it was just another average band. But I found myself thinking about them and the music video often, so I eventually returned and realized I really liked the song.
I went to check out some more of their music videos; I watched We've Got to Try, The Salmon Dance, and some others, but those two were my favorites, and I started to listen to them often. I found myself growing more and more to love the few songs I knew. I needed more. I checked out their more popular songs. Then I discovered some youtube videos of their live shows, and was blown away. I went to the songs I heard in those live shows that sounded cool and fell in love with them too.
Long story short, I found the Chems, loved them, and I'm still in the process of slowly going through their whole discography in a weird order. First I listened to Surrender, then No Geography, then We are The Night, then Dig Your Own Hole, then Exit Planet Dust. I'm taking it slow as to give myself time to enjoy each album after discovering them. I have my few favorite songs from that album that I listen to nonstop, then things calm down, at which point I move onto the next album. I plan on listening to Push the Button next, but for now, I can't go a day without listening to almost all of Exit Planet Dust.
I have a ton of opinions to share, and frankly, I hope I don't get annoying, but for the purpose of this intro post, my favorite songs are Dig Your Own Hole, Not Another Drugstore, Under The Influence, Hey Boy Hey Girl, Flashback (normal and psychedelic mix), and Believe. My favorite album (of the ones I've listened to) is Dig Your Own Hole and my favorite era of the live show is around 2002, the release of Come With Us.
Thanks for reading this unnecessarily long intro, I hope I didn't bore you guys too much lol.
