The Chemical Brothers: Singles 93-03 (2003 Video) User Reviews

A collection of music videos worth considering.

[scubasteve3005 · 8/10 · 15 August 2005]

First of all, I've been a fan of the chemical brothers' music for a long time. Part of enjoying their supersonic beats and eccentric escapades into weird noises and beautiful harmonies is just half of the experience. The other half I believe are their videos. Each one clearly shows one view of the craziness that the music provokes within one's thoughts. To me, electronica music has always seemed to be a soundtrack to subconscious thinking and mind. I think that the videos explore this quite well. Each one can almost be dream sequence using the song as its guide. The directors were well-chosen, especially the great Michael Gondry. The videos all have commentary and footage of the chemical brothers, directors, and friends. Sometimes quirky and perhaps genius ideas are captured on video when Gondry comes up with an idea to make "Star Guitar" play to the scenery outside of a moving locomotive. Each video is really eccentric, and yes strange, while helping us dig deeper into the music of the chemical brothers. While they might not make sense at times, some creative sound parallels are discovered through capturing the motion of "Star Guitar" with a locomotive, capturing the craziness and insanity of our lives and the early morning rush to work etc. to make a living in "Let Forever Be", and the humor to bitter drama in gymnastic events between athletes in "Elektrobank." I was thoroughly impressed by the collection of videos. All were well done and have lots of little bits of extra fun behind each one (commentaries and such.) The live footage is amazing. It makes you want to get up and dance! These two guys are so talented and the people they chose to make their videos did a good job of showing their view on what the music means or feels to them. Whether some of the videos make sense or not, they are definitely visually stimulating and like a dream, not always have distinct purpose other than to show images based on what emotions they provoke.

DVD made for fans only?

[Nuclear-Atom · 26 November 2003]

This is my first music DVD. By that, I mean a DVD or video containing artist's music videos. At the start, I thought it was a waste of money to spend on a DVD just for a bunch of music videos I've already seen.

But I bought "Singles 93-03" and I'm extremely happy. The reason? Star Guitar has got to be one of the best music videos I've ever seen. It was well organized and edited. On top of that, Michel Gondry(director of Star Guitar video) filmed his "blueprint" of the video. Quite interesting.

Other music videos that's worth mentioning are Let Forever Be, Hey Boy Hey Girl, Setting Sun & The Test. There's interviews with the Chemical Brothers themselves as well as a few other people such as Norman Cook(Fatboy Slim) and Noel Gallagher(Oasis), commenting on their favorite music. And "private reels", a bunch of home video clips from the Chem Bros during their music tour.

Overall, this DVD was made for the fans. Obviously.