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Come with Us (Limited Edition Package) | 
 enlarge | Artist: Chemical Brothers
Label: Astralwerks
Category: Music
List Price: $21.98
Buy New: $2.45
You Save: $19.53 (89%)
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 370353
Format: Limited Edition, Special Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 4.8 x 0.3
UPC: 724381189528
EAN: 0724381189528
ASIN: B00005UV96
Publication Date: 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Come With Us | | • | It Began in Afrika | | • | Galaxy Bounce | | • | Star Guitar | | • | Hoops | | • | My Elastic Eye | | • | The State We're In | | • | Denmark | | • | Pioneer Skies | | • | The Test |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Besides Tom Rolands and Ed Simons of the Chemical Brothers, few artists have the clout, chops, and DJ wherewithal to change the landscape of dance music. Still, it's not something the duo seems in a particular hurry to do. Since the release of the now-classic Exit Planet Dust, an intensely groove-able rap-stomp hodgepodge, and Dig Your Own Hole), their 1997 breakout record, big beat has been eating itself in a commercialized frat-boy frenzy. Yet the Brothers haven't found--or even really tried to find--that Something Else to turn the masses on in a different, exciting direction. True, their last full-length, Surrender, found them incorporating a house-ier feel, mixing a retro aesthetic with four-on-the-floor beats, but it was really the same old batch of clever samples and rolling thumps. Which wasn't necessarily a bad thing; most of us have happily run in place right along with them. Come With Us also finds them pulling all the usual tricks; there's an irresistible dance-floor anthem or two ("Star Guitar," "Denmark"), swooping keyboard tricks ("Come With Us"), guest vocalists (Beth Orton, Richard Ashcroft), and the amazing fluidity that allows a moody song like Orton's "The State We're In" to sound perfectly, logically in its place. While it sounds like they're coasting, their refined, sugary formula is so sweet, it's hard to complain. --Matthew Cooke
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Good music, bad buy February 10, 2002
Todd W. Cox (Cincinnati, Ohio USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I too got suckered into the ltd edition packaging. I figured with the average selling price of 5-8 dollars more for the ltd edition packaging I was getting some bonus tracks or a bonus CD. Nope. .... I agree with everyone else..get the jewel case edition, it'd hold up better if you take it around places, it wont bend unlike the cardboard and the CD wont scratch up as easily as it will rubbing against that cardboard sleeve that the ltd edt packaging has. Is it ME or would this paper sleeve cost less to make than the jewel case?
Guess they just knew people who always buy the limited release would get suckered into buying it. Guess they taught me one thing....never again will I buy anything limitted edition from the Chem. Bros....they can block rock MY beat...
excellent February 6, 2002
Matt Dailey (Victoria, Texas United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to admit that this album wasnt quite what I expected. It is a lot dancier than previous albums (yes, even more so than Surrender)but rest assured Chemz fans, it is pulled off with a technical fervor that only Tom and Ed could do. First things first, the entire album is excellent, there is no song that any fan will skip (I can attest to this because it has been in my cd player for the past 7 days on loop). I was never a HUGE fan of the first single "It began in Afrika" mainly because the vocal cut was repeated to many times. The Chemz, as always, fixed that little problem and now the song kicks... I really dont understand what everybody is whining about saying that the album doesnt seem very congealed because it all flows very well. I think everybody is just looking at the fact that DYOH won a grammy so therefore it must be the best thing they've ever done. I may sound blasphemous here but I put DYOH as my least favorite album, granted it had some amazing tracks and was still vere, very good, but I think that it is the least congealed of their albums. Come on people make reviews based on actually LISTENING to the albums, not what everybody else says! I say that Come With Us is superb, albeit a slight change for the Chemz, but overall worth every penny just like very album they've ever produced. Any buyer will be extrmely pleased.
 another great album with a horrible gimmick February 5, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
wow. putting behind their experimental side of 'surrender', tom and ed return with a powerhouse of a release. three tracks are already hits with the various crowds out there: it began in afrika, galaxy bounce, and star guitar. the rest of the tracks are a flurry of genres, from electrofunk to some idm-like beats to some dub/ambient. with guest appearances from beth orton and richard ashcroft, both tracks of which were solid, the album rounds out nicely. regretably, the tease of the idea of mixing all the song together between it began in afrika and galaxy bounce leave me with a wish to have seen them do it. and while it is a solid album, it is nothing extraordinarily new from the chems, just more of what one would expect. they also lose points for allowing astralwerks to release a 'limited edition' version of the cd.
the Brothers are back!! February 1, 2002
Y. W. Park (Ann Arbor, MI USA)
This whole CD sounds like a mix of the Brothers' styles that they had used on their last three albums. The Album starts with fast rockin' beats from Dig Your Own Hole. Then it changes into psychedelic and acid kinda tracks. Then later, tracks with vocals like "The States We're In" and "The Test" appears. Personally, I really enjoyed listening to this CD, and happy to see the Brothers coming back.
 Limited Edition packing not worth extra bucks January 30, 2002
Ray Cornwall (Avon By The Sea, NJ United States)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
There is no reason to purchase the limited edition- the disc is the same, and the only thing you get for the extra money is a non-jewel case package. No extras at all. The album's great! But this edition is not worth it.
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