Star Guitar

by

The Chemical Brothers

Edit

While other people will search for hidden drug references and just talk about the Chemical Brothers in general, here's a review that focuses on the actual single. "Star Guitar" is the second single for the Chemical Brothers' "Come With Us" album, the first being "It Began in Afrika", another highly recommended single if you liked "Come With Us". Anyway, on with the review:

1. Star Guitar (Edit) -- a quick little ditty similar to the "It Began in Afrika" edit. It's a nice little tune for those of you who don't like too much repetitiveness.

2. Star Guitar -- the version you've heard off the album. A sweeping tune filled with ambience and trance moods all centering around a faint vocal proclaiming that "you should feel what I feel" and that "you should take what I take".

3. Star Guitar (Pete Heller's Expanded Mix) -- I heard Pete Heller's Park Lane Vocal on Moby's "South Side" single and thought it was pretty boring. It's grown on me since then and so has this remix of "Star Guitar". Unfortunatley, Heller centers on the "you should feel" part of the vocal, so it gets pretty repetitive and at over eight minutes, you might wanna hit the "Skip" button for this one.

4. Star Guitar (Pete Heller's 303 Dub) -- Ah, here we are, a much better attempt by Heller. The 303 Dub is a wild combination of melodies and harmonies from the song and, if I'm not mistaken, there are minimal, if no, amounts of vocals. But, it all pales in comparison to what you hear next...

5. Base 6 -- The No. 1 reason that anyone who already owns "Come With Us" should buy this single. "Base 6", like its cousin "Hot Acid Rhythm 1" off the "Afrika" single, is an awesome dance mix, centering around a computerized voice counting up to six. With more than enough variation to make it interesting, it's a wonder why this didn't appear on the album. It's these little surprises that make buying singles worthwhile.