Dig Your Own Hole

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Dig Your Own Hole
Dig Your Own Hole cover
Studio album by The Chemical Brothers
Released April 7, 1997
Recorded 1996
Genre Big Beat
Length 63:22
Label Junior Boy's Own
Producer Tom Rowlands, Ed Simons
Professional reviews
The Chemical Brothers chronology
Exit Planet Dust
(1995)
Dig Your Own Hole
(1997)
Surrender
(1999)

Dig Your Own Hole is the second album by British electronica duo The Chemical Brothers, released in the UK on April 7, 1997 (see 1997 in music). It features Noel Gallagher of Oasis and Beth Orton as guest vocalists.

In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Dig Your Own Hole the 49th greatest album of all time. In 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 42 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.

In 2004, the album was packaged with 1995's Exit Planet Dust in a limited edition box set as part of EMI's "2CD Originals" collection. It was certified platinum by the BPI on January 21, 2000. [1]

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, except where noted.

  1. "Block Rockin' Beats" (Rowlands, Simons, Jesse Weaver) – 5:14
  2. "Dig Your Own Hole" – 5:27
  3. "Elektrobank" – 8:18
  4. "Piku" – 4:54
  5. "Setting Sun" (Rowlands, Simons, Noel Gallagher) – 5:29
  6. "It Doesn't Matter" (Rowlands, Simons, Paul Conley, John Emelin, Tom Flye, Rusty Ford, Kim King) – 6:14
  7. "Don't Stop the Rock" – 4:48
  8. "Get Up on It Like This" (Rowlands, Simons, Quincy Jones) – 2:48
  9. "Lost in the K-Hole" – 3:51
  10. "Where Do I Begin" – 6:51
  11. "The Private Psychedelic Reel" (Rowlands, Simons, Jonathan Donahue) – 9:28