The Golden Path (song)

"The Golden Path" is a single by The Chemical Brothers, featuring The Flaming Lips, taken from the Chemical Brothers' Singles 93-03 album.

The lead vocals were performed by Wayne Coyne with Steven Drozd performing harmony vocals.^[1]

Track listing

• CD CHEMSD18

1. "The Golden Path"
2. "Nude Night"
3. "The Golden Path (Ewan Pearson Extended Vocal)"

• DVD CHEMSDVD18

1. "The Golden Path (Video)"
2. "The Golden Path (Edit)"
3. "Dexter's International Scribble Mix"
4. "The Golden Path (Ewan's Rave Hell Dub)"

• 12" CHEMST18

1. "The Golden Path"
2. "Nude Night"

Music video

The video, directed by Chris Milk, involves a man (Fran Kranz) walking into his office, where he is depressed. He is told to count figures, and begins to look them over in a small room. He sees the binary code, studies it, and it transforms into a more colorful world full of hippies seen outside. He has a great celebration with them, but it transforms into the office again. He is then told to work a copy machine, when as the lyrics tell about meeting the devil, the photocopy machine roars like an animal. Then, a pot of coffee erupts like a volcano, again referencing the lyrics. He sees a doughnut resting on the photocopy machine, and it transforms into the surreal environment again. He kisses a female hippy, but it transforms back into the real world, and he has his face resting on the doughnut with his head resting on the copy machine. The machine prints out copies of him and the female hippy kissing. He is then sent back to his cubicle. He then begins to pull himself into his shirt, and he finds himself in a white room in the underclothes, and then he is back in the hippy environment, with his clothes as a large sheet the other hippies throw him into the air with. He rejoices with them, and begins kissing the female hippy again. In the office, his boss sees the printed out sheet from the copy machine and rushes to his cubicle, where a crowd of fellow employees see he has disappeared. The final shot shows the man happily in the hippy environment. As with many of the Chemical Brothers' other albums, the duo make a brief cameo appearance, in this instance in a Siamese twin suit as the only figures commemorated on a wall of "employee of the month" plaques.

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