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So I'm giving The Streets' album a first proper listen, having skipped through the beginnings of the tracks earlier. Initial thoughts: the first track is completely amazing, but I can imagine his voice grating over a full 50 minutes.

― toby, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

don`t know anything about the streets..what/who are they?

― nelly, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the streets!: scroll down a bit.

i haven't heard them yet. i have "has it come to this" trapped on my harddrive, but no way of listening to it. given tim's bigging up the album, i'll probably download some more as it becomes available.

― jess, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love Has It Come To This.

― Ronan, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Second thoughts: on one listen, I like it. Plus points: loads of weird backing tracks, it doesn't sound like anything else I've ever heard, it's pretty funny in places. Minus points: it is a bit samey. Also it's impossible to work to (though that's not necessarily a bad thing).

― toby, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jess - I've only heard a smattering of tracks from the album. But what I did hear was awfully good. Then again, I'm biased and am not to be trusted when it comes to UK Garage.

― Tim, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

third thoughts: the first song is completely amazing. first genius track of 2002. imagine stirring strings, a garage beat, and the guy from the streets intoning stuff like "i'm 45th generation roman... look up at the birds and the sky... it rained for forty days in forty ways... stand by me my apprentice" in an apocolyptic fashion. actually don't imagine that, i've made it sound rubbish. but it's quite possibly the best start to an album EVER.

― toby, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Then again, I'm biased and am not to be trusted when it comes to UK Garage.

speaking of which, how comes yr best of 2001 list? i'm itching to find some mp3s...

― jess, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm still itching to find mp3s of the track Tim wrote about in the FT anniversary special. If it were to appear on filepile that would make me very happy indeed. (Assuming I noticed it in time, obviously.)

― rebecca the subtle, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jess, it's written but now must go through the editing process (second draft = 2600 words, and it's a "Part One"). T'will appear soon though.

Rebecca, I might be able to arrange something on that score. I'll e-mail you sometime later about it.

Actually I think that anniversary thing is something that deserves to be resurrected if possible, and not because of my piece - the original FT went down so soon afterwards that I don't even think I was able to read everyone's contributions properly.

― Tim, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dang, here I was hoping this would be about pirates and Buccaters, my oh my won't Barret be dissappointed and broken man on a Halifax pier.

― Mr Noodles, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah I plan to sort out the anniversary pages soon - at the moment work means I have to concentrate on getting new pieces up but hopefully by the start of February I'll have time to put up the birthday special stuff again.

― Tom, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hello folks HE HE HE HE HE! Must admit was put out by banner signifying headline namely Original Pirate Material thought you must have uncovered treasure of Red Foxx Rackham dastardly dastoor that he was and he made ants walk the plank and dive into coke en stock shark din dins as was customary in days of blue blooded bearded piracy ahoist the main seas in the new world of old but was devil may care mark you so wouldn't have minded as was doubtless very presentable young man as am expert in such affairs

as am former navy man

Yardstick the mollusc heightways! Promulgate mid-aorta indigestibus able seaman at hard port! Ibex trounce!

― Wally Klemmer, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

im not a big fan of garage i personally think it sucks, im more of a metal/punker, but the streets just rock :)

― chris morrison, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Original Pirate Material is an excellent album, which is something coming from a greebo/grunger. I heard 'Lets push things forward' on Xfm, and loved it, and persuaded myself to buy the album, after also hearing 'Too Much Brandy' in virgin megastores. It's a cool album, which is a great come between garage and rock music.

Dev

― Dev ., Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He really does look like Ian Curtis, doesn't he? It's spooky. I heard the new single the other day and am in middle of a Dexy's-Lawrence-Streets thread theory.

― N., Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone know where I can get my hands on some mp3s? Audiogalaxy doesn't seem to have any.

― powertonevolume, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Enter "The Streets" and the track names but not the album title ("Original Pirate Material" brings up nothing). So try, in order:

Turn The Page
Has It Come To This?
Let's Push Things Forward
Sharp Darts
Same Old Thing
Geezers Need Excitement
It's Too Late
Too Much Brandy
Don't Mug Yourself
The Irony Of It All
Who Got The Funk?
Weak Become Heroes
Who Dares Wins
Stay Positive
The album's fantastic, incidentally.

― Tim, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

can somebody please explain to me why The Streets is anything except just pure awful hideous garbage?

it just makes me cringe. it sounds like a novelty record. it's embarrassing.

i'm not averse to being convinced otherwise... state your case.

― Wyndham Earl, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been listening to the album and I really want to like it more than I suspect I do. It has this interesting premise of being this particularly raw strand of MC-oriented garage, but I listen to the tracks and wonder if I'm missing something. Maybe his enunciation is too laid back or the production is too thin or something... I don't know really, but something isn't connecting. I almost think of the album as one of those audio-books or conceptual narration albums, except it happens to be read over garage beats.

― Honda, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the thing about the Streets is that the whole thing rests on the persona he's created. It's a larger than life version of the "everyday geezer," and there's nobody else who's really done that the way he has. I've read some reviews that praise the album for its veracity to London street life, which is a bit silly--although a lot of the stuff he talks about is rooted in reality, a whole album full of it becomes more of a condensed, blown-up fantasy. Just the same as your average gangsta rapper who was maybe a low-level crack dealer once but probably never experienced quite the level of mayhem he rhymes about.

And that's fine, that's what fiction's about, but if you don't identify with that persona, you're not going to like the album much. Some of his lyrics are excellent, and they do relate to things that a certain age group has gone/goes through, and people respond to that. And it's also all a bit overdone, sometimes too much so, so it gets cartoonish at times (I still find it hard to listen to "Geezers Need Excitement"), like you're watching a "street" version of "Eastenders."

Compounding that is the fact that the beats are a bit thin overall. I don't think most of them would stand up on their own. It's basic production, and it shows. The tracks with strings are the best, he really has some great orchestration on there. There are four or five real standout tracks, a couple of weak ones, and the rest inbetween. I don't think it's going to date very well, but it's fun for now.

― Ben Williams, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I downloaded the record last night and listened to it this morning before work--it seems kind of silly, like some dork ranting over iffy garage. I guess that's the point but really, what's the difference between this and MC Paul Barman?

― adam, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's true that his beats are weak (or "iffy" if you like) but I sort of see that as being the point. A lot of the tracks have this bludgeoning near-straightahead but ever-so-slightly syncopated thing going on that sounds at once hard and flawed (I'm thinking of "Same Old Thing" as a specific example here) - the idea it seems to want to suggest to me is that Skinner's "psychic armour" has been shaped by life's knocks in a manner that's much more depressingly mundane than it would be for yer average gangsta rapper. It's like everything's trying to sound big and menacing but the enfeebling stutter hints at the underlying pathetic elements of Skinner's life.

In terms of carrying songs garage beats *always* sound weak (the usual process is just to make everything so fast and self-fulfilling that the beats don't get overburdened). So when Skinner toughens them up and makes them messy, and then loops martial strings or whatever over the top, you get this great contradiction - it's like he's trying to make weapons out of warped metal. Listen to the fantastic contrast he achieves in "The Irony Of It All": the yob gets that trudging stutter beat, utterly grooveless, whereas the student pothead gets inconsequentially light beats, deliberately unengaging wallpaper undercarriage.

(in contrast, the "well programmed" tracks - "Has It Come To This?" and "Don't Mug Yourself" especially - sound almost prissily so. Very Artful Dodger, ironically)

Of course it's really Skinner's rapping that makes this album for me (the garage base is the interesting twist that provides the "in") and precisely because I have no knowledge or understanding of the way of life he describes, I can approach it on the exact same terms as I would US rap.

― Tim, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's an interesting way of looking at the beats. I'm all for weak/iffy garage, though. It's fine with me. The non-flow of dumb lines gets to me though--if this were a hip hop record I would snicker at the crappy lyrics for a minute then take the CD out of my stereo and go sell it. As it is the only reason I'm giving it the attention I am is because of the garage thing--and the garage part of it is (to my unschooled ears) substandard. Which brings me back (in a kind of incomprehensible way--it's late) to my original point: weak lyrics, weak beats, cheap hook/concept--not my cup of mango tea. I prefer Weird Al.

― adam, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the lyrics are a mixture of tossed-up and inspired. Sure there's moments (like in "Sharp Darts" when he says "this one's fat like yer mother/contains 'nuff calories") when I think "oh, that really shouldn't have passed through the internal editing process", but there's some really fabulous stuff too. One of my favourites is when in "Don't Mug Yourself" he says, "hold on to your seat/cos' it's all gone a bit Pete", (as in Pete Tong) and then the next line is "Live for the moment, said he, WRONG!" - the implied rhyme that isn't actually there works a treat.

Also sometimes it's both tossed-off and inspired: the ad-libbed sing-song section at the end of that track ("What are you doing you twat?"/and I said, "What the fuck...") is amazingly stupid but, conversely, stupidly amazing.

― Tim, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Right now anti-terrorist simulators and a non-Brummie from Birmingham with a two-note piano shuffle enthrals me. “It’s pish” – the Streets – The Reasonable Man’s considered opinion. That segue, the piano’s gentle thrall, revert, pull back, chase forward, soft pastel tones, Terry Hall in the background, I hate Ian Dury, I love Mike Skinner, “a day in the life of a geezer” – that’s what they’ll quote. It’s a simple formula – take the two-step of So-Solid’s Garage, beat the MC with a feather duster and one single Benson & Hedges, give him asthma (hear the lost last ‘t’ of contrac’ in the first verse of Has It Come to This), give him the bullied not the bully role in Grange Hill, tell him he’s called the Streets – watch him expound in bruised cadence (saying ‘things’ about ‘stuff’ unlike the Crew), Brummie without the Twang, pretentious we-know-the- hardcore-life-of-the-streets-middle-class-kids’ll love ‘em. Of course we do – cos we ‘understand’ what he means, but we don’t appreciate him.

― powertonevolume, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There is a Streets track mentioned in the Reynolds/Uncut review that is not on the album I have (nor Tim's tracklist above). Has anyone heard this and/or know happened to it between the promos and the actual release? (sorry, I don't have the name of the track on hand at the moment.)

― scott p., Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"All Got Our Runnins Now" = "Don't Mug Yourself". Just listen to the chorus.

― Tim, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

C'MERE YOU I'LL FOOKIN' BATTER YE!

― Beer Boy, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Er, Tim, that's not the Don't Mug Yourself on the album I got. No Pete Tong, no What The Fuck, nothing to do with Runnins.

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

only just got it and, although some of the songs border on the novelty record, I think it's too late is fucking brilliant

― chris, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew this means 2 things:

1) The "Don't Mug Yourself" I have isn't actually "Don't Mug Yourself".

2) Everyone *must track down* All Got Our Runnins etc. because it is BRILLIANT. Perhaps my favourite track (not) on the album. "You know things are bleak when you're telling that bird you asked out last week that things are busy, when REALLY you ain't got no dough in the piggy."

― Tim, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A corollorary to 1): you have to go get the real Don't Mug Yourself as soon as possible. It's got a great bassline, it's set in a caff again, and has been measured by workmates to produce an 47% increase in me shooting invisible guns at the sky.

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Streets::UK Garage => diff. stratosphere by: Saying Things. = Praise for merely Saying Things and NOT For The Things Being Said. Pertinent criticism? Just an observation. That bit in Too Much Brandy where he erupts: "Am I paranoid, Yesyou'reParanoid" s'amazing.

I think he should also be being praised for The Things Being Said but it doesn't appear that he has been in the press so far; praised merely for the fact that he isn't biggin' up his friends, hyping the crowd, etc (the usual Garage-MC palava).

― powertonevolume, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Streets=Bob Dylan of garage!

Ha ha just kidding

― Ben Williams, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thought: if So Solid Crew didn't exist, would anyone suggest that The Streets was a "UK Garage MC who's really saying things"? No. They'd say he was a "UK rapper who's hip to UK Garage beats." But that's because people already pay so much attention to what SSC say that they look past the importance of the way that they say it.

I'm not sure what it all means. Maybe the key is that - unlike So Solid Crew - Skinner's music is defiantly not designed for clubs. UKG is much more self-consciously dance music than hip hop, if less self-consciously so than house. The radical break in the purposive nature of the music makes me think that the nature of The Streets' relationship to 'proper' garage is more like trip hop's relationship with hip hop than, say, Nas's relationship to NWA * within* hip hop. Which is to say that the comparison is stylistically stretched too far to be simply qualitative.

― Tim, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"UK rapper who's hip to UK Garage beats" - Isn't that wot savvy Tom said? Maybe not, will think about that Tim, once I decipher it.

― powertonevolume, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah I think it is; the fact that So Solid Crew *do* exist complicates things though, as it's very difficult to simply draw a line and say "this is where MCs become rappers". Also, you get tracks like Middlerow's "Right Proper Charlie", which is more like The Streets than The Streets is, but is also obviously the work of garage MCs

(perhaps connotation of "MC" is a certain level of anonymity or interchangability persona-wise (if not vocally) - there's 40+ members of SSC now, but only one Skinner)

― Tim, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

urgent and key: do they play the streets in ukg clubs?

i have a feeling my take is going to be very different from everyone elses, even tim's, because i really am trying to tackle it from an american angle. not to the point where we get ethan's infamous roots manuva review, but...

secondary urgent and key: does anyone know of any american writing on the streets yet? google turned up nothing, but i'd really like to see some before i finish up...

― jess, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

in parts the album's like Human Traffic for my ears

― Dave McBride, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jess: only remixes really. The basslines just aren't big enough on the originals, but check out the excellent Jameson remix of "Has It Come To This?", which amazingly turns the track into a dancefloor peak track with not too much effort.

― Tim, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have brought the streets album and haven't stopped listenin' to it yet. its cool trip-out album

― sy, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jess, I wrote one brief, tossed-off thing once on OHJ Blog about a Streets mp3 some weeks ago, although I'm going to give a proper review a go within a week or so.

― scott p., Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

erm, but no, I haven't seen any proper writing or coverage of the Streets in the U.S.

― scott p., Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

- cult classic, not bestseller -

There's no excuses my friend, let's push things forward.

― Natty, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I finally heard the Streets on Popworld this morning...hmmm...it was okay, kinda sounded like Madness Y2K to me.

― jel --, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Slim Finney was onto something when he was chirriping on on another thread about how The Streets brilliance (or one of the myriad facets of his brilliance) lies in his ability to take a character (caricature?) and slip in out of it mellifluously. (This isn't what you were saying Finney, yr point was more than the one I'm making). But anyway, caveats aside. Yeh, one thing I've noticed about him is his ability to slip from his own Persona (the main one in Too Much Brandy for instance - it's more than a voice but an attitude, the words chosen etc i.e. A Persona - but the voice helps as a signifier) into other characters without breaks in the flow of the narrative.

See - 2.31 Too Much Brandy - The gentle segue from 'balance fucked up' into some loutfriend 'Ra, ra, ra, it's all back to the dark star...' The end 'r' of star oscillating ever-so- slightly (just little hints that its another character). He slips in and Skinner seques back out seamlessly. The way his vignettes just unfold, turning this on here and that on there. Note: that 'Ra, ra, ra...' bit is one of my favourites on the album. Maybe I'm missing the point.

― david h, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, not very well explained. The ability to hold loads of personas on the one song. Or something. It sounded good in my head.

― david h, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why has it taken so long for these lyrics to come out? Sounds like the whole of my early teens' postfive o'clock world (I hung about with older kids - Andrew Wallace's friend Flakey took some acid and then thought a bin bag was an Alien of Aliens fame). Amazing some of it's not been said before.

The same leitmotifs indeed.

S'kinda like Choochtown (Hamell On Trial), close groupa blokes, storied narratives [but really vignettes], but... I'm clutching at invisible straws trying to articulate what I mean. ILM = brainnumbin'.

― david h, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, yeah: I take ANY NEGATIVE COMMENTS I made about the Streets upthread TOTALLY BACK.

I've listened to the album a lot more and have grown to enjoy the hell out of it. Have we talked about "It's Too Late" yet? I'm all about that song. The lyrics keep a nice balance* between whiny-indie and, er, not-too-whiny-indie and I'm always a sucker for funny-pitched vocal samples.

*The idea of "balance" comes up a lot when discussing the Streets. Is that because a lot of it really does walk that fine line between genuine/affecting and gimmicky/hokey? And does it take an very self- aware artist to do that, or an very naive/guileless one?

― adam, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

New Tim Finney answers. This thread's alive Tim: maybe only by the means of abc, but still...

― david h, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Have we talked about "It's Too Late" yet?

Yes, here. Feel free to add your thoughts. :-)

― Jeff W, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Please allow me to think of something to say first.

Okay. David, I agree that so much rests on minute variations of Skinner's voice. The weakest aspect of "It's Too Late" - otherwise a great track - is how Skinner's stretching of his rhymes causes him to get a bit whiny. "...for my fair female" bugs me, not because it's an awkward line but because it's one of the few times that an awkward line sounds like an awkward line per se, and not the result of an awkward character. In the process it exposes some of the machinery behind the faces of the Skinner's characters. I'd argue that a lot of the seemingly weaker lines on the album are deliberate lapses in compositional neatness, but that one just sounds like a desperate stretch, like cartoon characters leaping over a canyon and hoping that if they don't look down and acknowlege the impossibility of it all cartoon-laws will allow them to make it.

(my favourite moment in "Too Much Brandy" - apart from the cocaine section and "Ra ra ra..." - is the mangled/mingle/ fandango/jingles rhyme. Which is utterly, utterly brilliant)

― Tim, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry Tim, I wasn't pressuring you I just thought that you thought that the thoughts on this thoughtthread were dead, y'know. Agree re: the "wozacocangleareyouparanoid - Yes, I'm PARANOID" which is utterly brilliant and driving my g/friend up the wall. She does not like Rewind, play, rewind, play, rewind, play etc.

― david h, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry I was actually offline for a couple of days due to computer fuck-ups.

― Tim, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Apparently The Streets new single is called "You're Fit And You Know It". If the chorus goes '...clap your hands' I won't know what to think.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh heh heh.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 06:49 (twenty-two years ago)

ft MC Calumspazm

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah it's called "you're fit and you know it" and it's built around a 2bar punky guitar riff. it's pretty funny actually...

― martin (martin), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a new Grafiti track doing the rounds as well - it's as good as the last one (mebbe)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

wow do you mean Grafiti might actually top "What's The Problem"?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Martin, or anyone, what's the word on Mike Skinner producing the Shystie album?

― peckham rye, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

What are you lot upta, there's nuff garage/Dnb/original musak to listen to around at the mo and you lot are consentrating on 1 album, get wiv the new lads n lasses, what the frik, Wall-E (Legend) ps. I don't care how old this thread is, best get to the local record store and sort yo'selves out!!!

― Wall-E, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

There may have been a few other threads in the interim.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

the best debut of the decade STILL amirite?

seriously no one's gonna argue with that.

― pisces, Friday, 17 August 2007 09:22 (eighteen years ago)

Some nice beats and ok lyrics, awful flow. I haven't listened to this ever since it came out. The best debut this decade is Cannibal Ox's.

― Tuomas, Friday, 17 August 2007 09:33 (eighteen years ago)

Wow I'd forgotten how totally The Streets ruled my 2002. I stand by everything I say in this thread though.

― Tim F, Friday, 17 August 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

Wow this is all over five years ago.

― Tim F, Friday, 17 August 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i think OPM suffers from being SO of it's moment - can't say i've listened to it much since AGDCFF but it's his best album still. Since I Left You probably still my favourite debut this decade (Anniemal makes three).

― blueski, Friday, 17 August 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

it's so very funny that's what struck me listening to the whole thing again. it's hillarious!

― pisces, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

"The best debut this decade is Cannibal Ox's"

no its actually mike jones's album.

― titchyschneiderMk2, Thursday, 6 September 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

Some nice beats and ok lyrics, awful flow. I haven't listened to this ever since it came out. The best debut this decade is Cannibal Ox's.

-- Tuomas, Friday, August 17, 2007 9:33 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

how can one post be so rite and so rong

― and what, Thursday, 6 September 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

LOCK DOWN YOUR AERIAL

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 6 September 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

If you like this album or LOVE it like i know a lot on here do, you really owe it to yourself to listen to this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p29gw

Say what you like about Zane Lowe but his show's been on fire these last few months.

― piscesx, Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:02 (sixteen years ago)

nine years pass...

So how has history judged this album, now that it's 17 years old?

"Don't Mug Yourself" just came on during a spotify playlist, and it was unexpectedly amazing.
I wouldn't have expected that song to hold up, but it definitely does. If the Beastie Boys can get canonized, maybe it's time for a critical reappraisal of Mike Skinner.

― enochroot, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 20:29 (seven years ago)

I think I would die if I ever heard "Dry Your Eyes" again but this album still holds up imo

― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 20:42 (seven years ago)

What are you lot upta, there's nuff garage/Dnb/original musak to listen to around at the mo and you lot are consentrating on 1 album, get wiv the new lads n lasses, what the frik, Wall-E (Legend) ps. I don't care how old this thread is, best get to the local record store and sort yo'selves out!!!

valuable old new posters imo

― invited to an unexpected ninja presentation (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 21:09 (seven years ago)

"If the Beastie Boys..."

Mutha Fuck That Bull Shit

― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 00:15 (seven years ago)

Yardstick the mollusc heightways! Promulgate mid-aorta indigestibus able seaman at hard port! Ibex trounce!

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― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 00:18 (seven years ago)

“Don’t Mug Yourself” is the only Streets song that is any good

― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 04:29 (seven years ago)

MC Pitman has aged better.

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 12:22 (seven years ago)

I've got a massive soft spot for 'It's Too Late'.

― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 16:18 (seven years ago)

(seventeen years ago)

Never got around to listening to this, oops.

― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 16:53 (seven years ago)

og pirate material: still good

idk if i could make it through a grand today but i did enjoy this flip of "blinded by the lights" that talabot and pional did a few years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdCYz6DsVwo

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 16:58 (seven years ago)

i still love it.
i saw him live in Utrecht recently and it was amazing.
but I grew up listening to the streets. too many feelings attached.

― Nourry, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:00 (seven years ago)

god, 17 years since I've had a working aerial

― maffew12, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:03 (seven years ago)

listening to this, in the car on the way to work this morning

still holds up imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwKSgtjKb5M

― the late great, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:11 (seven years ago)

i did enjoy this flip of "blinded by the lights" that talabot and pional did a few years ago

ty for this

― steven, soda jerk (sic), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 18:36 (seven years ago)

ten months pass...

i still love this album and it does not sound nigh on 20 years old at all

― idgaf (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 15:23 (six years ago)

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