Defend the indefensible: Jamie T.

i had not heard this. i heard it in a shop. it's really, really horrible. so horrible. is he a joke, like mock the week doing the arctic monkeys or something?

i first "encountered" him via a video he did with bob 'oskins, about the time dom started this thread.

arctic monkeys, this guy, lily allen, kate nash... mike skinner.

mike skinner is the great "what were we thinking?" story of the decade.

I tried telling you all that at the time, but would you listen?

^^^^ this

oh come on, original pirate material is better than illmatic.

Sterling Clover RIP, heaven needed some herb to claim that Kardinal Offishal was one of the greatest lyricists of all time.

Who's that other guy? Just Jack!

I'm not sure what those two have in common. Just Jack is kind of inoffensive. Jamie T is very offensive.

Just Jack is kind of inoffensive

WHAT

other than this, everyone OTM. the streets' first two album ratings on metacritic = HOW COULD SO MUCH WOOL BE PULLED OVER SO MANY EYES????

i guess the answer is that all the critics are sheep who can't be seen dead hating on this hip new act. tossers.

I'm not sure you are right.

you tell me why it happened, then!

do you have to be from the streets to appreciate The Streets?
The Streets C or D
Gold Chains vs The Streets FIGHT!
Can Someone Please Explain The Streets To Me?
That guy from The Streets is a much better rapper than Roots Manuva
Ali G vs The Streets vs Goldie Lookin Chain
streets "original pirate material" vs spearmint "one week away" -- FITE!
are the streets,um,rockist?
Streets special issue?
I am interviewing The Streets on Wednesday...
"Is that some English Shit?" - Gold Chains vs. The Streets - TS
How the Streets sound to me...
The Streets: please explain.
video for The Streets 'The Irony Of It All'
this is the thread for people who don't think the streets are that great

Taking Sides: JJ72 Vs The Streets

I could go on.

Please don't

Music criticism really sucked before I came along.

The Streets - Original Pirate Material
E+

The Streets are rubbish. "Walking down the street, eating some chips, saw myself a bird, fancied giving her one" etc etc Utter toss.
JJ72, on the other hand, produced such incredible bursts of pop perfection as "Snow" and "Oxygen".

They win hands down.

Dom Passantino 16/09/2002

It was the post that had to be made.

STREETS REVIVE TUESDAY!

u gon get banned

http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Rob/combust.jpg

bullying mike skinner?

Jamie T's great. What's wrong with you lot? He says heaps of words.

ha ha

i will always like OPM altho i listened to 'Same Old Thing' the other day for first time in ages and his lyrics aren't great but that was a good beat

HE'S THE ANTI-PAUL HEATON

I don't think he's that at all

I thought cman was pretty otm until he started propping jj72

"She's a perfect 10, but she wears a 12"

easily a Skinner line

Just Jack is kind of inoffensive.

I seriously (as opposed to funnily) have convulsions when his songs come on the radio.

When i read stevem repping for OPM i imediately thought of Heaven is a Half Pipe...

we lived in interesting times

there is not one thing to be said in his defence, LOCK DTI FOREVER

"Stella" really is a remarkably dreadful song. He raps like some sort of German novelty pop song circa 1995.

"Jamie T is a storyteller, a raconteur. His songs carry all the clutter and dust, the rattle and roll and restlessness of real life"

Erm....

Clearly, setting myself up for taking a lot of shit for this, but I thought Panic Prevention had some really strong moments...Never quite saw it as a Mike Skinner thing, so much as urban sonic pastiche pop. His voice is a bit much at times but still...Calm Down Dearest/So Lonely Was the Ballad/Sheila/If You've Got the Money are far more interesting than he's made out to be here. And the vocal tics strike me as palatable in the same way Shakira's are...you can almost hear him relishing the sound and taste of the words as he twists his mouth around them.

Anyway, the new one - Kings and Queens - tones down the vocal histrionics and makes it more 'palatable' if that's what you're after. More tunes, less rapping, and a strange sort of folk-turn in the middle of the album that he pulls off better than I would have expected. I don't remember much after 'Spider's Web' but that could honestly be because I've been spending so much time with the first half - 368, Hocus Pocus, Sticks 'n' Stones, and Chaka Demus are a perfect run of potential singles...alternatingly raucous, rough, ramshackle and polished but all earworms in their own ways. Chaka Demus especially, these days.

Also, Sticks 'n' Stones B-side "Dance of the Young Professionals" jacks the same Brahms piece as 'Upper Clapton Dance' and acquits itself quite well.

I saw him on Jonathan Ross, miraculously I'd managed to not hear him before. Unfathomably bad, Ross was justifying him like "this is what the kids like now" To boot he came over as smug and pretentious. The single Chaka Demus, can't make out if it's about racism (or racist) or unrequited love. His voice is better recorded live for sure. He's postponed his tour due to laryngitis.

Ross was justifying him like "this is what the kids like now"

DO the kids like him? i dunno. they probably do to be fair. fuck knows why though.

Just rubbish.

i like "zombie"

:o