The Streets C or D

Surely we had some threads on this while I was away last week?

Did you get my 102 beats that entry?

Seriously, everyone will have heard this record by year's end. It's not really "groundbreaking" IMO, but he does say things that (if you're English, anyway) make you wonder why no-one's said it before, so it is "fresh" in that sense. Also, the single gives you an idea of the 'sound', but there's so much more to the LP than that.

Leo The Lion's appearance on Celebrity Love Island 2: the day the music died?

RIP The Beats.

to be expected (Example/Mitchell Bros didn't exactly shift the expected units i would say), or a shame : http://www.hhcmagazine.com/blog/?p=226

Thank fuck that means Professor Green won't release a solo album.

just tried the last mixtape that they released via HHC.
5 minutes in and i called it quits.
shyte.

They're no Beer And Rap

Listened to the first album today, inspired by 'Too Late' coming up on shuffle. It's still pretty great. I enjoyed A Grand... at the time, but don't think I could bear to listen to it now.

Where can I find links to all these old Streets threads? All the hyperlinks on this page are broken.

"Wankiage" gives no search results. Are these threads gone forever? :(

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/SearchControllerServlet?terms=streets&offset=30&searchtype=title

Mike Skinner has said his next album will be The Streets' last record after his latest one, Everything is Borrowed, is released next month.

The 29-year-old star, best known for hits such as Dry Your Eyes and Fit But You Know It, told music magazine NME "the next album is the last album".

He added: "I did a five-album deal and I don't think it would be right to be making Streets albums after that."

Everything Is Borrowed is released on 15 September.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7554269.stm

All of The Streets albums are really great, so I fully expect this to be one of my favorites of 2008.

eh..the third album blows.
the new single is pretty nice though.

first album rulz

but

grime mixes of get out my house and fit but u know it = best things he evar did

"PLZ GET OUT MY HOUSE !!"

new album = quite good

http://the-streets.co.uk/2011/01/cyberspace-and-red-soup/

now i gotta go find a tin of tomato soup?? wtf mike skinner, you crazy bro

ha ha amazing. anyone heard the new one? any good?

http://www.soulculture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/cyberspace+reds-e1295943950758.jpg

Scuppered by having a fifteen quid phone ...

Good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsW8J_vuAko

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/feb/03/streets-computers-blues-album-stream?CMP=twt_gu

The mixtape wasn't bad. Much better than the last album. Gave em a modicum of hope he'll bow out well.

like the sound of this. just listened to the last track. sounds like he's stopped thinking he's Wordsworth.

was there a thread about the new album? lots of 'return to early form' talk about this new one with goodish reason, but then i liked his last one and hardly anyone else seemed to.

anyway.. he's still got it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igrNsN8W6wM

from Best Hip-Hop/Rap Album Included on Pitchfork's Top Albums Lists (2001-08)

I'd be surprised though if anyone who genuinely thought OPM was amazing would now be like rofl what was I thinking.

― Tim F, Monday, March 14, 2011 12:25 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

How are folks feeling 9 years later?

Thank fuck that means Professor Green won't release a solo album.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, January 14, 2008 10:39 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

Come back 2008 all is forgiven.

How are folks feeling 9 years later?

about the same-- first album is nice but never clicked for me in a big way; second album is a masterpiece; third is patchy. picked up the fourth in the dollar bin last year, don't think i've spun it yet, though...

pretty sure if i revisited 2004 albums, A Grand Don't Come for Free would still handily make my top ten or so

First two still great, next two pretty rotten, latest not exactly a return to form but very enjoyable.

skinner's badness now isn't the kind of badness that shows the earlier stuff in a better light, it infects the earlier stuff in retrospect - like everything execrable about the streets now turns out to have always been there, in plain sight. i remember liking (not loving) OPM at the time but i don't think i could even bear a full song off it now.

― lex pretend, Monday, March 14, 2011 4:31 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also "dry your eyes" really has hardly any competition for Worst Song of the 00s - that thing is so repulsive

There speaks a man who hasn't heard a lot of the worst songs of the 00s.

while I do think "Dry Your Eyes" is terrible, I keep thinking about the list Maura and Whiney did of the 40 worst songs of the decade and how almost all of them were much, much worse than anything The Streets ever did

I liked Dry Your Eyes but I was pretty mawkish in 2004.

iirc there was a world cup that year as well >>>>>>:(

European Championship, not World Cup.

last album's pretty great too Edge Of A Cliff is the kind of thing no one else does and he does very well indeed. one of my faves by him. the new one's got flashes of the old magic too, the only stinker is the 3rd album.

I like Dry Your Eyes and I like Nite Nite w/Kano

IMO he only ever worked as an MC on "Don't Mug Yourself"; "Weak Become Heroes" works in spite of him and I really really really want someone to barge in midtrack and murder him on everything else I've heard.

don't know if I can forgive him for "it wos supposedzd to be so eeeeeeeeasy"

All his vox on the first album are good IMO. He's not technically great, obviously, but the warmth, humour and intimacy in his voice and lyrics make it work (qualities that were later phased out in favour of cockiness, unfortunately).

Still *loving* the last three tracks on "Computers and Blues".

yeah it's got some great cuts on it. really wish i'd gone to see him on the last tour, which was meant to be amazing.

Only really care for "trying to kill m.e.","trust me", "lock the locks" but what a run of tracks.

Have see him live before and left early but it was circa "the hardest way to make an easy living" and the whole thing seemed objectionable. Could see that the last tour might have been an event.

From the ashes of two bands — Mike Skinner's the Streets and Robert Harvey's the Music — comes the Dot, a collaborative effort from Skinner and Harvey that has already posted a series of official tracks on the Dot's website.

http://www.the-dot.net/

sounds AWful :(

The Dot is causing The Eyeroll

gave the first two another listen, Original Pirate Material definitely hasn't dated too well (especially "The Irony of it All" which is just about the dumbest thing I've ever heard), though there are still some stunners like "It's Too Late"

A Grand Don't Come for Free is still one of the best albums of 2004, I love how he romanticizes his own internal dialogue by getting guest singers on nearly every track

Feel sort of bad for Skinner. If you're a solo act, you can't break up!

We once had him autograph a diaper bag.

That FactMag mix he did is great. Played it more than any other mix the last couple months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fe16XkwJkY

http://www.factmag.com/2013/10/21/welcome-back-kreyshawn-you-just-out-rapped-someone-for-the-first-time-ever-mike-skinner-yung-lean-and-more-reviewed-in-the-fact-singles-club/8/

loving omg/trying to kill m.e/trust me/lock the locks tonight ...

The new album sounds so much better than I was expecting.

What? There’s a new Streets album????

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m3DHYR3b_GG1O8etJ7x-TpNwJaZ36Om-c

Really like this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG1c290TTy4

Strangely reminds me of Cold War Steve.

Had a very good lock down Friday evening with this, the washing up and wine.

So enjoyed playing this last night.

Any particular recommendations for stuff by his collaborators on this?

obsessed with this clip

I am constantly amazed by this video whenever it resurfaces. The way a seemingly half-cut Mike Skinner seamlessly transitions from gossiping about Peter Mandelson to performing to thousands of people without missing a beat. Sensational pic.twitter.com/An79v4TMGP

— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) November 27, 2020

as shit I tried to listen to The Streets and he just sounds like the Geico lizard now

Bought the new album today, largely based on how much I genuinely enjoyed the album he released in The Covid Years.

Something wonky about the art-work is irritating me - like its a crap version of previous art-work.