Robbie Williams - Rudebox (Hk)
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Free Music Review: Rudebox
Hit: 4 Stars
Rudebox being Williams 7th studio album and 2006 release was a major hit in Europe and Argentina and Australia. The album peaked at #1 in Switzerland, United Kingdom, Argentina and Australia to mention a few. The album spawned the singles "Rudebox", "She's Madonna", "Lovelight" and "Kiss me". I especially like the track "She's Madonna" and remember hearing this track being played before hockey games. The booklet contains all the lyrics and a list of whom plays what on each track. 4/5.Free Music Review: I Like it!!!
Hit: 4 Stars
Kwwping it short, I just want to say.... You listen to it a few times and you start liking it.. Its a mix n match but still interesting....
No the songs arent as meaningful as i myself prefer, but its ROBBIE!... Enjoy it..
Free Music Review: Robbie's Rudebox AA
Hit: 4 Stars
At first I didn't enjoy Robbies latest album, as much as I did the others. But with repeated listening, this album definately holds it's own with Robbies other works. Highly enjoyable, biopic, a must have.Free Music Review: Goodbye to the normals.
Hit: 3 Stars
'Rudebox' was almost Robbie Williams's Waterloo; it was a massive commercial flop that seriously damaged his recording career, coming at a time when his popularity and cultural influence was at its height. Some four years later, a postmortem analysis reveals a rather interesting, if misguided album.
The title track, although a fairly big hit in Latin America, quickly disappeared from most other radio markets, and subsequent singles "She's Madonna" and "Lovelight" performed respectably but at nowhere near the levels of Robbie's previous hits. The new sound of the album (part electro, part rap, part alt-country) did not sit well with his core audience, who wanted of course another "Angels". When this didn't happen, the album quickly faded from the charts (and surplus copies reportedly ended up in China as landfill).
One gets the feeling when listening to 'Rudebox' that this may indeed be the real Robbie, or at least the kind of music he really listens to. He seems quite energized on the rap tracks ('Keep On, "Good Doctor", and especially the autobiographical "80s" and "90s"). Certainly the haunting "Burslem Normals" is his ode to his hometown (and his childhood), and is quite moving.
The electro experiments ("She's Madonna", "We're the Pet Shop Boys", "Lovelight") did tap into a certain segment of his fanbase, but probably did much to alienate the album from the general public. It simply was not the sound people wanted from him, although as dance/pop tracks, they are top-notch.
Only a star of this magnitude could have issued such an experimental record on a major label, and yet in hindsight much of it probably should have stayed in the vaults (or been released under the guise of a side project). As it stands, 'Rudebox' is the runt of the litter in Robbie's recorded canon, and yet sometimes comes across as his most interesting and personal album (barring a few decidedly weak tracks). If you're a fan (or perhaps better yet if you're not), this is definitely worth hearing.
(P.S. The final hidden track is certainly worthy of a "Parental Advisory" sticker, although being a UK release it doesn't come with one).
Free Music Review: He seems to be behind the game
Hit: 3 Stars
The artist's commercial songwriterly muse has temporarily flown.
The hastily conceived "Rudebox" is bookmarked mostly by a ragbag of weary cover versions that even an advanced pop historian would have trouble connecting.
Manu Chao, My Robot Friend, Human League, Lewis Taylor and Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy get varying degrees of half-baked makeovers, while Robbie's own stream-of-consciousness raps are hindered by a delivery that makes Goldie Lookin' Chain look like Jay-Z.
All those millions of pounds, the adulation, sex on tap... and he is still not happy. And yes, we have heard it all before. For this is yet another album which sees Robbie seemingly grinning on the psychiatrist's couch, telling us what a great life he has had, and how he is still unfulfilled.
In style and content, this album reeks of nostalgia, the Robster romanticising gang graffiti from his home town in Bursley Normals, and packing the impressions of two decades of life into songs simply called The 80s and The 90s.
Perhaps the clue is in the one line which states: "Things are better when they start. That's how the '80s broke my heart.
The problem with "Rudebox" is that alongside Williams' trademark self-absorbed cheeky chappie pop, we get a crop of pretty inessential covers (Human League's "Louise" is among the better of them) and a lot of old hip-hop and electro themes. Madonna was only one of the artists to have beaten him to that trick .
And, plainly playing it for laughs as the clown prince of rappers, Robbie summons some truly gruesome "urban" accents. In the great scheme of things, "Rudebox" is not a bad album, but it is the first time Williams has seemed to be behind the game.