Streets - Original Pirate Material
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Artist: StreetsEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2002-10-22
Music Label: Vice/Atlantic
Soundtracks:
- 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
- Who Got the Funk?
- The Irony of It All
- Weak Becomes Heroes
- Who Dares Wins
- Stay Positive
Free Music Notes for Original Pirate Material
Free Music Review: "Cult classic not best-seller"
Hit: 5 Stars
This is not rap or hip-hop and I don't understand why it's being compared to it. They are totally different genres. This doesn't sound like main-stream garage either. It's a new form of music and it doesn't need to be labeled. Liking the streets is a pure matter of taste and I wouldn't contradict anyone who doesn't find Skinner's music good.
However, these are three valid reasons why I really do like The Streets:
(1) The whole approach is innovative (a new perspective in modern electronic compositions).
(2) The lyrics are realistic, ironic, entertaining, and deep.
(3) The musical style is superb
Song by song:
1. Turn the Page - Grinding beats and climbing samples. It's the perfect intro for what comes next. One of my favorites phrases in the track: "Brace yourself cause this goes deep... stand by me my apprentice. Be brave, clench fists"
2. Has it Come to This? - This is Garage but as the song says "this is not a club track". The tempo is slower and the keyboard is just exquisite. The chorus is extremely original and sticky. The lyrics are amazing too. My favorite phrase (out of many in this song): "You'll bear witness to some amazing feats. Bravery in the face of defeat"
3. Let's Push things Forward - How to describe a song like this? hmmm. A combination reggae keyboard and trumpet and extremely creative samples. The lyrics are amazing... can't think of my favorite phrase. The chorus says everything but I like this one: "I make bangers not anthems. Leave that to the Artful Dodger. The broad shouldered 51% shareholder. You won't find us on Alta Vista. Cult classic, not bestseller".
4. Sharp Darts - This hip-hop like track is BOLD. The samples and beats are just unheard of. The lyrics are not humble at all. Mike Skinner knows the pull of the samples and the complexity of the beats. As he says in the track: "I'm a scientist. Have no prejudice, that's my hypothesis. Make your analysis, ever heard a beat like this?"
5. Same Old Thing - I heard this song in the Mixologists & MC Trip release for Knowledge magazine without having heard the Streets. It struck me immediately as something different. The beats build up, the song is tight. But the song seems to halt at one point and surprise the listener with a surrealistic twist and the lyrics follow: "Apparently there's a whole world out there somewhere. it's right there, right there. I just don't see it"
6. Geezers Need Excitement - This is the track I listen to the least. What I like about it is it's realism. A call to stop violence. The story unfolds as the main character sees his girlfriend with someone else and of course wants to beat him up, but: "Don't listen to them voices. And at the end of the day you may just have caused this. So leave the forces".
7. It's Too Late - One of my favorite tracks. Climbing and disserted samples. Sweet melodies. Great lyrics supported by female vocalist. The first real love song from The Streets. After he realizes that he's been dumped for his lateness he finds the nearest bar: "Sat down I got a fat frown. Weeping and drowning my senses. For this love game's expensive"
8. Too Much Brandy - It was about time that someone wrote a song about this. Breakbeat with a chorus of what it seems like acoustic guitars. Unlike anything I've heard before.
9. Don't Mug Yourself - One of my favorites. Some drum and bass in the mix. Grimy. Ironic lyrics and real too. Reminds me of the movie "Swingers": how many days to call someone you got a number from?? --- "She'll want you much for not hanging on. Stop me if Im wrong, stop me if Im wrong. Why should she be the one who decides whether its off or on or on or off or on"
10. Who Got the Funk? - Funky, funky, funky. But again, not your classic funk song. It's the Original Pirate Material way. The samples seem to rewind and start again in the middle of the song.
11. The Irony of it All - An extremely original dialog between an alcoholic vs. the pot-smoker. There is not an extreme bias but the song leans more towards the latter: "I don't see why I should be the criminal. How can something with no recorded fatalities be illegal? And how many deaths are there per year from alcohol?"
12. Weak Become Heroes - This track will go as one of the best of the decade. Weak Become Heroes is definetely the highlight of the album. It has the perfect mood. The chorus is a sweet melody, the constant piano loop is great, and the lyrics make you realize how sincere and beatiful song-writting can be. "Discover new worlds look at my watch can't focus. Last two hours are lost, every move fills me with lust. All of life's problems i just shake off"
13. Who Dares Win - Short, hip-hop like song. Sort of an introduction to the next and final track.
14. Stay Positive - It starts like this "Cos this world swallows souls. And when the blues unfold. It gets cold silence burns holes". The song is about falling down into the depth of drug addiction. A song for the unfortunate who've fallen under smack addiction. Deep and sincere.
Again, this is not rap or hip-hop. I've read enough reviews that trash The Streets because Skinner doesn't know how to rap. Why would he have to if he is not trying to?! So if you are a rap or hip-hop listener please be objective and stop comparing. Be open minded. This is new music so approach it like that. And if you don't like it that's fine...don't trash it... it's a matter of taste.
Original Pirate Material Poster
In a thrilling UK Garage scene, blighted only by a reliance on drippy soul cliché and tiresome braggadocio, The Streets' eminently quotable Mike Skinner may just be the voice to take it to the next level with Original Pirate Material. This debut is a staggeringly eloquent and fearlessly honest snapshot of gritty street-level existence, as experienced by an ordinary bloke. At first listen, the Birmingham-born Skinner's cheeky cockney affectations grate slightly. But for every line that makes you squirm, there are 20 that drop your jaw. "Has It Come to This?" is "A day in the life of a geezer," a seductive encapsulation of London lifestyle, presented raw as a bootleg, but bulging with sharp wit and feverish detail. "Stay Positive" weaves a fearful tale of heroin addiction, while "The Irony of It All" makes a beguiling case for legalization, presenting a fictional exchange between a beered-up, self-righteous lager lout and a fey student weed enthusiast. Original Pirate Material is a milestone, the real voice of British youth set down on record. Don't miss it. --Louis PattisonDance & DJ Music CDs
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