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Original Pirate Material | 
| Artist: The Streets
Label: Locked on
Category: Music
List Price: £9.99
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Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 918
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 809274356826
EAN: 0809274356826
ASIN: B00005V696
Release Date: March 25, 2002
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Turn The Page | | • | Has It Come To This | | • | Let's Push Things Forward | | • | Sharp Darts | | • | Same Old Thing | | • | Geezer's Need Excitement | | • | It's Too Late | | • | Too Much Brandy | | • | Don't Mug Yourself | | • | Who Got The Funk? | | • | Irony Of It All | | • | Weak Become Heroes | | • | Who Dares Wins | | • | Stay Positive |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 IOriginal Pirate Material/I. 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's 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, Skinner sneering "I ain't no preaching fucker/ An' I ain't no do-goodie-goodie either/ This is when shit goes pear-shaped". And "The Irony of It All" presents a beguiling case for legalisation, presenting a fictional exchange between a beered-up, self-righteous lager lout and a fey student weed enthusiast. IOriginal Pirate Material/I is a milestone, the real voice of British youth set down on record. Don't miss this.--ILouis Pattison/I
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 Another Perfect 5 March 11, 2002
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I'm sorry, but this album is possibly the best in the world. I'm a Rock Fan, i hate Garage. I came across this guy on Steve Lamacq's Evening Session on Radio 1. His First Two singles are poor in my opinion. However Let's Push Things Forwards, Stay Positive, Too Much Brandy and Irony of it all Are some of the best songs ever. Well worth the money. Buy it people!
Sign O' The Times for a new century March 30, 2002
thegingerprince (Dagenham)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is the first essential album of 2002 and will encapsulate the summer sound as it's popularity grows and grows. Their ability to delivery a message in song, while still remaining utterly musical, reminds me of The Specials and The Clash, pure quality. pPlease don't be put off by the garage element, as someone who traditionally dislike garage music, I have found this album refreshing, funky and utterly essential. pBuy it early, brag about loving it, turn people on to it and then sit back and bask in the glory of having bought this poetic album into people's lives. Practically perfect.
Masterful debut from Birmingham's new Wonderboy April 6, 2002
25 out of 27 found this review helpful
Ever since garage erupted a couple of years ago, the scene has been looking for its REAL stars. They thought they found one in Craig David, but then the bobble-headed one degenerated into a more easy niche - american styled R'N'B with garage-lite beats. This was Mainstream Garage and has continued to polloute the airwaves with a slew of similar acts such as Mystique, DJ Luck etc. Then garage fans starved for thrills were confonted with a new garage, a dark garage, a dirty garage, a So Solid Garage. They were the next big thing and were hyped to be Britain's ten-year late response to America's NWA. They were shown up, however, to be as one-dimensional as the overground garage supremos they were riling against in their 'playa-haters' anthems. pNow, dance music's brightest star. No hype, no fan-fares, just pure genius. UK Garage finally has a world-class spokesperson and is in the shape of 22-year old Mike Skinner. Just when you thought there were no surprises left in modern pop music, an artist comes along and disproves that notion completely. He has single-handedly restored hope in the genre of British dance music and, particularly, UK Garage. pPacked to the rim with sharp one-liners, vicious beats and brilliant production, Original Pirate Material is a masterpiece of urban soundscaping and real-life lyrical vignettes concerning wild nights in Amsterdam, addiction, fighting in the pub and getting wasted. Skinner delivers these lyrics in his very own style, practically spitting them out in his Brummie accent and not trying to appeal to a mass audience by Americanising his accent. Meanwhile, there is Specials-style ska, 'Blue Lines'-era Massive Attack and skittering two-step playing in the background. From the apocalyptic (Turn The Page) to the ridiculously comic but needle-point sharp (The Irony Of It All) and the sublime (Weak Become Heroes) to the hilarious (Don't Mug Yourself), this album is all killer and no filler and gets better with each listen. This is an album that will soon be regarded as a classic. Buy into it now and remember it as it happened.
MENTAL! March 8, 2002
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I hate garage, wouldn't really class it as garage, some of the beats maybe, but i think this a ballistic album, decent vocals not some cheesy mc or one you can't understand. Proper lyrics that people can relate to. This is going to be a top act!
Album of the year - so far July 10, 2002
J. W. Bassett (Kent, England)
37 out of 41 found this review helpful
As someone who had never really understood the appeal of the UK Garage scene, I approached this LP with great trepidation. Sensing another So Solid or More Fire Crew, I was very sceptical upon first listen. I couldn't have been more wrong. In contrast to any of the aforementioned artists or the raft of imitators, who have been blighted by a strong desire to sound American, The Streets are very, very English and proud of it.pIf you thought that the singles, 'Has It Come To This?', 'Let's Push Things Forward' and 'Weak Become Heroes' sound nothing alike, you've got the right idea. From the unadulterated garage tale of 'the life of a geezer' ('Has It Come To This?') to the woes of heroin addiction ('Stay Positive') via a mad weekend in Amsterdam ('Too Much Brandy') and an assault on the UK Government's stance of cannibis legalisation ('The Irony Of It All'), no ground is left untouched. Couple with this a huge range of backing tracks from orchestral arrangements ('Turn The Page') to outright garage ('Has It Come To This?')to jungle ('Don't Mug Yourself') to funk ('Who Got The Funk?') to heavy use of a piano ('Stay Positive').pIt's an album that you can listen to at home to get in the mood to 'sink a few Carlings' on a Saturday night, dance to in the club and equally, one that you can wake up to on a Sunday morning with a fry up. While Eminem is crafting social commentary across the Atlantic, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say that this is the closest England has got. Genius.
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