― dog latin, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
Surely we had some threads on this while I was away last week?
― Tom, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― powertonevolume, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
Did you get my 102 beats that entry?
― Julio Desouza, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― Julio Desouza, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― dan, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― del a robbo, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
Leo The Lion's appearance on Celebrity Love Island 2: the day the music died?
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 11:17 (5 years ago) Permalink
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
― mark e, Monday, 14 January 2008 10:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
Thank fuck that means Professor Green won't release a solo album.
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 14 January 2008 10:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
just tried the last mixtape that they released via HHC. 5 minutes in and i called it quits. shyte.
― mark e, Monday, 14 January 2008 10:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
They're no Beer And Rap
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 14 January 2008 10:46 (5 years ago) Permalink
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.
― chap, Monday, 28 July 2008 17:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
Where can I find links to all these old Streets threads? All the hyperlinks on this page are broken.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 28 July 2008 17:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
"Wankiage" gives no search results. Are these threads gone forever? :(
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 28 July 2008 17:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/SearchControllerServlet?terms=streets&offset=30&searchtype=title
― mizzell, Monday, 28 July 2008 18:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
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
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 04:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
All of The Streets albums are really great, so I fully expect this to be one of my favorites of 2008.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 04:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
eh..the third album blows. the new single is pretty nice though.
― Creeztophair, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 05:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 !!"
― tramp steamer, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 01:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
new album = quite good
― bakerstreetsaxsolo, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 22:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
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
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
ha ha amazing. anyone heard the new one? any good?
― i love it when a suggest ban comes together (cajunsunday), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
― World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Saturday, 29 January 2011 06:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Scuppered by having a fifteen quid phone ...
― djh, Saturday, 29 January 2011 14:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
Good!
― piscesx, Saturday, 29 January 2011 15:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/feb/03/streets-computers-blues-album-stream?CMP=twt_gu
― Danzig, with tears in my eyes (DavidM), Thursday, 3 February 2011 19:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
The mixtape wasn't bad. Much better than the last album. Gave em a modicum of hope he'll bow out well.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 3 February 2011 19:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
like the sound of this. just listened to the last track. sounds like he's stopped thinking he's Wordsworth.
― i love it when a suggest ban comes together (cajunsunday), Thursday, 3 February 2011 19:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― piscesx, Monday, 7 March 2011 16:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― Tim F, Monday, March 14, 2011 12:25 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
How are folks feeling 9 years later?
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2011 16:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Dom Passantino, Monday, January 14, 2008 10:39 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark
Come back 2008 all is forgiven.
― Tim F, Monday, 14 March 2011 16:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
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...
― thank you ilxor for starting this much needed thread (ilxor), Monday, 14 March 2011 16:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
pretty sure if i revisited 2004 albums, A Grand Don't Come for Free would still handily make my top ten or so
― thank you ilxor for starting this much needed thread (ilxor), Monday, 14 March 2011 16:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
First two still great, next two pretty rotten, latest not exactly a return to form but very enjoyable.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 14 March 2011 16:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 March 2011 16:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
There speaks a man who hasn't heard a lot of the worst songs of the 00s.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 14 March 2011 16:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2011 16:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
I liked Dry Your Eyes but I was pretty mawkish in 2004.
― Matt DC, Monday, 14 March 2011 16:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
iirc there was a world cup that year as well >>>>>>:(
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 March 2011 16:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
European Championship, not World Cup.
― Matt DC, Monday, 14 March 2011 16:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― piscesx, Monday, 14 March 2011 17:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
I like Dry Your Eyes and I like Nite Nite w/Kano
― Pizzataco Five (admrl), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Rob Based and DJ EZ God (DJP), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
don't know if I can forgive him for "it wos supposedzd to be so eeeeeeeeasy"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
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).
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 22:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Still *loving* the last three tracks on "Computers and Blues".
― djh, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 19:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― djh, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 20:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
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/
― James Mitchell, Monday, 24 October 2011 14:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
sounds AWful :(
― sean gramophone, Monday, 24 October 2011 15:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Dot is causing The Eyeroll
― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 15:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 23:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
That FactMag mix he did is great. Played it more than any other mix the last couple months.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 04:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Mark G, Monday, 6 August 2012 16:03 (9 months ago) Permalink