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Track Listings
| 1. Intro |
| 2. Hush Boy |
| 3. Zoomalude |
| 4. Take Me Back To Your House |
| 5. Hey You |
| 6. On The Train |
| 7. Run 4 Cover |
| 8. Skillalude |
| 9. Smoke Bubbles |
| 10. Lights Go Down |
| 11. Intro Reprise |
| 12. Everybody |
| 13. Keep Keep On |
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The dust has barely settled from their recent The Singles retrospective but Basement Jaxx are back on the floor with a brand new studio album. Crazy Itch Radio, built around the concept of a radio station (complete with interludes and skits), begins with an absurdly dramatic intro before flowing into the contrastively slinky, feel-good single "Hush Boy", a slick, mellow mash-up of styles that wouldn't be out of place on the duo's kaleidoscopic debut Remedy. Indeed, Crazy Itch… unfolds with a fluidity and infectious joie-de-vivre not really seen since first album. The ease with which tracks like banjo-house anthem "Take Me Back To Your House" and "Hey You!" spill from the speakers in colourful floods of cinematic strings, Balkan folk references, house beats and rock guitars, pays testament to the duo's outstanding studio alchemy. Elsewhere on the album they make grime sound fun ("Run 4 Cover"), pay coruscating tribute to marijuana ("Bubbles") and drop the odd slow number ("Lights Go Down"). Immediate and vibrant, Crazy Itch... is Basement Jaxx at their sassy, life-affirming best. --Paul Sullivan
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By r6owner
Format:Audio CD
First basement jaxx album I have bought, heard "Hush Boy" on Jo Wylie's live lounge and loved the track and the others they did.
Bought the album next week and can't stop playing it, I especially like "Take Me Back To Your House" with the banjo in the background and the trumpets on "Hey You"
Bought the album next week and can't stop playing it, I especially like "Take Me Back To Your House" with the banjo in the background and the trumpets on "Hey You"
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By P. N. Jones
Format:Audio CD
Well, we've got all sorts in here. Outkast spring to mind, the jaxx are as fearless as Outkast with their borrowing from different genres and they are wholly skilled at mixing it in there. I don't know their earlier work, only a few radio tracks. I'm too old to listen to radio 1 any more let alone go to a discotheque without a chair lift and oxygen and this sounds proper good to me. a very decent album with no duffers on it.
Now, back to my Glenn Miller records.
Now, back to my Glenn Miller records.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By mynchiboy
Format:Audio CD
'Crazy Itch Radio' seems to have received a mixed reaction in some quarters but pay no attention! Either those who criticise it are simply talking.. or have never heard (or can't remember) 'Remedy'. Great return to early garagey form, especially 'take me back to your house', 'smoke bubbles' and 'lights go down' (almost an extended version of 'If I ever recover' - a very underestimated tune from 'Kish Kash'). The boys done good. Only seem to get better.
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basement jaxx cd crazy itch radio
excellent condition - and great cd! arrived within 48 hours of ordering. very pleased. will definitely use this vendor again. 5 stars!!
Published on 6 Aug 2009 by Carole Cotterill
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Funky!
Basement Jaxx isn't an album which sits naturally in my CD collection but after seeing them support Robbie last summer, thinking I'd have to grin and bear their set, I was very... Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2007 by MissV
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Crazy Crap Radio
BIG BIG BIG disappointment! Loved the Atlantic Jaxx, and then the first three Basement Jaxx albums so was dead excited to find they'd released another. Read more
Published on 1 Dec 2006 by Michael Lord
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A Grower
First off, this is nothing short of a decent album, albeit the Jaxxxs 4th best...
On first listen, I was disappointed with tracks such as 'Run 4 Cover' (definatly the... Read more
On first listen, I was disappointed with tracks such as 'Run 4 Cover' (definatly the... Read more
Published on 8 Nov 2006 by Ali Weir
1.0 out of 5 stars
Big Disappointment
The first time I heard this album I was shocked to say the least. I know that Basement Jaxx have such huge potential so on hearing this album it was a huge let down for me. Read more
Published on 7 Oct 2006 by E. Brown
4.0 out of 5 stars
An itch you'll want to scratch again and again
When you've listened to it once, you'll listen to it again and again until your singin' the songs without realising the CD isn't on. Read more
Published on 25 Sep 2006 by M. Pitts-Tucker
5.0 out of 5 stars
Buy it - you won't be disappointed
Following Kish Kash with a more experimental album, this is sheer genius!
Funky, punky, electro dance at it's best! You can't help but love this. Read more
Funky, punky, electro dance at it's best! You can't help but love this. Read more
Published on 4 Sep 2006 by Mr. S. S. Dixon
3.0 out of 5 stars
Just listened for the very first time...
Okay so before I begin better make a couple of things clear... first, I'm a huge Basement Jaxx fan, and second, I've only just finished listening to the new album for the first... Read more
Published on 4 Sep 2006 by O. Thompson
3.0 out of 5 stars
Almost a return to early form
As massive fan of all their work, 'Crazy Itch Radio' has a lot to live up to - and it doesn't dissapoint... Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2006 by Mr. R. J. Blyth
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