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Original Pirate Material [CD]

The Streets Audio CD
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It’s all of one minute and fourteen seconds into the fifth and final Streets album before you realise that Mike Skinner has found a way of pushing things forward at the same time as bringing The Streets’ story full circle.

Computers and Blues crams everything Mike Skinner has learnt in the course of his very personal five album odyssey into a package as irresistibly box-fresh ... Read more in Amazon's The Streets Store

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  • Audio CD (18 Mar 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: 679 RECORDINGS
  • ASIN: B00005V696
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (90 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,522 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  1. Turn The Page (Album Version) 3:15£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. Has It Come To This? (Original Mix) 4:05£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Let's Push Things Forward (Album Version) 3:50£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Sharp Darts (Album Version) 1:33£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Same Old Thing (Album Version) 3:21£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Geezers Need Excitement 3:45£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. It's Too Late (Album Version) 4:10£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Too Much Brandy (Album Version) 3:01£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. Don't Mug Yourself (Album Version) 2:37£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. Who Got The Funk? (Album Version) 1:49£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen11. The Irony Of It All (Album Version) 3:28£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen12. Weak Become Heroes (Album Version) 5:32£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen13. Who Dares Wins (Album Version)0:34£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen14. Stay Positive (Album Version) 6:15£0.89  Buy MP3 


Product Description

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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'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. Original Pirate Material is a milestone, the real voice of British youth set down on record. Don't miss this.--Louis Pattison

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YOU'RE LISTENING TO THE FUTURE In the uk, underground garage is the new punk, it's artists vilified and feared by the establishment yet held dear by the nation's youth. Enter, mike skinner, everyman poet. Under his moniker of the streets skinner hilariously, painfully and perfectly pieces together rhymes against a hand-crafted uk garage backdrop

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars a masterpiece 16 Mar 2005
Format:Audio CD
Had heard a lot of good things about this album but, at the time, was a committed indie fan so didn't really take much notice of the hype, then i actually heard the album. Every track on this album is great, from turn the page to stay positive, with the stand out tracks being the magnificent weak become heroes and the under-rated its too late. The main attraction of this album is that it speaks to everyone and everyone can relate to what mike skinner is saying in these songs, from indie fans who woul never go near this type of music, to dance fans who will like the beats in songs like weak become heroes and has it come to this.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this Album - Simple Common Sense 23 Jan 2005
Format:Audio CD
Masterful, quality, top-notch Urban poetry at its gritty best. Skinner lays insightful, dark, deep, philosophical - often plain hilarious lyrics over quality beats to achieve an unforgettable album. "Turn the page" - what a beautiful beautiful song. Powerful lyrics with a rising, rising pheonix of a garage beat - the strings repeating, rising. Beautiful. Seriously, it makes my spine tingle when I listen to it. Such a good album. "Geezers need excitement" - dark social commentary that provides a superb line. The rest of the album is equally superb - please buy this.

Masterful. Such a good album. If you haven't listenend to this yet, you're in for a treat. Don't listen to anyone who calls it "chavvy" or anything like that, and don't be put off by the hip-hop/garage sound to Skinner's music, this is an album that transcends any boundaries - if you love music and have an open-mind, you'll soon recognise how superb this album is.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars ...and I hate garage! 29 Mar 2002
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Format:Audio CD
Just like some of the other reviews, I intensly dislike garage - the music and life behind it all. But this album is sheer genius. In one sentence Mike Skinner can sum up more about teenage life in (South) London than So Solid could in a whole album. Every record is intelligent, thought through and well delivered. And in the case of "The Irony of It All", also extremely amusing in places.

Ignore the barriers of what style of music you would normally buy and go and get this album today.

Mike Skinner is best at summing up his own work: "Brace yourself, cos this goes deep," "This ain't your archetypal street sound," and "I excel in content and deliverance." He's right on all three.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars great
Having bought the Cd version years ago, I bought this Vinyl just for the cover. Looks great and will be going straight up onto the wall.
Published 6 months ago by Dmack
5.0 out of 5 stars OldManIndie
Simple. In 2002 I was in my independent record shop looking at the usual stuff. This came on playing in the shop & I was absolutely hooked immediately. Read more
Published 9 months ago by STRANGETOWNBLISTERSONMYFEET
3.0 out of 5 stars PLAUSIBLE,
I think the thing that saved this whole album was his style, everything was very heard it before, apart from the few cuts such as has it come to this, the last song could have been... Read more
Published 11 months ago by eloquent
1.0 out of 5 stars CD doesn't even work!
Bought it as advertised as a new CD and then stupidly on my part didn't play it as soon as it arrived. Have now found out that it doesn't work. Read more
Published 18 months ago by GB
5.0 out of 5 stars Modern Classic
Perhaps, in Mike Skinner's words it's a "cult classic, not bestseller."

It's got some faults but unless you were around in 2002 when Original Pirate Material came out,... Read more
Published 19 months ago by D. Smith
1.0 out of 5 stars utter garbage
i was unlucky enough to be subjected to some of the tracks on this piece of trash which has the cheek to be on the amazon music section.dont be fooled.its not music. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Mr. M. Stuart
4.0 out of 5 stars Great CD
I bought all of the Streets' albums. I would have rated 5-stars, but a number of the CD cases were broken when they arrived.
Published 22 months ago by Ed Byrne
5.0 out of 5 stars Original Pirate Material
ELLO? ELLO? haha what an album. the lyrical genius of this is beyond comparison. this is what a walk through urban england sounds like. Original Pirate Material
Published on 20 May 2010 by DNB world wide
4.0 out of 5 stars the streets
awesome tunes, good to hear some of the old material. With so much new about, you forget how good the older stuff is.
Published on 1 Jan 2010 by K. A. Byram
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Varied Work, Musically Beautiful
Had to post a review as the more I listen to Mike's new work, the more I value this album. It has such a nice pace, and while having a little 'working class hardman' style to it,... Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2009 by A. Tudor
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