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Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: phil marlowe on April 22, 2003, 02:50:14 PM
ive heard the record for about a week now and im still a bit stunned. beats and lyrics are excelent and the album really manages to create a pretty unique feel to it. dunno if its an euro thing but is anyone in to it?

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Title: Re: the streets - original pirate material
Post by: cowboykurtis on April 22, 2003, 02:53:30 PM
Quote from: Phil Marloweive heard the record for about a week now and im still a bit stunned. beats and lyrics are excelent and the album really manages to create a pretty unique feel to it. dunno if its an euro thing but is anyone in to it?

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i heard it really briefly -- i found it really interesting -- seems like something that needs to grow on you -- the beats were so uncnventional, that at first listen, i had a hard time "feeling" it.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: -dazza- on April 23, 2003, 03:39:10 PM
I've had it a couple of months now, and I love it.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: Sigur Rós on April 26, 2003, 07:17:42 AM
The Irony Of it All!............love that song  :-D I recommend that everybody check it out! Good laugh!  :-D
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: phil marlowe on April 26, 2003, 07:23:15 AM
Quote from: Sigur RósThe Irony Of it All!............love that song  :-D I recommend that everybody check it out! Good laugh!  :-D
yeah, its actually my favourite track i think. great text for shure.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: Sigur Rós on April 26, 2003, 07:27:00 AM
"The Irony Of It All"

Hello, Hello. My names Terry and I'm a law abider
There's nothing I like more than getting fired up on beer
And when the weekends here I to exercise my right to get paralytic and fight
Good bloke fairly
But I get well leery when geezers look at me funny
Bounce 'em round like bunnies
I'm likely to cause mischief
Good clean grief you must believe and I ain't no thief.
Law abiding and all, all legal.
And who cares about my liver when it feels good
Wwhat you need is some real manhood.
Rasher Rasher Barney and Kasha putting peoples backs up.
Public disorder, I'll give you public disorder.
I down eight pints and run all over the place
Spit in the face of an officer
See if that bothers you cause I never broke a law in my life
Someday I'm gonna settle down with a wife
Come on lads lets have another fight

Eh hello. My names Tim and I'm a criminal,
In the eyes of society I need to be in jail
For the choice of herbs I inhale.
This ain't no wholesale operation
Just a few eighths and some Playstations my's vocation
I pose a threat to the nation
And down the station the police hold no patients
Let's talk space and time
I like to get deep sometimes and think about Einstein
And Carl Young And old Kung Fu movies I like to see
Pass the hydrator please
Yeah I'm floating on thin air.
Going to Amsterdam in the New Year - top gear there
Cause I taker pride in my hobby
Home made bongs using my engineering degree
Dear Leaders, please legalise weed for these reasons.

Like I was saying to him.
I told him: "Top with me and you won't leave."
So I smacked him in the head and downed another Carling
Bada Bada Bing for the lad's night.
Mad fight, his face's a sad sight.
Vodka and Snake Bite.
Going on like a right geez, he's a twat,
Shouldn't have looked at me like that.
Anyway I'm an upstanding citizen
If a war came along I'd be on the front line with em.
Can't stand crime either them hooligans on heroin.
Drugs and criminals those thugs on the penny coloured will be the downfall of society
I've got all the anger pent up inside of me.

You know 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
I just completed Gran Tourismo on the hardest setting
We pose no threat on my settee
Ooh the pizza's here will someone let him in please
"We didn't order chicken, Not a problem we'll pick it out
I doubt they meant to mess us about
After all we're all adults not louts."
As I was saying, we're friendly peaceful people
We're not the ones out there causing trouble.
We just sit in this hazy bubble with our quarters
Discussing how beautiful Gail Porter is.
MTV, BBC 2, Channel 4 is on until six in the morning.
Then at six in the morning the sun dawns and it's my bedtime.

Causing trouble, your stinking rabble
Boys saying I'm the lad who's spoiling it
You're on drugs it really bugs me when people try and tell me I'm a thug
Just for getting drunk
I like getting drunk
Cause I'm an upstanding citizen
If a war came along I'd be on the front line with em.

Now Terry you're repeating yourself
But that's okay drunk people can't help that.
A chemical reaction inside your brain causes you to forget what you're saying.

What. I know exactly what I'm saying
I'm perfectly sane
You stinking student lameo
Go get a job and stop robbing us of our taxes.

Err, well actually according to research
Government funding for further education pales in insignificance
When compared to how much they spend on repairing
Leery drunk people at the weekend
In casualty wards all over the land.

Why you cheeky little swine come here
I'm gonna batter you. Come here.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: Ghostboy on April 26, 2003, 09:51:49 AM
This album is crazy cool. I think a lot of people in America like him just because of those little British idiosyncracies like saying 'bloke' and 'geezer.' They're like, "that is just so funny, the way he talks and its like he's rapping kind of with an accent!" But his lyrics are really smart and witty, and his flow is really original.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: penfold0101 on April 30, 2003, 10:58:15 AM
I got the album after the first song was released in the UK.

I thought it was fantastic.

There are something’s...... as you listen to the track you just think yes that’s so true!
parts of what he was describing, just touched me, I’ve been there done that!
its so cool!
When i got it i thought, my mates are gonna love this, i played it to 5 people after the pub one night and after 2 tracks 4 of them were demanding i turn it off before they destroyed it!! They were claming none of it made any sense, a 4 year old can write better rhymes and the music is all to crappy.

They were only hearing it they weren’t listening. I have never heard another rap artist purvey such a detailed story in 4 minuets!
The mans a poet and as such is allowed poetic license. The story wouldn’t flow as well if every rhyme was perfect. the music isn’t the main focus, the words are he wants you to listen to and not to get caught up in a catchy tune!

My 5th friend thought it was wonderful and wanted me to lend it to him there and then so he could hear the rest.

My favorite song on the album is probably Weak Become Heros.

Sorry for that small rant!
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: i/o on April 30, 2003, 02:22:12 PM
Sure original, but good, even great? I don't know about that. There's nothing to warm up to. I think that with music and film you have to find some ground to relate with the artist, and I just can't see it at all. I can't see how anyone...I'm sorry it really boggles the mind how people are saying that he is something good to listen to.

Could someone explain the attraction to me?

I was in a store the other day and I actually saw a video for one of the songs. Probably the corniest video I have ever seen. But I guess it went with the song all right.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: Sigur Rós on April 14, 2004, 11:31:20 AM
Check out the new single 'Fit But You Know It'.

The new album is out May 10th. here's whats on the album..

1. It Was Supposed TO Be So Easy
2. Could Well Be In
3. Not Addicted
4. Blinded By The Lights
5. Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way
6. Get Out Of My House
7. Fit But You Know It
8. Such A Twat
9. What Is He Thinking
10. Dry Your Eyes
11. Empty Cans
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: mogwai on April 14, 2004, 12:16:59 PM
Quote from: Sigur Rós8. Such A Twat
i like this title... i like it very much... but i have to hear it to believe it.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: matt35mm on April 14, 2004, 01:26:15 PM
I must also chime in and say that I love Original Pirate Material.  I've owned it for quite a while now and I still listen to it a lot.  I'm very much so looking forward to the new album.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: Pas on April 19, 2004, 12:08:03 PM
I usually don't care for hip hop but fuck this is hot.

Thanks Phil btw  :!:
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: Pubrick on April 20, 2004, 09:29:51 AM
Quote from: Pas RapportI usually don't care for hip hop but fuck this is hot.

Thanks Phil btw  :!:
yeah i would say the new album's about as good as the first (pretty good), except that Blinded By the Lights and a few other tracks elevate it to Effing good.

the closest thing to Blinded by the Lights from Original Pirate Material is prolly Weak Become Heroes. so u should check em both out if u havn't.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: mogwai on April 20, 2004, 10:29:28 AM
has anyone seen the "fit but you know it" vid? brilliant, i say.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: Sigur Rós on April 21, 2004, 05:28:35 AM
Quote from: mogwaihas anyone seen the "fit but you know it" vid? brilliant, i say.

Yes, it's brilliant.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: Sigur Rós on April 26, 2004, 11:26:45 AM
I just got the new album. It's very food.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: cron on May 06, 2004, 04:57:06 AM
Video of 'Fit But You Know It (MC Version)' at the bottom of this page:

http://www.lesinrocks.com/DetailArticle.cfm?iditem=164183
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: cron on May 07, 2004, 10:09:57 AM
If someone has the mp3 of Fit But You Know It (MC Version) , please PM me.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: A World Apart on May 07, 2004, 10:51:21 AM
I just downloaded a bunch of their songs. Wow!! I had never heard of them before now. I got into them right away. I love their rhythm, it's so unique and yet it just flows so well together, and they can be really hilarious.

Pubrick, I got "Weak Become Heroes" as you suggested. I love it.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: matt35mm on May 25, 2004, 02:57:00 PM
I'm enjoying this album.  I'll need a few more listens before I can really say how it compares to OPM.

It's different than his first album... more romantic and kinda a lovely album, but not a softie album by any means.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ on June 14, 2004, 10:50:18 PM
I just got into them (a friend let me borrow their stuff).  At first I didn't know if it was a joke or what, it sounded so different, then I listened to it more intensely...it isn't a joke, he may be one of ht emore talented rappers out there today.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: matt35mm on June 14, 2004, 11:02:32 PM
Quote from: matt35mmI'll need a few more listens before I can really say how it compares to OPM.
Okay, now I can say that I love the new album.  It's great!  "Empty Cans" is such a great great song, my favorite on the album.  And I can't help but get into it when "Fit But You Know It" comes on.

"Could Well Be In" is so romantic, "Dry Your Eyes" is genuinely heartbreaking, so this album feels very real in terms of relationships.  "It Was Supposed to be so Easy" is a perfect track to prepare the listener that this album is about a regular guy dealing with regular things.

Anyway, I give my  :yabbse-thumbup: to A Grand Don't Come For Free.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: cron on September 18, 2004, 07:19:32 PM
'Blinded By The Lights' videoclip:

http://mfile.akamai.com/9139/asf/stream.wmg.com/wmi/uk/the_streets/grand_free/blinded/blindedByThelights_w_hi.asx

looks like something directed by Gaspar Noe.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: matt35mm on September 18, 2004, 08:38:44 PM
Thanks for the link.  Interesting video.
Title: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: Pubrick on September 19, 2004, 09:57:35 AM
yeah, it's good that he's releasing the best tracks.. fit notwithstanding.

dry your eyes came and went.
Title: Re: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: penfold0101 on February 23, 2006, 03:32:41 AM
Just incase you didnt know The Streets are releassing there 3rd album, The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living,  on the 10th April 2006 here in the UK.
Title: Re: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: grand theft sparrow on February 23, 2006, 05:47:51 AM
Quote from: penfold0101 on February 23, 2006, 03:32:41 AM
Just incase you didnt know The Streets are releassing there 3rd album, The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living,  on the 10th April 2006 here in the UK.

It's about time.  Any singles released yet over there?
Title: Re: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: matt35mm on February 23, 2006, 05:56:25 AM
Quote from: coxsparrow on February 23, 2006, 05:47:51 AM
Quote from: penfold0101 on February 23, 2006, 03:32:41 AM
Just incase you didnt know The Streets are releassing there 3rd album, The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living,  on the 10th April 2006 here in the UK.

It's about time.  Any singles released yet over there?
The Streets will return with a new single from their forthcoming album 'The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living' next month.

The track, 'When You Wasn't Famous', is released on March 27 prior to the band's third album on April 10.

The song tells "the true story of (Mike) Skinner's pursuit of a celebrity girl that put him right back to square one of the dating game".

Speaking about the album, Skinner recently told NME.COM: "It isn't a narrative. But to be honest I don't think I could write an album without feeling like there are plots going on. Actually this album is a true story. After 'A Grand Don't Come For Free' I was like, 'What am I going to write about?' I can't moan I've got no money any more, but then it gradually dawned on me that my life is so crazy! You'd never believe some of the stuff that's happened to me along the way in countries far away."

The Streets are set to perform four dates in the UK later this week culminating in a ShockWaves NME Awards 2006 show at the London Astoria on February 18.

They will play:

Norwich UEA (February 15)
Sheffield Leadmill (16)
Bath Pavilion (17)
London Astoria (18)
Title: Re: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: Gamblour. on May 05, 2006, 09:34:27 AM
So I seem to be a year or two behind stuff that is actually awesome, whether it's finally listening to Mogwai or liking Sufjan Stevens after Illinois had been out for a year. But I finally felt in the mood to listen to A Grand Don't Come for Free, which I HATED the first time I heard it. It sounded so stupid. but then, a couple of times on shuffle on my ipod, songs would pop up and I realized that the story he tells is absolutely hilarious and truthful and very telling of his life. So I listened to the whole album last night, and I feel stupid for not liking it earlier. I just love how he foreshadows topics in later songs, weaving this narrative all the way through. It's strange that it's really a concept album, which is mostly reserved for prog rock bands to claim. But damn, I fucking love how bad the rapping is at times, and how honest he can be.

From now on, when I see some new thread for some new band, I will try to pay more attention.
Title: Re: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: Pubrick on May 05, 2006, 10:56:04 AM
Quote from: Gamblour le flambeur on May 05, 2006, 09:34:27 AM
It's strange that it's really a concept album, which is mostly reserved for prog rock bands to claim
it's weird that you would think that, some of the best concept albums i can think of are hip hop albums..

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anyway the new album sucks. just a heads up to save you checking it out in 3 years.
Title: Re: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: Gamblour. on May 06, 2006, 11:22:58 AM
Well in my experience, it's been prog bands, but that experience is limited I guess.

And here's thanks three years in advance.
Title: Re: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: MacGuffin on June 07, 2006, 11:45:43 PM
Taking a detour into the heart of things
British rapper the Streets hits the U.S. on tour for his latest album. This time, it's personal.
Source: Los Angeles Times

Mike Skinner, aka the Streets, has his sights set on accomplishing one thing in America, and it's not chart domination.

"People can say what they want, but I'm going to run the New York Marathon — it's not going to be that hard for me — I'm pretty fit, actually, and I'm training hard," he declares in a slight Brummie accent immediately familiar to fans of the rapper.
 
The lanky 27-year-old, better known for meshing smooth British garage beats with insightful slang-ridden rhymes than for doing anything remotely athletic, maintains that running 26 miles "can't be that hard" — even if his competitive streak usually runs only so far as drinking copious amounts of lager with his local pub quiz team.

Nothing seems to be difficult these days for the Birmingham, England, native. His latest release, "The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living," debuted at No. 1 in Britain last month, ending speculation the rapper might be running out of steam.

Skinner, speaking via cellphone backstage before a festival tour stop in Nuremberg, Germany, says he is thrilled with the reaction to his third album.

"It's a big relief," he says, "because however you frame it, if you don't succeed as much as you did the time before, it's seen by the industry as, you know, on your way out."

Indeed, the pressure for the charismatic beatmaker to produce hits — especially at home — is almost tangible.

His last disc, "A Grand Don't Come for Free," also topped the British pop charts when it came out in 2004. His debut offering, "Original Pirate Material," has sold more than 700,000 copies worldwide since its release in 2002, and was lauded by critics.

But for all Skinner's success in Britain, he has yet to crack the mainstream U.S. market — especially hip-hop radio — because of his accent and nontraditional production style, which has more in common with dance music than hip-hop.

"It's a cultural thing," Skinner says of his failure to reach mainstream American hip-hop fans. "It's natural that the Streets is going to be more of an exotic thing in America, and therefore more liked by a different kind of person than it is in England."

As it stands, Streets fans in the U.S. are more likely adventurous college radio listeners than 16-year-old hard-core hip-hop heads.

Not that Skinner is complaining — he still has legions of boosters in the U.S., and is beginning a 12-city North American tour. His Saturday show at the Fonda Theatre is sold out.

The 11-song album, perhaps his most confessional to date, showcases a grown-up Skinner — replete with grown-up problems.

On his debut, Skinner won over fans by rapping about the innocent minutiae of everyday life: observing characters at his local pub, being broke while chasing girls or zoning out while playing video games.

But things have changed now that Skinner has become a star.

"The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living" begins with "Pranging Out," a dark, paranoid song about a multiple-day cocaine bender rapped over a stark, menacing and impossibly catchy beat ("I do a line and then panic/The iron has been on in my house for four ... weeks," he relates).

Other themes addressed on the album include smoking crack ("I don't recommend it," he says), the perils of recoupable advances in the music industry, small-time cons, fame, his gambling addiction ("I did have a problem," Skinner confesses) and the loss of his father.

Skinner's candor on his new single, "Never Went to Church," about his father's death is remarkably personal.

"I worked really hard to make it one of the best songs on the album," he says. "My father would be proud of how hard I worked on it."

Skinner's late father might not be so proud of some of the more risqué revelations on the record, especially tales from "Pranging Out," like when he reveals how his manager actually smacked him.

"I deserved it, to be honest," Skinner says of the incident. "I threw his wallet out the window. He beat me [at Foosball], basically, and I don't like being beaten. I was drunk at the time. To be honest, when I'm drunk, I'm always out of order."

Indeed, "The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living" begins and ends with cautionary tales of drug- and alcohol-fueled excess. Not that Skinner is a lazy lager lout — he's too busy making tracks on his own and producing other artists for his record label, the Beats, to let his admitted casual drug use and drinking get in the way of his work ethic.

"It took me 10 years to get to the point where I can make a living doing this," he says.
Title: Re: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: MacGuffin on July 23, 2006, 09:56:52 PM
MTV and The Streets make longest music video to displace 'Thriller'

British rapper Mike Skinner, better known as garage band The Streets, has created the longest-ever music video, set to displace Michael Jackson's "Thriller", the global music broadcaster MTV said.

Skinner and the television channel teamed up to make the 20-minute video to celebrate MTV's 25th anniversary.

MTV gave five of its viewers each a video camera and asked them to film whatever they wished, resulting in a cheerleading spoof, a catalogue of clumsiness, and one video that attempts to follow the trail of folklore beast Bigfoot.

Skinner has used the videos to inspire a new track, due to air for the first time on August 1, aimed at surpassing the legendary 14-minute "Thriller" launched in 1983.

Skinner said he was "blown away by the creativity ... of the young people involved." The Streets' previous hits include "Fit but You Know It" and "Dry Your Eyes" from the 2004 album "A Grand Don't Come for Free".

Profits from the single will be directed to the Staying Alive Foundation, an HIV and AIDS charity for young people.

An MTV spokesman said: "Although it's our 25th birthday, it's important to remember that we wouldn't have lasted 25 minutes without great, creative music videos."

The broadcaster, which operates in 169 countries around the world, has had a huge influence on advertising, fashion and the careers of tomorrow's would-be pop legends.
Title: Re: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: cron on July 23, 2006, 10:31:13 PM
that video's gonna be as long as his latest album. it can't be any good.
Title: Re: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: Neil on January 22, 2007, 12:04:34 AM
Excuse me to bring up a topic that hasn't been discussed in a while, but i was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to share any the streets Cd's...I've been looking on soulseek for about a week, and i can't really come up with any results...pm me, or something, that would be awesome, thanks.

Edit: I'm downloading original pirate material from stefen...so if anyone has help on the others...that would be great...
Title: Re: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: Stefen on January 22, 2007, 12:09:43 AM
Quote from: Neil on January 22, 2007, 12:04:34 AM
Excuse me to bring up a topic that hasn't been discussed in a while, but i was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to share any the streets Cd's...I've been looking on soulseek for about a week, and i can't really come up with any results...pm me, or something, that would be awesome, thanks.

I have Original Pirate Material. The only good one imo. I can upload if you'd like.
Title: Re: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: Pubrick on January 22, 2007, 02:11:06 AM
Quote from: Neil on January 22, 2007, 12:04:34 AM
I've been looking on soulseek for about a week, and i can't really come up with any results
search for "streets grand come for free" without the quotation marks, and then arrange by d/l speed. i just got more than 40 full albums online and around 19 ready to steal with the highest d/l speed being 163 k/s for username "Fakepilot.com", add him and rob him silly, also good audio quality sources available right now are "whoisryder" or "deodonis".
Title: Re: the streets - original pirate material (+ new album)
Post by: cinemanarchist on July 30, 2008, 09:30:13 AM
Everything Is Borrowed is the upcoming fourth album from The Streets. Slated for release in either August or September 2008, Skinner describes the album as a "peaceful coming to terms album" and as containing "peaceful positive vibes" which stand in stark contrast to the previous album, The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living, which Skinner has described as a "guilt-ridden indulgence".

1. "Everything Is Borrowed"
2. "Heaven For the Weather"
3. "I Love You More (Than You Like Me)"
4. "Just Thought of Something"
5. "On the Flip of a Coin"
6. "The Sherry End"
7. "Alleged Legends"
8. "What are Chances of That Like?"
9. "When That Day Will Be"
10. "Further Away"
11. "Strongest Person I Know"
12. "The Escapist"

The video for "The Escapist" debuts tomorrow night and it depicts Mike's ambulatory adventure through Europe.

VIDEO - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB4_X8XdhmE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB4_X8XdhmE)  EPIC!!