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skyscraper101 said:
The best description of what it all feels like when you're up there and enjoying it. I REALLY can't say enough good about it:


The night slowly fades and goes slow motion
All the commotion becomes floatin emotions
Same piano loops over
Arms wave eyes roll back and jaws fall open
I see in soft focus
Chattin to this bloke in the toilets
Dizzy new heights blinded by the lights
These people are for life its all back to his place at the end of the night
They could settle wars with this
If only they will imagine the worlds leaders on pills then imagine the mornin after
Wars causing disaster don't talk to me i don't know ya
But this aint tommorow and for now i still love ya
Hours fly over sail round diamonds and pearls never seen so many fit girls
Discover new worlds look at my watch can't focus
Last two hours i lost every move fills me with lust
All of life's problems i just shake off
Mad little events happen things map out and a few blue madams alight the toilets
Big beefy bouncers out to reveal us geezers on e's and first timers kids on whizz darlins on Charlie
All come together for this party
All races many faces from places you never heard of
Where you from what's your name and what you want
Sing to the words flex to the fat one
The tribal drums the sun's risin we all smile we all sing

Just pure :cool:

I remember first hearing that ^ and getting goosebumps. I just thought 'fuckin ell, someone's captured it perfectly' :cool:

(isn't it 'where you from what's your name, and what you on' though? Cos I had that conversation word for word a thousand times:D)
 
Love the first streets albums. Second has a couple of good tunes but is lame.

Mike skinners recored label is starting to look decent now as well. The mitchell brothers, professor green and example all do good stuff.

dave
 
The first album is alright, the second was crap I thought and didn't bother with the third. I have a sneaky suspicion that he fills up Guardian readers' "urban" section, along with Public Enemy, "Paul's Boutique" and Kanye West. Not too much of a fan. I prefer Pitman to be honest. :)
 
stavros said:
I prefer Pitman to be honest. :)

Pitman's ace but he's more novelty than skinner IMO

Tank Girl said:
me too, and I keep seeing this bloke round walworth that in passing makes me go "ooooh ooooh, it's HIM!!!" :o

but it isn't

Oh :(

he lives in Brixton (apparantley) thogh I've never seen him.

Lucky I havent met that guy in walworth :o
 
I'm missing IM right now - think it was him who was publickly loving that album (pitman) elsewhere (along with skinnyman):D
 
Saw them at Reading in 2004 - was well impressed. Original Pirate Material is great, I could do without their other output though.

Quite liking Biro Funk by Braintax at the minute, too...
 
I've no idea what "Biro Funk" sounds like but the name is so good I'm just doing an impromptu slsk search for it.
 
Rogue said:
No doubt, but The Streets have always been rubbish live.

They were flipping awesome when I saw them in Glasgow this year.

The first two albums are great. Third one I haven't heard (due to not liking the singles much), though thought about getting it after the Glasgow gig...
 
panarama was toss though. Had three decent songs on it and thats it. Biro funk had about three bad ones on it.

Don't hear any similarities to the streets and braintax in ths slightest though.

dave
 
porno thieving gypsy said:
disagree with your opinion of the new album but there you go.

totally agree that there is little similarity with him and the streets though.

Thing is with the new album (and I listened to it all again last night because I really wanted to be sure of this) is that there's no attempt to do anything that made the first two albums great.

The music really lacks for starters. There's no tunes that make you wanna crank up the stereo and listen musically, no tracks like Weak Become Heroes, Blinded By The Lights, It's Too Late, Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way...etc

Secondly, Mike Skinner seems to over indulge in the 'comedy' tracks which like all comedy rap, gets very boring very quickly. "Can't Con an Honest John" is like listening to a largered-up mate try to re-enact something from the Real Hustle in his head (also a very old trick, not even clever), "Two Nations" is like some b-side which repeats the joke and is generally more of the same 'comedy.' The only notable track on the album is the opener "Prangin' Out" which is a good tune and retains the attitude that we saw in the first album.

Mike needs to return to what was great about Original Pirate material and start making some more quality music and stop with all the comedy numbers and bad songwriting.

IMO :) :D
 
What a fucking record Original Pirate Material is. Tears and goosebumps, stuttery beats and words about me, or at least the me I was when I was 21, despite the fact this came out when I was 31, fifteen years ago. Fifteen years ago.

 
Pissed off I couldn't get tix for the new tour, though I tried at 9am on the day. Some conspiracy about touts buying them all up in the pre-sale. :mad:
 
Pissed off I couldn't get tix for the new tour, though I tried at 9am on the day. Some conspiracy about touts buying them all up in the pre-sale. :mad:

I wanted to go, but knew that there was little point trying. Saw The Streets at Brixton Academy for the AGDCFF tour- one of the best gigs I've ever been to.
As undoubtedly brilliant as OPM is, I have listened much more to AGDCFF because of the narrative/concept throughout its entirety.
A lot of contemporary British music owes a lot to Mike Skinner..
 
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