The Streets - Original Pirate Material
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Album Review
Release date: 18 October 2004
The Streets: Original Pirate Material
Geezer good, geezer good. New, brummie voice of Garage...
Their features may remain the same, but over the years the streets - the unfriendly thoroughfares which are the touchstone for 'authentic urban music' in Britain - have had many different voices. In the 1980s, Paul Weller sang about their burned out phone booths and ripped up concrete, while Terry Hall and Specials made eerie serenades to their night-time threat. Twenty years...
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- Turn The Page
- Has It Come To This?*
- Let's Push Things Forward
- Sharp Darts
- Same Old Thing
- Geezers Need Excitement
- It's Too Late
- Too Much Brandy
- Don't Mug Yourself
- Who Got The Funk?
- The Irony Of It All
- Weak Become Heroes
- Who Dares Wins
- Stay Positive
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The Streets - Original Pirate Material: Wikipedia Album Entry
Released on 25 May 2002 (UK), Original Pirate Material is the debut album by The Streets.
The album is a unique take on UK garage and lyrics dealing with everyday circumstances and occurrences. The album received massive acclaim from the music press and was embraced by fans of indie and rock music, as well as fans of garage. The album originally rose to #12 on the UK Albums Chart in 2002, but peaked at #10 in 2004 after the release of his significantly more successful second album A Grand Don't Come for Free. In Australia, Original Pirate Material peaked at #57.
In the United Kingdom, five singles were released from Original Pirate Material: "Has It Come to This?", "Let's Push Things Forward", "Weak Become Heroes", "Don't Mug Yourself" and "The Irony Of It All".
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The Streets - Original Pirate Material Lyrics
The Streets - Stay Positive Lyrics
'Cos this world swallows souls
And when the blues unfold
It gets cold silence burns holes
You're going mad
The Streets - Weak Becomes Heroes Lyrics
Turn left up the street
Nothing but gray concrete and dead beats
Grab something to eat, Maccy D's or KFC
Only one choice in the city
The Streets - The Irony Of It All Lyrics
Hello, hello, my name's Terry and I'm a law-abider
There's nothin' I like more than gettin' fired up on beer
And when the weekend's here
I exercise my right to get paralytic and fight
The Streets - Who Got The Funk? Lyrics
Oi oi oi Lee Satchell you bastard
Stop trying to shag the birds and fight the geezers
Mine's a Kronenberg mate
The streets
The Streets - Don't Mug Yourself Lyrics
A new day another morning after leaning back on my chair
In a greasy spoon cafeteria
Last night was some beer laryness done our way but again
We're back in the light of day chatting shit, sitting at the wall table
The Streets - Too Much Brandy Lyrics
Smell of good earthy herbs makes my nerves shudder
But where were you that cold December
Cos we were in the grasshopper spending guilders
Central station, charged up like Scarface
The Streets - It's Too Late Lyrics
She said, "Meet me at the gates at 8
Leave now, don't be late"
She said one day she'd walk away
'Cause I was always late
The Streets - Geezers Need Excitement Lyrics
Geezers need excitement
If their lives don't provide them this they incite violence
Common sense, simple common sense
Geezers need excitement
The Streets - Same Old Thing Lyrics
Yeah, street level, oi, oi, yeah
That's it, right there
'Round there nothin' seems too big
The Streets - Sharp Darts Lyrics
Sharp darts spitting masters
Spitting darts faster
Shut up I'm the driver, you're the passenger
I'll reign superior
The Streets - Let's Push Things Forward Lyrics
This ain't the down it's a upbeat
Make it complete, so what's the story?
Guaranteed accuracy, enhanced CD
Latest technology, darts at Treble 20
The Streets - Has It Come To This? Lyrics
Original pirate material
Has it come to this?
Has it come to this?
The Streets - Turn The Page Lyrics
That's it, turn the page on the day, walk away
'Cause they're sensing what I say I'm 45th generation Roman
But I don't know 'em or care when I'm spitting
So return to your sitting position and listen, it's fitting
The Streets - Who Dares Wins Lyrics
It's who dares wins in the city
Sit pretty
Locked on not tripoli
Get dressed for the party
