Live Review: The Streets
For a moment there, back in 2002, The Streets were the future. A first-listen-classic to many, ‘Original Pirate Material’ was not so much a gateway as a floodgate; a fertile, formative beast of a record of almost Darwinian significance....
The Streets - Computers and Blues (679)
“I’m packing up my desk/Put it into boxes/Knock out the lights/Lock the locks and leave/I’ll leave one evening, and be seen off by a party for my parting in a bar” , runs ‘Lock The Locks’ , the serene, bubbling house closer of ‘the...
This Week's Singles Reviewed (31/01/11)
Words: Fraser McAlpine The Streets – Going Through Hell Mike Skinner seems to be very fond of those little philosophical sayings people use to cast a wise light on bad experiences – the one about a cloud, for example, or the one about...
The Streets
There’s something perverse about releasing such a summery, jaunty, meteorologically-positive number in the middle of a horrifically misery-making cold snap. Sadly, said perversity is about all there is to recommend for a track so irritatingly...
The Streets
“I want to speak every cliché”, Britain’s anointed lad laureate admits on this introspective sermon. OK, uplifting soul-hop is hardly new Streets territory and the message – making the most of life and that – is pretty universal, but...
The Streets
One of the only things more nauseating than being gabbled at by a drug abuser about the deep, neverending possibilites of life is being lectured by a reformed drug abuser about the deep, neverending mysteries of life. The thing about drugs (or...
The Streets (Feat Pete Doherty): Prangin’ Out
Who’d have thought flooding your frontal lobe with a smorgasbord of chemicals developed by blind farmers in Bolivian death camps could do you any damage? Who’d have thought that staying up every single night would encourage a hallucinogenic...
The Streets: The Hardest Way To Make An Easy...
Much as it’s compulsory to worship the Arctic Monkeys for their down-to-earth songs with clever lyrics, storytelling abilities and nonchalant attitude towards awards ceremonies (wow, I was so disappointed by their grumpy speeches at the NME...
The Streets: When You Wasn’t Famous
The first two times I listened to this I was convinced that it was the most rubbishest single of all time, a cheese-fuelled, creatively bankrupt parody of Eminem’s dreadful ‘Without Me’. Then, on the third listen, rather like an Alsatian...
The Streets: A Grand Don't Come For Free
In a provincial shopping park - it doesn't matter where, it could be anywhere that B&Q, Halfords and Comet have chosen to congregate in one formation or another - a modded Escort Mk IV (with the 'Escort' logo rearranged so that it reads 'sorted')...
