tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3789762320157021345.post6397165692995163248..comments2023-10-22T10:24:04.052+01:00Comments on 50 songs, 10 years: 19. Let's Push Things Forward, The Streets (2002)Jude Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11502317346225830962noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3789762320157021345.post-8439928108161175392009-12-29T18:10:32.549+00:002009-12-29T18:10:32.549+00:00From somewhere hidden that night has just come flo...From somewhere hidden that night has just come flooding back in all its hazy glory (there was a siege going on round the corner!) Your writing is always so spot-on and evocative. I feel sentimental. Thank you xGuyghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15320388582014101894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3789762320157021345.post-86533096830562773382009-12-19T18:39:39.666+00:002009-12-19T18:39:39.666+00:00I was approaching my A-Levels when this came out, ...I was approaching my A-Levels when this came out, I vaguely remember 'Turn The Page' from the previous year but this was a revelation like I'm sure it was to others. I'm far too young to have listened to Tricky, Portishead or Massive Attack when they were contemporary even more so for The Specials. I didn't so much dislike the majority of US rap it just didn't speak to me much and still doesn't. This however, this one was different. Those one liners as funny as quickly scatter out as those in The Thick Of It and one of several windows into listening to uncharted territory. It was from this starting point I'd first hear Dizzee Rascal, Run The Road, Burial and now to someone who regular tracks the releases by Guido, Zomby, Mount Kimbie, Joy Orbinson etc. <br /><br />Like the man said, "This ain't a track it's a movement"Mitchell Stirlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15055932436077463413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3789762320157021345.post-3780922366933928692009-12-04T14:45:05.089+00:002009-12-04T14:45:05.089+00:00Living in Dalston right now, lovely to read your p...Living in Dalston right now, lovely to read your post .)Andrejhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936827532315515841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3789762320157021345.post-46936526130938141892009-12-01T01:29:57.676+00:002009-12-01T01:29:57.676+00:00I had a fond memory of Original Pirate Material as...I had a fond memory of Original Pirate Material as it was the only album I wrote a lengthy feature for, as opposed to a routine album review. Luckily it got published and compiled with other people's pieces in a book form. That book is a travelogue, i reckon my editor's mistaken "The Streets" as just the streets.Arthithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01812348664853567570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3789762320157021345.post-15107946628789232802009-12-01T00:23:57.516+00:002009-12-01T00:23:57.516+00:00Ahhhh Jude this one really touches a nerve. A goo...Ahhhh Jude this one really touches a nerve. A good nerve, mind. Though I like 'Original Pirate Material', only four songs on it *really* mean something to me: Weak Become Heroes, It's Too Late, Has It Come To This and THIS one. I'll tell the story some other time of seeing The Streets live on a sparkling winter night in Amsterdam in 2002, ripped to the gills on a combination of the best that ancient shamans and modern scientists had to offer... but THIS song - this was the sound of my shabby, seedy southeast london pub DJ sessions turning fantastic every Saturday night, circa the middle of this decade, circa midnight. If I played this song, I knew the night was going well and that the alcoholic Irish landlord was going to let things degenerate until everyone was dancing on the tables to 'Hey Mickey' and 'Infiltrate 202' and 'Everywhere' and 'Energy Flash' and 'Sweet Child O Mine' at 3am. Because this was the song from which you can go in any direction. There is practically no record you can't play after this: it is the DJ's universal connector. It is the sound of drunken late night possibilities, and decades colliding as the alcoholic slippage really sets in. So, as a wise man once said, let's put on our Classics and we'll have a little dance shall we?Joe Muggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499812463240947680noreply@blogger.com