Audiobullys - Has there been a worse rubbishy rekkerd yet?

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Found Audiobullys album at the HMV. It was £3.99 so I bought it - figuring that I enjoy the french Source stuff. Then I played it: my god. What a terrible rekkerd. Who ordered the Mr C revival?

Second question - How come when the Streets do their thang it is spot-on - like the pulse of Brixton Pirate Radio but when others attempt something similar it is a simian imitation of same?

Thank god for the returns policy at HMV!

― Not A Fan, Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

£3.99? bloody hell

'100 Million' contains some really awful singing but regardless the album is mostly terrific. perhaps you should exchange the CD for some ears.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

It's my worst impulse buy up there with Joss Stone. Again, thank you, HMV for the liberal returns policy.

― Not A Fan, Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The terrible singing on 100 Million is actually great.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a simple matter of intelligence. Audiobullies are to The Streets as Oasis are to Radiohead.

― Stupid (Stupid), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Whatever. Its still rubbishy! And sounds like Mr C!

― Not A Fan, Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a simple matter of intelligence. Audiobullies are to The Streets as Oasis are to Radiohead.

that's the stupidest thing i've ever read, apart from the initial post

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Your post was pretty stupuid. Perhaps you have a different rekkerd than mine? 'Cause mine sounds like an update on the Ebeneezer Good.

― Not A Fan, Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

why would audio bullys sound like brixton pirate radio, they're not from brixton, they're from west london suburbs, maybe that's where you're going wrong? look at the cover art, it's all there! inner city council block vs. overground tube. and apart from the vocals, how much similarity is there anyway? no streets tune rocks like 'we don't care.'

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I swear I must have bought a different rekkerd cause I'm listening to it right now and I'm thinking 'Mr C'.

― Not A Fan, Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

you are insulting Mr C

― searchanddelete, Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

steve, have you redone braxe/deeon track yet?

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't buy the audiobullys rekkid, b/c I heard tracks by them on the radio, which really were terrible. Mr C didn't come to mind at the time, but I do see the point. What it made me think of was Sham 69.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

yes gareth but it's not online, but send me your mp3 of 'let me bang' tonight if you can as i could still use a better quality version

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"Snake" is better than every Streets song I've heard.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

ok, i got a bunch of other deeon tracks too, which might work well also, though not the robert armani style one unfortunately. really need to start mp3ing some more of this vinyl

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

'Ego War' features some of the best dance music production of last year imo. Dinsdale rocks it.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I might smash my cd instead of returning it. It might be more fun than listening to it! Its like the house version of Sham 69 with Mr C on vocals!

― Not A Fan, Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan OTM, but the sentence is also true if you replace it with "The Snow".

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Also "Turned Away".

However, there are a couple of Streets tracks that are better than "We Don't Care".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I picked the Audiobullys album for 1 euro a few months ago. I really wanted to dislike it (hated "We Don't Care"), but it's really, really good, Mr.C/The Streets comparisons notwithstanding.

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

half of Original pirate Material > half of Ego War and vice versa

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Audio Bullys have been very hard done by - snubbed in many end of year polls, also no Mercury or Brits nominations. i wouldn't mind if the next album was half !!! half Rolldeep-but-polished beats.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Uuhhh. ok.

Maybe its the general rubbishness of the album?

― Not A Fan, Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Errr. o.k.?

― Not A Fan, Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a simple matter of intelligence. Audiobullies are to The Streets as Oasis are to Radiohead.

This is maybe the wisest thing I have read today. The audio Bullys record is flat like a two day old soda. I mean, some of the grooves are pretty appealing, sort of, but I strikes me how empty that record is. What does it want? To entertain? To stimulate? In any case, it's failed in my book. We all expected loads of Streets-wannabes to emerge. Not many of them ever really came about, but when history is to point them out, Audio Bullys will be the key example. Other than that, it will be forgotten pretty quickly.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The £3.99 price sticker should have been a warning not an enticment, then?

― Not A Fan, Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

What does it want? To entertain? To stimulate?

yes, and it works very well for me there. 'Ego War' has slicker beefier production than OPM so not quite Streets-wannabes. vocal style of Franks as close to some Oi! punk than Skinner really. a little more lyrical depth may have been nice but not that big a problem considering half the album is stomping heavy dance tracks (fulfilling that mandate PERFECTLY irrespective of minimal/micro or grime/raw trends flouted) - good effort considering their age too (around the same as Skinner's).

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

After living with both records for some time now, I don't see much in common between The Streets and Audio Bullys beyond them both having heavy British accents in the vocals. They seem to be going after different musical goals and I like the one Audio Bullys are going after more than the one The Streets go after.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

We all expected loads of Streets-wannabes to emerge

see, this is funny to me because i listened to the jan 2003 audio bullys essential mix this morning. if you had mike skinner doing an essential mix, what do you think he'd play? probably lots of grime and rap, right? maybe some balearic tunes, i dunno. what do the audio bullys play on their EM? lots of dj sneak / fatboy slim styled slick chicago house, lots of shouting and testifying over it, shoutouts to house artists (city rockers, josh wink, etc), shoutouts to ibiza, ending with some rap at the very end. ok it starts with an mj cole track.

if the audio bullys are answering anything it's not so much the streets as it is the predictions of a "hooligan house" movement that were floating around in 2001.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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