original pirate material. #1. "turn the page"

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(obviously this lp is way too significant for just one thread. This thread is about "Turn the page". Feel free to start your own about any of the other songs, but I thought we may as well start at the beginning)

If you're going to pronounce the death and rebirth of an artform, you may as well go all out. I love the way the lyric begins as a typical diss and then accelerates rapidly into the apocalyptic, the music building similarly. But most of all I love those choked beats. What say you: "Turn the page" - geezer, or not geezer?

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Original Pirate Material. I love it how everyone is creaming over this record, it just shows how much of an influence the music press has over it's readers. I'm sure some people like it as a record alone, but I think it's average at best.

― gzeus, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think it's very exciting. only listened once all the way through. gonna md it tonite and listen to it solid.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oi! That's not the question. Go here if you want to discuss "the album".

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Or here, even! (oops)

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Re: "Turn The Page -

I love how much like bombastic early rave the strings are, and then when the 2-step beat comes in it's such a statement of intent... It's a really great rising tension track, with the slowly filling in slow-strings around the stiffer main loop, a very good example of how clever an *arranger* Skinner is.

As for the rap: almost antithetical to MC-ing because it's much more a speech than a rap (totally freestyle - almost no rhythm to it). The only person he sorta reminds me of is Eminem (surprisingly) because of his tendency to rhyme four or five words in the one sentence, but his style is a lot looser and less perfect than Eminem's. "Be brave/clench fists" is a great last line in the context of the track.

Gzeus - as someone who is yet to read any reviews for the album but nontheless loves it dearly, I'd argue that there's more than enough excitement to be generated by the music itself.

― Tim, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tim sez it much better than me (as usual)

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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