Original Pirate Material

The production is excellent; "Let's Push Things Forward" is all lurching ragga flow, with a one note organ line and drunken trumpets barely pushing the chorus forward. "Sharp Darts" and "Too Much Brandy" have short, brutal tech lines driving them, and really don't need any more for maximum impact. Though clubphobic listeners may find it difficult placing Skinner as just the latest dot along a line connecting quintessentially British musicians, humorists,social critics Noel Coward, the Kinks, Ian Dury, the Jam, the Specials, and Happy Mondays, Original Pirate Material without any doubt is a rare garage album: that is, one with a shelf life beyond six months or even beyond 6 years.

DONT MUG YOURSELF! this ablums the 'DON'! 5* Lyrical Geniuis

Personally, I am a fan of rock music, but it doesent matter what sort of music you prefer when it comes to the streets!I dont know what mike skinner was up to when he wrote this album, but lyrically, nothing else can touch it.Go and buy it!

This is a must have album! I listened to it every day when it was first released for about a year! Still listen to it loads now and stay positive is my faveourite streets tune ever! Buy this cd lol.

Mike Skinner may have gone off the boil since this album, but this serves as a reminder of how brilliant he use to be.

this album is the epitome of modern life (from a blokes perspective). there is the soaring optimism of the opening Turn The Page, heartbreak in It's Too Late, laughs and arguments in the excellent The Irony Of It All, advice on pulling and relationships (Dont Mug Yourself) and the ultimate anti-hero's anthem in Weak Become Heroes.

there is a universalism about this album. its an album for every John Doe and Bob Everyman on every street and by every bus stop across the country. this is an album that makes you realise that everyone is like you, that everyone goes through hard times, and it will also make you love everyone else for that. one of the finest albums of the 00's.

even though i don't listen to it every day anymore, its still the best album of all time. Personal favorite.

The original album from mike skinner. This is most probably the best album ever made.

While it was his second that set the world on fire this album allowed mike skinner to make the second album. It was also this album that contains some of his best songs. You just cant call your self a fan if u have not heard the irony of it all where mike portrays both sides of a conversation between a hippie and a drinker which is hilarious each and every time u hear it.

There are no duff tracks on this album just catchy beats social lyrical content as always in mikes original vocal style that just jack wont ever be able to touch.
Else where mike shows his soul in probably his second slowest song ever the weak became heroes which shows that he actually has alot of soul u can get lost in. This is the streets before the fame and newspapers sunk their claws in