http://indieblips.dailyradar.com/indie_music/the_streets/ The Web's top The Streets news from IndieBlips - find more at http://indieblips.dailyradar.com/indie_music/the_streets/ en IndieBlips http://backend.userland.com/rss http://img.dailyradar.com/media/img/indieblips/logo_120x60.png http://indieblips.dailyradar.com/indie_music/the_streets/ 120 60 http://indieblips.dailyradar.com/article/no-1-the-streets-original-pirate-material/ <p> Original Pirate Material gave British rap an authentic new voice and provided the link between the Kinks and Dizzee Rascal Who else made our albums of the decade list? "Ooh, the pizza's here ... will someone let him in please? We didn't order chicken ... Not a problem, we'll pick it out." At first hearing, the almost pathological self-effacement of Tim (the mild-mannered bong-builder who goes head to head with lagered-up Terry the law-abider in the Streets' Socratic dialogue The Irony of It All) seems about as far from the defiant self-assertion of the Who's "Hope I die before I get old" as you could possibly get. But for those who would like to remember the Noughties as a period in which British pop actually moved forward at the same time as regressing into The X Factor's primordial ooze, Mike Skinner's generational rallying cry is every bit as potent as Pete Townshend's ever was. The two most important criteria for any self-respecting album-of-the-decade contender to meet are that it&nbsp;...</p><p>Find more top indie music news, videos, and blogs on IndieBlips: <a href="http://indieblips.dailyradar.com/indie_music/">Indie Music</a>, <a href="http://indieblips.dailyradar.comhttp://indieblips.dailyradar.com/indie_music/the_streets/">The Streets</a></p> http://indieblips.dailyradar.com/article/no-1-the-streets-original-pirate-material/ Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:04:00 +0000 Indie Music The Streets