the streets - "stay positive" c/d

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(i can't believe we haven't had a thread about this before, but i couldn't find one in the archive.)

i say classic - the backing sounds like alice coltrane, the lyrics... the lyrics i'll talk about tomorrow when i'm not completely knackered. for my money it's (hyperbole alert - i'm sure i'm forgetting loads of songs) the best pop ballad (in a broad sense) since "born to make you happy", anyway.

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:11 (twenty-three years ago)

ay, it brings a lump to the throat. there's something weird about his voice on that one...did he have a cold?

which streets song shall we do tomorrow?

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:17 (twenty-three years ago)

let's do 'geezers need excitement' since it's still my favorite (barely)

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll just say that I think it's a great album, and stop noting how much I like every track individually, though I do.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

"Weak Become Heroes" is light-years above everything else I've heard on the album, largely because of the off-kilter subdivision of the beat into 5/4 and 3/4.

"Stay Positive" is positively dirge-like and uninvolving.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:38 (twenty-three years ago)

This was my least favorite for months, and then it just clicked one day not too long ago. Still might be my least favorite, but now I think it's pretty good. Maybe too long?

― Adam A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:42 (twenty-three years ago)

This track spoils the whole album for me. It's not a bad track but it's just such a downer! It just leaves me wanting to slit my wrists by the end of the album and so I always switch it off after the "irony of it all". Really, I can't hear this track. Not mad on Weak Become Heroes either, but maybe it's the dodgy title that put me off.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:49 (twenty-three years ago)

the backing sounds like alice coltrane

grr i've already broken my new year's resolution not to ever say "this sounds like x". oh well.

possible (damning) criticism: it's the "everybody hurts" of the 00s.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 06:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom Ewing to thread!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 07:13 (twenty-three years ago)

this one doesn't do too much for me. sounded a bit like a rza backing track which is kind of played-out, no?.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

(i can't believe we haven't had a thread about this before, but i couldn't find one in the archive.)

original pirate material. #14. "stay positive"

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)

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