"Ego War" brings you a slice of hooligan house from the Audio Bullys. Think of house beats, added with a bit of rapping Mike Skinner (The Streets style) sprinkled with pounding basslines and the occasional funked up saxophone....and you've just about summed up the Audio Bullys.
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Ego War - Audio Bullys
The hype is strong for Ego War. Trumpeted by the dance-music press as one of 2003's "next
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big things", London's Audio Bullys have been causing something of a stir with their fuzzy soundsystem beats, loud basslines and shouty cockney vocals. Debut singl...
Ego War -
The hype is strong forEgo War. Trumpeted by the dance-music press as one of 2003's "next
... more
big things", London's Audio Bullys have been causing something of a stir with their fuzzy soundsystem beats, loud basslines and shouty cockney vocals. Debut single...
Advantages: A fantastic debut album from pioneers of hooligan house Disadvantages: One boring track, may be too gritty for some people
...accent. "I want a suburban ego war". The lyrics describe lots of aspects and scenes of urban life and he declares "I want to stay here for the rest of my days." It's a fun and quite light hearted way to end the album even if though it's edgy. The album art for "Ego War" is really quite plain and simple. The cover is a picture of Simon and Tom standing on a tube train but the picture is quite distorted and white letters in graffiti style spell out ... ...with a track listing and another photo very similar to that on the cover. The album art is nothing special and would go unnoticed very easily.
Well as for my verdict on the album.....it's pretty damn good. It's similar in style to The Streets except with a more house edge to it with it's massive beats and MC style raps. It's not a life affirming or life changing album but then a dance music album never is and that's not what it's about. "Ego War" ...
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Album Notes: Audio Bullys: Simon Franks, Tom Dinsdale.
Album Reviews: Rolling Stone (5/1/03, p.54) - 3 stars out of 5 - \"...You'll be reminded of the Streets, of course. But there are plenty of other great British eccentrics (the Kinks, Ian Dury) hiding in Audio Bullys' DNA as well...\"
Titles on disc 1
1.: Snake
2.: 100 Million
3.: Way Too Long
4.: Turned Away (radio edit)
5.: Real Life
6.: We Don't Care (dirty version)
7.: Face In A Cloud
8.: Tyson Shuffle
9.: Things (album version)
10.: Veteran
11.: Snow
12.: I Go To Your House
13.: Hit The Ceiling (CD)
14.: Ego War (hidden track/CD)
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