It's All About The Stragglers - Artful Dodger

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1 CD(s) - Electronic - Label: FFRR - Distributor: Cinram Logistics - Released: 20/11/2000 - 685738590926 more

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The height of garage
Review of It's All About The Stragglers - Artful Dodger by craigy_baby_2000

Advantages: Great range of tracks, lots of up-beat and positive tracks, lots of single releases
Disadvantages: The bonus track is number 99 and it means lots of fast-forwarding if you want to listen to it, will be too same-y for some people

...have all been released and it's nice to have them all on one album. Another thing that is noticeable after a couple of play-throughs of this album is that there are no bad tracks on the album. There are a couple that could be considered as 'fillers' but none that are annoyingly mediocre in their style. Also, there are no interlude tracks that you often find on albums such as these, which means just 13 tracks of pure garage (and the occasional bit ... Read review

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20.01.2001
Artful Great
Review of It's All About The Stragglers - Artful Dodger by craigy2040

Advantages: Great Songs
Disadvantages: Repetitive??

The Artful Dodger album is great. It has a wide selection of different people singing to accompany their backing sounds. These people include Craig David, Michelle Escoffery, Robbie Craig, MC Alistair, and Romina Johnson. These are just a few of the people who are the CD. The CD overall is very good, offering a selection of R’N’B, Dance and mild pop. It is a CD for a mixed variety of people. I bought this CD quite a while ago, back ... Read review

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06.05.2002
Bit of a straggler
Review of It's All About The Stragglers - Artful Dodger by emilystobbs

Advantages: some good tunes
Disadvantages: bit dull

'It's all about the stragglers' is the debut album by Southampton based dance duo 'Artful Dodger'- better known for their chart topppers 'Re-rewind', 'woman trouble' and 'please dont turn me on', all of which feature on the CD. I was a bit baffled as to why that 'moving too fast'song wasn't on the album, just another mystery of life. The album consists of 11 tracks and they combine garage and R'n'B. I found that some of the songs were a bit too ... Read review

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10.01.2001
Its all about the best album Ive heard in ages
Review of It's All About The Stragglers - Artful Dodger by xr2i16v

Advantages: Very good tracks (including the ones that are more unknown)
Disadvantages: none I can think of

I have always liked the Artful Dodger's music. I remember about 6 months before "Rewind" came out and got very big, one of my friends who was really into underground Garage, played it to me. At first, I thought it sounded a bit weird, but it soon grew on me, and I would say was probably **the** song that turned my music taste from plain dance toward UK Garage/2 step. Firstly, I thought the Artful Dodger might just be a one hit wonder. When all ... Read review

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02.01.2001
(08.01.2001)
BIG UP TO ALL GARAGE LISTENERS
Review of It's All About The Stragglers - Artful Dodger by gem2_k

Advantages: Head banging, Hip rotating
Disadvantages: urm...

A five star album. Definitely. "It's all about the stragglers" is a brilliant debut compilation album from Artful Dodger. What a great way to introduce amazing vocalists such as Robbie Craig, Michelle Escoffery and the man we ALL love, Mr Craig David. I almost hate Artful Dodger (a.k.a Pete Devereux & Mark Hill) for not having a single crapp tune on their album!! They sure know the real and true meaning of garage music. Definitely an album for ... Read review

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10.02.2001
UK garage at its best
Review of It's All About The Stragglers - Artful Dodger by geserve

Advantages: Great mix, wide appeal
Disadvantages: Not the garage album we all expected it to be!

...Please Don't Turn Me On, it's still quality. 7: MOVING TOO FAST (feat Romina Johnson). BIG song... good tune, quite dancy - was the worthy follow up to re-rewind! 8: R U READY (feat MC Alistair). Not great. 9: I CAN'T GIVE IT UP (feat Nadia). Quite a good track, not one of the best but still well worth a listen. 10: WOMAN TROUBLE (feat Robbie Craig/Craig David). Not really garage bit 2 steppy... 3rd single released! 11: WHAT ... Read review

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12.08.2001
Chill out to the Artful Dodger
Review of It's All About The Stragglers - Artful Dodger by moose

Advantages: Easy listening stuff
Disadvantages: None

This album is pretty mellow stuff. Very 'garagey' in parts mixed with the essence of R&B. There are the tracks that are instantly recognisable (from the Charts) such as Re-Rewind (the only slightly irritating track on the album due to overkill by the radio stations!), Woman Trouble and Please Don't Turn Me On. The well known tracks are mixed well with those you probably won't have heard before. It is extremely easy to listen to - an ideal background ... Read review

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19.12.2000
(18.12.2000)
Artful Dodger, not dodgy
Review of It's All About The Stragglers - Artful Dodger by tweety

Advantages: Great listening
Disadvantages: None

I received 'its all about the stragglers, for Christmas last year, because I happened to like 'woman trouble' and 'movin too fast', and I have to say I am well impressed with the rest of the songs (by the way, if you have a cd rom there is a bonus track (woman trouble, original version), grrreeaat!) I especially like the fact that there are songs sung by both the men and women in the band. An added bonus is that the woman singing twentyfourseven, ... Read review

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29.08.2001
Undoubtedly brilliant...
Review of It's All About The Stragglers - Artful Dodger by Callus

Advantages: Brilliant, funky UK garage
Disadvantages: None!

I got this for Christmas last year as I really wanted it. It all started quite a few months before Rewind was released. I was listening to Power FM, the local radio station based near Southampton, one night when I heard this funky, catchy track being played. I couldn't get it out of my head and I couldn't find out what it was called. Yes, it was Rewind, and that was when I turned to UK Garage to listen to. The other singles that were released (Woman ... Read review

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09.10.2001
Wicked album
Review of It's All About The Stragglers - Artful Dodger by Blondeboms

Advantages: Its all good
Disadvantages: absolutley no disadvantages

Artful Dodger has been incredibly successful over the past year, in fact the tracks have taken the nation by storm! The album "It's All About The Stragglers" is pure Garage with a mix of R&B. The tracks are upbeat and get you dancing as soon as you hear them. The tracks "Re-rewind" and "Woman Trouble" feature the one and only Craig David, and the album includes the smash hits "Please Don't Turn Me On", "Moving Too Fast", "Are You Ready", and "Think ... Read review

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17.03.2001
Great Album
Review of It's All About The Stragglers - Artful Dodger by drdre2000

Advantages: Easy Listening
Disadvantages: There isnt any

This album is fantastic. so far he has 5 UK selling records and they have all done very well, these being: Re-Wind, Please dont turn me on, Movin Too fast, R U Ready and Women Trouble. It is all like club tracks and all make you get up and dance, every track is outstanding. Artful Dodger is a band which makes the music and they then get vocalists to sing to them. I fell that the singers do just as much as Artful dodger and should be recognized like ... Read review

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17.03.2001
its all about the stragglers
Review of It's All About The Stragglers - Artful Dodger by tomsmad

Advantages: It is a good album with many great tracks.
Disadvantages: You have to spend ages going to track 99 to hear the bonus track.

...you should buy this album, it's great! ... Read review

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24.03.2001
it's all about artful dodger
Review of It's All About The Stragglers - Artful Dodger by lenak

Advantages: diversity
Disadvantages: only if you thought this was a Craig David CD

...worth listening to because of it's variety. If you take the time to read the thanks section inside, you will find that this album is dedicated "to the rare bread of people who are still present on the dancefloor when the house lights go up". I'm not 100% agreeing on that but anyway, this was the maker's oppinion not mine. the tracklist includes hits like: re-rewind, woman trouble please don't turn me on, r u ready. My personal favorite is "please ... Read review

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07.03.2006
Not too bad but a bit disappointing
Review of It's All About The Stragglers - Artful Dodger by emoss

Advantages: 3 or 4 good tracks
Disadvantages: rest of the tracks are "pants"

I have liked a few songs from Artful Dodger like re-wind, movin too fast, woman trouble and please don’t turn me on and saw that they were all on the Artful Dodger album. With seeing this I brought it, however when I got it I was quite disappointed! Although the album had the tracks that I liked on it the rest of the tracks on the album didn’t live up to my expectations. To be honest I think most of the tracks are a load of rubbish compared ... Read review

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28.12.2000
(03.01.2001)
artful is an understatement
Review of It's All About The Stragglers - Artful Dodger by jolal999

Advantages: good songs
Disadvantages: none

...in the charts,! The album it's All About The Stragglers contemporary garage music and I love garage and most of the good garage music has been done by the artful dodger. Rewind, woman trouble, moving too fast, please don’t turn me on and are you ready are just a few of the great songs that are on this album. I definitely think that this album is a bargain because of the quality of the tracks that are in it. Garage lovers would definatly love ... Read review

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07.04.2001
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