Cornershop started out as an inept indie-punk group, barely able to play their instruments and seemingly content to churn out one anti-fascist rant after another. Who'd have thought that they'd have gone on to become the critical darlings of 1997 with an album as polished and musically diverse ... Read review
Tjinder Singh's jewel-box armoury of mellow grooves, left-field samples, harmonium ... more
melodies and flute riffs swept all before it in 1997: the sweet, dizzy "Sleep On The Left Side" was the automatic soundtrack for TV features on New Asian Cool; and you c...
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the music here sounds neither daringly cross-pollinated nor strangely juxtaposed. Rather it sounds like a rather conventional pop record, one that harkens back to t...
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Sleep on the left side Brimful of Asha Butter the soul Chocolat We're in yr corner Funky ... more
days are back again What is happening When the light appears boy Coming up Good shit Good to be on the road back home It's Indian tabacco my friend Candyman State ...
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Tjinder Singh's jewel-box armoury of mellow grooves, left-field samples, harmonium ... more
melodies and flute riffs swept all before it in 1997: the sweet, dizzy "Sleep On The Left Side" was the automatic soundtrack for TV features on New Asian Cool; and you c...
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Tjinder Singh's jewel-box armoury of mellow grooves, left-field samples, harmonium ... more
melodies and flute riffs swept all before it in 1997: the sweet, dizzy "Sleep On The Left Side" was the automatic soundtrack for TV features on New Asian Cool; and you c...
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For all the talk of this record's blend of South Asian and northern English pop sounds, ... more
the music here sounds neither daringly cross-pollinated nor strangely juxtaposed. Rather it sounds like a rather conventional pop record, one that harkens back to t...
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Cornershop started out as an inept indie-punk group, barely able to play their instruments and seemingly content to churn out one anti-fascist rant after another. Who'd have thought that they'd have gone on to become the critical darlings of 1997 with an album as polished and musically diverse as this?
No doubt a certain majority bought this album on the strength of surprise hit remix of Brimful Of Asha. The original version is good but it's ... ...laidback duet It's Good To Be On The Road Back Home Again, the seriously funky Candyman, and the excellent foreign-langauge version of Norwegian Wood and you'll see what I mean.
Whether Cornershop will top this (not that they care, I shouldn't think) remains to be seen, so grab a copy of this in the meantime and bask in those chilled-out grooves.
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Cornershop started out as an inept indie-punk group, barely able to play their instruments and seemingly content to churn out one anti-fascist rant after another. Who'd have thought that they'd have gone on to become the critical darlings of 1997 with an album as polished and musically diverse as this? No doubt a certain majority bought this album on the strength of surprise hit remix of Brimful Of Asha. The original version is good but it's by no means the best track here. Check out the laidback duet It's Good To Be On The Road Back Home Again, the seriously funky Candyman, and the excellent foreign-langauge version of Norwegian Wood and you'll see what I mean. Whether Cornershop will top this (not that they care, I shouldn't think) remains to be seen, so grab a copy of this in the meantime and bask in those chilled-out grooves.
I bought this album, having heard only 2 previous tracks (6am jullander shere and readers wives). I didnt know what to expect, but was pleasantly surprised.
It seems to be more "polished" than previous material. Of course, then a certain fatboy remixed brimful of asha, and everybody says, oh yeah, cornershop didnt they do brimful of asha.
Thers a lot more to it than brimful (check out the album version though, its much better)
Sleep on the left ...
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Product details
Title
When I Was Born For The 7th Time
Performer
Cornershop
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
Alternative
Release Date
08/09/1997
Original Release Year
1997
Label / Distributor
Wiiija / PIAS UK/Sony DADC
Engineer
Alan Gregson; Philip Bagenal
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
614027106524
Additional notes
Album Notes
Cornershop: Tjinder Singh (vocals, guitar, dholki, DJ); Ben Ayres (guitar, keyboards, tamboura); Anthony Saffery (sitar, harmonium, keyboards); Nick Simms (drums); Peter Bengry (percussion). Additional personnel: Paula Frazer, Lourdes Belart (vocals); Justin Warfield (rap vocals); Allen Ginsberg (spoken vocals); Robert Buller, E. Johnson, Grace Winder (strings); Ray (flute). Producers: Tjinder Singh, Dan "The Automator" Nakamura, Daddy Rappaport. WHEN I WAS BORN FOR THE 7TH TIME, the third album by Cornershop, is like a smiling, sun-lit reprieve amidst the pre-millennium tensions of most cutting-edge, Western pop of the end of the century. While their post-modern bricolage mirrors Beck's appropriation skills, Tjinder Singh and his mates craft an album of multi-cultural rhythms, textures and lyrical references. The one-world/one-groove outlook anticipates the 21st century with a glee born of spiritual and physical contentment, rather than Beck's new-pollution dourness. To drive home the point of the importance of rhythm for the soul, playful beat-driven tracks are strewn throughout the album. The groovy instrumental "Butter The Soul" pits slacker record-scratching against a sitar to the shouted delight of onlookers. A sampled voice on "What Is Happening" asks the titular question of the situation in the world's capitals while the beat set up by tablas and handclaps suggests a midnight bonfire rally. Singh and the band focus on memories and emotions any listener could identify with, and then personalize and globalize them in one fell swoop.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.66) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's." Spin (9/99, p.136) - Ranked #34 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s." Spin (1/98, p.86) - Ranked #1 on Spin's list of the "Top 20 Albums Of The Year [1998]." Village Voice (2/24/98) - Ranked #3 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll. Melody Maker (12/20-27/97, pp.66-67) - Ranked #11 on Melody Maker's list of 1997's "Albums Of The Year." NME (12/20-27/97, pp.78-79) - Ranked #6 in NME's 1997 Critics' Poll. Q (6/00, p.65) - Ranked #68 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...[An] opus of sardonic neo-Asian disco/rock/hip hop, blending chugging guitars, lazy beats, sitars and lyrics about Bollywood and masturbation..." Rolling Stone (8/21/97, pp.106-108) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...a cohesive, finely crafted LP in which the last album's low-fi funk expands into low, fat grooves, and Singh's pancultural, anti-racist lyrics become more sophisticated but no less impassioned..." Spin (9/97, p.153) - 9 (out of 10) - "...Turning away from the ragged indie rock that dominated Cornership's previous music, Singh now lets the groove be his guide. A third of the tracks here are Mo'Wax--worthy instrumentals--melting pots of chunky beats, Asian drones, oddball samples, and Singh's own turntable doodles..." Melody Maker (9/6/97, p.42) - "...The breadth of vision on WHEN I WAS BORN is astonishing. It's a record you can listen to time and time again, one where you'll forever be discovering hidden nuances, more delights." Entertainment Weekly (9/26/97, p.78) - "...Their third album mixes up hip-hop beats, rock guitar, sitars, scratching, alt-country, and Allen Ginsberg, and few bands make this musical Cuisinart so playful, accessible, and friendly..." - Rating: B Option (11-12/97, p.89) - "...a sprawling work that, with it's laidback beats, ear-catching samples and pleasingly anachronistic synth squiggles, sounds more than a little like Beck's ODELAY....a fun, funny and funky good time for all." Magnet (11-12/97, p.64) - "...The best music nowadays tends to be sound-inclusive, and Cornershop has 'cornered' the market with its percussive/sample-heavy, ethno-global-indie bag that's as fresh as papadum dipped in mint chutney..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Sleep On The Left Side
2.
Brimful Of Asha
3.
Butter The Soul
4.
Chocolat
5.
We're In Yr Corner
6.
Funky Days Are Back Again
7.
What Is Happening
8.
When The Light Appears Boy
9.
Coming Up
10.
Good Shit
11.
Good To Be On The Road Back Home
12.
It's Indian Tabacco My Friend
13.
Candyman
14.
State Troopers
15.
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
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