Robbie Williams - Rudebox 320kbps CBR Blackcat

Robbie Williams - Rudebox 320kbps CBR Blackcat



Rudebox was released 2006



With the help of producer/songwriters William Orbit, Mark Ronson,

Jerry Meehan, Joey Negro and Soul Mekanik (plus guests as diverse

as The Pet Shop Boys and Lily Allen), Robbie Williams has achieved

a most radical transformation. Gone is the slick, pop-rogue of

yesteryear: in his place is a new Robbie that raps, embraces club

beats and (mostly) favours personal indulgence over cheesy, universal pop.

Recent single "Rudebox", all electronic riddims and slack-rap vocal delivery,

was just the start of this transition. The rest of Rudebox completes the

remarkable overhaul with several eclectic covers - from Manu Chau's

"Bongo Bong" and Lewis Taylor's underground classic "Lovelight," to subversive

takes on The Human League ("Louise"), My Robot Friend ("We're The Pet Shop Boys")

and Stephen Duffy ("Kiss Me") - and tracks such as "Keep On", "Good Doctor" and

"Dickhead", which confirm his quite bewildering quest to becoming a comedic,

Staffs-accented version of The Streets.



Slightly more serious are his attempts at what he describes as 'wonky pop'.

Songs like "Viva Life On Mars", his odd ode to Madonna ("She's Madonna"), the dark

"The Actor" and catchy club-hit-in-waiting "Never Touch That Switch" all feature

innovative production and interesting arrangements. Toward the end, we get "The 80s"

and "The 90s", two more amusing "rap"-tracks that cover the singer's adolescence

and his Take That years respectively; these underline the nostalgic, end-of-an-era

feel of the LP. Audaciously eclectic and admirably upfront, Rudebox is overtly a

form of personal catharsis. Not all the experiments work, but they're better than

you might think, and now they're off his chest it'll be interesting to see where

the new Robbie Williams heads to next.--



Paul Sullivan



1. Rudebox

2. Viva Life On Mars

3. Lovelight (Lewis Taylor Cover)

4. King Of The Bongo (Manu Chao Cover)

5. She's Madonna (feat. Pet Shop Boys)

6. Keep On

7. Good Doctor

8. The Actor

9. Never Touch That Switch

10. Louise

11. Were The Pet Shop Boys (feat. Pet Shop Boys)

12. Burslem Normals

13. Kiss Me

14. The 80s

15. The 90s

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