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Original Pirate Material by The Streets
Original Pirate Material is an album by The Streets, released in 2002. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 22 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Let's Push Things Forward”, on 19 lists with a best position of #6.
Original Pirate Material, the debut from the Streets, dropped on 679 Artists on 25 March 2002, and it's essentially Mike Skinner and a rented room in a south London house, where most of it was recorded. Skinner produced it himself, bolting the skippy rhythms of UK garage to the swagger of American hip-hop and rhyming over the top about ordinary British working-class life.
What made people sit up was the writing: sharp, funny and original, full of the kind of everyday detail most rappers would never think worth a verse. Has It Come to This?, Let's Push Things Forward, Weak Become Heroes and Don't Mug Yourself were the singles, and the album kept growing after its first run, climbing to number 10 in the UK in 2004 once A Grand Don't Come for Free had gone to the top. Critics' polls have since ranked it among the best albums of the decade.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Original Pirate Material on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let's Push Things Forward | 19 | #6 | – | 2002–2014 | |
| 2 | Don't Mug Yourself | 1 | #42 | – | 2002 | |
| 3 | Weak Become Heroes | 1 | #63 | – | 2013 | |
| 4 | Has It Come to This? | 1 | #77 | – | 2002 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.