Karl's Rap on Ring Road is straight-up Ali-G

[testudo]

Tell me I'm wrong... by far the cheeziest song UW has ever written (though it has become a guilty pleasure)

Darc should be on this album. SOOOSOSOSOOOOO sad

[BrotherLovesDub]

cheesy? uh, cheesy is meat-heads SHOUTING LAGER LAGER LAGER, e'd up punks moshing to a generic BANGER like Moaner, the donna summer rip off King of Snake, the lyrics and delivery of Push Upstairs. YOU BRING FCUKIN LIGHT IN? surely that is CHEESY too if you think Ring Road is cheesy.

[the mongoose]

Yeah Ring Road vocals be whack yo! All those other songs you listed are no where near as cheesy or ackward. Only thing that I can think of that comes close is Bruce Lee which has the same energy and strange lyrics. Ring Road is a good track but it's pretty experimental and dodgey sometimes to say the least...

[BrotherLovesDub]

the point is, what's cheesy to you may not be cheesy to me. personally, i find Born Slippy, TMO etc, the "epic moments" of the live set to be extremely cheesy. how can you get more cheesy than a song who's chorus is YOU BRING LIGHT IN? and another song that has all the fucking hillbillies and random people shouting LAGER LAGER LAGER? it is straight up populist cheese.

i suppose this is karl's version of bernard sumner rapping on the first Electronic album. remember Feel Every Beat? i never considered it to be a rap really, just a diff. delivery.

it's just words about what he saw walking around town. anyone can write epic tracks with hands in the air choruses and synth stabs, to me, that's cheesier than anything on this album. i'd rather hear karl rap lyrics about walking around london than hear another YOU BRING LIGHT IN or LAGER LAGER LAGER epic moment.

[the real stuff]

I think you underestimate the challenge in writing a catchy tune

born slippy was never meant to be the anthem it became, and before all the hype it was just more of karl's city observations on top of a thumping beat.

yeah, I don't see Ring Road becoming a crowd-pleaser. I don't dig it much, myself. it's pretty daft, which I think is what testudo's trying to say

[BrotherLovesDub]

uh, Born Slippy has an epic break down, echoing piano chords and a shouty chorus. but whatever. one mans cheese is another man's big screen satellite radio show.

[ndrwrld]

i think youre putting too much emphasis on his vocals.
this song has such a wicked vibe to it.
and who's to say whats really going on inside karls mind...

[the mongoose]

Originally Posted by ndrwrld

i think youre putting too much emphasis on his vocals.
this song has such a wicked vibe to it.

I think UW put too much emphasis on his vocals....ha ha
The song does have a nice thump to it, especially when those cool war-like drums kick in after "knock em out".
The chorus is mildy catchy too.

This should've been on RiverRun and Darc should have been on the album instead. That's my final answer Regis.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

uh, Born Slippy has an epic break down, echoing piano chords and a shouty chorus. but whatever. one mans cheese is another man's big screen satellite radio show.

LOLLERZ - started my day nicely with a belly laugh.

CHEEZ RULEZ!

...and so does Ring Road - and I think of it more as performance poetry set to a beat. On this occasion I can be pretty sure that the lyrics were there waaaaay before the music was. I have often wondered which order the music and lyrics come in when working on a new piece.

[jose m]

its great..............like walking around any suburban town in the summer........it smells of romford and you can see karl "inking it in"..........ali g