Rudebox
- Robbie Williams
- Band Name: Robbie Williams
- Record Label: Chrysalis
- Release Date: Oct 23, 2006
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'Rudebox' is not 'Robbie Williams the serious artiste', but it is an amazing pop album.
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80An intriguing, funny and inventive listen. [Nov 2006, p.101]
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70Undoubtedly one of the year's strangest releases.
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70An astounding, brave release.
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60It's not always pleasant... but at its best... it's the funniest, most adventurous and liveliest record of his career. [Nov 2006, p.134]
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60After 16 songs ranging from electro-country to the parody-heavy We're The Pet Shop Boys and various quasi-conversational raps à la the Streets' Mike Skinner about losing his virginity, I felt the man should rope things in.
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40On this showing he's bored and directionless. [Nov 2006, p.134]
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40All too often Rudebox plays like an undeveloped collection of half-baked ideas.
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40Things hover uneasily somewhere between wholesale reinvention and mere superstar vanity project. [28 Oct 2006]
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30A scant handful of highlights aside, it is packed with half-baked ideas, bad jokes, music that any other star of Williams' stature would be terrified of the general public hearing.
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An absolute howler.
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His new lyrical equation seems to be rip off someone else's words, add some street slang that would have been out of date five years ago, mention some brand names, say something offensive and then shoe horn it all together.
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Positive: 19 out of 32
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Mixed: 3 out of 32
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Negative: 10 out of 32
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