- Record Label: Eighteenth Street Lounge Music
- Release Date: Oct 1, 2002
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Universal acclaim- based on 13 Ratings
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Positive: 12 out of 13
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PaulDApr 12, 2010One of my favorite all-time albums.
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eddysOct 6, 2002Thievery Corporation deliver an aural travel-brochure, not so much of authentic worldmusic, but of their own individual, idealised, sometimes cliched, vision of globalism. Creating an ethnic music for that global tribe dwelling in loungebars, boutiques and salons around the world.
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RussellSOct 7, 2002Sitar, tablas, and that Mediterranean type of percussion that makes snakes shimmy, and smoke curl around vines. Hynotic, exotic, sensual, and organic - a literal Zamfir on Quaaludes.
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VICKYKAug 13, 2005It's my favourite song...their live performance in Greece{26/07/2005} was fantastic!!Their chill out music really takes you in another world...
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JDSep 20, 2002I'd give it a ten if the first album was not my favorite. Big ups for pushing a political angle on some tracks in the dirtiest city in the land, Washington DC. Nah sayers check your selves.
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nunhgApr 23, 2003Great music. Live show is even better (New Orleans 04/22/03). Hope they keep up the great work and collaborations.
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FrankApr 23, 2005Good chillout album, as are most of theirs. Have not yet heard their newest, "Cosmic Game" cd, but have all of their others. I would rate all of theirs with a 9 save for "The Outernational Sound" which I would give a 9.5, and "Babylon Rewound" which I would give a 5 - it just didn't hit my ears the right way.
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Jul 3, 2017Really enjoyed listening to it. I recommend this to other people as well.
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Awards & Rankings
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UrbThese Thieves have finally come into their own, developing a sound that's growing increasingly distinct. [Oct 2002, p.100]
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Playing exactly like past Thievery Corporation albums that sounded preordained from the start, The Richest Man In Babylon adopts various degrees of swagger and repose, but the cumulative effect is striking mostly for its vacancy.
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Q MagazineSettles for inoffensiveness rather than innovation. [Oct 2002, p.118]