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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602498826515
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Interscope Records
Manufacturer: Interscope Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Interscope Records
Release Date: May 17, 2005
Sales Rank: 2501
Studio: Interscope Records
Disc 1:- Ba-na-na Skit
- Pull Up The People
- Bucky Done Gun
- Sunshowers
- Fire, Fire
- Dash The Curry Skit
- Amazon
- Bingo
- Hombre
- One For The Head Skit
- 10 Dollar
- URAQT
- Galang
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
M.I.A.'s debut record is both intensely urban and aggressively modern. The group's sole member, Maya Arul, infuses her blend of hip-hop and chunky electro with raw, tribal overtones and a healthy dose of sex appeal. There are elements of world music here, in Arul's multilingual vocal as well as the tonal shifts and instrumentation (like the drone that opens up 'Hombre'). Her delivery uses a variety of yelps and tics full of street-wise confidence and bratty energy. But there's also an appealing melodic sense, like early Neneh Cherry or Miss Kitten when she's not in diva mode. M.I.A. doesn't really sound like anybody; the music is just experimental enough to wiggle out of easy comparisons. The IDM-style bleeps and beeps of 'Galang,' for example, give an already catchy song extra punch. The only problem with the record, a common flaw for debuts, is a sameness from track to track which robs it of the ability to surprise. Still, Arul is hugely talented and her abundant originality packs a wallop. --Matthew Cooke
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Novelty Item, Nothing More.
This record is nothing more than the musical equivalent of a Von Dutch hat. Trendy for a couple months and then quickly tossed aside, as the bastardized dancehall routine inevitably becomes boring. I give her another album - Kala has already proved to be a disappointment - after which she'll have little left to do but don a suicide belt, perhaps?
What is a bit different with this "pioneering artist" is that, to sell records, she is prostituting her repugnant association with a terrorist ... Read More
Rating:  - Read This!
This is a quote from a negative comment," This is the definition of drivel".
Please tell me what you like. To me, this is an example of a flow lyrically, and artistic beats, that combine to produce a vibe that I haven't heard in a looooong time! It's SEXY, political, and (((F@#king HUGE IN SOUND)))!!!!
Rating: - Twisted
"I can do the twist!" I proudly announced to my grandmother. I was 5, she 65 and it was 1965. "So you can," she proudly retorted. Maybe it was the Beatles cartoon, or, who knows, some 101 Strings K-tell "Now Sound."
Rats, I lost my hipper-than-xxxx rock critic notes. That's ONLY because I was dancing so fiendishly, though. This gets the people up on the floor. Bonus revolutionary rhetoric, too. Samples to die for.
"$10" and "Sunshowers" are the show stoppers. Lots of wow throughout. ... Read More
Rating:  - OK
You can tell the difference between this and the next. A couple of good songs, nothing spectacular. One song on this CD appears on the movie "War" with Jet-Li. Although I rate this with an OK, Im very tough. There's no sappy love ballads, no whiney boy songs. It's in your face, and strong.
Rating: - Funk the War
We rocked this CD at the FUNK the war protest on the 5th Anniversary.
MIA put all the kiddies in militant mood!
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EAN: 0602498826515
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Interscope Records
Manufacturer: Interscope Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Interscope Records
Release Date: May 17, 2005
Sales Rank: 2501
Studio: Interscope Records