October 8, 200618 yr These reviews have me beside myself with excitement. I have no idea if it will sell as well as IC in it's first week, but it may chart higher for longer hopefully, especially once the supposedly brilliant She's Madonna is released. This is going to be an amazing album :yahoo:
October 8, 200618 yr And another good one From Uncut Magazine ROBBIE WILLIAMS Rudebox *** Robbie forgets America and hits a career high Robbie's struggle between instinctive perversity and commercial ambition seems, for the moment, to have been won by the former. Rudebox is the album he should have made, but bottled, with last year's Intensive Care, and seems to mark his final disregard for breaking America. It's not always pleasant, it's a good half-hour too long, and he should have ditched the fairly pointless covers (the Human League's "Louise", Stephen Duffy's "Kiss Me"), but, at its best - as on "Burslem Normals" or diaristic "The 80s" - it's the funniest, most adventurous and liveliest record of his career. STEPHEN TROUSSE
October 18, 200618 yr reviews are very good... Rudebox didn't do that well... maybe he simply choosed the wrong tracks to promote the albums... I say 400+ LifeLight
October 18, 200618 yr reviews are very good... Rudebox didn't do that well... maybe he simply choosed the wrong tracks to promote the albums... I say 400+ LifeLight I agree, I have a very strong feeling this album is going to shock alot of people wth how high it's first week sales will be. ^_^ It's undoubtably his most critically aclaimed album in years. And having heard it already I can safely say it is his best album in a long long time if not of his entire carear. Such an enjoyable listen and so diverce as well
October 18, 200618 yr I didn't like Rudebox and I think LoveLight is rubbish. However, they were playing the album today in Virgin and it sounded quite good from what I heard.
October 18, 200618 yr Wrong first single, Lovelight should've been the first single, although to tbh neither Lovelight or Rudebox are anywhere close to being the best songs on the album IMO :o It's a type of album that has something for everyone, a few brilliant ballads, a good few rap songs (all far better than Rudebox btw) a great country type of song. Electro collaerations with the Pet shop boys icluding the brilliant She's Madonna which will hopefully be the 3rd single :wub:
October 19, 200618 yr It is very strange considering it is the most succesful album of his carear worldwide :wacko: But he obviously just lost intrest and wanted to release Rudebox ^_^ I don´t think it outsold Escapology worldwide... In the long term, I think Greatest Hits will eventually become his biggest worldwide seller. Anyway, he´s one of the most stable artists in terms of sales and there is no significant increase or decrease in his sales numbers atrough the year. But I do think Intensive Care must have been hugely overshipped.
October 19, 200618 yr I don´t think it outsold Escapology worldwide... In the long term, I think Greatest Hits will eventually become his biggest worldwide seller. Anyway, he´s one of the most stable artists in terms of sales and there is no significant increase or decrease in his sales numbers atrough the year. But I do think Intensive Care must have been hugely overshipped. No, IC sold nearly 7 million worlwide confirmed by Robbie himself. EMI also said on their website it has sold over 6.5 million months ago and it has been selling consistently outside the UK all year ^_^ His GH will eventually pass 2 million in the UK and as you say in the long run it will be his best selling ^_^
October 19, 200618 yr Even I'm tempted to get this after hearing Lovelight! :o So I don't think Rudebox has hindered it at all, I'm still thinking 300k+ ^_^
October 19, 200618 yr The NME review :cool: BOXING CLEVER Your least favourite popstar's gone electro and it's - whisper it - good With his Take That past coming back to haunt him, tabloids sharpening their knives and missed appearances, clearly all is not well with Williams. And yet he has claimed that this is the first musical venture where he is being himself. The stakes are extremely high. Luckily, 'Rudebox' is the best thing he's ever put his name to. From a career of trying on different ill-fitting identities (CampPop Robbie, Fat Dancer Robbie, Swing Robbie, Stadium Robbie) he has finally found one that fits. F***ing about on laptops with the likes of Lily Allen and Pet Shop Boys, he has hit on a fun, frantic, pisstaking mixtape of crystalline '80s electropop, Skinner derived rap-ups and lazy skank pop. Lyrically, Williams has always been a very British mix of redcoat self-deprecation and zietgeisty, chemically-enhanced moodiness, but on 'Rudebox' he continues this without falling into the previous pratfalls of whininess or navel-gazing. There's the double-headed autobiography of 'The 80s' (currently at the centre of a legal dispute) and its follow up 'The 90s', the clattering 'Vogue' rap in the LA tale 'The Actor' and 'She's Madonna' - possibly his most bonkers song ever. 'Rudebox' is not 'Robbie Williams, the serious artiste', but it is an amazing pop album. It remains to be seen if it will be his undoing with the mainstream and those tabloid hacks. But it seems, musically at least, he's just getting started. And, if you leave your preconceptions at the door, you might just love it. (8/10) Priya Elan
October 19, 200618 yr im not sure if i will buy the album,intensice care was disappointing i thoug i only liked tripping,spread your wings and sin sin sin i didnt like any of the other songs,and imnot a fan of rudebox or lovelight so far,the album will still sell well though im sure
October 22, 200618 yr Please don't judge this album on Rudebox and Lovelight alone(even though i think its brlliant). It is a hugely diverse album, and its funny and touching at the same time. Its an album you just don't listen to but get emotionally attached to. Songs like The 80's and The 90's bring tears to your eyes, Good Doctor and Dickhead make you laugh out loud, Keep On and The Actor are brilliant dance tunes and and others like Bongo Bong and Viva Life On Mars are so much fun I can't sit still. It has something for everyone :cheer: I haven't been this excited by an album in years and my hubby and my kids absolutely love it too. The only regret is that we probably wont get to hear any of them live. Dont forget it's out tomorrow in the UK :yahoo:
October 22, 200618 yr Here is another great review On the back of a stadium tour and with last year's seven-million-selling album still presumably fresh in his fans' minds, Britain's most popular entertainer makes an unexpectedly rapid return with the most eclectic and yet madly compelling album of his career. Electro-pop, hip-hop, surrealist rap (in a northern comic meets ragga MC style), romantic crooning, space-age country and western, disco, world rhythms and Bowie-esque balladeering all vie for space, sometimes in the same song. Crammed with hooks, rippling with snappy couplets, replete with some of the oddest cover versions ever released by a major star (one of which has Williams belting out "We're the Pet Shop Boys" with the Pet Shop Boys), the almost frantic mix of styles and ideas risks confusing and even alienating some of Williams's mainstream audience, yet it is probably the record that most reflects his complex inner world. He's like a hyperactive manchild with attention deficit disorder, rooting around in a musical toy box, using (to quote a typical glib yet revealing couplet) "my cuts and lacerations/ To feed myself a new sensation". If you stumbled across this on MySpace, you might think a pop genius had been born :heart: . Neil McCormick www.telegraph.co.uk Thanks to purerobbie.com :yahoo:
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