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The Actor :wub: :yahoo:

Exactly. I don't want full reviews...just a thumbs up or down from people who wouldn't necessarily call themselves fans. Happy to see that most of you are really enjoying it. Keep then coming :dance: .

Yes but there are 17 songs in total so there are still 12 originals from Robbie which is what most albums have these days isn't it ;) .

Excellent...what a relief

Yes it's a cover of a Lewis taylor song.

Thanks mango :wub: Do you like The 80's and The 90's. A lot of us fans think that these are masterpieces but I just wonder if you really need to be a fan to connect with them. They give me goosebumps everytime I listen..but that is because I know his history so well...the lyrics of these 2 do my head in :wub: .

:cheer: :cheer: THANK YOU LINZ :cheer: :cheer: Brilliant news. I feel much better now :yahoo:

Thanks for your honest review. It is funny when people say this is disjointed and all over the shop because I actually find it quite endearing as this is Robbie to a T. For me this album is a perfect reflection of him as a person.... witty, clever, fun, bonkers, crude, honest,vulnerable and yes..all over the place, can't make up his mind what he wants to be...just like this album :heart: .

I see that a few of you have bought or are buying Rudebox this week. So what do you think? I love hearing the opinions of people who are not obsessed like me as I know I am completely biased :P . I think it is his best album ever and I love every second of it :heart: .

Album - Robbie Williams Rudebox CD/DVD edition :wub:

Thats a great review TIP :yahoo: . It warms my heart when a non Robbie fanatic can give a great review like that. Can you post this on the main pop forum too please...I want everyone to know how great it is...and that it's not just us :P

Another good one thanks to Linz at RWAP www.metro.co.uk give it 4 stars Robbie Williams pulls out the stops again for the entertainingly flawed, dance floor stylee Rudebox. It's jam-packed with pop culture references: Sly & Robbie, the Sugarhill Gang and especially the Pet Shop Boys, who contribute two tracks including camp 'n' classy pop symphony She's Madonna. Kiss Me is a slick electro reworking of Stephen Tin Tin Duffy's 1980s hit, here produced by disco king Joey Negro. These highlights remind us that Robbie's an undeniably versatile crooner (albeit a pretty weary rapper) and the flurry of ideas suggests he's desperate to win over the unconverted – although fans holding out for Angels II might be less impressed

FINALLY :cheer: . I hope you have bought yours Josh .

Robbie..obviously :P . But even though I am biased it is an AMAZING album :wub: . I really like what I have heard of Snow Patrol too though.

She's Madonna :wub:

The danish newspaper (BT) is really positiv about Rudebox. Here is there comments (sorry for my translation): Robbie in the footsteps of Pet Shop Boys Robbie Williams next step is pure and updated 80´s feeling What a fresh breath of air!!!! In stead of reviewing a Robbie Williams-album using the same recipe as his debut-album 9 years ago, Robbie has renewed himself – as an artist and as a musician. As you know, if you heard the single “Rudebox†with the melody-line from Sly & Robbie, this is Robbie with a brand new style. A good style!!! When you get use to it. With a mixture of Pet Shop Boys and Mike “the streets†skinner, Robbie has made his best album to date. This is his 6. album which will be released Monday. It’s electronic like never before. Disco-house, electro-funk and blue-eyed soul. An updated feel of the 80’s. The 32-year old has never singed better. Even his rap, which other critics hate, has improved. His rap-style sounds like mike skinner which especially works on “The 80’s†and the hidden track “Dickhead†Quite fabulous is the collaboration with Pet Shop Boys – which haven’t been heard better in years. In the beautiful celebration of Madonna with “She’s Madonna†and the cover-version of “my Robot Friend†called “We’re The Pet Shop Boys†where you won’t hear the difference between Robbie and Neil Tennant…..!! And then the next single, “Lovelightâ€, which purely sounds like George Michael…..! Liberating himself from his previous song-writing collaborators Guy Chambers and Stephen Duffy and moving in to a new musical direction has been the right move to do. The key-element of the musical progress is not only that he writes all the material on his own, but also the possibility of getting new input from various places. The 5 cover-songs are very good. Among others a fresh Manu Chao song “Bongo Bong….†and the Williams Orbits produced Human League-classic “Louise†which has plenty of qualities to be played on the phono. One could might say that the album lacks straight forward melody, choruses and stadium-hits. But that’s that. This album is, with the exception of “Good Doctorâ€, a more artful, challenging and feel-good album from Robbie Williams in years. :cheer: Thanks to purerobbie.com

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:

Keep On :wub: :yahoo:

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:

In the book it says Fil Eisler plays guitar on this one. He was great wasn't he :wub: . Still loving this one too :heart:

I really like this song too and at the moment in my household if anything goes wrong everyone says "there's a schism in the time mechanism' :D

I got my special edition today.....its stunning :heart: :heart: They had the album blaring in the shop too and the album in a special stand right near the front . Good Doctor and The Actor were playing and they sounded fantastic :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: .

This has been all over the news in Australia today...and in a good fun way too . Congratulations Rob...another trophy for the "pool room" :cheer:

I got my limited edition version today...its beautiful :wub: :wub: :wub: Really enjoyed the DVD and of course it sounds much better "legal'......sighhhhhh. The album was blaring in the music store and it sounded AMAZING :wub: :wub: :wub:.

That is a superb review :yahoo: :cheer: :wub: Rob will be stoked with that one...(except maybe the heading :huh: ...least favourite :wacko: ) I have such a great feeling about this album being successful. I hope its his biggest ever...he deserves it :heart: