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| Artist: Robbie Williams
Label: Chrysalis
Category: Music
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Rating:  133 reviews
Sales Rank: 11210
Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 377044
UPC: 094637704424
EAN: 0094637704424
ASIN: B000HC2MFC
Release Date: October 23, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Rudebox | | • | Viva Life On Mars | | • | Lovelight | | • | King Of The Bongo | | • | She's Madonna | | • | Keep On | | • | Good Doctor | | • | The Actor | | • | Never Touch That Switch | | • | Louise | | • | We re The Pet Shop Boys | | • | Burslem Normals | | • | Kiss Me | | • | The '80s | | • | The '90s | | • | Summertime | | • | Dickhead |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
With the help of producer/songwriters William Orbit, Mark Ronson, Jerry Meehan, Joey Negro and Soul Mekanik (plus guests as diverse as The Pet Shop Boys and Lily Allen), Robbie Williams has achieved a most radical transformation. Gone is the slick, pop-rogue of yesteryear: in his place is a new Robbie that raps, embraces club beats and (mostly) favours personal indulgence over cheesy, universal pop. Recent single "Rudebox", all electronic riddims and slack-rap vocal delivery, was just the start of this transition. The rest of Rudebox completes the remarkable overhaul with several eclectic covers - from Manu Chau's "Bongo Bong" and Lewis Taylor's underground classic "Lovelight," to subversive takes on The Human League ("Louise"), My Robot Friend ("We're The Pet Shop Boys") and Stephen Duffy ("Kiss Me") - and tracks such as "Keep On", "Good Doctor" and "Dickhead", which confirm his quite bewildering quest to becoming a comedic, Staffs-accented version of The Streets. Slightly more serious are his attempts at what he describes as 'wonky pop'. Songs like "Viva Life On Mars", his odd ode to Madonna ("She's Madonna"), the dark "The Actor" and catchy club-hit-in-waiting "Never Touch That Switch" all feature innovative production and interesting arrangements. Toward the end, we get "The 80s" and "The 90s", two more amusing "rap"-tracks that cover the singer's adolescence and his Take That years respectively; these underline the nostalgic, end-of-an-era feel of the LP. Audaciously eclectic and admirably upfront, Rudebox is overtly a form of personal catharsis. Not all the experiments work, but they're better than you might think, and now they're off his chest it'll be interesting to see where the new Robbie Williams heads to next.--Paul Sullivan
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| Customer Reviews: Read 128 more reviews...
 ouch July 10, 2008
hermitcooper (United Kingdom)
boring as ever. Try Nick Worrall's debut album for a real treat and to show what good modern songwriting sounds like.
What was he thinking? June 4, 2008
Bridget O (UK)
This is awful - don't buy it. Not recognisable as a Robbie Williams album at all - in parts of it he sounds bored to be making such rubbish. Complete waste of time.
 Cover version's the best song May 28, 2008
Born Again Bookworm (UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I would have given this three stars because I picked it up for 2.99 in an Amazon offer. However, when your best track on the album is a cover version and the title track the catchiest thing about it, it's strange to actually hear an artist gearing up to take a break.
Robbie/his record company should have skipped the Best-of and put "Radio" on here, placing that at the end of the album so it finished as catchily as it started.
Maybe it will grow on me with time but I'm glad I picked it up at such a good price. The only thing this does is remind me that the next album is probably better, but until Robbie sorts it out with EMI, we won't hear it for a year or so. Maybe I'll listen to this a few more times and see if it's a grower.
 Mature April 9, 2008
Christina Cooper (UAE)
This album shows us an older, more mature, more worldly Rob. Very interesting songs, people than do not know the true character will laugh but this is a more intellectual work. Forget the ballads of his previous work, this album does not yield the big chorus ballads that Williams and Chambers came up with. However, Lovelight is sheer bliss, love The 80's - like so much of Rob's work it's autobiographical, sad but dead funny at the same time. A brilliant piece of work from the most beautiful man on earth.
 Enjoyable! April 7, 2008
D. J. Dubery (Belfast)
I think this is a much better album than some people give it credit for. Particularly good tracks being, Rudebox, Lovelight, King Of The Bongo and Good Doctor. Not up there with his previous couple of albums though- but then I thought that they were extraordinarily good, so that was a tough ask. The weakest tracks on the album are generally those NOT penned / co-penned by Robbie which I guess says something about the quality of his own song writing. Far better than most of the trash out there and only a little disappointing when compared to the standards RW has set himself.
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