Track Listing

1. Think About Me - Artful Dodger & Michelle Escoffery
2. Re Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta) - Artful Dodger & Craig David
3. Outrageous - Artful Dodger & Lynn Eden
4. Please Don't Turn Me On - Artful Dodger & Lifford Davis
5. Twentyfourseven - Artful Dodger & Melanie Blatt
6. Something - Artful Dodger & Lifford Davis
7. Movin' Too Fast - Artful Dodger & Romina Johnson
8. R U Ready - Artful Dodger & MC Alistair
9. I Can't Give It Up - Artful Dodger & Nadia
10. Woman Trouble - Artful Dodger & Robbie Craig/Craig David
11. What You Gonna Do - Artful Dodger & Craig David
12. It Ain't Enough - Artful Dodger & Dreem Teem
13. We Should Get Together - Artful Dodger & Nadia

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59490 in Music
• Released on: 2001-09-17
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Strange title but perhaps one that will become increasingly familiar if It's All About The Stragglers earns what might be its deserved status as enduring pop masterpiece. Essentially UK garage with the vocal sheen of US R&B, there is also a wealth of detail and reference that defies easy categorisation. And despite the confusing statistic of nine different vocalists (including Craig David and Robbie Craig) spread over 12 tracks, there is a flow and clarity to Stragglers. Much of it comes from their minimal palette of tight garage beats and pretty keyboard sounds that twinkle like a sonic rendering of fairy-lights. Other elements are dance (both pop and underground) staples: Ibizan guitars, rave-accelerated vocals, tech-house textures and subtle digital arabesques. Every track sounds like a single (four UK Top 10 hits had already been taken from it on its release including number one "Re-Rewind") and all precariously balance a killer pop sensibility with gestures towards a sexier, urban dance floor. Unbeatable stuff--and if a touch child-like (compared to say NIN) then also more than a little sublime. --Tony Marcus

Customer Reviews

Almost my favourite album ever
Truly superb,one of my favourite albums ever. Very popular with fellow visual artists - within a wide age range.

a masterpiece
Don't know too much about The Artful Dodger. Just that they were part of a "two-step", "garage" Uk scene. When I first listened to tracks like "Re-rewind", "Outrageous" or "Twentyfourseven" I thought I had found a new, exciting dance genre to stick to and enjoy... I was really disappointed when I listened to other two-steppers. None of them had the imagination and the catchiness present in EVERY Artful Dodger track. Just buy and enjoy this album. It blends r'n'b, dance and pop music in such a unique way!!!!

Real Good Garage
After listening to this album a couple of times,I have realised that it is really good. It is one of the few Garage albums I have, but certainly the best with a wonderful hint of RnB, which makes the blend just amazing. I had the pleasure of being bought this album as a christmas present by a friend who has good taste in music, and i'm telling you, he didn't let down his taste in music, and I thank him for it. This is a MUST BUY garage album, so go buy it now!! For me the first track, "think about me" is fantastic, also track 5, "twentyfourseven" is good for the blend of RnB and Garage.