Product Description

After the success of their debut album 'In The Beginning' the ten strong North London teenage crew release their secondalbum 'Now Or Never'. The album sees the boys mixing R&B, hip hop, and UK garage but with slicker and fuller sounding production work than on their debut release. The album also includes the singles 'We Just Be Dreamin' and 'Flip Reverse'.

Track Listing

1. Here 4 One
2. Biggest Fan
3. Flip Reverse
4. Ride
5. Still Thinking About You
6. No Angels
7. Stop
8. Shorty
9. Revolution
10. Girls
11. Baby It's The Weekend
12. All We Wanna Do Is Rap
13. We Just Be Dreamin'
14. Keep On
15. Life's A Struggle

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62954 in Music
• Released on: 2003-11-17
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
You'd be forgiven for thinking that Now or Never wasn't recorded by Blazin' Squad at all after the forlorn, 30-second piano solo that begins opener "Here 4 One". But then the street-gang, after-school, shouty rap comes in and you're back on familiar ground. Welcome to the (overpopulated) world of Blazin' Squad, who function as a bit of rough--a dangerous eddy--in the smooth waters of mainstream pop. "Here 4 One" does have a dusty Mexican outlaw guitar looping high in the mix though, giving it a desperate, vigilante feel that sounds more Santa Fe than East London chippie. However Blazin' Squad are best when they tone down their rapping, allowing silky-smooth R&B numbers to flourish, such as slick cut "Biggest Fan". "You're the girl who fits the picture in my mind," one of them (which one?) croons.

Lyrics aren't one of their strong points, which is why rapping is such a fatal mistake. "Still Thinking About You" has fairy-light balladry and spoken melody--yes, Blazin' Squad are the new East 17. Except on "All We Wanna Do Is Rap", where they try and sound like 50 Cent, with dark, undulating strings but little or no menace. Requests to "Turn the beat up, man" are actually comical.

This is bum-fluff rap; the sound of teenagers hanging around outside the Spar, keying your car and smoking. "This ain't Fame Academy," they sing, "These are real-life skills." Which is good, because they'll be needing them. The last song (ironically, a rather good acoustic strummathon) is called "Life's a Struggle", and you can't help thinking that, for these boys, it certainly will be now. --Cortman Virtue

Customer Reviews

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Heavy
this album is a gr8 follow up from their first! it shows how they hav matured! this album has gr8 lyrics n banging beats! every1 has 2 admit it!
ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE THIS ALBUM...........HEAVY!!!!!!!

ITS HEAVY!!
I think this album is a great follow up from their first one! I shows they have matured and have come up with some heavy lyrics n bangin beats. There is nuffin i dont like bout this album n i cant stop listening to it. I made people who i knew didnt like Blazin' Squad listen to some of their tracks from this album and they agreed that these boyz do have talent and can write good tunes. My fave tracks are All we wanna do is rap and Flip Reverse.But overall i fink this album is Mint!