Track Listing

1. The World Is Yours
2. On Track
3. Sister Rose
4. Save Us
5. Eternal Flame
6. The Feeding Of The 5000
7. Street Children
8. Some Folks Are Hollow
9. Goodbye To The Broken
10. Me and You Forever
11. Illegal Attacks - Ian Brown, Sinead O'Connor
12. The World Is Yours

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6751 in Music
• Released on: 2007-09-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 48 minutes

CD Description
'The World Is Yours' is the fifth studio album from Mancunian indie legend Ian Brown. An artists that continues to evolve with every release, this album finds Brown mixing his swaggering vocals with a heady mixture of dance beats, electronica and baggy rock, with often quite stunning results. Includes the single 'Illegal Attacks'.

Customer Reviews

Mr Consistent
Ever since he released 'Unfinished Monkey Business' he has been making his own musical strides, constantly producing innovative music. 'Unfinished Monkey Business' and 'Golden Greats' come from the same roots as much of the Stone Roses stuff, whereas 'Music Of Spheres', 'Solarized' and 'The World Is Yours' are a huge leap away in terms of musical makeup.

Damian Alburn is another artist who arguably has jumped from one style to another with apparent ease, the Gorillaz project is a huge success and it is people like Ian Brown and Damian Alburn who are the first great musicians to appear from the rubble of the fallen Brit Pop empire.

Ian Brown's latest offering is solid. Not his most spectacular release but nevertheless good. Ian Brown continually is morphing with his arrangement and delivery and this album is no different. The string section that we first heard back on F.E.A.R in 2002 has returned and features on most of the album. Nearly all tracks, including 'Sister Rose' and 'Save Us' are built round the core of an orchestra jamming with a dirty broken beat and Brown's lazy lyrical delivery. It works too, the lyrics are as politically charged and dreamy as ever.(See 'Street Children lyrics - "Wish that I could scoop; all of those children in my arms; give the love they need; and protect them all from harm;") Some of the songs like 'Eternal Flame' have an almost R'n'B feel about it.

This album is a rather laid back chilled affair, the funky guitar riffs on 'Sister Rose' is as upbeat and rousing as it gets, but that is not a bad thing. Once again Brown has moved with the times and not content in keeping safe in familiarity. Would recommend this album to anyone with an open mind and has liked the two previous albums Brown has released.

*** Like :- Ian Brown -thankfully **

same masterly lyrics different beat!
ian brown has done it again!! he has come up with a quality new album no, not in the mould of his other stuff but this works!! he has mixed his own great lyrics with the hip hop beats and the string quartet and it does work!! there is.nt really a weak track on the cd but highlights for me are the world is yours,Sister Rose ,Eternal Flame ,Feeding Of The 5000 ,Some Folks Are Hollow ,Me And You Forever. but the brilliant illegal attacks is the track of the album browny shoots straight from the lip and the lyrics really hit home! just go buy it, it's is different to what he's done before but it's brilliant

What's Going On?
Get past the fact that despite some of the subject matter already sounding a little old hat, given that so many other artists have already worn out the skin on an already heavily beaten drum - the War in Iraq, the Church, suffering in the 3rd world et al and forgive the man his indulgence, because no matter what you say, these issues are still relevant and still continue unchallenged or unresolved.

Personally, I think this album is superb. Ian Brown is very much like Mark E. Smith of The Fall - he never gives his fans (or rather fans who cling desparately to the memory of the Stone Roses - f*ck off and give the man a break. The Roses are DEAD. Period.) exactly what he thinks they would really like or expect and instaead throws them a curve ball to contend with. That's the beauty of his music - his constant evolution (nice 'Primate' link).

This album is no different. It doesn't push boundaries but it doesn't kiss the arse of the current "mainstream" either. I believe one of Ian Brown's favourite albums of all time is Marvin Gaye's seminal "What's Going on" and in my mind there is no doubt that "The World is Yours" is heavily influenced, to the point of plagiarising subject matter, by this album. I'd also imagine that many reviewers reactions (not necessarily on Amazon) to it's release were pretty similar to Berry Gordy's at Motown when Marvin Gaye explained the concept of "What's Going On" i.e "What the f*ck IS going on!

This is Ian Brown's contemporary take on Gaye's Motown classic, it also takes in a lot of '70's Blaxploitation Soul/Funk (Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, etc), the lush orchestral arrangements in particular (in fact other than Drums and Bass, other instruments are very sparsely used) which works perfectly from a historic perspective and the evolution of 'Black' music, when you consider the Hip Hop beats which underpin many of the songs.

This album will ultimately benefit from a retrospective perspective - time will show this to be one of the best, if not the best, Ian Brown album - in fact it could be argued that IS a retrospective perspective on an era of music that was underpinned by the album that inspired this album - "What's Going On."

Anyway just buy it. It's a great chill out record. Best Track for me "Some Folks are Hollow."