Editing Original Pirate Material (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
| MC         = 90/100<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/original-pirate-material/the-streets |title=Reviews for Original Pirate Material by The Streets |website=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=4 March 2012}}</ref>
| rev1       = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score  = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/original-pirate-material-mw0000662618 |title=Original Pirate Material – The Streets |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=4 March 2012 |last=Bush |first=John}}</ref>
| rev2       = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| rev2score  = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=128 |title=The Streets: Original Pirate Material |magazine=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]] |location=New York |issue=11 |page=143 |date=November 2002 |access-date=9 January 2016 |last=Salamon |first=Jeff |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060504144156/http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=128 |archive-date=4 May 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev3       = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev3score  = A<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/2002/09/20/original-pirate-material/ |title=Original Pirate Material |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |location=New York |date=20 September 2002 |access-date=1 September 2012 |last=Hermes |first=Will |author-link=Will Hermes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109130505/http://www.ew.com/article/2002/09/20/original-pirate-material |archive-date=9 January 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev4       = ''[[The Guardian]]''
| rev4score  = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Pirates and predators |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] Friday Review |page=14 |location=London |date=15 March 2002 |last=Costa |first=Maddy}}</ref>
| rev5       = ''[[NME]]''
| rev5score  = 9/10<ref name="NME20020316">{{cite magazine |title=Geezer Good |magazine=[[NME]] |location=London |date=16 March 2002 |page=28 |last=Robinson |first=John}}</ref>
| rev6       = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev6score  = 7.9/10<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7531-original-pirate-material/ |title=The Streets: Original Pirate Material |work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=22 August 2002 |access-date=18 August 2012 |last=Mitchum |first=Rob}}</ref>
| rev7       = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev7score  = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thestreets/albums/album/255671/review/5942375/original_pirate_material |title=The Streets: ''Original Pirate Material'' |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |location=New York |issue=908 |date=31 October 2002 |access-date=15 September 2015 |last=Edwards |first=Gavin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090529152400/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thestreets/albums/album/255671/review/5942375/original_pirate_material |archive-date=29 May 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev8       = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev8score  = 8/10<ref name="SpinNov2002">{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H54z_qZN4pMC&pg=PA128 |title=The Streets: ''Original Pirate Material'' |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |location=New York |volume=18 |issue=11 |page=128 |date=November 2002 |access-date=10 July 2014 |last=Caramanica |first=Jon |author-link=Jon Caramanica}}</ref>
| rev9       = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev9score  = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Streets: ''Original Pirate Material'' |magazine=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] |location=London |issue=59 |date=April 2002 |page=92}}</ref>
| rev10      = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev10score = A−<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv103-03.php |title=Consumer Guide: Escape Claus |newspaper=[[The Village Voice]] |location=New York |date=21 January 2003 |access-date=15 September 2015 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau}}</ref>
}}

''Original Pirate Material'' was hailed by the British music press upon its release. ''[[NME]]'' said that the album "represents a brilliant break with cliché ... [Skinner is] one of the most original pop voices for years... By turns dark, funny and heartbreaking, the songs on ''Original Pirate Material'' are snapshots of ordinary life as a young [[The Midlands|Midlands]] resident, set to innovative [[two-step garage|two-step]] production: tales of love, going out, being skint, getting drunk, and eating [[french fries|chips]]. It's Streets by name, and streets by nature, and it's great."<ref name="NME20020316" /> ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' called Skinner a "vital new voice" and described ''Original Pirate Material'' as "starkly observed vignettes ... this debut wittily and wisely documents young lives spent in piss-poor pubs, estate bedrooms and kebab shops... It could easily, but somehow never does, degenerate into the kind of 'street poet' blather TV news editors think spices up election coverage."<ref name="QMar2002">{{cite magazine |title=Kid Rocks |journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |location=London |issue=188 |page=115 |date=March 2002 |last=Lowe |first=Steve}}</ref> ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'' said that Skinner "favours a winningly downbeat brand of urban realism, set to minimal, pounding drums ... A lot of his urban vignettes fall somewhere between "[[The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five song)|The Message]]" and [[the Specials]]' "[[Ghost Town (The Specials song)|Ghost Town]]". But their very ordinariness and the brutish, unadorned simplicity of the music is part of their appeal, evoking the everyday tedium of ''real'' 'youth culture' ... A uniquely British voice."<ref name="MojoApr2002">{{cite magazine |title=The Streets – ''Original Pirate Material'' |magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |location=London |issue=101 |page=115 |date=April 2002 |last=Collin |first=Matthew}}</ref> ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' said, "Mike Skinner ... could be the most gifted rapper London has ever produced, except that he doesn't really rap – he pontificates, spins spoken-word yarns, and kicks running commentary. Hip-hop – and Britain's equally bling-fixated 2-step-garage scene – has shaped Skinner's sound, but he's too earnest to reproduce their bluster. He's an observant, asphalt-level 'geezer' – Brit slang for everyman – set apart by the sharpness of his lens, not the force of his flow. On ''Original Pirate Material'', Skinner nails the quiet desperation of the white working class like a pub-hooligan [[Eminem|Marshall Mathers]], with all of Slim Shady's good humor and none of his insanity."<ref name="SpinNov2002" />

Contemporary reviews for the album commented on its DIY aesthetic and lyricism. ''Stylus Magazine'' said that the album "combines the boy-next-door DIY of US [[garage rock]] with the sound of [[UK garage]] and displays an alchemic ability to turn the humdrum of everyday life into a record that is at times empowering, hilarious, melancholy, awkward, and charming."<ref name="stylus">{{cite web |url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/the-streets/original-pirate-material.htm |title=The Streets – Original Pirate Material – Review |work=[[Stylus Magazine (magazine)|Stylus Magazine]] |date=1 September 2003 |access-date=4 March 2012 |last=Plagenhoef |first=Scott |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100204194224/http://stylusmagazine.com/reviews/the-streets/original-pirate-material.htm |archive-date=4 February 2010}}</ref>

===Accolades===
Since its release in 2002, ''Original Pirate Material'' has received several accolades. In March 2003, ''NME'' placed ''Original Pirate Material'' at number 46 on their list of the "100 Best Albums of All Time".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://timepieces.nl/chart/18863/2003-nme-writers-all-time-top-100-albums |title=2003 NME's Writers - All Time Top 100 Albums |publisher=Timepieces.nl |access-date=2012-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140917003950/http://timepieces.nl/chart/18863/2003-nme-writers-all-time-top-100-albums |archive-date=17 September 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> They subsequently placed the album at number nine in their list of the "100 Best Albums of the Decade".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/the-strokes/48412 |title=The Strokes' 'Is This It' tops NME albums of the decade list|work=NME|date=2009-11-17 |access-date=2012-03-04}}</ref> ''[[The Observer|Observer Music Monthly]]'' ranked it as the best album of the 2000s.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/nov/29/streets-original-pirate-material|title=Albums of the decade No 1: The Streets – Original Pirate Material|date=29 November 2009|work=Observer Music Monthly|access-date=29 November 2009 | location=London | first=Ben | last=Thompson}}</ref> Journalist Simon Reynolds also placed the album at the top of his list of his favourite albums of the 2000s, with a "special 'in a class of its own' award".<ref>{{cite web|author=Simon Reynolds |url=http://blissout.blogspot.com/2010/01/stylus-decade-was-jolly-good-read-but.html |title=blissblog |publisher=Blissout.blogspot.com |date=2010-01-13 |access-date=2012-03-04}}</ref> ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' placed the album at number ten on their list of the top 100 albums of 2000–2004;<ref>{{cite web |title=The Top 100 Albums of 2000-04, Part Two |url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/40568 |website=Pitchfork |date=2005-02-07 |access-date=2008-08-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080813110122/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/40568 |archive-date=13 August 2008}}</ref> they later placed it at number 36 on their list of the top 200 albums of the 2000s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7709-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-50-21/ |title=Staff Lists: The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 50-21 &#124; Features |work=Pitchfork |date=2009-10-01 |access-date=2012-03-04}}</ref> In 2022, [[Rolling Stone]] ranked the album 139th in their list of ''The 200 Greatest Hip-Hop Albums of All Time.''<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--not stated--> |date=June 7, 2022 |title=The 200 Greatest Hip-Hop Albums of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-hip-hop-albums-1323916/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=June 26, 2022}}</ref>