The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
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Track List: A Grand Don't Come For Free
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- It Was Suppsed To Be So EasyDownload & Buy
- Could Well Be InDownload & Buy
- Not AddictedDownload & Buy
- Blinded By The LightsDownload & Buy
- Wouldn't Have It Any Other WayDownload & Buy
- Get Out Of My HouseDownload & Buy
- Fit But You Know ItDownload & Buy
- Such A Tw*tDownload & Buy
- What Is He Thinking?Download & Buy
- Dry Your EyesDownload & Buy
- Empty CansDownload & Buy
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Album Details: A Grand Don't Come For Free
- Release Date:
- 05/18/2004
- Label:
- Vice Records
- UPC:
- 825646153428
User Reviews: A Grand Don't Come For Free
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awesome
, June 1, 2004Reviewer: heavysoccerplayer - See all heavysoccerplayer's reviews -
Finally
, May 27, 2004Reviewer: The Kid - See all The Kid's reviewsPros: Fat beats, Rhythm keep ya moving
Cons: ain't no losing
FINALLY!
more beats from the streets
groves other bands can't repeat
tales of growing up in britain
south side london, mashed up and mixed in
geezers getting messed up with excitement
gare-aage beats (oy) and flats for rent
wondering what pear shape might have meant
sending out for refunds on this discography
not needed, sit down and log with me
ale with me, stout with me, draught with me
the streets are back finally. finally. finally
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Pro Reviews: A Grand Don't Come For Free
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Mike Skinner has a problem, and from the sound of it, it's lifethreatening. He opens his second Streets fulllength by moaning "It was supposed to be so easy..." as though he's about to deliver his deathbed confession, the classic tale of a crime gone wrong. Instead, three minutes later, it's clear what the "it" was: walking down to bring back a DVD rental, taking some money out of the machine, and calling his mother, who he'd just left at home, to tell her he wouldn't be back for tea. Believe it or not, but that's just another day in the life of Britain's favorite bedsit producer cum singer/songwriter. Although listeners may not wonder where he finds his material, they'll quickly realize that A Grand Don't Come for Free is just as immediately striking as Skinner's careermaking fulllength debut, Original Pirate Material. It succeeds, despite a clear lack of comparable singles, because of its paradoxical concept (and yes, it is a concept album) that a record can be tremendously ambitious even though it charts a very unambitious personality. Skinner's urban British youth persona is even more fully drawn than before, and this time he delivers a complete narrative in LP form, with characters, conflicts, themes, and postmodern resolution on the closer. He's sheepish about his utter lack of knowledge about football (and the heavy gambling losses that result from it), unreservedly enthusiastic about his girlfriend early on but later totally disgusted with her (in a blowup that rivals Dizzee Rascal's "I Luv U"), not so easily dismissive of a gorgeous showoff in front of him at the kebab shop, and willing to confront anyone who criticizes him for drinking at home until he can set up a row of empty Tennent's Super cans. Fortunately, he hasn't reduced the Streets to a comedy act in the process. There is as much tragedy and heartbreak here as there is slapstick comedy. "Blinded by the Lights," driven at halfspeed by a shadowy trance line and Skinner's disoriented delivery, transmits perfectly the intense loneliness that can flood you in a club full of people and the utter disenchantment of being stranded in the middle of euphoria. Skinner drives these tracks with a mere skeleton of productions and delivers some cruelly offkey harmonies on the choruses; only the single, a rockabilly buster named "Fit but You Know It," makes any attempt to connect the dots from beats to melody to production. Confronting doubts about his seriousness and squashing whispers about his talent, Skinner has made a sophomore record that expands on what distinguishes the Streets from any other act in music. - John Bush, All Music Guide |
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Mike Skinner's recordings as the Streets marked the first attempt at adding a degree of social commentary to Britain's party-hearty garage/2-step movement. Skinner, a Birmingham native who only later ventured to the capital, was an outsider in the ga...Full The Streets Biography
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