The StreetsBest The Streets Albums Ranked
7.4
Avg Score
17
Opinions
7
Albums
6
Reviewers
Summary from 17 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated The Streets's catalog across 7 albums from 17 opinions, with an overall average of 7.4/10. The top-rated The Streets album is Original Pirate Material (2002) with a 9.5/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by A Grand Don't Come for Free and The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living. The discography on Wavelength spans 2002 to 2023. Weak Become Heroes ranks as the highest-rated The Streets song on Wavelength with a 9.3/10 average.
A Grand Don't Come for Free
“Whether it's a reaction against the MP3's pending usurpation of the album format or just simple coincidence, the concept record is enjoying a small comeback at the moment. But perhaps careful not to echo the supposed sins of bloat and misbegotten puffery that characterized the psychedelic and progressive rock eras, many of the artists responsible for the best recent concept records-- Sufjan Steven”
None Of Us Are Getting Out Of This Life Alive
“It was back in 2005 that Mike Skinner branded a career in the music industry as the hardest way to make an easy living, detailing the relentless schedule of a working musician and constant pressure to make radio friendly unit shifters. Now, almost a decade since The Streets released their last album – 2011’s ‘Computers and Blues’ – you can’t help but think that the pressure’s off somewhat. Now a s”
Original Pirate Material
“Hey, did you hear? Hip-hop is a world phenomenon now! Yes, spend some time poking around your favorite music magazine's website and I'm sure you'll find a heavy handful of hip-hop-gone-global thinkpieces. Read profiles of angstful teenagers rapping about life in Israeli-occupied Palestine, Cuban kids protesting the oppressive state police in rhyme, even Greenland b-boys composing bouncy anthems ab”
The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living
“Mike Skinner follows two brave, brilliant records with an album chiefly about fame and its attendent trappings. The first two LPs found him clambering for closer contact with the people around him; this record takes place almost entirely in his own head, where he's either engaged in a struggle to stay on the right side of sanity (and possibly sobriety) or to keep his misanthropy contained.”
None Of Us Are Getting Out Of This Life Alive
“The Streets legacy finds a new organic, but equally disconnected, future”
The Darker The Shadow The Brighter The Light
“The gloomy new album from British rapper, DJ, and now filmmaker Mike Skinner echoes but doesn’t equal the narrative force of the Streets’ classic material.”
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