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| The Hardest Way to Make An Easy Living: Parental Advisory | 
 enlarge | Artist: Streets
Label: 679
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
Buy New: £2.88
You Save: £13.11 (82%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (60 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3077
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.8
UPC: 825646323029
EAN: 0825646323029
ASIN: B000EQ5IG6
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Prangin' Out | | • | War Of The Sexes | | • | Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living | | • | All Goes Out The Window | | • | Memento Mori | | • | Can't Con An Honest John | | • | When You Wasn't Famous | | • | Never Went To Church | | • | Hotel Expressionism | | • | Two Nations | | • | Fake Streets Hats |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
When hedonism tips into overindulgence, when the champagne fizz of pop stardom goes stale, that?s where you?ll find The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living--the third album from Mike Skinner?s The Streets. We fall in at the deep end with "Pranging Out", the sound of a spiky Mike "fresh" off tour and trying to booze his way out of a five-month hangover, contemplating that "the rock?n?roll cliche just walked in and smacked me". As ever, though, the music here is thoroughly individual and frequently hilarious: the Mission Impossible-tinged "Hotel Expressionism" sees trashing a room raised to the status of artform, while the reflective "Two Nations"--an open letter to deceased rapper Notorious BIG--sees Skinner swell with pride as he recalls the UK giving America the legacy of John Lennon, "Even though you shot him as well". Meanwhile, two gospel tracks, "Never Went To Church" and "All Goes Out The Window", make a bid to be this album?s "Dry Your Eyes". All in all, it?s Skinner?s most bitty, fractured album so far--not quite the gobsmacking state-of-the-nation address of 2002?s Original Pirate Material and lacking the immersive narrative of A Grand Don?t Come For Free--but no one makes a record like Mike Skinner makes a record, and even going out of his head, he?s never less than entertaining.--Louis Pattison
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| Customer Reviews: Read 55 more reviews...
 One of the best UK artists February 26, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
At least in this genre-being grime. The Streets are great, Mike Skinner having such a unique style of, well i don't know talking, rapping? And Leo the Lion is just a great singer! The best song on here is propbably never went to church- a sad and moving song about mike's dad, and he pulls songs like this off just as well as he does great party songs like when you wasn't famous. I also really like Can't con an honest john as i think it's great and really easy to listen to.
Overall: A Good album, but Mike's voice get's a bit boring and repetitive towards the end, that's the only reason it drops a mark-highly reccomended
 AMAZING December 21, 2006
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
Yet another instant classic from the best of the british rap/garage/R&B scene. Its a must buy. Mike Skinner just gets better and better.
If your into true british music, then this is for you. its a truley unique style that The Streets bring. Non of this American crap, true brit.
******6 star******
 disapointment September 12, 2006
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
i dont really like the new album
they all sound kinda like when you wasnt famous
if u liked that song then you should buy it
but i thought it was rubbish
original pirate material will always be my favourite, if you dont have that, i recommend you buy that before the hardest way to make an easy living
 boring, self indulgent, a waste of talent July 22, 2006
5 out of 17 found this review helpful
this is literally the worst overhyped album i have ever heard in my life, its pathethic, boring, laughable, really its a useless recording, mediocre. Why the heck did he bother? who imagined that this would be a great album? his manager? the record company?
Tough being famous June 23, 2006
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'm a big streets fan after "A Grand Dont Come For Free" and this didnt dissapoint. Although this lacks the excellent narrative story telling of the previous albumn and doesnt quite hit the same dizzying heights this is still quality. Mikey Skinner impresses again with the ode to his Dad in "Never Went to Church" and lets rip in "When u Wasnt Famous". This is typical streets Mikey banging on about life and fame and the changes it brings - the mans still a genius and hasnt sold out just yet.
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