The Streets - The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living (Parental Advisory) [PA] (CD 2006)

This album is another great achievment by Mr Skinner himself. Orignal Pirate Material and A Grand Don't Come for Free were ground breaking and both staggering achievements, equal in quality. The Hardest Way to Make ann Easy Living falls ever so slightly short of the previous two efforts yet is still an essential purchase.

The album starts off strongly with Prangin Out being traditional Skinner magic, lyrically amazing and the beat to match. The highlight of the album has to be the simply awesome Never went to church, a song where Skinner reaches the emotional highs of Dry Your Eyes and Its too late and surpasses them in my opion. It would not be an exaggeration to say this is the best song The Streets have ever come up with.

Wittty one liners such as 'Two of lifes great narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, and I know which I prefer' fill this album and deep songs such as All goes out the window are worthy of any Streets album.

Radio friendly When You Wasn't Famous is a good song, but is just that, radio friendly and there are better tracks on the album. If your buying the a lbum purely on the strength of that track you won't be dissapointed.

The only reasons this doesn't get five starts is the lenght, only 11 songs, just one or two short and that it is just slighlty shhort of the first two albums in sheer quality. Yet if this album was a debut album then 5 stars would be an understatement.