The Streets
The Streets
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- The Basics
"Why am I in London, anyway?" you wonder, staring at a pint of warm beer. Oh yeah, that's why: Because of wise-cracking, post-Python Brits like Mike Skinner, the guy who just started spitting social commentary as vinegary as a plate of chips. With a smile and a swig of your beer, he passes along two CDs and says, "Enjoy, mate." Later, you pop one in and are blown away by tongue-twisting pub-speak and beats that are as shifty as a Timbaland track. Hungry for more, you pull the Basics disc out and drop in one marked Next Steps . . .
$12.99 The BasicsParental AdvisoryName Time Price 1 ExplicitWhen You Wasn't Famous 3:18 $0.99 View in iTunes 2 ExplicitLet's Push Things Forward 3:49 $1.29 View in iTunes 3 Everything Is Borrowed 4:04 $0.99 View in iTunes 4 Never Went to Church 3:33 $0.99 View in iTunes 5 Don't Mug Yourself (The Jammer Remix) 4:22 $1.29 View in iTunes 6 The Irony of It All 3:28 $1.29 View in iTunes 7 ExplicitPrangin Out 3:49 $1.29 View in iTunes 8 The Escapist 5:17 $0.99 View in iTunes 9 Has It Come to This? 4:03 $1.29 View in iTunes 10 ExplicitGet Out of My House 3:52 $1.29 View in iTunes 11 Weak Become Heroes 5:32 $1.29 View in iTunes 11 Songs - Next Steps
OK, so maybe it's a little embarrassing to be caught whistling and snapping your neck when your flat mate stumbles in from a night of drinking. Whatever. You can't help it — not when there's a track as infectious and borderline insane as "The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living" on the hi-fi. It's not the only jam turning the living room into a rowdy club, either. Noted grime guests Roll Deep turn "Let's Push Things Forward" into a drunken, dashing duet; a tense string section propels "Turn the Page"; and "Not Addicted" is bass-heavy enough to blow out a speaker cabinet.
$13.38 Next StepsParental AdvisoryName Time Price 1 ExplicitMemento Mori 2:36 $0.99 View in iTunes 2 All Got Our Runnins 4:22 $1.29 View in iTunes 3 ExplicitFake Streets Hats 3:13 $1.29 View in iTunes 4 Heaven for the Weather 3:27 $0.99 View in iTunes 5 It's Too Late 4:10 $1.29 View in iTunes 6 ExplicitThe Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living 3:14 $0.99 View in iTunes 7 ExplicitStay Positive 6:15 $1.29 View in iTunes 8 Two Nations 3:04 $0.99 View in iTunes 9 Turn the Page 3:15 $1.29 View in iTunes 10 Streets Score 3:35 $0.99 View in iTunes 11 I Love You More (Than You Like Me) 3:44 $0.99 View in iTunes 12 ExplicitThe Strongest Person I Know 3:02 $0.99 View in iTunes 12 Songs - Complete Set
As the flagship artist on hipper-than-thou record label Vice Records, Mike Skinner brought the defiantly British sound of garage (the dance/DJ form; not the White Stripes' version) and grime to the States. And everyone from critics to cool kids were sucked in from the start — the bumping social commentary of Original Pirate Material, which gave way to a dizzying concept album (A Grand Don't Come for Free) and a brutally honest examination of what happens when you move from writing lyrics down on pub napkins to slurring your words under the heat lamps of stadium stages. A British Eminem? Oh, get off it, geezer.
$26.37 Complete SetParental AdvisoryName Time Price 1 ExplicitWhen You Wasn't Famous 3:18 $0.99 View in iTunes 2 ExplicitLet's Push Things Forward 3:49 $1.29 View in iTunes 3 Everything Is Borrowed 4:04 $0.99 View in iTunes 4 Never Went to Church 3:33 $0.99 View in iTunes 5 Don't Mug Yourself (The Jammer Remix) 4:22 $1.29 View in iTunes 6 The Irony of It All 3:28 $1.29 View in iTunes 7 ExplicitPrangin Out 3:49 $1.29 View in iTunes 8 The Escapist 5:17 $0.99 View in iTunes 9 Has It Come to This? 4:03 $1.29 View in iTunes 10 ExplicitGet Out of My House 3:52 $1.29 View in iTunes 11 Weak Become Heroes 5:32 $1.29 View in iTunes 12 ExplicitMemento Mori 2:36 $0.99 View in iTunes 13 All Got Our Runnins 4:22 $1.29 View in iTunes 14 ExplicitFake Streets Hats 3:13 $1.29 View in iTunes 15 Heaven for the Weather 3:27 $0.99 View in iTunes 16 It's Too Late 4:10 $1.29 View in iTunes 17 ExplicitThe Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living 3:14 $0.99 View in iTunes 18 ExplicitStay Positive 6:15 $1.29 View in iTunes 19 Two Nations 3:04 $0.99 View in iTunes 20 Turn the Page 3:15 $1.29 View in iTunes 21 Streets Score 3:35 $0.99 View in iTunes 22 I Love You More (Than You Like Me) 3:44 $0.99 View in iTunes 23 ExplicitThe Strongest Person I Know 3:02 $0.99 View in iTunes 23 Songs