It was supposed to be so easy (The Streets) (LP 4580)

The Streets  A Grand Don't Come For Free (CD, Locked On Records, 2004) **  

Genre: Hip hop, Rap

Places I remember: Fives

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Fit But You Know It

Gear costume: Dry Your Eyes 

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7

Active compensatory factors: Basically, The Streets is a vehicle for vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner.

This album was their second album and it appealed to me as a shaggy dog story. Plus, it was recommended in a book I was reading (1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die). Plus, I was living in Essex at the time and the language quirks of Mike's delivery worked for me.

It's now 20 years later and I live in NZ and the music and story about his relationship with Simone and the missing grand, and an idle urban youth world of spliffs, betting, and boozers doesn't work for me. Actually, it never did to be fair.

Where do they all belong? The rap genre continues to be a bridge too far for me.