A Grand Don't Come For Free (studio album)
by The Streets

A Grand Don't Come For Free by The Streets
Year: 2004
Release date: 2004-05-10
Overall rank: 1,408th   
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 328 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2004 (23rd)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (216th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,408th)

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The Streets bestography

A Grand Don't Come For Free is ranked 2nd best out of 10 albums by The Streets on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Streets is Original Pirate Material which is ranked number 821 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,100.

The Streets album bestography « Higher ranked (821st)
Original Pirate Material
This album (1,408th)
A Grand Don't Come For Free
Lower ranked (20,104th) »
The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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A Grand Don't Come For Free track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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A Grand Don't Come For Free rankings

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Overall rank: 1,408th | 2000s rank: 216th | 2004 rank: 23rd

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A Grand Don't Come For Free ratings

Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 328 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.7/100, a mean average of 73.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.7.

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90/100
From 07/28/2024 17:03 | #304583
An original and oddly uplifting album. Nothing here is spectacular, but it is consistently very good. 9/10!
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From 10/26/2021 20:21 | #275418
One of the most bizarrely charming albums I've ever come across. I've never listened to The Streets before, and checked this out on the recommendation of a friend. It really does capture the emotion of the most normal things we all experience in some way. While not profound, it just works because of the human connection.
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65/100
From 08/12/2020 17:30 | #256966
Unlike Original Pirate Material, this album production don't stand out much. Most of the tracks keep the same style throughout and make it quite a boring experience for me. The "concept" of the album is making the experience weird. It's trying to be some kind of movie without images and it makes the album format sound inadequate. The story in itself is not overly exciting, it's been heard a lot and don't have much to say compared to OPM critical approach. It's still a decent album of course, some verse have style and the production is neat, but I think it drowned in its own ambition of being "something unlike anything else" and ended up being a bit of everything else.
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Rating:  
85/100
From 11/12/2019 17:17 | #244727
Excellent album - just getting to it now. Remember Dry Your Eyes single. Wasn't expecting this album to be so good - smart and interesting lyrics and delivery - plenty of humour and great story. Love the double ending hahaha
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75/100
From 07/14/2016 21:44 | #171312
The only Streets album owned and enjoyable it is too....concept album which as a whole is a good listen and then there are three cracking tracks that happily could stand alone, namely Could Well Be In, Fit But You Know It and Dry Your Eyes.
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100/100
From 06/22/2015 02:14 | #144343
funny, bitter, sweet, sad, joyous, thoughtful, gracious, common, deep... everything an album can possibly be. thank you, Mr. Skinner. we salute you.
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65/100
From 04/04/2015 22:32 | #138844
Not-my-taste album. Best song is "Dry your eyes" average 75/100, all other songs below. Well meant 65/100.
Genre: UK Hip Hop
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80/100
From 03/14/2015 22:50 | #136815
I love how this ties together into a story told over a day. The top tracks stand up on their own as well. Well done, Mr. Skinner.
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85/100
From 05/02/2014 23:15 | #110642
Very good. Very good indeed.
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From 03/16/2014 16:16 | #106458
Really cool. Hilarious and Serious
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