A Grand Don't Come For Free
by The Streets
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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 811 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,122.
(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 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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A Grand Don't Come For Free rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 78 Music Albums of 2004 | 58/78 | 1 |
| 2026 | AledJames | 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die | 42/100 | - |
| 2026 | Hyggevinyl | Top 54 Music Albums of 2004 | 15/54 | 4 |
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Top 20 Music Albums of 2004 | 9/20 | 3 |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 54/100 | 9 |
| 2026 | jonny5244 | Top 46 Music Albums of 2004 | 1/46 | 5 |
| 2026 |  cestuneblague | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 49/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2004 | 74/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Albums of the year 2004 by Prefixmag | 14/100 | - |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2004 | 61/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 271 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,191 | |||
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A Grand Don't Come For Free ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/01/2026 15:10 | AndyLish79 | 505 | 81/100 |
| ! | 07/19/2026 05:44 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,613 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/04/2026 13:55 | Jakor | 5,535 | 70/100 |
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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 74.6/100, a mean average of 73.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.2.
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An original and oddly uplifting album. Nothing here is spectacular, but it is consistently very good. 9/10! (Edited)
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.
guzguzgarbit 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.
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
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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