The Streets - When You Wasn't Famous, Pt. 2

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Album Review

Release date: 28 March 2006

The Streets - When You Wasn't Famous, Pt. 2

The Streets: The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living

Welcome to Mike Skinner: the being dead famous and realising it’s “a load of boring shite” years

Much as it’s compulsory to worship the Arctic Monkeys for their down-to-earth songs with clever lyrics, storytelling abilities and nonchalant attitude towards awards ceremonies (wow, I was so disappointed by their grumpy speeches at the NME Awards), they still can’t hold a torch to one of their biggest influences, Mike Skinner. Maybe it’s because I’m not 19, but their records just...

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