- Audio CD (21 Aug 2000)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Universal / Island
- ASIN: B0000242HW
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 45,362 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
If my reckoning is correct, this is the last work SE engaged in before taking off for his 'holiday in the ghetto' ...and it shows. Some of the songs may not be his strongest and the production wavers, but for sheer depth of feeling and a commentary on what it feels like to be down - really down - this one really is the business. A voice, cracked and ravaged by abuse reaches out to you and grabs your attention by still hitting bull's eyes on social commentary, loss, pain and regret. He may have been going down, but even here there are glimmers of redemption from one of the great survivors. If you're ploughing his back catalogue you overlook this one at your peril. Standout songs: Billy Austin, Have Mercy, Close Your Eyes.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I really really love this album. It's a bit darker, more searching and has the both tough and soft songs that makes a Steve Earle album great. "The other kind" has to be one of the best songs ever made. He wanders from the backalleys in Hollywood to his biker friends in Canada, from pure pop through harder rock to so senstive it makes you cry. To be able to tell a story like "Billy Austin" without making it into something pathetic and fingerpointing takes a very good songwriter. To offer your soul on a plate like in "Have mercy" takes a lot of guts. Then we have the fun, normal workingclass hero playing his own kinda country in "Regular guy" and "Country girl" with what I guess is a fuzzed up accordion. To me this is the searching, trying to find some new way to give us his music, Steve Earle. Just buy his best ever album.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I make no bones about it. I think Steve Earle is the 20th Century's greatest song writer (and probably the 21st as well). When I sat down and decided to create a tape of my favourite tracks, I put on this album to assess it. I decided there were very few tracks (if any) that could be left off. Nobody over 30 can fail to adopt 'The Other Kind' as their theme tune. You might be from the 'hang 'em high' brigade - but you will shed a tear at 'Billy Austin'. Not his most accessable album but well worth gettting to know.
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Earles's flawed classic
To start with 'the Hard Way' is a completely shambolic, incoherent car crash of an album. But thats what makes it so special in my opinion. Read more
Published on 8 April 2008 by Radar Gun
Steve Earle at his BEST!
I think this is Steve's best album ever! Starting out with the magnificent "The other kind". Read more
Published on 25 Sep 2002 by "mag601"
more of the same please!
in response to reading some mixed reviews i felt this album was a genuine steve earle record. at times it is dark and has a brooding feeling (steve had problems at this time) but... Read more
Published on 12 Sep 2002 by "gmcandann"
Disappointing - not up to his usual standard
After his earlier (no pun intended!) albums I was really looking forward to this one - but it didn't live up to expectations. Read more
Published on 3 April 2002
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