The Hardest Way Explained

The Hardest Way
Type:album
Artist:The Original Sins
Cover:The Original Sins - The Hardest Way.JPG
Released:1989
Recorded:Water Music, Hoboken, N.J.
Genre:Garage punk
Length:41:50 (vinyl edition)
55:53 (CD edition)
Label:Psonik
Producer:Dave Stein, John Terlesky
Prev Title:Big Soul
Prev Year:1987
Next Title:Self Destruct
Next Year:1990

The Hardest Way is an album by the American garage punk band The Original Sins.[1] It was released in 1989 by Psonik Records.[2]

The CD version of the album includes bonus tracks taken from the band's Australia-only extended play, Party's Over.

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that the album "demonstrates the Sins’ marvelous ability to synthesize an original sound — less stylized than the Lyres’ — from now-standard ingredients."[2] The Morning Call listed The Hardest Way on their list of the top 10 albums of 1989, writing that "the Sins' second LP is an embarrassment of riches; it's fiercer, more melodic, more complex and more danceable than their debut, Big Soul."[3] Spin wrote that "the songs fit more comfortably into standard 60s punk grooves."[4]

Track listing

All songs written by John Terlesky

Personnel

The Original Sins
Additional musicians and production

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Original Sins' John Terlesky Sings Blues. April 20, 1992. Los Angeles Times.
  2. Web site: Original Sins . Trouser Press . 23 July 2020.
  3. Web site: RECORDS THE YEAR IN REVIEW 89. LEN RIGHI, The Morning. Call. mcall.com.
  4. Web site: Spins. SPIN. SPIN Media. LLC. September 23, 1989. SPIN Media LLC. Google Books.