The Hard Road

The Hard Road is the fourth studio album by Australian hip hop group, Hilltop Hoods. The album was released on 6 April 2006 by Obese Records and peaked at number one on the Australia ARIA Albums Chart. The album contains the top 20 single, "Clown Prince". The album achieved Gold status (35,000 units) on 8 April 2006, a week after release and has now surpassed Platinum status (70,000 units). The album won the Triple J J Award in 2006. The award was announced on 1 December. Five songs from the album placed on the annual Triple J Hottest 100 chart announced on 26 January 2007. Songs "Recapturing The Vibe", "Stopping All Stations", "What a Great Night", "Clown Prince" and "The Hard Road" placed No. 77, No. 56, No. 41, No. 23, and No. 3 respectively. "An Audience with the Devil" samples the spoken parts (the interview between Suffa and the Devil) from the Millennium episode "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me".

Background

The Hard Road (song)

"The Hard Road" is a song by Australian hip hop group, Hilltop Hoods. It is the second single taken from the Australian group's 2006 album of the same name. It was released by Obese Records in 2006 as a CD single and a 12" vinyl single. The CD single also included the music video for the song.

Sampling

The song contains a sample from "Out in the Woods", a composition originally written by Leon Russell.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Matthew Lambert (Suffa), Daniel Smith (Pressure), Barry Francis (DJ Debris) and L Lambert, except track 3 which was written by Lambert, Smith, Francis and Leigh Ryan.. 

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Hard Road

Hard Road may refer to:

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Hard Road (Stevie Wright album)

Hard Road is the debut solo album from Australian singer Stevie Wright. The album's first single "Evie (Part 1)" was hugely successful and the title track was later covered on Rod Stewart's 1974 album Smiler. The album itself reach #2 on the Australian albums charts in 1974 was the 16th highest selling album in Australia that year. The compact disc is currently out-of-print and has become quite rare. A digital edition was available on iTunes as of June, 2014.

Background

In 1973, Harry Vanda and George Young returned to Australia after a period working in London. They renewed their partnership with Albert Productions and as in-house producers began assembling a roster of artists for the label, among them their former Easybeats bandmate Stevie Wright.

Work soon commenced on an album with Wright, with Vanda and Young assembling a backing group that included themselves, pianist Warren Morgan of The Aztecs, and Malcolm Young, George's younger brother and the rhythm guitarist for AC/DC, on guitar. Wright wrote six songs for the album, while Vanda and Young wrote the remainder, including the title track and the three part "Evie".

Hard Road (Black Sabbath song)

"Hard Road" is a single by English rock band Black Sabbath. It reached 33 on the UK singles charts and was the last single recorded with Ozzy Osbourne on vocals until "Psycho Man" in 1998. The song is a reflection upon the band's career, and how it had been a "hard road" to earn their level of popularity and success in the industry.

It is the second single on the band's album Never Say Die!, the first being the album's title track.

It's B-Side is "Symptom of the Universe", from the band's 1975 album Sabotage.

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