Sep 06 2023
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Was a fan of the libertines when I was a teenager, proably one of the best U.K. bands from the 00’s Indie scene until the Arctic Monkeys came along. So this is rating has a personal bias to it, a soild 4 star album in my eyes.
As a side note I seen everyone is jumping on the Wikipedia sentence that in 2005 this was voted the 3rd most overrated album of all time. Thought it was worst sharing the results of that poll here of that poll for context:
1 Nirvana - Nevermind
2 Coldplay - X&Y
3 The Libertines - The Libertines
4 Oasis - Definitely Maybe
5 U2 - Joshua Tree
6 Radiohead - OK Computer
7 The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
8 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
9 Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
10 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Apart from X&Y I’d say that list is full of great albums, overrated maybe, but still great none of the less.
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May 25 2023
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It's not bad, it's the definition of "landfill indie" however, instantly forgettable but does make you feel good while listening so sneaks a 3
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Mar 24 2023
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You already know an album is going to be a 3/5 at best when you see that the Wikipedia article for it is like 8 sentences long. One of those sentences being: "The Libertines was voted the third-most overrated album ever made in a 2005 BBC public poll."
This sounds a bit like The Cla-oh, it was produced by Mick Jones. That makes sense. Yeah, it's exactly what I expected. More British punk - the most important genre in musical history according to this book. Kind of goofy. Yup, it's a 3/5.
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Mar 26 2023
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Many people consider this to be Pete Doherty’s greatest achievement. I disagree. Doherty’s greatest achievement is successfully completing a Margate cafe’s Mega Breakfast challenge: if you can eat four rashers of bacon, four eggs, four sausages, hash browns, onion rings, bubble and squeak, beans, two slices of thick bread well as a quarter pounder burger and chips in under 20 minutes the breakfast is free.
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May 18 2023
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"The Libertines was voted the third-most overrated album ever made in a 2005 BBC public poll."
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Apr 06 2023
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Scrappy and lively, raffish and fun and very likably, if insistently, cheeky. But it does all seem a bit put-on. One gets that they were pipped to be like the Clash, but they simply ain’t all that, or didn’t work out to be. And the “Stones to Franz Ferdinand’s Beatles” is even more of a reach. Best cut: “Music When the Lights Go Out” and “What Katy Did.” Still, it’s well-made modern rock, with quality throughout, and a clear leader in the aughties division.
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Mar 27 2023
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This album is a post punk/indie rock jam of an album. Definitely the best of the libertines. Ive been a libertines fan since high school and that goes for Pete Doherty's other projects like Babyshambles and this album introduced me and will be a forever punk rock love of mine. I personally rate these projects above their predecessors such as the Clash and The Modern Lovers or anything else similar. The song writing
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Apr 10 2023
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Saw it was an English indie band and thought I knew what I was getting into, but they avoid all the pitfalls of their contemporaries. Rough around the edges but dialed in when it needs to be. I really enjoy their classic, clean sound. Best track: Road to Ruin
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Dec 13 2023
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Really likeable, catchy melodic punk - the gritty reality lyrical approach of the early Arctic Monkeys and the cockney tunesmith feel of Squeeze - but all on speed (unfortunately this isn't just a simile - it's the truth). I'm conflicted. The music is entertaining but Pete Doherty was such an arsehole, I struggle to separate the two
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Dec 14 2023
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The hip sound of a pill-fueled bender. Hard for me to stomach in our current post-ironic hellscape.
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May 15 2024
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God awful. I just can't. Okay, the 'live' sounding production is kinda cool, but to me it just sounds like some pretty competent dads having a drunken jam in the garage.
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May 02 2024
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Great and charming album that deserved all the hype. Maybe more. It has all: rhythm, harmonies -and hormones-, mysticism. It is a fun listen. Yes, it may be the British response to The Strokes, and in some points, I consider it superior. Maybe it's the poetry and dandy vibes, the influence of The Smiths and William Blake. Happy to listen to this, over and over again.
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Apr 24 2023
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5
A beautifully chaotic jangly heartfelt piece of work. Five stars for being a pretty clear Arctic Monkeys precursor that I wasn't previously aware of.
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May 02 2024
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Not bad. Entertaining lyrics and a fun, ramshackle style.
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Nov 08 2023
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Better than I expected, given the track record of British indie records from the early aughts on this list, but inessential nonetheless.
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Dec 12 2023
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Yet another album that seems to have been curated here because the author had a hard time coming up with the promised thousand albums.
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Mar 24 2023
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Bepaalde nummers van dit album kende ik al wel, maar ik heb het geheel denk ik nog nooit gehoord. Ik heb Up The Bracket (2002) en Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation (2007) ooit als LP gekocht, dus als ik toe was aan dit soort muziek zette ik 1 van die 2 albums aan.
The Libertines is een vreemde band. Eigenlijk klinkt het regelmatig vrij kut omdat Pete Doherty voor geen meter kan zingen, of hij laat het in ieder geval niet al te vaak merken. Andere albums in deze lijst heb ik daar wel eens op afgeschoten, maar dit vind ik dan weer steengoed.
Het klinkt bijna als een hoge kwaliteit live-album, met een band die zin heeft om muziek te maken ondanks de vechtscheiding die vrij snel hierna volgde.
De gitaren en ook de drums, met name de snaredrum, klinken perfect.
Hoogtepunten o.a. The Man Who Would Be King, Arbeit Macht Frei, Campaign of Hate, Road to Ruin.
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Jul 31 2023
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A really decent album from the garage-rock revival era. I knew of The Libertines but only really knew of their most well-known tracks, but I enjoyed this a lot - they were a lot more varied than I expected. Their favourite track of mine isn't here, it was only ever a single (No points for guessing which...) but I thought this was great!
Favourite: Can't Stand Me Now
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Feb 28 2024
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Another band I was not overly familar with but Can't Stand Me Now does ring some bells. I liked this album more than the Preachers album and found it to be a lot of fun.
Faves: Can't Stand Me Now, Music When The Lights Go Out, What Became of the Likely Lads
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Nov 30 2023
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Pete Doherty is an insult to my eardrums
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Oct 18 2023
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5
Love this album
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Jun 05 2023
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5
Rating: 10/10
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Sep 16 2023
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The libertines are to me the last true rock and roll band spillover from the 20th century - they’re dangerously falling apart musically and I guess truly at points in their short explosive burst of their original career - of which they barely survived but gave us two records of perfection - with a duo songwriting combo of Doherty and Barat - which echo the Lennon and McCartney phenomenon of being greater than the sun of their parts.
This album is meticulously produced and performed - yet the struggles are evident even in the singing performances - the drums are comically overplayed but somehow just for the right amount and the guitars weave in and out dangerously with punk gusto. Doherty barks and mumbles away musically throughout while Barat keeps it grounded and Mick Jones captures it gleefully as it probably reminds him of the shambles the Clash were in their later years.
An artful record - maybe maybe not totally perfect as their debut but only by a hair.
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Aug 23 2023
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9/10
amazing stuff throughout
fantastic album
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Jul 15 2023
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5
Wonderful.
That kind of young feeling
I like this kind of punk
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May 12 2023
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5
it's about 50% the strength of up the bracket and it was a let down from all the bootleg versions of most of these songs but it's still steeped in nostalgia and there's some cracking songs on there, even if the recordings of them feel a bit sanitised.
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Aug 12 2023
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I loved everything about this one. It's got just about everything I love about punk without actually being punk. The energy, the aesthetics, the devil-may-care attitude, even the little musical tropes of punk... it's all there. It feels like the spiritual successor or the evolution of The Clash. The songwriting is smart and self-aware, the musicianship is so good, the production is fantastic...
There's a lot of garbage that seems to have made it onto the list just because it's British. This ain't that. THIS is legitimately great. What a fun surprise.
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May 12 2023
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5
Obviously nowhere near as good as Up the Bracket, but I can't knock it.
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Aug 26 2024
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Gave it two listens. Can hear a lot of Ramones, Clash, Smiths, and Cure influences. It’s ok, but it wasn’t for me. 3/5
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Sep 13 2023
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I’m surprised to see no reference here to the greatest review this album received. (I may be misreading - the reviews only go back to March 2023 in my browser). Nigel Blackwell of Half Man Half Biscuit was so appalled by this record that he wrote the scathing “Shit Arm Bad Tattoo”. It is deliciously scathing, but the second verse always fills me with joy.
‘If you're going to quote from the Book of Revelation
Don't keep calling it the Book of Revelations
There's no "s", it's the Book of Revelation
As revealed to St John the Divine
See also Mary Hopkin
She must despair.’
To me this album sounds like the tape was left running during a beery rehearsal. How it became one of the 1001 albums I must hear before expiring, I don’t understand. And I’ll be especially miffed if Achtung Bono isn’t on the list.
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Jan 12 2024
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Could have died without listening to this shit
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Oct 04 2024
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I am not a big fan of the Garage Rock Revival scene of the late 90's and 2000's. I find bands like the Strokes, The White Stripes or Arctic Monkeys to be extremely boring and average. It merely feels like a bland shadow of what once was the loudest and most Punk music before Punk was even a thing. And trying to replicate something like The Sonics is not really a good idea especially when the sound already is more sonically accepted.
Additionally, The Libertines haven't really had a big influence or big importance other than one of their songs being in a movie. I think the album is terrible... Just straight up terrible! How has anybody given them the platform that they had?
The albums first track, 'Can't Stand Me Now' is one of the albums "better tracks". While the vocals are already pretty bad, the songwriting is only alright as is the sound and chorus of the song. It's a bad song, it feels like if Morriseys had a twin who couldn't sing was to approach Indie Rock. Vocally, absolute trash. The rest is slightly better. Overall, not good nearly bad.
'Last Post on the Bugle' comes with a more Punk inspired sound and somehow the vocals sound even worse. And if that wasn't enough, the delivery is genuinely terrible. Nothing about this in terms of vocals is pleasent at any point. It's just terrible. And the music behind all that is definitely not enough to help the track out of the missery.
Next song 'Don't Be Shy' is the same thing again just that the even the instruments sound bad now. The vocals are at points slightly better but at others just even worse, however that was possible. It is genuinely off-putting and terrible. It gives me physical pain and discomfort to listen to this garbage.
'The Man Who Would Be King' sounds like terrible Britpop which is interesting because Britpop is often times bad to begin with. The vocals are bad, as established, the lyrics try to be poetic? I guess? Because they are just terrible. And finally the instrument switch between basic and annoying. The entire project would've been better if everyone just started playing at random in Free Jazz style because that concoction would at least sound more interesting. Another terrible track.
'Music When the Lights Go Out' changes the style to a more Indie Rock style and it does make it slightly better at some points. It's still really bad but it is much less terrible than other tracks so far.
A slight The Who and general Mod influence is really present on 'Narcissist' which is only slightly more entertaining because of it. It's bad but less bad.
'The Ha Ha Wall' is another terrible song. Bad delivery, terrible vocals, bad songwriting, terrible instrumentation. It's just unpleasant.
I am German and I am very aware of the history and seeing the title 'Arbeit macht frei' is not something I want. For those who don't know, this was written above the entrence of Auschwitz. It is a sentence that should only be a part of history and not art and definitely not art in this way. I don't even care about the music, the title is enough for me to skip the song because I do not want to hear it. I might be ignorant but I don't care. This is not an album where I want to hear this used.
'Campaign of Hate' fittingly plays next and continues the annoying and bad vocals, the annoying and bad songwriting, oh my god I am just repeating myself. Terrible!
More Indie again on 'What Katie Did' which starts more promising but it gets as terrible quickly with the god awful "Shoop shoop, shoop de-lang-a-lang" vocals. It's corny, annoying and performed worse than a theatre made by 5 year olds.
Before I repeat myself again, 'Tomblands', 'The Saga', 'Road to Ruin', 'Road to Ruin' and 'What Became of the Likely Lads' are all just terrible in every single thing that they or try. I cannot write more because listening to this is worse than the Salt and Goat torture where your feet are covered in salt and goats lick it off until they reach your bones. This album with nothing else around you is worse.
favourites: none
least favourites: the entire atrocity of an "album"
Rating: strong 0 to light 1
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May 15 2024
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Tosh. Pete Doherty killed a man and got away with it to make mediocre jangle pop like this.
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Aug 08 2024
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Hugely nostalgic album. Takes me back to first year of uni, had a sticker of this album cover on a folder. Pete Doherty used to fascinate me, still does to be fair.... Recently watched the Louis Theroux documentary about him.
Unfortunately missed them live the first time round, but got to see them at Prenton park with the whole Jeremy Corbyn chants a while back. Was great.
Anyway, this album is fantastic, I love it. Not as good as up the bracket, which hopefully will be on the list too.
Highlights:
Can't stand me now
Last post on the bugle
Music when the lights go out
Narcissist
What became of the likely lads
4.5, allows room for up the bracket
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Mar 06 2024
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I was first introduced to this album in Australia in 2005. "The Libertines" (along with Razorlight's "Up All Night" and "The Complete Stone Roses") was new to me and heavily featured in the soundtrack to my backpacking adventure down under.
This was one of the few albums that genuinely changed my music-loving brain. It was a new(ish) sound. The imperfect duelling guitars that mesh perfectly together. The raw yet melodic vocals. The fucking lyrics. I instantly loved it.
This is a complete album. Every song hits. "Music When the Lights Go Out", in particular, is a pure magic; songwriting genius. I still love everything about this record.
These boys are exceptionally talented degenerate junkies. 👍👍
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Mar 25 2024
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5
I really enjoyed this album all the way through. My favourite from the list so far, so much so i listened thrice!
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Feb 14 2024
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Ahhh, what a fantastic album. A tour de force. I bloody love this album and it holds up so well. It really takes me back to be being a teenager. The album has such a feel to it. I love the things like random whistles, guitar sounds, shouting etc, it sounds chaotic but all together. Pete Doherty's lyrics are so good, really poetic and beautiful but then put amongst this chaotic sound and the whole world he was living in make such a juxtaposition, it's great. Stay off the drugs Pete.
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Jan 12 2024
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5
¡Me ha encantado!
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Dec 07 2023
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5
The songs are not as good as they are on Up The Bracket (a six-star album in my opinion) but everything you love about The Libertines is here on the S/T record.
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Feb 08 2024
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It takes a pair of friends to fight and split up their band to come up with such a raw, beautiful song as 'Can't Stand me Now'.
I totally get why people think this record is overrated. But, c'mon. Depressive, kind of catchy mix between 70s punk and 90s britpop? This is totally my kind of music.
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Oct 31 2024
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Killer album
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Sep 18 2024
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"It's a must-listen for fans of early 2000s rock and those intrigued by the turbulent history of the band. The Libertines, released in 2004, offers a gritty snapshot of the British indie rock scene of that era. The album is a raw, chaotic mix of punk energy and poetic lyricism, with standout tracks like 'Can't Stand Me Now' and 'Music When the Lights Go Out.' Its unpolished production perfectly mirrors the volatile relationship between Pete Doherty and Carl Barat, adding emotional depth to their performances. While often compared to their debut Up the Bracket, this record stands apart, embodying a reckless musical spirit that has since become iconic."
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Sep 30 2024
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5
Havde givet 6 hvis jeg kunne. BANGER BANGER BANGER
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Sep 10 2024
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I no longer ear the muuuusicccc...
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Sep 06 2024
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5
Probably a better album than the band's debut *Up The Brackets*, thanks to more memorable songwriting, more dynamic instrumentation, and crispier production, *The Libertines* is the textbook early-noughts retro-rock album, which makes it kind of essential. Pete Doherty's sense of pace as a vocalist is still as rambling as ever, but provided he doesn't sing total duds (looking at you, "Don't Be Shy"), his performance is fully endearing here. And "Can't Stand Me Now", "The Man Who Would Be King", "The Ha Ha Wall", "Tomblands", "Road To Ruins", and "What Became Of The Likely Lads" are absolute garage rock gems.
4.5/5 for the purposes of this list of "essential" albums, rounded up to 5.
9.5/10 for more general purposes (5+4.5).
Number of albums left to review: 75
Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 398 (including this one)
Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 231
Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 297
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Jul 05 2024
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cool
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Jun 29 2024
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5
¡Me ha encantado!
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Apr 29 2024
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5
One of the bands that began a long lasting love for this genre, indie sleaze. Perfect in every way, Can’t Stand Me Now is one of my favourite songs of all time.
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Sep 01 2024
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5
Highly enjoyable. Love how shambolic it is. Sure, Pete Doherty doesn't have a strong voice, but it sounds just right for this material. Feels like a five to me today.
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Apr 12 2024
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I guess these two Herberts are the pinnacle of “indie sleaze” which I think means they were stinky skag heads in skinny jeans. I used to listen to them a lot when I was a teenager, and I definitely preferred their first album but revisiting this for the first time in ages I think it stands up well. I always thought it would fall apart if they didn’t have such a solid rhythm section, and the sound of scrappy guitars and sloppy vocals over that solid foundation still sounds really good.
I think the song writing is high quality and it’s a shame the many imitators that came afterwards dragged them into the indie landfill category.
The album actually gets a lot better as it goes on, I’d forgotten how good ‘the haha wall’ and ‘campaign of hate’ are. It ends strongly on a bittersweet note which is pure nostalgia for me.
I can imagine our American friends struggling with this one but I think it’s eclectic and enjoyable the whole way through.
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Apr 03 2024
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Brilliant
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Feb 28 2024
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I’ve always liked the simple and raw sound of The Libertines and this is their best album in my opinion
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Feb 24 2024
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One of the better 2000s indie/garage rock albums on here. I’d say it’s of a similar caliber as The Strokes. Rock on 🤘
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Jun 01 2023
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Better dan ik me herinner. Prima album.
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Feb 22 2024
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Genre: Garage rock revival, indie rock
2004
Standouts: Can't Stand Me Now, What Became of the Likely Lads, What Kate Did, Arbeit Macht Frei, Music When the Lights Go Out, The Saga, Road to Ruin,
Excellent: 3.75/5
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Jun 02 2023
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A modern fusion of garage rock (in the same vein as Franz Ferdinand or Arctic Monkeys) with 60s British soft rock (Soft Faces or the Kinks). It's groovy and catchy with a raw bluesy live-sounding instrumental that takes influence from surf rock. Even hearing jazz in "The Man Who Would Be King". The chords and beats are basic, adhering to the punk style but with distortion put to the max. The vocalists conflict with each other in a fun way, singing different lines or scatting different noises.
Tons of highlights, at least three quarters left some kind of impression. This is exactly my type of music, so I fell in love with most of these tracks. I heard "Up the Bracket" is even better so surely checking that out.
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Apr 24 2023
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Albumčina
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Feb 29 2024
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Good aughties sound (similar to the Strokes for me) that is tight and driving without that college radio "etheral hum" that I think is overdone.
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Feb 16 2024
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4
Solid.
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Sep 13 2023
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Pretty solid honestly. I'm kinda going back and forth with rating this a 3 or 4. On the one hand I like that the mood of the album is consistent and I think that is a mark of an artist knowing how to craft an album as a unified piece of work. There are no songs seem like they shouldn't be on the album. My problem I come back to though is that I didn't fall in love with any songs. Maybe if I listened to more of it I would get more hooked, but I don't know if this is an album I would come back to.
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Feb 23 2024
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Honestly, I expected to hate and at best be indifferent to this album. But honestly? It’s quite good. It starts off strong with “Can’t Stand Me Now” and has some other really good songs, including “Music When The Lights Go Out,” “What Katie Did,” and “What Became Of The Likely Lads.” Parts of it were a little dull and redundant, but overall it was a surprisingly solid album.
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Mar 06 2024
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Very good but I liked Up the Bracket more
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Feb 17 2024
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I enjoyed the timeless rock sound of this album.
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Feb 13 2024
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4
Loved these guys, too bad pete couldnt leave the heroin alone and they couldnt get along. Could have been much more from them. Great album
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Jun 14 2023
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4
This was more enjoyable and catchy than I had expected.
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Jul 18 2023
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4
Good for a wanker. 4 stars.
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Feb 17 2024
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I’m a sucker for a British accent. Good songs too!
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Feb 17 2024
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Very fun!
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Feb 14 2024
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Good album! can't stand me now reminds me of a very specific time in my teens, this appeared on some kind of compilation CD. Now I have lots more associations with Luke who regails stories of the Libertines in the Medway scene
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Feb 17 2024
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First listen was okay, I kind of liked it. Second listen was better, I really liked it. A third listen may have had me in love, but we agreed to keep it casual.
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Feb 12 2024
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Favourite song - music when the lights go out
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Mar 17 2024
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Sounds sort of like a British version of the Replacements. I liked the album enough but it gets an extra star for how awesome Music When The Lights Go Down is. That track is a masterpiece.
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Jan 24 2024
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A surprise for sure. Never have heard of this band.
Was very impressed with the guitar work. Has a garage rock meets indie... Maybe some blues inspiration in there.
The best way I can describe this to non Libertines fans is that they have a Black Keys meets Arctic Monkeys feel to it.
At glance from the artwork, I was thinking that was going to be another punk like band... And I was reluctant to hit play.
But I was very pleased with what came after hitting play.
I would like to revisit this album again at a later date and see if they still resonate with me.
Solid listen.
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Jan 24 2024
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4
Very early 2000's, Strokes-like, short catchy tunes.
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Jan 29 2024
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Album cover screams mid-2000s angst. Can't Stand Me Now drops into a more garage/ska/punk vibe than I was initially anticipating. The mix is really claustrophobic, but otherwise, I actually enjoy the song.
Music When The Lights Go Out is a lovely, sloppy jam. Rough edges, but the jamming is solid and I like the ascending guitar throughout.
Narcissist also is a ripper, and I like the almost surf rock feel of The Ha Ha Wall that takes a darker, more proggy turn around the 1:45 mark. Intro to Campaign of Hate sounds a ton like a Primus song; carries a similar eeriness throughout. Album ends on a calm note with a stripped away acoustic song called What Became of the Likely Lads.
I enjoyed this album way more than I expected to. Rough around the edges in the best way, with a lot of different styles in play. I enjoyed most of what I heard with little exception. Was anything mind-blowing? No. Will I listen again? Probably. Solid 4 / 5.
- The Ha Ha Wall (Driving)
- Arbeit Macht Frei (Skate Mix)
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Feb 02 2024
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I kind of liked it. Punk garage rock with a clash sound. Will listen again.
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Mar 28 2023
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3.5 / 4 stars
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Aug 31 2023
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J'ai trouvé ca bon pour vrai. Garage punk rock band anglais. Ca aurait pu être vraiment moyen, mais il y ad e la variété dans les chansons. Les voix sont bonne et c'est bien produit, pas trop ''punk'' pour que je perde le gout apres un bout. Assez rock pour que je reste intéressé. 4.
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Apr 27 2023
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4
It shows such promise, I just wish it were tighter and more polished.
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Feb 08 2024
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I liked most of this one. It kind of falls off though.
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Dec 25 2023
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Libertines sind absolute Klassiker für alle die Britpop/Indie Rock mögen. Das Album geht bisschen mehr in die punk Richtung, als die musik vieler anderer Interpreten aus dem Britpop, ich mag das aber gerne. Nur mit Pete Dohertys stimme tue ich mich ein bisschen schwer.
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Jul 16 2023
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I mean, sure. It’s generic indie, but I like most indie anyway. Enjoyable - you know, even though I liked it, it’s not really noteworthy.
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Dec 08 2023
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4
They burned brightly for a while.
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Dec 06 2023
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Pretty decent mid 2000s indie rock. I had a good time listening to it, will listen again.
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Dec 01 2023
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4
There are some solid tunes on this album. I’ll definitely check out some of their other stuff.
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Nov 28 2023
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British 2000s Rock Revival is my shit. I don't like it as much as the Americans and their Garage Rock revolution, but it's pretty good.
Nonetheless, I think this is a lesser album of the subgenre.
Good! Listenable! Lots of fun! Would have dug it in high school. But not excellent
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Nov 27 2023
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And, with that, The Libertines had capitulated. The mountain that had offered upward trajectories towards fame, glory, drugs and whatever else was fancied had become too much and the air within it was now unbearable to take in. Regardless of the platonic love (and seeming protection displayed) spilled across the cover and the music, tensions had overflowed as though it were boiled tea in a paper cup and, as though it was it's wont to do, the British rock music scene was again left in a vacuum; which is fitting given everything here sounds ripe for dour and dire lifting and copying somewhere down the line. Yet none of that would sound as good and as dynamic as this. Possibly their very best or just as good as what came before. One of the last times British rock captured true lightning in a bottle.
Favorites: Can't Stand Me Now, Don't Be Shy, The Man Who Would Be King, Music When the Lights Go Out, Narcissist, The Ha Ha Wall, Campaign of Hate, What Katie Did, What Became of the Likely Lads.
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Nov 28 2023
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Perfectly nestled in the Brit Pop strain of early 2000s Garage Rock revival
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Sep 01 2023
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The Libertines' self-titled album is a gritty and chaotic masterpiece that encapsulates the raw energy of the mid-2000s British indie rock scene. Released in 2004, it's a whirlwind of poetic lyrics and disheveled guitar riffs. Tracks like "Can't Stand Me Now" and "Music When the Lights Go Out" capture the band's tumultuous spirit. The album's production is unpolished, perfectly reflecting the band's turbulent journey. Though its rough edges might deter some listeners, "The Libertines" remains an iconic album that documents a chaotic moment in rock history, making it a must-listen for fans of the era and those intrigued by the band's rollercoaster narrative.
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May 12 2023
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A pasty white, sweaty orgy that's got out of hand, but you're still going to join. Give us a hand job whilst I touch your wife's bits, Tony.
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Aug 18 2023
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Peppy bar music, with an underlying anger and punkness. They are easy to listen to, but also fun to listen to. Drawling vocals and lyrics, feel like someone is telling you a story. They put together rockabilly, indie, rock, punk, almost a beach rock quality. I definitely hear a barely early Arctic Monkeys and Fratellis sound to them.
Favorite Songs: Can't Stand Me Now, The Man Who Would Be King, Music When the Lights Go Out,
Least Favorite: Tomblands, The Saga
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Apr 07 2023
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I’m a big Libertines fan- love the energy.
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Nov 15 2023
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Awesome!
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Nov 08 2023
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Was unfamiliar with this band.. I like this album enouyto give another listen..
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May 12 2023
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Wow! I really liked this. Sort of Arctic Monkeys meets the Kinks. Great energy. 4 stars.
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Nov 16 2023
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I was concerned as I realized after very little investigation that this particular record was included in some editions of the 1001 but not the one I was working off of.
Usually these records are thought of as being groundbreaking or interesting at the time, and then are pulled for better stuff later. Often these are UK bands.
I liked this record. It is "post punk" in every sense of the phrase. It might not be groundbreaking and may be overrated, but it has good energy and I enjoyed listening to it.
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Nov 08 2023
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I like the vibes, but the album didn’t hold my attention the whole time.
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Nov 05 2023
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Another classic record from my youth. I think actually I heard this one in full before “Up The Bracket” and it totally holds a good space in my memories, but in retrospective I have to say it’s inferior to its predecessor and it drags in the middle for a good while. Having said that, songs like Last post on the Bugle, What Katie Did or What Became of the Likely Lads are awesome and a testament of why this record is on the list. I’ll give it a four and save the five for the debut record (it is on the list right?)
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Oct 26 2023
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Jumbled messy stream-of-consciousness junkie logic stories about nothing and everything, from a time guitars were endangered and english kids thought this lot could help bring them back. Interesting and, in the uk, important, and surprisingly good
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Nov 17 2023
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bueno 👍
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