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Track Listings
| 1. Vertigo |
| 2. Death On The Stairs |
| 3. Horrow Show |
| 4. Time For Heroes |
| 5. Boys In The Band |
| 6. Radio America |
| 7. Up The Bracket |
| 8. Tell The King |
| 9. The Boy Looked At Johnny |
| 10. Begging |
| 11. The Good Old Days |
| 12. I Get Along |
| 13. What A Waster |
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Can the debut album from London dandies the Libertines live up to the hype? With the Clash's Mick Jones at the production helm, gravelly tracks such as "Horror Show" and "The Boy Looked at Johnny" rattle along like first-gen punk classics. But like the Strokes, the Libertines manage to imbue snotty garage rock with a sort of wistful romanticism that adds genuine soul to their raucous clatter. Although there's no sign of "What a Waster," the single that made their name, there's no shortage of excellent tunes here. "Boys in the Band" is an affectionate ode to a groupie, with frontmen Pete Doherty and Carl Barat hollering: "And they all get 'em out / For the boys in the band." "I Get Along" proves that these boys have a knack for penning tight, nervy songs that evoke the Jam and the Buzzcocks. --Louis Pattison
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Like everyone else, I've heard all the comparisions, all the hype, and definitely all of the vaulted expectations for this band long before "Up The Bracket" had a release date.
I'm here to put your worries to rest folks. This indeed, is a great record. Oh yes, they sound like The Jam one minute, Madness the next and sometimes even The Clash too, but don't let that make you put this album back on the shelf. There is enough depth, talent and fun to rise far above the imitations.
"Up The Bracket" is filled with your classic Brit-punk single fare. Time For Heroes, What A Waster and Boys In The Band, all fit this bill to a "t." Every song is well written with great, sing-a-long pop melodies and a touch of punk angst and matching tempo thrown in for good measure. I also love tunes like Vertigo and Death On The Stairs for their Smiths-like musings. Somehow, the band bring all these influences and attitudes together throughout the entire record with some help from great production, or lack there-of. It's this production (coming from Mick Jones of The Clash) that has enough attitude and raw energy to fill a Sex Pistol yacht party. Making "Up The Bracket" the latest great link in the Brit-Rock chain.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
I had heard a bit about this band before I heard it playing in the CD store and impulse-bought it. Any given review of "Up The Bracket" compared it to the same set of bands: The Clash, The Jam, The Kinks, and The Strokes. As much as I loved the Strokes' debut album, The Libertines are doing it better...The melodies are more complex, the hooks are catchier, the production is rawer. This album will insinuate itself into heavy rotation on your stereo if you give it a chance. The faster, punkier songs will grab your attention at first, but it's the slower tracks that really stick.
Apparently there are two singers (though i can't tell who's who), and they are both big fans of degenerate debauchery. It sounds like they have to play this way or die, and its this urgency that's kept the best tracks on my iPod, and in my head, for the past week.
Apparently there are two singers (though i can't tell who's who), and they are both big fans of degenerate debauchery. It sounds like they have to play this way or die, and its this urgency that's kept the best tracks on my iPod, and in my head, for the past week.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Rock 'n' Roll Mythology. The Band as Mates. Albion. The Last Gang In Town. And so on...
Certain bands invite this. The belief that they are more important than just the music. We are talking lifestyle decisions, I suppose. Whilst The Clash obviously spring to mind in this respect (and courtesy of Mick Jones' production and the very nature of these songs I suppose they have to be the obvious reference point here in many regards...) it is equally as obvious that so do The Libertines.
This is rowdy, this is frantic rock 'n' roll and this is -crucially- about walking it like you talk it. "But I've never seen those flowers in the barrel of your gun" sneers Carl Barat poetically at one stage. Crucially.
There is nothing approaching a bad song, no filler, nothing less than rousing. Whether we're talking about Pete Doherty's perfect anthem of 'A Time For Heroes' where riots, "truncheons and shields", suspected infidelities and scenes of wasted youth meet and meld seamlessly or the song 'Up The Bracket' itself, almost tripping itself up in its running-ahead-of-itself frenzy what we are actually talking about is classic song after classic song.
The distinctions between pop, rock and punk are now so blurred that I didn't listen to this album initially and think 'oh, it's punk'. I thought 'oh my god, what SONGS!'. Things have moved on and there is nothing of the shock of the 'new' here - just quality songwriting. Which is more than enough.
'Vertigo' feels just right, just like it should as a dizzying opener and then 'Death On The Stairs' retains the air of bravado and so on...Each song a rush of adrenaline itself.
I sincerely believe that this is one of the best 20 albums ever released and am confident that it will last.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the band whose personal problems are well-documented. Sadly.
So...
The Libertines may well die. In the class they were born. But that's a class of their own. My love.
Certain bands invite this. The belief that they are more important than just the music. We are talking lifestyle decisions, I suppose. Whilst The Clash obviously spring to mind in this respect (and courtesy of Mick Jones' production and the very nature of these songs I suppose they have to be the obvious reference point here in many regards...) it is equally as obvious that so do The Libertines.
This is rowdy, this is frantic rock 'n' roll and this is -crucially- about walking it like you talk it. "But I've never seen those flowers in the barrel of your gun" sneers Carl Barat poetically at one stage. Crucially.
There is nothing approaching a bad song, no filler, nothing less than rousing. Whether we're talking about Pete Doherty's perfect anthem of 'A Time For Heroes' where riots, "truncheons and shields", suspected infidelities and scenes of wasted youth meet and meld seamlessly or the song 'Up The Bracket' itself, almost tripping itself up in its running-ahead-of-itself frenzy what we are actually talking about is classic song after classic song.
The distinctions between pop, rock and punk are now so blurred that I didn't listen to this album initially and think 'oh, it's punk'. I thought 'oh my god, what SONGS!'. Things have moved on and there is nothing of the shock of the 'new' here - just quality songwriting. Which is more than enough.
'Vertigo' feels just right, just like it should as a dizzying opener and then 'Death On The Stairs' retains the air of bravado and so on...Each song a rush of adrenaline itself.
I sincerely believe that this is one of the best 20 albums ever released and am confident that it will last.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the band whose personal problems are well-documented. Sadly.
So...
The Libertines may well die. In the class they were born. But that's a class of their own. My love.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Punk Rock Music!
The Libertines debut, UP THE BRACKET are a nice collection of punk rock songs a la The Clash! I really enjoy all the songs, especially VERTIGO, HORRORSHOW, UP THE BRACKET and GOOD... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Rio Fluzăo
5.0 out of 5 stars
Up the Bracket
This album is fantastic. Mountains of raw energy are packed into nearly every single song. I can't think of any tracks I consistently skip on the entire record. Read more
Published on February 14, 2011 by Eli
3.0 out of 5 stars
Bracket mostly upped
3 1/2
Retaining much raucousness (which even in a few years equates to a lot in the indie rock world) the sloppily charming lads work a nice range of post-punk assuring... Read more
Retaining much raucousness (which even in a few years equates to a lot in the indie rock world) the sloppily charming lads work a nice range of post-punk assuring... Read more
Published on October 2, 2009 by IRate
4.0 out of 5 stars
My Review as on punknews.....
What the Strokes' first album, Is This It? is to achieving American post-punk revival in the mainstream, Up the Bracket by the Libertines is the British equivalent of this... Read more
Published on April 21, 2009 by Nick Schwab
5.0 out of 5 stars
Masterpiece
Wow, this album, is just so great, such great songs, it opens with a killer trio that will leave you wanting for more, key tracks on this album are:Horrorshow,Vertigo,Time For... Read more
Published on March 23, 2007 by E. Aguilar
5.0 out of 5 stars
You need this.
I absoutely adore this album. It's intelligent, witty and overall a very good time. I say, buy it now.
Published on March 8, 2007 by Kelli A. Tammone
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the Greatest British Albums of the 2000s
There are very few albums of the 2000s that look like they'll be viewed as "classics" in years to come; the kind of albums that change the way people view music, maybe even inspire... Read more
Published on January 26, 2007 by mroxie
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent punk rock album
How could they part their own ways? This two vocalists went over to form the Baby Shambles and Dirty Pretty Things. Read more
Published on January 4, 2007 by Roger Arteaga Fonseca
1.0 out of 5 stars
Yawn...
Having grown up in London in the 70s and 80s, I actually saw the Jam, the Buzzcocks,and a host of other like bands so it is hard for me to appreciate this album; it is derivative... Read more
Published on August 18, 2006 by D. W. Covey
5.0 out of 5 stars
Rock isn't dead after all
Did you lose interest in new rock in the past several years because all those loud songs on the FM station sound about the same? Read more
Published on August 2, 2006 by David A. Bede
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