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Ever heard of the Libertines?

jimmythingjimmything Posts: 11
edited January 2006 in Other Music
If you're from the UK, probably yes, if not probably no, I'm guessing.

They're a great garage-type rock band. Now split up, however they have two fantastic CD's.

I can't get enough of them.
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  • ms11781ms11781 Posts: 88
    jimmything wrote:
    If you're from the UK, probably yes, if not probably no, I'm guessing.

    They're a great garage-type rock band. Now split up, however they have two fantastic CD's.

    I can't get enough of them.

    I thought they were ok. To me they seemed like a band that people thought we destined for heights they could never attain. It wasn't their fault that people hyped them so much, but if you just take a look at Pete Doherty you had to realize that they were in trouble from the start. I first checked them out because I'm a huge Clash fan and Mick Jones produced one (maybe both, I'm not sure) of their albums and spoke so highly of them.
  • jimmythingjimmything Posts: 11
    ms11781 wrote:
    I thought they were ok. To me they seemed like a band that people thought we destined for heights they could never attain. It wasn't their fault that people hyped them so much, but if you just take a look at Pete Doherty you had to realize that they were in trouble from the start. I first checked them out because I'm a huge Clash fan and Mick Jones produced one (maybe both, I'm not sure) of their albums and spoke so highly of them.


    From what I gather, many critics had them pegged as the second coming of the Strokes before their first album landed. Doherty's vocals seem so disjointed and unpolished (which I like), especially on the second album.

    It was a band I definitely had to warm up to, but have since enjoyed more.
  • VONVON Posts: 259
    I've heard cant stand me now and read heaps about them in Q but thats it. They're not very big outside of the U.K
  • UpHereInMyTree500UpHereInMyTree500 Posts: 1,772
    Yeah I've heard Can't Stand Me Now.
    Cool song but not cool enough for me to buy the albums!
    hehehe
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  • pearlzepfanpearlzepfan Posts: 456
    Their first album is amazing, "Up the Bracket" (nearly perfect). Their second album (simply self titled) is a but underwhelming but still worth checking out. They were a terrific band only if Pete could lay off the drugs. I had high hopes for Babyshambles, and while I like that album, it's not nearly as great as either Libs album. Best band to come out this decade

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  • ms11781ms11781 Posts: 88
    jimmything wrote:
    From what I gather, many critics had them pegged as the second coming of the Strokes before their first album landed. Doherty's vocals seem so disjointed and unpolished (which I like), especially on the second album.

    It was a band I definitely had to warm up to, but have since enjoyed more.

    When I said that people had them destined for heights they never could attain, I didn't really have the Strokes in mind. As far as critics having pegged them as the second coming of the Strokes, I don't think that's far off. The Strokes are more hype than anything else. The only difference that I see is that the Strokes are still a band. I think saying that the Libertines were pegged as the second coming of the Strokes is giving the Strokes far too much credit. I don't think either band is relevant, nor will the ever be, but it seems as if they both had/have the potential to be.
  • RamblingBlingRamblingBling Posts: 80
    I get along is my I'm late for work shower song. I can play that song and shower & brush my teeth in the shower & shave in the shower and be done at the same time the song is done .... 2:53

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  • mrwalkerbmrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    am I the only one who liked the second record better then the first?
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  • RamblingBlingRamblingBling Posts: 80
    I thought the second album was a clear attempt to sound like the libertines as opposed to just letting it come natural (a la micheal jackson and his "hehe"). the second libertines album was good, but the first album just has something
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  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,561
    hmm , think i have heard of them
  • black eyedblack eyed Posts: 10
    i am from europe and here you hear a lot about pete doherty...about his drug problems,his life,his relationship with kate moss...blah blah...but the libertines doesn't exist anymore....pete's new band are the babyshambles...you heard anything about them???
  • barcoachbarcoach Posts: 413
    They're like a band I wouldn't usually like, but truth is I love 'em.
    On the last few days I've blasted "Don't Look Back into the Sun" with the same frequency Pete Doherty snorts cocaine... just can't have enough of that song, is almost like a physical need... brilliant rock and roll.
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  • CortoCorto Posts: 36
    black eyed wrote:
    i am from europe and here you hear a lot about pete doherty...about his drug problems,his life,his relationship with kate moss...blah blah...but the libertines doesn't exist anymore....pete's new band are the babyshambles...you heard anything about them???

    They're great in Europe... and I think that they're "overestimate" (I'm french speaking and I can find a better word).. Babyshambles' album is really good.
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  • ladygooddivaladygooddiva Posts: 4,169
    they are cool
  • inner senseinner sense Posts: 74
    yes, i heard of them through my college radio station, they are or were very good.
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  • amentvedderamentvedder Posts: 3,610
    I love the Libs !
    fav songs - Vertigo, Campaign of Hate, Time For Heroes
    Babyshambles fukin rule an all :D Killa wot a tune and Loyalty Song
  • OmaramaOmarama Posts: 267
    i've heard of them, but don't know much about them
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  • Hitch-HikerHitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    Libertines were good enough, but I think Babyshambles are terrible. They can't play. Any performance I've seen on the tv has been out of tune and out of time. Pete Doherty is a mess. He can't perform at all, which is a shame because underneath all the heroin and crack-cocaine there is some talent.
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