Classic 5/10 act so voting impossible. Have them a 3 though as did have a good time with them, for a bit, and that is more than most bands.
I know thereâs been an element of this in music journalism (and in the industry as a whole) - but thereâs something quite disturbing about the enabling / glamourisation of heroin and crack use. The guy has a lifelong addiction.
Musically they do nothing for me, so itâs a 1.
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I was into it at the time. Went through a big phase of loving the landfill indie and whatever the NME was pedalling. Look, we all have regrets, right?
I do have fond memories of a Barrowlands gig in 03/04 that was a total riot.
But no, theyâre garbage 1.
Also, went to London for that free Rage Against The Machine gig back in the day and ran into Carl Barat in a pub afterwards. My friend went to say hello to him, he was a dick and claimed not to be Carl Barat. When she turned away he said âwait, would it be a bad thing if I was?â She called him a cunt, quite rightly.
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Not as bad as people on here make out, but equally not as good as all my friends made out when we were 15. Iâve always had a soft spot for this song:
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Absolutely loved Up the Bracket as a teenager, seemed like a really thrilling record and I definitely bought into the whole mystique of it all. Even when I was younger the second album clearly wasnât up to much. Could probably scrape together an albumâs worth of stuff from the two that Iâd still enjoy, but it hasnât aged well really.
Youâd have to be pretty churlish to deny that Donât Look Back Into The Sun is brilliant though, the intro to that will always sound amazing.
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By birth and school locality. I donât actually watch football because itâs fucking dull. But obviously I am Gooner-sympathetic
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I was about 17/18 when they were at their peak so I should have been into them but I wasnât, thought they were sloppy and this romanticised version of old England irked me a bit. My cousin who was 10 years older than me loved them though and would come down to London from Stevenage to go to their gigs and would always get me a ticket so I do have fond memories of the gigs and the atmosphere, people bloody loved that band.
Iâve got older and appreciated them a bit more when I hear a song be it on Spotify randomly or whatever, theyâre catchy little tunes delivered with a lot of energy which more than makes up for their sloppiness. Wouldnât work at all without that drummer who is superb.
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0 option please
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I quite like how Carl Barat talks like not a real person
pretty sure i was at this gig
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Was going to say maybe it wasnât him or he didnât want to be disturbed but that second bit is a big LOL either way
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Reading through this I guess Iâm in a minority. But⊠I really like their first 2 albums a lot.
I find the back story to the song âCanât Stand me nowâ interesting and I think Canât Stand me Now has one of my all time favourite intros to any song. 4
funnily enough i gave up the bracket a spin over the weekend, itâs a good fun record. the rest of their stuff doesnât do anything for me. always bugged me that a lot of the music press tried to paint doherty as some romantic poet type when in fact he was a junkie who stole from his friends.
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Related story, when me and my partner at the time had a wee jaunt up the Scottish highlands before our move to Germany we stayed at a familyâs guest house/air bânâb on the outskirts of Inverness. They were lovely people but the mother was OBSESSED with The Libertines, Amy Winehouse and that mini Brit-pop revival around that time, to the point that she had named one of her children âCamdenâ to which I couldnât help but feel sorry for the potential bullying that may causeâŠ
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Grim stuff. Is the case resolved now?
Couldnât help but smile at âRoundhill describes the flat as an intellectual salon but concedes others saw it as a crack den.â
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Pure shite.
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So bad itâs just kind of baffling. 1.
Absolute bullshit. I was too old at the time and theyâve never pulled me in.
Was going to bump the score up for that breakfast but then realised i hadnât scored others on their breakfast consumption so that wouldnât be fair. Upon reflection it doesnât make up for all the shit music and fuss anyway so 1 is a fair score.
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Man Who Would Be King has that same sort of feeling I get from Jugband Blues by Pink Floyd⊠the last gasp of a genuine talent before plummeting into the abyss.
I had a lot of goodwill towards them back then - addiction is a disease rather than a choice, but damn if Pete Doherty isnât the worldâs most efficacious good-will singularity. The numerous for recoveries immediately followed by interviews where he gleefully tells us how quickly he got back on the gear, the deeply suspicious circumstances around the death at that party, stories of injecting unconscious people and just a seeming trail of abject devastation left in his wake.
Sadly I think we know how the story ends - diminishing return on repeated nostalgia tours and endless guardian articles about a hipster hotel. Genuinely think they could have been special. As it is there were a handful of good songs on each record, a lot of crap filler, a cautionary tale and an increasingly tawdry footnote in music history.
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Who on the list could eat the biggest breakfast? I reckon Springsteen would have a good go.
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