The Libertines Up the Bracket
Rolling Stone: 3.5 stars out of 5 - "[N]o band in recent history has better captured the vertiginous experience of falling apart and loving it."
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Vinyl LP Details
- Released: October 21, 2002
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Rough Trade
Entertainment Reviews:
Rolling Stone - 12/25/03, p.108
Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2003" - "...The thrill is hearing the Libertines try--not too hard--to keep it together..."Rolling Stone - p.79
3.5 stars out of 5 - "[N]o band in recent history has better captured the vertiginous experience of falling apart and loving it."Rolling Stone - p.146
Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - "[T]he Libs still sound like a gloriously combustible rock & roll mess..."Spin - 5/03, p.109
"...This is music to play in dark, velvety, womblike bars; this is music to play while buying cigarettes....If the Libertines represent the first wave of well-Stroked clone bands, we are optimistic..." - Grade: ASpin - p.115
"[A] dark, tense record, but one still crackling with life." - Grade: A-Spin - p.64
Ranked #30 in Spin's "40 Best Albums of the Year" - "Barat concludes this beautiful train wreck with a warm-hearted yet cold-eyed three-song intervention..."Q - 11/03, p.136
4 stars out of 5 - "...This lot splutter like unsafe fireworks. They could and should be huge..."Q - p.108
4 stars out of 5 - "[B]rimming with character, easily surpassing their debut, its energy level like a battery charge."Uncut - p.128
"[L]ike The Clash's LONDON CALLING before it, repeat listenings reveal an endless succession of gorgeous hooks, spindly solos and tunes to hum forever."Uncut - p.94
5 stars out of 5 - "If rock 'n' roll is all about freedom and the consequences that come with that, there's never been a better handbook."Uncut - p.74
Ranked #22 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "[Their] punk discharges on love, drugs and mutual loathing sound beautifully, if brutally, honest."Magnet - p.114
"[T]he catchy THE LIBERTINES mostly proves the Brits have always taken their pop much more seriously than we ever have."CMJ - p.8
"At their best, the Libertines are a band worthy of the overseas claims that they're the next Kinks or Jam."Mojo (Publisher) - p.60
Ranked #57 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "The Libertines slap you in the chops like a Francis Bacon painting."Mojo (Publisher) - p.94
4 stars out of 5 - "[A]n extraordinary, challenging second LP, suffused with tenderness and anger..."Tracks on Disc 1:
- 1.Vertigo
- 2.Death On The Stairs
- 3.Horrorshow
- 4.Time For Heroes
- 5.Boys In The Band
- 6.Radio America
Tracks on Disc 2:
- 1.Up The Bracket
- 2.Tell The King
- 3.The Boy Looked At Johnny
- 4.Begging
- 5.The Good Old Days
- 6.I Get Along
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 107,480
- UPC: 5050159806515
- Shipping Weight: 0.50/lbs (approx)
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