Up the Bracket (album)
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| Studio album by The Libertines | ||
| Released | October 14, 2002 | |
| Recorded | Summer 2002 | |
| Genre | Post Punk Revival, Indie rock | |
| Length | 39:28 (sans track 14) | |
| Label | Rough Trade | |
| Producer(s) | Mick Jones | |
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| The Libertines chronology | ||
| Up The Bracket (2002) |
The Libertines (2004) |
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Up the Bracket is the debut album from The Libertines, released on the 14th of October, 2002, reaching #35 in the UK Albums chart.
The album was re-released on the 8th of September, 2003 with an additional track, "What a Waster" and DVD featuring the promotional videos for the singles: "Up the Bracket", "Time for Heroes" and "I Get Along".
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[edit] Name
There are several explanations for the debut album's name. "Up the Bracket" is a slang term for snorting cocaine. [1] The name may also allude to the phrase used by British comedian Tony Hancock in Hancock's Half Hour, a slang term meaning a punch in the throat. Hancock is also referenced in the opening track, Vertigo - "lead pipes, your fortune's made", being a line from the Half Hour episode 'The Poetry Society'. Pete Doherty is known to be a life-long fan of Hancock and a member of the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society, as well as featuring on a BBC documentary about him.[1]
[edit] Miscellaneous
The Libertines' breakthrough was the start of a revival for the British rock scene, with many bands including Razorlight, The Paddingtons, Arctic Monkeys, The View, The Kooks and many others influenced by the album.
The title of track 9, "The Boy Looked at Johnny", is taken from the lyrics of Patti Smith's classic song-suite "Land", from the album Horses and is commonly thought to be about Johnny Borrell, frontman of Razorlight and former Libertines bassist.
[edit] Track listing
- "Vertigo" – 2:37
- "Death on the Stairs" – 3:24
- "Horrorshow" – 2:34
- "Time for Heroes" – 2:40
- "Boys in the Band" – 3:42
- "Radio America" – 3:44
- "Up the Bracket" – 2:40
- "Tell the King" – 3:22
- "The Boy Looked at Johnny" – 2:38
- "Begging" – 3:20
- "The Good Old Days" – 2:59
- "I Get Along" – 2:51
- "What a Waster" – 2:57
- "Mockingbird" / "Mayday"
"What a Waster" and "Mockingbird" are extra tracks on the US and Japanese releases.
"What a Waster" is an extra track on the UK re-release.
"Mayday" is an additional extra track on the Australian release, along with "What a Waster".
[edit] Press Quotes
"Up the Bracket is the assured debut of the most debauched newcomers on the rock scene for some time: the Libertines." – BBC
"...you'll be hard-pushed to find a more pulsating debut by a Brit guitar band all year." - Manchester Online
"Finally we have a bona fide, modern punk band that actually made it out of high school; a band who've got the spirit and the balls, whose lyrical repertoire extends far beyond the naïve teenage escapades of their love-struck American counterparts." - designerpunk.com
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Doherty, Jacqueline. "Pete Doherty's mum reveals her son's softer side", Daily Mail, 27 August 2006. Retrieved on August 29, 2006.
| Carl Barât | Peter Doherty | John Hassall | Gary Powell |
| Anthony Rossomando | Johnny Borrell | Paul Dufour | Steve Bedlow (Scarborough Steve) |
| Discography |
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| Albums and EPs: Up the Bracket | I Get Along EP | The Libertines |
| Singles: "What a Waster" | "Up the Bracket" | "Time for Heroes" | "Don't Look Back into the Sun" | "Can't Stand Me Now" | "What Became of the Likely Lads" |
| DVDs: Boys in the Band | Who the Hell Is Pete Doherty? |
| Books: The Libertines Bound Together |
| Related articles |
| Babyshambles | Dirty Pretty Things | Yeti | Bootlegs |
