The Libertines: Up The Bracket - VINYL LP

Title: Up The Bracket
Artist: The Libertines
Label: Rough Trade Us
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 191402033212
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2022-10-21
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: ANNIVERSARY EDITION

Vinyl LP pressing. Up The Bracket arrived like a raging bull in a tired post-Britpop China shop and introduced the world to The Libertines, a new gang of London bohemians, whose ragged tunes, red military tunics, opiated poetry and 'live now pay never' lifestyle came to define the millennial angst of the early noughties. At the heart of the band is the blood bond bromance between the ramshackle Music Hall Jagger/Richards, Peter Doherty and Carl Barat, ably assisted by the rock solid rhythm twins John Hassall and Gary Powell. Any bookie worth his salt would have given you short odds on this quartet surviving more than a month or two, given the teetering on the brink lifestyle they chose to lead, but here we are two decades later and our Byronic heroes, though older and wiser, are still fighting the good fight and making music every bit as vital as their debut. The belief, talent and fervour that Doherty spoke of in their earliest manifesto has stood them in good stead. Up The Bracket, justly considered one of the greatest albums of the noughties, was originally released on October 21st 2002 by Rough Trade Records. The album, a heady stew of indie rock, skiffle, blues, dub and English bucolic pop, was a huge shot in the arm to a largely redundant music scene and helped to inspire the rebirth of guitar music, going on to influence countless artists who followed in it's wake. Up The Bracket, which was produced by Mick Jones of The Clash, takes you on a wondrously poetic journey into the band's mythical world and their fevered dreams of Albion, a land of squalid glamour, liberty, equality, fraternity, gin palaces and chip shops.

Tracks:
1.1 Vertigo
1.2 Death on the Stairs
1.3 Horror Show
1.4 Time for Heroes
1.5 Boys in the Band
1.6 Radio America
1.7 Up the Bracket
1.8 Tell the King
1.9 Boy Looked at Johnny
1.10 Begging
1.11 Good Old Days
1.12 I Get Along
2.1 Horrorshow [Live at the 100 Club]
2.2 Vertigo [Live at the 100 Club]
2.3 Delaney [Live at the 100 Club]
2.4 What a Waster [Live at the 100 Club]
2.5 Begging [Live at the 100 Club]
2.6 Time for Heroes [Live at the 100 Club]
2.7 Death on the Stairs [Live at the 100 Club]
2.8 Boys in the Band [Live at the 100 Club]
2.9 I Get Along [Live at the 100 Club]