Waterloo to Anywhere

GREAT ALBUM.

Grateful band great album thanks

Well... sounds familiar.. but i like it

Superb album , can't fault it

This is a really, really good album, and it follows Babyshambles' debut by being basically how you'd expect the relevant Libertines to make music on his own.In Carl Barat's case, the songs are stomping, with the guitars loud, the rhythm of the words as fascinating as the melodies, and the words a little poeting, and quite a lot angry.The highlight without question is the brilliant single, Bang Bang You're Dead, with its infectious chorus and excellent lyric. Alongside that, though, are a number of songs which would comfortably have slotted in alongside most of the Libertines' work. My particular favourite is probably the opener, Deadwood, which breeds a lovely sense of excitement and sets the tone as Barat flexes his songwriting skills. Alongside this, though, are a number of other songs which don't deliver to the same high standard - Doctors and Dealers, for instance.I suppose the question which I asked myself after I'd bought this album, and which many of you will be asking yourselves is - is this like another Libertines album. And the answer is yes - although it lacks what Doherty added to the band, the element of weird and wonderful. And it lacks what the Libertines as a group brought, which is an originality and instantaneous infectiousness. This is a very good album, but you will need to listen to it for a bit first.

Good album but not one I would 'scream and shout' about... By that I mean it is no libertines album (hense the 'boys in the band' reference).

Carl Barat's such a talentuous guitar player and such a sensitive writer. You must have this album at home.

Given that I disliked The Libertines as shambolic idiocy that rode on the coat tails of Doherty's drug abuse, I was amazed when I heard this. Yeah, it punches all the right 'Englishness' buttons, but the urgency of the performances is compulsive. I have a particular destestation for people who claim that a band sounds 'too commercial'. These people equate raggedy-assed, half-baked songs ie.The Libertines, with passion or truth. They don't want their bands to be a success or widen their fan base, they want them pinned and mounted in amber as their personal little treasure. This album is a hundred times better than any of Barat's previous incarnation, which would suggest a certain 'tortured genius' was more of a dead weight than others might be willing to admit.Oh, and since nobody seems to have mentioned it, 'Enemy' is bloody fantastic.