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Album Review

Release date: 30 August 2004

The Libertines - The Libertines

Various : Bring Your Own Poison: Live At The Rhythm Factory

Four Libertines/Doherty tracks and a new wave legend in this grimy snapshot of the grot’n’roll uprising

Standing next to Libertines manager Alan McGee at about 2.30am on a Friday in March in London’s Rhythm Factory, I witnessed something truly mindboggling. New wave legend/junkie waster Peter Perrett – never has so much talent been spunked for the sake of a blackened spoon – clambered onstage to join The Libertines to play ‘Don’t Look Back Into The Sun’. It was eye-popping,...

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The Libertines - The Libertines: Wikipedia Album Entry

"The Libertines" is the self-titled, second and last, album by London-based rock band The Libertines. It was released in 2004 and reached number 1 in the UK and number 5 in Ireland. The album has since gone Platinum. The album features singles "Can't Stand Me Now" and "What Became Of The Likely Lads".

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The Libertines - The Libertines Lyrics

The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now Lyrics

An ending fitting for the start
You twist and tore our love apart
Your light fingers through the dark
Shattered the lamp, into darkness it cast us all

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The Libertines - What Became Of The Likely Lads Lyrics

Please don't get me wrong
See I forgive you in a song
Will call the likely lads
But, if it's left to you

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The Libertines - Road To Ruin Lyrics

How can we
(How can we)
Make you understand
(Make you understand)

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The Libertines - Saga Lyrics

A problem, becomes a problem
When you let down your friends
When you let down the people
When you let down yourself

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The Libertines - Tomblands Lyrics

High register operational

In the land of the gouging skiving sun
Their bodies in the room, lad

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The Libertines - What Katie Did Lyrics

Shoop shoop, shoop delang a lang
Shoop shoop, shoop delang a lang
Shoop shoop, shoop delang a lang
Shoop shoop, shoop delang a lang

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The Libertines - Campaign Of Hate Lyrics

There's a campaign of hate
It's waiting at the school gates
Not for what I am aware
Must be what you wrote

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The Libertines - Arbeit Macht Frei Lyrics

Roll a gasper
The guard said he could stay alive
But he has to shovel and burn his friends to die
People do die and on the gate read

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The Libertines - Ha Ha Wall Lyrics

If you get tired
Of just hanging around
Pick up a guitar
And spin a web of sound

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The Libertines - Narcissist Lyrics

Professionally trendy in the glow of Clapham Sun
There's life after work and it can be such fun
You see all the models in magazines and on the walls
You wanna be just like them 'cause they're so cool

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The Libertines - Music When the Lights Go Out Lyrics

Is it cruel or kind not to speak my mind
And to lie to you rather than hurt you?
Well, I'll confess all of of my sins
After several large gins

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The Libertines - Man Who Would Be King Lyrics

I have a secret for you

I've been told if you want to make it in this game
Got to have the luck

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The Libertines - Don't Be Shy Lyrics

Ahh, don't be shy
Don't be shy
For if you are shy for tomorrow
You'll be shy for

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The Libertines - Last Post on the Bugle Lyrics

If I have to go
I will be thinkin' of your love
Oh somehow you'll know
You will know

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The Libertines - France [hidden Track] Lyrics

The ideal girl, in London from France
Came over then left me, she left me entranced
Now I have to get by once again on my own
Nothing but memories

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