We all got those Libertines records on repeat, two stereos, the debut playing to the left, the follow-up to the right, a man spunkin out the eye-holes, and here in front, Babyshambles, the lurching, fag-stained, dope-sick Nowadays.
"ARGGGGHHHHHHHH" he's screaming, "ARRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
Is he in pain? No, no don't you dare for a second even assume that right there, it's a defiant roar, he's barking half his kidneys out his face and dear God, if there's a more glorious sound to be found anywhere this side a Shane MacGowan's screamed "Come on you bastard!!" in "Bottle Of Smoke" then I ain't ever heard the fucker.
"I severed my ties!"
Yes! Sever the fuckers, but wait, what ties are these? The Libertines, we can safely assume, since yeah, pretty much the majority of Pete's Babyshambles venom seems to be reserved for Carl and the lads.
What about that reunion a while back, though, that hug at the Shane MacGowan concert, what about the tears and the conversations stinking of chat along the lines of "Don't tell nobody, but I been thinking for a while now that I might be that bit more hopeful about a third Libertines record one of these years."
"Don't tell nobody", she says, leaning cross the bed, "I been thinking that too."
"Can we fuck forever?"
But whether or not he's singing to Carl or The Man or somebody used to pay him a couple quid for to steal the milk out next door's fridge, no matter never mind, it's one of those universal things, is what it is.
"Purgatory and happy families…
One and the same, one and the same
No! It's not the same!
It's not supposed to be the same!"
What the fuck is he talking about? Who the hell cares, two seconds later it's the drunken bray of the bridge…
"But what about that waaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy?
The way they make you paaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy?
And!
The way!
The way they make you tow the line!"
Jesus, that beat, like the throb in the back-bone bent cross a worktop catching glimpses of God in the calm between the thrusts.
Can you believe I didn't like it the first few times I heard it? Can you possibly for a second understand that The Duke chanced upon Zane Lowe preaching Gabba & Punk out the speakers one evening, just in time for the premier of the new single from Babyshambles, "gonna be huge!" Zane assured me, who was I to argue?
Maybe it's cause first time Zane spun that fucker it was a censored version, so 90% of the hook got tossed out the BBC buildings to crawl home in the midst of a PCP frenzy. Maybe so, I can hardly consider it now, since I'm battering the keys to the rhythm, to the swell of that chorus, of the angelic "laaaa… la la la la" in the background, the guitar line like a shota hellfire to the prostate.
Article comments
1 - rach
also, may I had that this song is expected to get into the top 5
2 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
rach, it went to number four!! brilliant!!!!!
3 - Bennett
"stinging like a fresh fag-burn on the tip a the sex"
hahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
but seriously Duke, I've never experienced that.
too fucking funny. Great review. I'm buyin' it.
4 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
glad you dug it Bennett! with regards the fag-burn on the sex-limb, its somethin i'd rather not get into...
5 - person
you guys are idiots... taking someone's lyrics that obviously weren't written he was in a condition/state quite different to ours at the moment, and just analyzing them completely literally. you've got to be kidding me. you guys don't have a clue, maybe you should take those textbooks out of your arses and think of something smart to say instead.
6 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Person, much appreciated, but i dunno where you got this analyzing idea from. this wasn't a review or anything of the sort, it was about tryin to grab hold a the emotion stirred by the piece in question. i didn't say a damn thing about the lyrics, i said "what does it mean? who knows?" etc, as in, for the purposes of jiving along at the time, it didn't matter to me. an i gotta say, textbooks up the arse make for fun times, given the right subject (i was blind for two weeks followin a stint wi a economics number)
7 - Paul Harris
"The Duke", you are a grade A idiot... before you write a huge essay to slag off a song and arist you know nothing about, at least get the lyrics right before you quote them. For example, your closing quote... WRONG!
He says:
"Oh, I'm so clever, but clever ain't wise".
Purgatory and happy families eh? That's very interesting since he says
"Pregatory and oh, happy families"
You loser! I suppose your idea of a good song is the friggin' cheeky girls is it? Next time, write about something you know!
Paul Harris
8 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Paul, i'm not sure how to appraoch that cause i can only assume it's a joke. because to assume i was slagging anything off here, the person reading would have to be fuckin blind.
Seriously, are you mad?? HOW and WHERE did i slag this off? the fuckin title alone implies that it makes me cum! god in heaven, man, what kinda voodoo you been on?
thank you
9 - Bennett
Yo, Paul Harris - Hey man, watch out for yourself. That kind of unwarrented hostility and anger tends to cause all sortsa health problems.
Question is, did you find the piece funny, or not?
As entertainment, I dug it. For something to get torqued off over, there are lots of posts in the poliics collumn more worthy of your mindless rage.
Cheers!
10 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Bennett, what baffles me is how Paul got the impression i don't adore the song with every fuckin ounce of my being?? seriously, the only thing i can think of is the bit that says;
"Can you believe I didn't like it the first few times I heard it? Can you possibly for a second understand that The Duke chanced upon Zane Lowe preaching Gabba & Punk out the speakers one evening, just in time for the premier of the new single from Babyshambles, "gonna be huge!" Zane assured me, who was I to argue? "
that's the only thing here that's anything less than soaked in ecstasy at the thought of the track in question. Paul gets kudos for obviously bein a Believer, an all power man, but seriously, i think you need to re-read what's goin on here.
maybe i'll change it to "I Fucking ADORE Babyshambles, Case There's Any Confusion"
11 - name wha?
what's wrong with 'oh yoko' anyway?