Anyone a fan of The Libertines?

[NORTHCOAST]

I have been listening to The Libertines' Up the Bracket CD lately.  I read in Rolling Stone that someone in the record biz compared them to the 1962 Beatles.  So I picked it up at the library.  I can definitely hear the Beatles influences on this album.  Question:  is the same person singing the lead vocal on all the songs?  I tried to decipher the liner notes but they must have been high when they designed them.  I actually kind of like this album.  The songs are edgy, yet familiar because of their influences.  Any opinions?

[Miguelín]

Only two great songs on the album: "Time For Heroes" & "Up the Bracket", but no a good album as a whole, very inconsistent

[Pet Shop Boy]

I despise them. Pete Doherty is a hyped up heroin addicted loser who will be proclaimed as some kind of tragic rock God when he carks it. And the saddest thing is he knows it.

[NORTHCOAST]

MandyfanUK said:

I despise them. Pete Doherty is a hyped up heroin addicted loser who will be proclaimed as some kind of tragic rock God when he carks it. And the saddest thing is he knows it.

Yeah, I read that he's an accident waiting to happen.  But the other guy was very sweet and thoughtful in a couple of interviews I've read.  They certainly have an odd relationship.  Don't know if they're lovers or soul mates or what. 

I really like Time for Heroes a lot!  And I like Boys in the Band and What a Waster too.  The only song I really don't care for is Horror Show, mainly because the vocal is so messy.  I actually like the album which surprises me.  I usually don't like what the critics do like.  But there's something about its energy and raucousness that strikes me.  I also like the Beatles vibe. It almost feels as if I knew some of the songs the first time I listened to it. 

[jaxxalude]

What I think of The Libertines? O-V-E-R-R-A-T-E-D. It's almost sickening how NME (or New Musical Express, which is the Brit equivalent of Rolling Stone) makes such noise about such an ordinary band, almost to the point of product placement. Their music is on the wrong side of originality and creativity and gives reason to all those who see this current retro-rock trend as the final nail in the coffin for rock music as a relevant genre, in the sense that it almost seems like there's nothing else to do but recycle the same formulas and schemes ad infinitum.
To be honest (and don't see it as some kind of personal disrespect from my part), their music is appropriate for people who are totally afraid of what might defy them artistically. In short: people who are afraid of evolution.
As for Pete Doherty, Mandy already said everything.

OK, rant over. ;)