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 | Best offer for waterloo to anywhere by dirty pretty thingsBest Price for waterloo to anywhere by dirty pretty things is at Amazon.co.uk - £3.45
Store: Amazon.co.uk - see offers at all stores | SummaryHis former Libertines bandmate may grab all the headlines, but Carl Barat's Dirty Pretty Things seem to have grabbed all of the tunes on Waterloo To Anywhere. Like The Jam, The Clash and even The Kinks, the Dirty Pretty Things have an innate ability to take their basic guitar-bass-drums setup and make them sound unmistakeably English. Of course, frontman Barat's laconic London accent helps, but it's more than that. The music, with it's mixture of punk rock and ska, owes a large debt to the aforementioned Clash--and, like them, the Dirty Pretty Things also know how to write a catchy tune, as anyone who's heard the single "Bang Bang You're Dead" will attest. Moreover, the lyrics are as reflective of contemporary Britain as anything by The Streets (particularly "You F*cking Love It"). Best of all, like the best punk albums, Waterloo to Anywhere is short, sharp and possessed of a tangible urgency--the album's 12 songs clock in at just about 36 minutes. Considering the shambles that Barat's former colleague Pete Doherty has become, it's particularly encouraging to hear something as good as Dirty Pretty Things rise from the ashes of the Libertines. --Ted Kord |
| c'est bon | | Very good CD and don't let the mediocre Bang Bang You're Dead single put you off. It is thouroughly recommended for all Libertines fans because the material is very similar, and that is part of the problem of this CD really. I would have liked Carl to transform a wee bit more. If you ask me I would say Pete has the better post Libertines CD. | Written on 03 May 2006 |   |
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