by Caukill Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:15 am
i'm a big fan of the Libertines but have largely found Pete & Carl unable to live up to the sum of their parts as Babyshambles & Dirty Pretty Things. This review from the Guardian last week summed it up perfectly:
Dirty Pretty Things Wondering (Vertigo)/
The Streets feat Pete Doherty Prangin' Out (679)
Like Blur versus Oasis but in greater need of a wash, the two figureheads of the Libertines race for the middle of the charts. So unfocused are Carl Barat's Dirty Pretty Things here, they don't remind you of the Libertines, at all, more of the knight in Monty Python who has all his limbs hacked off but still wants to fight. Pete, meanwhile, adds a surprising bit of vocalising to this Streets' cocaine paranoia track. It's OK, but makes you wish he turned up less on other people's records and more on his own.
Hits the nail on the head for me.
i'm a big fan of the Libertines but have largely found Pete & Carl unable to live up to the sum of their parts as Babyshambles & Dirty Pretty Things. This review from the Guardian last week summed it up perfectly:
[b]Dirty Pretty Things Wondering (Vertigo)/
The Streets feat Pete Doherty Prangin' Out (679) [/b]
Like Blur versus Oasis but in greater need of a wash, the two figureheads of the Libertines race for the middle of the charts. So unfocused are Carl Barat's Dirty Pretty Things here, they don't remind you of the Libertines, at all, more of the knight in Monty Python who has all his limbs hacked off but still wants to fight. Pete, meanwhile, adds a surprising bit of vocalising to this Streets' cocaine paranoia track. It's OK, but makes you wish he turned up less on other people's records and more on his own.
Hits the nail on the head for me.