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Someone to Drive You Home
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Track Listing
- Lust In The Movies
- Once And Never Again
- Only Lovers Left Alive
- Giddy Stratospheres
- In The Company Of Women
- Heaven Help The New Girl
- Separated By Motorways
- You Could Have Birth
- Swallow Tattoo
- Weekend Without Makeup
- Madame Ray
- Knife For The Girls
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #21171 in Music
- Released on: 2006-11-06
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Enhanced
Customer Reviews
Original.. They sure are
I agree this band are very original within their own right. OK there's nothing new under the sun as they say, but this album has been written from a unique concept of feminine strengths and weaknesses.. shone brightly by Jackson's wistful attitude.. this coupled with some gritty guitar work and head swinging melodies makes this album worth picking up.
a perfect pop record from a perfect pop band
a sparkling jewel in a music sceen full of drabness, manifactured bands,
and quasi dirty hippy music
Great music (and I'm the type of person who hates new music)
They sound a lot like a female version of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - a Smiths influenced 80's band who used lots of pop cultural name drops in their lyrics.
It's very immediate and jangly poppy which makes me doubt I'll be listening to them for years to come, but for now they're one of my favourites.
The stand out track is "Once and Never Again," which is a plea to a 19 year girl not to waste her time getting a boyfriend (there's a lesbian subtext but I think you're reaching if you believe it).
If lyrics are important to you, then I fully recommend this band. Strangely most of the lyrics were written by a man, which makes them even more impressive than they already are, as they're very female centric.
If you enjoyed this then you should get Lloyd Cole and the Commotions excellent album "Rattlesnakes" as a male companion piece to the Long Blondes. And then turn it into a trilogy by buying Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" album.
NOTE 15/7/08: I've had this album for about a year now, and I'm still listening to it about once or twice a month. It has held up well over time. I'm no closer to getting bored of it than I was the day I first heard it.
