Track Listing

1. Leave Me Alone
2. Rock'n'Roll Lies
3. Vice
4. Up All Night
5. Which Way Is Out
6. Rip It Up
7. Dalston
8. Golden Touch
9. Stumble & Fall
10. Get It And Go
11. In The City
12. Hang By, Hang By
13. To The Sea
14. Somewhere Else (Bonus Track)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1187 in Music
• Released on: 2005-09-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Running time: 49 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
This Special Tour Edition version includes the single "Somewhere Else" as a bonus track. Up All Night might be Razorlight's debut album, but we've heard their like before: from Oasis's Gallagher brothers, whose wilful arrogance is echoed in frontman Johnny Borrell's proclamations of his own songwriting genius, or The Libertines, who share Razorlight's romantic vision of London as a city of boozy rock & roll dreams. And while those two touchstones are probably a pretty good encapsulation of the Razorlight sound--holler-along choruses, presented with a slightly greasy leather-jacket sense of urchin cool—there's certainly more to Razorlight than such a simple equation can spell. Sure, there's nothing especially original about Borrell's tales of hot clubs and pretty girls, but his delivery is passionate in all the right places: see the startling "In The City", which finds him bursting with enthusiasm, words spewing out of his mouth like a teenage Dylan. The title track is the album's highlight, a graceful number about walking the streets through 'til dawn. But the irrepressible "Rip It Up" proves Razorlight can spit out the odd party number, thieving the guitar sound direct from 70s punk pioneers Television's Marquee Moon and fleshing it out into a rabble-rousing indie-club stomper. --Louis Pattison

CD Description
Debut album from the London based sleaze-rock quartet. Released under two years into their formation the Anglo-Swedish group rode into fame via the NME launced nu-rock movement along with UK counterparts such as The Libertines and Bloc Party. Comparisons with the New York scene pre and of the band's time are evident with the sounds evoked of The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, The Strokes as well as UK acts such asThe Cure. The album includes the single 'Golden Touch'.

Customer Reviews

There are two things that really irritate me about the Indie/Rock music scene...
There are two things that really irritate me about the Indie/Rock music scene.
Firstly - the over-hyping of mediocre new bands by institutions like The NME and Radio 1. And Secondly, probably even moreso, the people who see this branch of music as purely a fashion accessory.
These jokers instantly take a disliking to a band once it receives too much hype and common folk start catching on. They will tell you the lyrics are not deep enough, the melodies are simple and the guitarist's rubbish - and then babble on about some new album 'not on general release' by a band you have never, and will never hear about. This all boils down to accessibility. If a band is accessible and some songs might actually be liked by your mum, it means they're going to get big - and our Indie fashion victims don't like that. You see, music can't be ultra popular and ultra trendy. If these guys were to admit they liked bands that have become mainstream, it would mock their belief that ordinary people can't be as highbrow as themselves when it comes to music appreciation - and we couldn't have that, could we?
This is Razorlight's problem, of course. They have become a little too mainstream - especially with the release and subsequent hype of their second album. Nevertheless, Up All Night is a really great album and certainly one of the best of this Millennium. It offers some true originality compared the other British offerings from this Genre, and more importantly, includes some fantastic songs. The title track, 'Up All Night' and 'Golden Touch' to name but two are fantastic tunes. Some will say too melodic, but what's wrong with a melody? Are The Beatles also to be marked down for the same reason?
If you genuinely like indie/rock for what it is, and aren't too concerned whether it's fashionable or 'underground' enough, then you will no doubt love Up All Night. Some of the later tracks take a few listens but there is very little on this album that won't have you appreciating seriously good, modern British music.

Best Debut I've heared
Razorlight have done VERY well to make a debut this good. Usually i don't think too much of new bands until I hear a lot of their music, but Razorlight are quite unique, Johnny Borrell has come up with lyrics that really have a meaning to the songs, not just random words and the music is really good and catches your ear, I've found myself listening to the songs over and over as they're that good. Another good point about "Up All Night" is that every song is good, usually you get a couple of bad songs on albums, not here, every song is brilliant and each song is different, not just the same type of music, it has a good variety on it, I totally recommend this album to everyone, a must buy!!

A Truely Great Album
Johnny Borrel and the rest of Razorlight have created a truely great album, unlike so many other albums there are no weak songs, after buying it i have been unable to stop listening to it. BUY IT