Product Description

'Waterloo To Anywhere' is the debut album from ex-LibertineCarl Barat's new band, Dirty Pretty Things. An album as English as traffic jams and red telephone boxes, and packed with musical references to both the melodic punk of The Clash and dandy-ish swagger of The Kinks, this record is a must forfans of classic English songwriting, regardless of what generation you are from. Includes the single 'Bang Bang You're Dead'.

Track Listing

1. Deadwood
2. Doctors & Dealers
3. Bang Bang You're Dead
4. Blood Thirsty Bastards
5. The Gentry Cove
6. Gin & Milk
7. The Enemy
8. If you Love a Woman
9. You Fucking Love It
10. Wondering
11. Last Of The Small Town Playboys
12. B.U.R.M.A.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2497 in Music
• Released on: 2006-05-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 36 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
His 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

Customer Reviews

Carl Barat is a very clever man...
This is a really, really good album, and it follows Babyshambles' debut by being basically how you'd expect the relevant Libertines to make music on his own.

In Carl Barat's case, the songs are stomping, with the guitars loud, the rhythm of the words as fascinating as the melodies, and the words a little poeting, and quite a lot angry.

The highlight without question is the brilliant single, Bang Bang You're Dead, with its infectious chorus and excellent lyric. Alongside that, though, are a number of songs which would comfortably have slotted in alongside most of the Libertines' work. My particular favourite is probably the opener, Deadwood, which breeds a lovely sense of excitement and sets the tone as Barat flexes his songwriting skills. Alongside this, though, are a number of other songs which don't deliver to the same high standard - Doctors and Dealers, for instance.

I suppose the question which I asked myself after I'd bought this album, and which many of you will be asking yourselves is - is this like another Libertines album. And the answer is yes - although it lacks what Doherty added to the band, the element of weird and wonderful. And it lacks what the Libertines as a group brought, which is an originality and instantaneous infectiousness. This is a very good album, but you will need to listen to it for a bit first.

Perfection
This album is simply perfect. When I first heard it I was underwhelmed, there did not seem to be any real stand out tracks and I had difficulty hearing the melody. However after a few plays the beauty of this album revealed itself. It is rare to hear an album where every track is perfectly formed, no fillers or lazy lyrics just snappy little numbers that you can in no way fault. I can't wait to see what Carl does on the next album, if it is half as good as this I will love it.

Dirty Pretty Brilliant!!!
Waterloo to Anywhere sounds more Mick Jones than even the Libertines ever did- and this is not even a production of the former Clash -genious!
This album is the clever bastard-child of Tony Doogan and one of rocks best voices ever, Carl Barat.
The definitive proof that Pete Doherty really did nothing to make The Libertines a great band, well his own shabby Babyshambles are the living proof of that!
Here we have a boquet of songs that really compliments each other.
From first track Deadwood until the last chord on Last of the small tower playboys, the band never misses a beat.
This really is The Clash of the era, meant both as a compliment and a true observation.
My personal favourite is Bang Bang youré dead, where the back-beat and fab guitar strumming really lifts the song to dizzying heights.
This is a feel-good album for a lost generation- we need this dystopic yet strangely exhilirating sound!
For those of us who thought it was all over after the Libertines, this is a great big sugar-coated band-aid!
A must have!