Someone to Drive You Home explained

Someone To Drive you Home
Type:Album
Artist:The Long Blondes
Cover:Someone To Drive You Home.jpg
Released:November 6, 2006
Recorded:July 2006, Konk Studios, London
Genre:Indie rock
Length:US release: 62:42
Label:Rough Trade
Producer:Steve Mackey
Next Title:Couples
Next Year:2008

Someone To Drive You Home is the debut album by The Long Blondes. It was released on November 6, 2006. It received widespread critical praise and was placed 7th in the NMEs best 50 albums of 2006 list https://web.archive.org/web/20111108010106/http://www.nme.com/albumsandtracksoftheyear/2006 and features in many other best of lists for 2006.

The predominant theme of the album is relationships from a female perspective, although 10 of the tracks on the album were written by male guitarist Dorian Cox. Themes dealt with include competition between females, isolation, sexual exploration and deceit. Influences of Pulp, Elastica, Morrissey and Blondie have been frequently quoted when the album is discussed in the media.[1]

The title of the album comes from a line in the song "You Could Have Both".

The album's artwork is a painting by lead singer Kate Jackson; it is an image of Faye Dunaway in the film Bonnie and Clyde, with a Mark 3 Ford Cortina as her getaway car.[2] The artwork inside the album sleeve is a painting of Nicolas Cage & Laura Dern in the film Wild At Heart.[3]

Track listing

  1. "Lust in the Movies" – 3:05
  2. "Once And Never Again" – 2:56
  3. "Only Lovers Left Alive" – 3:59
  4. "Giddy Stratospheres" – 5:08
  5. "In the Company of Women" – 2:39
  6. "Heaven Help the New Girl" – 3:54
  7. "Separated by Motorways" – 2:19
  8. "You Could Have Both" – 4:47
  9. "Swallow Tattoo" – 2:31
  10. "Weekend Without Makeup" – 4:11
  11. "Madame Ray" – 3:30
  12. "A Knife for the Girls" – 5:08

US bonus disc

  1. "Fulwood Babylon" – 4:05
  2. "Five Ways to End It" – 6:06
  3. "Never to Be Repeated" – 3:43
  4. "All Bar One Girls" – 4:09

15th Anniversary Edition Disc 2

  1. "Five Ways To End It" - 6:06
  2. "Fulwood Babylon" – 4:05
  3. "The Whippet Fancier" - 3:46
  4. "Who Are You To Her?" - 4:29
  5. "Never To Be Repeated" – 3:43
  6. "All Bar One Girls" – 4:09
  7. "I'm Coping" - 3:13
  8. "Last Night On Northgate St" - 2:54
  9. "Platitudes" - 3:18
  10. "Melville Farr" - 1:37
  11. "The Unbearable Lightness Of Buildings" - 5:42

Personnel

The Long Blondes

Other

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.planbmag.com/content/view/430/42/ The Long Blondes Interview – Plan B Magazine
  2. News: Wiseman . Eva . Eva Wiseman meets the Long Blondes . Guardian . 2006-11-11 . 2007-12-09. London.
  3. News: The Long Blondes - they're so modern . The Independent . London . March 21, 2008 . May 23, 2010.

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