Hello! I’m pretty sure you already write about it but I can’t find any posts, but if you’d recommend songs for the Libertines, which ones would it be? (Or your favorites ones, actually) I realize that I only know the “most famous” ones, and while I love them, I’d also curious to know which ones are your favourites.

Ahh sorry for the late response, I was away and wanted to give this the thought it deserves! 

If I was going to pick one overall favourite out of all their songs, I think it’d have to be You’re My Waterloo (video here). It’s not what you’d necessarily think of as a typical Libertines song, but I heard it for the first time last year and was completely drawn in by the line I’ve been sitting here for hours baby/Just chasing these words across the page, because that resonated with me as a writer. And THEN I found out it’s actually one of their oldest songs, and it refers to all sorts of legends and stories from their history and relationship that give it a huge significance in their canon. Oops, I didn’t mean to talk so much about a single song, but that’s a special case, haha. 

From their first album, I could pick out a bunch of faves, including the more well-known Time for Heroes (probably my favourite of their singles), Up the Bracket and I Get Along, but my other faves are Vertigo, Horror Show, and The Good Old Days. Pretty much the whole album is great though, and is my favourite of their LPs!

From their second album, What Katie Did is a highlight, and, ironically, What Became of the Likely Lads is a song I love even though it’s emotionally devastating and is essentially an obituary for the band at the end of their first run. It hurts to listen to, but it’s also nice that, a decade later, they proved What became of forever? We’ll never know wrong after all. ❤ 

Perhaps slightly controversially, haha, I love their third album and could recommend nearly any song off it. I particularly love Fame and Fortune, cheesy chorus and all, for its catchy riff and uncharacteristically inspirational line Hold onto your dreams/However bleak it seems. I also love how a number of songs on the album reflect on the situation around their reunion, such as Belly of the Beast, Fury of Chonburi and Glasgow Coma Scale Blues. 

Finally, they also have some very enjoyable B-sides, such as The Delaney, Bangkok (with one infamous line I’ll leave you to discover, haha), and Dilly Boys.

Sorry for the wall o’text but once I started I couldn’t stop, haha! I hope you enjoy the songs, please let me know what you think! 😀