- Audio CD (3 Jun 2002)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Single
- Label: Rough Trade
- ASIN: B000066JDB
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 205,609 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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THE LIBERTINES What A Waster / I Get Along (Deleted 2002 UK 3-track CD debut single from the band with the notorius front man. Featuring a debut about an excessive user of drugs and alcohol backed with the track MayDay. What A Waster printed dischoused in a card picture sleeve RTRADESCD054)
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Firstly, the bad points. The Libertines have burst onto the scene in the last few months and have taken the British press, public and tradition by the scruff of the neck and pole-axed them all. Of course this is great, but they will not be around for long if we are to believe the nigh-on legendary stories emenating from Bethnal Green. This is the greatest of all tragedies because, at last, a full 2 years after Casablancas revealed the first glimpse of the skinny tie in a score of years, Britain has a reason to shout.
These four "chancers" have stormed onto the scene and written the finest debut single since 'Supersonic'. Yes, that's cliche, but the difference is in the sheer abandon in which the Libertines revel. Littered with obscenities, the tune may offend a great deal of people. Well, f**k em, that's punk rock was supposed to be in the first place. They say Oasis were the Sex-Beatles. Well, Libertines are the Oasis-Pistols. Or the Clash-Cocks. Or maybe just the Jam-Clash-wallop...
An absolute belter of a single is actually reinforced by their best song and album closer 'I Get Along'. This, especially live, captures every influence from the last 40 years of rock n roll in 3 bloodstained minutes. AND you can dance to it. Closer 'Mayday' is a chaotic end to a classic single; one minute of Dead Kennedies-esq carnage, and worth every second. It seems ironic that this single may predict the Libertines' own wayward career - ragged, punky start, classy, slick middle phase and, perhaps, the messy finale. Please, please; let's hope that doesn't come too soon.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The Libertines, a four piece from London, couldnt have arrrived on the scene at a better time. Stop looking to New York, Detroit or even Sweeden for the next big thing because they are right here in Britain.
"What a Waster" sounds like a mix of the best song The Jam didn't write and The Clash in punk mode with lyrics straight from the proper Rock'n'Roll streets of London. I Get Along is the more radio friendly of the two songs on the double A-side but is still a great tune. Track 3 Mayday lasts just over a minute but that minute is filled with quality punk rock which wouldn't have sounded out of place in 1977.
This is a great debut single from a band who have got plenty more where that came from.
2 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Great fun. Sounding something like the Jam playing the Strokes with a touch of Madness thrown in, and a little bit of help from Ian Dury for the lyrics, What a Waster is a great breezy slice of punk-pop. They've got the attitude and the pub-rock mentality to be a genuine British competitor for the New York New Wave.
B-side I Get Along is fantastic too, very much in the same way. 3rd track Mayday is a snippet and much less interesting and fun.
Just watch out for the swearing, if that sort of thing bothers you. Otherwise - buy!!
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