My iPod #291: Razorlight - Don't Go Back to Dalston

Anyone hear any fuss being made about "Up All Night"? Nah, me neither. I ask because it's ten years old this year. "Up All Night" being Razorlight's first album released in 2004. I like "Up All Night", it's a pleasant listen. Most tracks play into one another, I like it when an album does that. Too bad Johnny Borrell became quite unbearable in the following years. It is the best Razorlight album, no doubt about that.

The album includes "Don't Go Back to Dalston", a minor key track apparently addressed to Pete Doherty, then a member of The Libertines, to go a bit easy on the drugs. There are two halves to this song. The first half being distinctive verses and choruses, and the other being a long coda with the refrain "Come back, come back, come back" repeated numerous times. That half is longer than the first.

Borrell said the song was barely written, he just envisaged it in his mind after waking up from a hangover. It kinda shows. Still good though.