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My iPod #392: Babyshambles – French Dog Blues

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“French Dog Blues” can be found on Babyshambles’ second album “Shotter’s Nation”, released back in 2007. Although I thought it was a single later released from it, it apparently wasn’t. Weird considering it has its own music video. But whatever.

For all this time I’ve never really wondered what the track was about; I solely liked it because of its sound and random lyricism. Though I’ve just read that Doherty said it is about the dog on the cover of the band’s first album “Down in Albion”. That’s made me even more perplexed because I would never have thought that that little picture was an illustration of a dog. All this time I thought it was a flag or something.

Not much I can say about it. I do enjoy it a lot though, and that’s all that matters.

My iPod #262: Babyshambles – Delivery

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“Delivery” was the first single from “Shotter’s Nation“, the second album by Pete Doherty’s post-Libertines band Babyshambles.

The song was important enough that its music video premiered on Channel 4 at a ridiculous time when a lot of people were bound to be asleep including myself. So I didn’t see it until the next day, when it was repeated many times on MTV2.

Being the first new piece of material the band had released since “The Blinding EP”, and their first new song I’d heard since the slow and pretty tame track “Love You But You’re Green“, “Delivery” did not disappoint.

Alongside a riff that sounds like an early Kinks track is an earnest lyric from Doherty. He’s not feeling great – forlorn and frozen beneath the summer, in his words – and so to relieve the strain he writes this song – the delivery – that comes from the bottom of his heart. I guess this was his way of stating what he was really going through while everyone was going on about his drug abuse and legal problems. All very sad. I like it.