Someone to Drive You Home

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Someone To Drive you Home
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Studio album by
Released6 November 2006
RecordedJuly 2006, Konk Studios, London
Genre Indie rock
LengthUS release: 62:42
Label Rough Trade
Producer Steve Mackey
The Long Blondes chronology
Someone To Drive you Home
(2006)
Couples
(2008)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 81/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [2]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [3]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
musicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
NME 9/10 [7]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Pitchfork 8.2/10 [9]
Stylus B+ [10]
This Is Fake DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [11]

Someone To Drive You Home is the debut album by The Long Blondes. It was released on 6 November 2006. It received widespread critical praise and was placed 7th in the NME's best 50 albums of 2006 list and features in many other best of lists for 2006.

Contents

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. [12]

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. [13] The artwork inside the album sleeve is a painting of Nicolas Cage & Laura Dern in the film Wild At Heart. [14]

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

References

  1. "Reviews for Someone To Drive You Home by The Long Blondes". Metacritic . Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  2. AllMusic review
  3. Roberts, Colin (6 November 2006). "The Long Blondes: Someone to Drive You Home". Drowned in Sound . Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  4. Hann, Michael (3 November 2006). "The Long Blondes, Someone to Drive You Home". The Guardian . Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  5. The Long Blondes sound pleasingly frayed around the edges. [Dec 2006, p.118]
  6. Murphy, John (6 November 2006). "The Long Blondes – Someone To Drive You Home". musicOMH . Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  7. Jonze, Tim (14 November 2006). "The Long Blondes: Someone To Drive You Home". NME . Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  8. Boden, Sarah (14 October 2006). "The Long Blondes, Someone to Drive You Home". The Observer . Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  9. Hogan, Marc (12 January 2007). "Someone to Drive You Home - The Long Blondes". Pitchfork . Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  10. "The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home". Stylus Magazine . 15 November 2006. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  11. Guy, Nick (6 November 2006). "The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home". DIY . Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  12. The Long Blondes Interview – Plan B Magazine Archived 2008-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
  13. Wiseman, Eva (11 November 2006). "Eva Wiseman meets the Long Blondes". London: Guardian. Retrieved 9 December 2007.
  14. "The Long Blondes - they're so modern". The Independent. London. 21 March 2008. Retrieved 23 May 2010.