The complete Babyshambles sessions, with the ‘lots & lots’ of songs split out into individual tracks as it always annoyed me having a 28 minute track with 20 songs!
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The Babyshambles Sessions are a set of songs recorded by The Libertines whilst in New York, in May 2003. The singer and guitarist Carl Barât left before completion of the tapes, which were intended for their second, self-tited, album. Bassist John Hassall also lent a hand, playing the bassline on one song, The Man Who Would Be King. It is thought that Barat played drums on some tracks.
Doherty gave the three tapes of tracks to Helen Hsu, a fan, at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. She, at his request, made the tracks available to the band’s fans over the internet.
Several of the tracks that feature on the sessions were later recorded and included on The Libertines’ second studio album. A few were also later recorded for Doherty’s Grace/Wastelands and Babyshambles’ Down in Albion, The Blinding EP and Shotter’s Nation.
Included in the Babyshambles sessions are many rare cover versions recorded by The Libertines, that were never recorded again, versions of The Coral’s “Dreaming of You” or Morrissey’s “Everyday is Like Sunday”, for example. Since many of the tracks recorded for the Babyshambles Sessions were new, fans didn’t know what to call them, which explains why “Side of the Road” was known as “Untitled 108” and Killamangiro was known as “304”, etc….
Tracklist
Disc 1:
- 1 Babyshambles (Take 1) 2:37
- 2 Road To Ruin 2:39
- 3 Babyshambles (Take 2) 1:51
- 4 Don’t Look Back Into The Sun (Take 1) 3:01
- 5 What Katie Did 2:18
- 6 Don’t Look Back Into The Sun (Take 2) 2:38
- 7 Last Post On The Bugle 2:07
- 8 Side Of The Road 2:03
- 9 Back From The Dead 2:45
- 10 The Man Who Would Be King 3:21
- 11 I Got Sweets (Instrumental) 1:31
- 12 All At Sea (Take 1) 2:56
- 13 All At Sea (Take 2) 2:16
- 14 Do You Know Me? (I Don’t Think So) 2:35
- 15 Campaign Of Hate 2:07
- 16 Love Rain O’er Me / Bilo Song 2:15
- 17 In Love With A Feeling (Take 1) 1:59
- 18 119 (Unknown Instrumental) 2:20
- 19 In Love With A Feeling (Take 2) 2:16
- 20 I Love You (But You’re Green) 2:16
- 21 Merry-Go-Round (That Bowery Song) 5:43
Disc 2:
- 1 Albion 3:46
- 2 Albion Intro 1:33
- 3 Albion (Without Biggles) 3:58
- 4 France (Take 1) 3:14
- 5 France (Take 2) 2:16
- 6 France (Take 3) 2:43
- 7 The Good Old Days 3:22
- 8 Skag & Bone Man 1:53
- 9 209 (Early “8 Dead Boys”) 1:50
- 10 210 (Early “8 Dead Boys” Instrumental) 3:35
- 11 211 (Instrumental) 1:50
- 12 What a Waster (by Adam Green) 2:22
- 13 Who’s Got The Crack? (Moldy Peaches cover) 2:49
- 14 Back From The Dead 0:55
- 15 Jeane (The Smiths cover) 2:25
- 16 Bollywood to Battersea 1:17
- 17 Dilly Boy 1:27
- 18 Black Boy Lane 1:48
- 19 Love Reign O’er Me 1:10
- 20 Through The Looking Glass 1:18
- 21 Callin’ All (The LA’s cover) 1:55
- 22 Son of a Gun (The LA’s cover) 1:34
- 23 Son of a Gun (The LA’s cover) 0:50
- 24 Deep Pile Dreams (Ian Brown cover) 1:48
- 25 Ha Ha Wall 2:27
- 26 I Love You (But You’re Green) 2:40
- 27 Don’t Be Shy 1:10
- 28 Time For Heroes 1:02
- 29 Well I Wonder (The Smiths cover) 0:26
- 30 Rubber Ring (The Smiths cover) 0:25
- 31 Everyday is Like Sunday (Morrissey cover) 1:37
- 32 Shooting Stars 0:48
- 33 Timeless Melody (The LA’s cover) 1:10
- 34 Huckleberry Grove (Ocean Colour Scene cover) 0:56
- 35 What A Waster 1:13
- 36 Ballad of Grimaldi 0:56
- 37 Road To Ruin 1:33
- 38 The Delaney 1:27
- 39 The Blinding 1:55
- 40 Back From The Dead 0:37
Disc 3:
- 1 I Got Sweets (Take 1) 1:33
- 2 I Got Sweets (Take 2) 2:30
- 3 Back From The Dead 1:03
- 4 Harry Was A Champion (Chas & Dave cover) 0:19
- 5 Playing Around With Piano 0:33
- 6 Death On The Stairs 1:18
- 7 Horrow Show 2:17
- 8 Dreaming Of You (The Coral cover) 1:44
- 9 New Love Grows On Trees (Take 1) 2:40
- 10 New Love Grows On Trees (Take 2) 2:20
- 11 Do You Remember When (The Coral cover) 2:21
- 12 You’re My Waterloo 0:37
- 13 Kilamangiro (Take 1) 0:50
- 14 Killamangiro (Take 2) 3:32
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