Talk:Up the Bracket

Is anyone else here sceptical about the use of 'Garage Rock Revival' to describe the genre that Up the Bracket fits into? Yeah, I know that Garage Rock Revival bands were popular at the time and so were the Libertines, but nothing on the record has much in common with the White Stripes et al.

I think the name is almost exclusively alluding to cocaine use. I'm deleting the bit about "up the bracket" meaning a punch in the throat because the refence to punching is covered by the Hancock allusion. Does anyone have a different opinion or even a source from a slang dictionary? If it is really a widely used phrase meaning a punch in the throat, then it's not really an allusion to Hancock, is it? And if Hancock is known for that distinctive phrase, than it can't have been that widely used, otherwise. OneVeryBadMan 00:32, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

It's not nesscerily a source for the album name, but on one of the recordings of Seven Deadly Frenchmen(an early b-side) there is a Hancock episode playing which includes this phrase. I can't say it's a phrase I've heard in any other context. It's probably a phrase that was rather obscure in the fifties and now pretty much unused. So it's probably fair to say it's a Hancock allusion, especially since Peter Doherty is known as a fan of Hancock. Also states it is an allusion to the Hancock phrase in a BBC article about The Unknowen Hancock interview. Should be fairly relible as they had him in for an interview on the documentry. I'd say it's at least fair to give both equal weight in the article.

Robert Christgau actually gave this album a score of A rather than an A- if you'd actually care to check the link you provided for it. I've changed this twice and both times it has been reverted back for some reason! Rather insulting actually.

Regarding the title 'up The Bracket', why don't you actually bother to listen to some Hancock shows? If you did you might actually hear them mention the exact phrase...

In pop culture
The track, "Time for Heroes" was used on the film, American Pie: The Wedding.

Trivia

 * The title of track 9, "The Boy Looked at Johnny", is taken from a book by Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons about the death of rock music (it was written in the late 1970s and is famously over-the-top). The book in turn took its name from the lyrics of Patti Smith's classic song-suite "Land", from the album Horses. The song is commonly thought to be about Johnny Borrell, frontman of Razorlight and former Libertines bassist.
 * The track, What a Waster was originally not included on the album, but later turned up on a re-release along with the band's early videos. What a Waster was also used in the film, The Football Factory. The film was about a promising young man who is part of a football firm, and is having doubts about the effect it is having on his life.
 * Horrorshow may take its name from the film A Clockwork Orange. The song was the subject of supposed legal action early in the band's career, as the first line ("I've been following, following my minds instructions on how to slowly, sharply, screw myself to death") was written on a note to Pete Doherty by his then girlfriend Francesca - who was not given a writing credit. However, it is unknown if anything ever came of the supposed lawsuit. A video of Horrorshow featuring Pete and Carl in graveyard was recorded sometime in 2001, although this has never seen the light of day.
 * Radio America had been around since the band's early days. There is another recording of the song taken from a rehearsal before the band signed to Rough Trade Records. The song arrangement is slightly different on this compared to the version recorded for the album. Incidentally, it was said at the time of recording Radio America properly, that the band rented antique guitars from a pawn shop for 24 hours so that they could get an authentic 'old' sound.
 * The choice of album cover art came about on the last day of mixing, when producer Mick Jones brought a copy of The Guardian newspaper to the studio. There had been riots in Argentina and there was a great picture of some riot police, which Mick thought would be ideal for the album cover because it echoed the photograph on The Clash's 1977 debut.
 * Starting at the 0:15 mark in the Black Lips song Bad Kids, video footage airs that looks seemingly like the cover for Up the Bracket