My Top 1000 Songs #376: Up The Bracket

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

I didn't bother checking out the Libertines when they first came to short-lived prominence in the early '00s. The UK music mags I read like Mojo and Uncut seemed to talk more about the band's infighting and drug problems than their music, and they kind of got lumped into that whole Interpol-Strokes-Franz Ferdinand "return of guitars to rock & roll" hype mac...