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Someone To Drive you Home
Studio album by
The Long Blondes
Released6 November 2006
RecordedJuly 2006, Konk Studios, London
GenreIndie rock
LengthUS release: 62:42
LabelRough Trade
ProducerSteve Mackey
The Long Blondes chronology
Someone To Drive you Home
(2006) 		Couples
(2008)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic81/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Drowned in Sound8/10[3]
The Guardian[4]
Mojo[5]
musicOMH[6]
NME9/10[7]
The Observer[8]
Pitchfork8.2/10[9]
StylusB+[10]
This Is Fake DIY[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 [1] and features in many other best of lists for 2006.

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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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The Long Blondes

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  • Emma Chaplin: guitars, keyboards, vocals
  • Dorian Cox: guitars, keyboards, vocals, lyrics except on tracks 7 and 11
  • Reenie Hollis: bass guitar, vocals
  • Kate Jackson: lead vocals, lyrics on tracks 7 and 11, artwork
  • Screech Louder: drums

Other

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  • Produced and mixed by: Steve Mackey and Richard Flack
  • Assistant engineers: Ben Mason, Serge Krebs
  • Mastered by: Guy Davie at the Exchange
  • Logo by: Matt Bolton
  • Layout by: Jeff Teader
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References

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  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. Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. 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. Archived from the original on 14 November 2006. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  8. ^ Boden, Sarah (14 October 2006). "The Long Blondes, Someone to Drive You Home". The Observer. Archived from the original on 28 June 2014. 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. Archived from the original on 10 January 2007. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  11. ^ Guy, Nick (6 November 2006). "The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home". DIY. Archived from the original on 28 February 2007. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  12. ^ The Long Blondes Interview – Plan B Magazine[usurped]
  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.
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