Someone to Drive You Home
by
The Long Blondes
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studio album
First released:
Oct 23 2006

Overview Edit

Someone To Drive You Home is the debut album by The Long Blondes. It was released on November 6, 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.

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 .

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.

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

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Catalog number:
BRT-048-2
Release dates:
  • Jun 5 2007

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Track listing Edit

  • CD 1

    format:
    number:
    title:
    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    Lust In the Movies
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    2
    Once And Never Again
    ?:??
    		Play Buy track
    3
    Only Lovers Left Alive
    ?:??
    		Play Buy track
    4
    Giddy Stratospheres
    ?:??
    		Play Buy track
    5
    In the Company Of Women
    ?:??
    		Play Buy track
    6
    Heaven Help the New Girl
    ?:??
    		Play Buy track
    7
    Separated By Motorways
    ?:??
    		Play Buy track
    8
    You Could Have Both
    ?:??
    		Play Buy track
    9
    Swallow Tattoo
    ?:??
    		Play Buy track
    10
    Weekend Without Makeup
    ?:??
    		Play Buy track
    11
    Madame Ray
    ?:??
    		Play Buy track
    12
    A Knife For the Girls
    ?:??
    		Play Buy track

  • CD 2

    format:
    number:
    title:
    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    Fulwood Babylon
    ?:??
    		Play Buy track
    2
    Five Ways To End It
    ?:??
    		Play Buy track
    3
    Never To Be Repeated
    ?:??
    		Play Buy track
    4
    All Bar One Girls
    ?:??
    		Play Buy track

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  1. producer

Other versions Edit

Someone to Drive You Home 12 tracks format: 1 x CD
catalog number: RTRADCD364
release dates: Nov 6 2006 in United Kingdom
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Someone to Drive You Home 12 tracks format: 1 x vinyl
catalog number: BRT-048-2
release dates: Nov 6 2006 in United Kingdom
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Someone to Drive You Home 12 tracks format: 1 x CD
catalog number: BRT-048-2
release dates: Oct 23 2006
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