My Top 1000 Songs #754: Skag & Bone Man

[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.] 

A bare trifle of a song that doesn't really belong here... The Libertines didn't even include it on a proper LP, relegating it to a b-side. But it's a shy-of-two-minute gleeful punk nugget, the incomprehensible but utterly joyful sound of drunken British hooligans ranting on about something, with a hook that I simply can't get out of my head. I'm sure the hook's been out there before, long before the 2003 track appeared, but I think it needs all the drunken shouting to work just right. Crank it up, then move along... it'll still be there in your head the rest of the day/week/next-twenty-years.

Live 2003 (without frontman Pete Doherty):