Up All Night
by Razorlight
User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 55 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 42 out of 55
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 55
  3. Negative: 12 out of 55

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  1. BuntyH
    May 8, 2005
    1
    Fairs fair Golden Touch is alright but the rest sucks Anyone who reckons this album is "one of the best albums for 2004" must be a duschbag and I can only assume the reason people buy this album is people feel sorry for johnny and are giving him the means to get his picket fence teeth fixed
  2. EastVillage
    Aug 22, 2004
    1
    "Boooooring Sidney! Boring, Boring, Boring!" Every riff on this album is stolen from an artist that is infinitley more talented they are. Razorlight should be forced to send the members of Television a dollar for evey lame- ass unit sold. The music is weak, and the lyrics are cringeworthy as well. Check out this pseudo-hipster swill: *And she's been reading Bukowski for days And she "Boooooring Sidney! Boring, Boring, Boring!" Every riff on this album is stolen from an artist that is infinitley more talented they are. Razorlight should be forced to send the members of Television a dollar for evey lame- ass unit sold. The music is weak, and the lyrics are cringeworthy as well. Check out this pseudo-hipster swill: *And she's been reading Bukowski for days And she leans over, spits her name in my face And says "Well now you know how it feels"* Poor Charles must be turning over in his grave now. … Expand
  3. stevec
    Jul 25, 2005
    0
    Razorlight are shit.
  4. PaulM
    Jul 29, 2005
    2
    Just more boring banal british naval gazing rubbish.
  5. joe
    Feb 20, 2005
    3
    I give it a three 'cause there is only three songs on this worth listening to. golden touch, up all night, don't go back to dalston. I dunno what it is but i want to like these guys but I don't. Least favorite CD i have bought in the last 3 years
  6. Roland
    Jul 27, 2005
    3
    That's so boring and monotonous...
  7. NickD
    Aug 23, 2004
    3
    Well, it's fairly standard NME-fare, isn't it? Which means great for all you pop kids, but people who like more than Malteasers music will have to search further than these mopheads and their equally average Libertine siblings. The songs are unremarkable (see "Golden Touch"), the lyrics are egotistical but verge on ridiculous (see "Vice"), and there's not enough variety. Well, it's fairly standard NME-fare, isn't it? Which means great for all you pop kids, but people who like more than Malteasers music will have to search further than these mopheads and their equally average Libertine siblings. The songs are unremarkable (see "Golden Touch"), the lyrics are egotistical but verge on ridiculous (see "Vice"), and there's not enough variety. Even their half-decent 2003 single Rip It Up sounds rather weak and very sub-pop punk in this context. Waste of money.… Expand
  8. jacob
    Feb 12, 2005
    0
    The songs are tedious, unoriginal, rip-off dirges with appalling lyrics. Johnny Borrell claimed early on that he was a better songwriter than Dylan - sample lyric - "Hey girl/ Get on the dance floor/ And rip it up/ That's what it's there for" - in the light of this record the claim seems so ridiculous it is almost impossible to comprehend that this was not some The songs are tedious, unoriginal, rip-off dirges with appalling lyrics. Johnny Borrell claimed early on that he was a better songwriter than Dylan - sample lyric - "Hey girl/ Get on the dance floor/ And rip it up/ That's what it's there for" - in the light of this record the claim seems so ridiculous it is almost impossible to comprehend that this was not some 'hilarious' joke, like saying Christina Aguilera is a superior composer to Shostakovich. Borrell tries hard to paint a picture of the Dickensian, sex, drugs and rock'n'roll urchin lifestyle he desperately tries to lead, but ends up with one of the most unlistenably bad records of all time. If you're a poser and a fake, your music will sound posed and fake. No record illustrates this better than 'Up All Night'. Soulless and meaningless.… Expand
  9. dannyh
    Mar 17, 2005
    1
    Rubbish

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#49 Most Discussed Album of 2004
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#85 Most Shared Album of 2004

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Metascore
65

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 16
  3. Negative: 2 out of 16
  1. Q Magazine
    80
    As with the other great British debut of 2004 so far, by Franz Ferdinand, Up All Night ripples with cocksure sangfroid and a barely contained sexual fever. [Jul 2004, p.111]
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    91
    Eclectic, combustible tunes. [3 Dec 2004, p.85]
  3. Drowned In Sound
    80
    The best British debut since Oasis? Definitely... maybe. But one of the albums of the year? Without doubt.
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