The Libertines - I Get Along

What this video is

Released in 2003 as the lead track on a US-market EP, 'I Get Along' captured The Libertines at the apex of their cultural moment — NME cover stars, spearheads of the UK garage rock revival, and a band whose internal chaos (Doherty's drug use and eventual imprisonment in September 2003) was already becoming inseparable from their mythology. The video's notable absence of Pete Doherty is itself a document of that…

Why it matters

As part of the UK post-punk and garage rock revival, The Libertines were instrumental in redirecting British guitar music away from post-Britpop stagnation toward a rawer, punk-informed aesthetic. 'I Get Along' — originally a B-side produced by ex-Suede guitarist Bernard Butler, later re-recorded…