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1. A Certain Romance
(Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, 2006)
The closing track of an album that overviews the befores, durings and afters of a big night out in the city, A Certain Romance has a suitably sobering effect. Kicking off like Ocean Colour Scene’s The Riverboat Song – true! - before settling into bittersweet Libertines-like indie melodics, it sees prematurely wise, hungover Alex Turner reflecting on entire lives lived where “there is no romance”, via the politics of footwear, casual thuggery and philistinism, before concluding that some motivations are unfathomable. But he clearly can’t stop himself trying to understand - another reason, no doubt, why Paul Weller’s called Turner the “rock and roll Alan Bennett”. IH
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