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by Michaela Annot
  • Type: Single
  • Release date: 21/02/2005
  • Label: Island
London's roaming rockers Dogs, are in an unenviable position; the Great Eastern Street mafia appear to have all but abandoned Pete and Carlos and with it, all their stylishly bedraggled fellow bands. As it's all jerk jerk jerk round the broadsheets, the latecomers are chasing a rapidly accelerating bus.

Credit to Dogs though, 'She's Got A Reason' is a lively piece of biting, caustic emotional despair. Vocalist Johnny Cooke barks the mantra "I Liked You Better When You Liked Me As Well" like a man obsessed, which, after a brief glimpse at the song's bare lyrics and themes of post-relationship turmoil, he probably is. Musically, it's as you'd expect, but equally, it's a more than acceptable combination of serrated riffs and thumping drums.

All Dogs can hope is that they can turn over enough fresh soil as they plough an already deep furrough.

  • Dogs 6 / 10
Words: Michaela Annot

Dogs - She's Got A Reason

Its shite. Bands have been releasing dross like this for years now. Do they not even want to be a bit differant?

I got asked to fill in a response form by my local record shop for this a few weekes (well quite a few weeks actually). I haven't even bothered. If people buy this derivative dross then I have no hope for humanity.

Dogs - She's Got A Reason

fill in the form angrily. the more forms you fill, the more ytou'll be asked to fill, to the point of freebies.

at least thats how it sometimes works.

Dogs - She's Got A Reason

I like it
<ducks rotten fruit>

Dogs - She's Got A Reason

I agree - this is derivative toss of the highest order. In their favour, their live show was pretty angry and compelling. This single though sounds like some 3rd rate Oi band - it's a pity.

Dogs - She's Got A Reason

Ok, granted, they've set themselves up for this kind of criticism releasing this song at a time when the 'new punk' scene or whatever it's called is on it's arse-end - but no matter what bharat and doherty and all the other scumbags are upto right now, this is still a great indie rock n roll tune. Add to that the fact that the other songs on the album sampler bare no resemblance to anything that's around now and are, well, just fucking brilliant, then i gotta say dogs piss all over the ever-so-trendy kaiser chiefs (if we're talking about derivative dross, now there's a band) and the likes.

Re: Dogs - She's Got A Reason

nah, I like this, it's got bollocks. And a wicked outro. I don't get the Libertines comparisons either, it's nothing like 'em. Thank fuck.
And I think the word dross has been overused in this thread. So I shall not say it again. Eeeek.

Dogs - She's Got A Reason

I like it too, i agree about the outro. It's a pretty cool tune.

Don't agree about the Chiefs being 'derivative dross' though.




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