The Libertines (2004)

The British Strokes. This is the moniker that was lumped upon the skinny, drug-addled shoulders of the Clash-influenced Libertines last year -- when their Mick Jones-produced debut, Up the Bracket, came out to well-deserved fanfare -- and it's just as fitting now. Like the Strokes on their own sophomore effort, the Libs thoroughly disappoint on this eponymous follow-up. Where their tunelessness once evoked spirited rarities from a Clash B-sides compilation, songs like the limp (yet aptly titled) ''Can't Stand Me Now'' show just how darn pointless the Libertines' tunelessness actually is.