Format CD, 7" Label Rough Trade | Length 4:38 | |
Released 15 August 2005 (2005-08-15) Genre Indie rock, Garage Rock Writer(s) Pete Doherty, Patrick Walden) | ||
"Fuck Forever" is a song by Babyshambles. It was released as a single on 15 August 2005 and is their most successful single, peaking at #4 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was in danger of becoming a lost single due to its controversial title and lyrics, but it was eventually released and has become the closing number in the band's live sets. In May 2007, the NME placed "Fuck Forever" at number 24 in its list of the "50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever", and as the 245th greatest song of all time in 2014.
Contents
The single was released in Japan on 22 September 2005 by Reservoir Records/EMI.
Music video
The video was directed by Jez Murrell.
Most of the promotional video for Babyshambles' second single was filmed on location at Spitalfields City Farm in east London, in June 2005.
At the very beginning of the video there is a very brief cameo appearance from Kate Moss, which is followed by a segment featuring Patrick Walden talking to a girl in a cinema ticket booth in the style of a foreign film, complete with sub-titles and fluttering animated hearts.
The farm segment features a sharp suited and booted band milling around miming to the song, miscellaneous farm animals, goats running around, Union Jack draped and pork pie hat wearing donkeys and Pete Doherty twirling around wrapped in a Union Jack.
The video ends with Walden and the mysterious cinema girl meeting up at the "Victoria Palace Gates," sharing a kiss and romantically wandering off into the distance.
Track listing
- "Fuck Forever"
- "East of Eden"
- "Babyshamble"
- "Fuck Forever" (Video)
- "Fuck Forever"
- "Monkey Casino"
- "Fuck Forever"
- "Black Boy Lane"
- "Fuck Forever"
- "Black Boy Lane"
- "Monkey Casino"
- "East of Eden"
- "Babyshambles"
- "Fuck Forever" (clean version)
- "Fuck Forever" (Video)