The Jacobites were a more traditional, song-oriented outfit than the Swell Maps had been. Sudden and Kusworth were both strongly influenced by The Faces,
Bob Dylan, glam rock, and, most vitally, The Rolling Stones — their open worship of the group (Kusworth's entire body of work would later be described as
"A tear-stained meeting of Johnny Thunders' 'You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory', the Rolling Stones' 'Wild Horses', and Neil Young's 'Down by the River'
wrapped in scarves, bound up in leather pants, and shrouded by cigarette smoke", while Sudden called the Stones "the best band there has ever been" and was
working on a Ronnie Wood bio at the time of his death), combined with their velvet-and-scarves style of dressing and their girls-and-drugs style of living,
made for a natural comparison with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards..."
1 Over & Over
3:01
2 When Angels Die
3:55
3 Falling Apart
5:52
4 Down On My Own
4:57
5 Boutique
5:47
6 What Am I Living For?
4:06
7 Puppeteer's Son
5:52
8 Liquor, Guns & Ammo
8:25
9 Love's Cascade
4:35
10 Penicillin
3:10
11 The Rolling Of The Hearse
2:42
12 Wasted
JACOBITES – Old Scarlett 1995
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