Take London

Studio album by The Herbaliser

Released

31 May 2005

Genre

Jazz, hip hop

Length

60:41 (ZENCD098)
77:59 (ZENCD098X)

Label

Ninja Tune

The Herbaliser chronology

Solid Steel Presents Herbal Blend
(2003)

Take London
(2005)

FabricLive.26
(2006)

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Take London is the 7th album released by The Herbaliser, released in 2005 (Cat. no: ZENCD098). A second version was also released which contained a second disc (Cat. no: ZENCD098X) containing 5 bonus tracks.

Disc one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Take London (Intro)"	0:32
2.	"Nah' Mean, Nah'm Sayin'" (Jake Wherry, Ollie Teeba, Tsidi Ibrahim, Trout; featuring Jean Grae)	4:01
3.	"Song for Mary" (Wherry, Teeba, Trout)	5:16
4.	"Generals" (Wherry, Teeba, Ibrahim, Rodney Smith, O'Callaghan, Jenkin Jr. II, Kain, Ramirez^{[note 1]})	3:55
5.	"Gadget Funk" (Wherry, Teeba)	4:07
6.	"Failure's No Option" (Wherry, Teeba, Adey; featuring Cappo)	3:01
7.	"Lord Lord" (Wherry, Teeba, Smith; featuring Roots Manuva)	4:08
8.	"The Man Who Knows" (Interlude)	0:21
9.	"Kittyknapper" (Wherry, Kaidi Tatham, Andrew Ross, Teeba)	2:37
10.	"Geddim'!!" (Wherry, Teeba)	4:56
11.	"If You Close Your Eyes" (Wherry, Teeba, Ibrahim, Ralph Lamb, Ross; featuring Jean Grae)	4:25
12.	"Sonofanothamutha" (Wherry, Teeba, Cuba, Lamb, Ross)	8:17
13.	"Twice Around" (Wherry, Teeba, Lamb, Ross; featuring Jean Grae)	3:56
14.	"I Know a Bloke" (Interlude)	0:21
15.	"8 Men Strong" (Wherry, Teeba)	5:14
16.	"Serge" (Wherry, Teeba, Katherine; featuring Katerine)	5:34

Notes: ^[note 1] First verse: Trap Clappa; Second verse: Cheech Marina; Third verse: Daddy Mills; Fourth verse: A.K.; Fifth verse: MacGuyver - Private E1; Sixth verse: Jean Grae

Disc two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"More Tea, More Beer" (featuring Jean Grae)	2:37
2.	"Meteroic" (featuring Cappo)	2:50
3.	"I Am" (featuring Wildflower)	4:06
4.	"How To Keep a Girlfriend" (featuring Jean Grae)	4:15
5.	"None Other" (featuring Cappo)	3:30

Samples

"Take London (Intro)" features samples from the film The Long Good Friday (1980).
"Song For Mary" contains a sample from Mina's "Un bacio è troppo poco".

The Herbaliser

Ollie Teeba Jake Wherry

Studio albums	Remedies (1995) Blow Your Headphones (1997) Very Mercenary (1999) Something Wicked this Way Comes (2002) Take London (2005) Same As It Never Was (2008)

Compilation albums	Solid Steel Presents Herbal Blend (2003) FabricLive.26 (2006) Herbal Tonic (2010)

Live albums [as The Herbaliser Band]	Session One (2000)

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