Goodbooks

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Formed in Sevenoaks, Kent in 2005, UK indie-rockers GoodBooks arrived on the scene in the era of skinny-tie '00s indie à la the Mystery Jets and the Young Knives. Frontman Max Cooke and drummer Leo von Bulow-Quirk were childhood friends prone to thrashing out Beatles covers in their attic. They formed the Fingerprints with Christopher Porter and JP Duncan at school, before morphing into GoodBooks in 2004 and channelling a more electronic-tinted sound. In late 2004, the quartet bagged a career-changing deal with indie tastemakers Transgressive Records and re-recorded their debut single, "Walk With Me," which was released on the label in April 2006. The next month, they signed a major-label deal with Columbia and unleashed their debut album, Control, the following July. GoodBooks split up in 2009 after playing a set on Glastonbury's John Peel Stage on June 28.

Top tracks

02	Leni (Crystal Castles vs GoodBooks)	Goodbooks	Control Freaks (The Remixes)	04:16
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk / Composers: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk
10	Leni	Goodbooks	Control	03:28
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk
03	Passchendaele	Goodbooks	Control	03:52
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk
01	The Illness (The Teenagers Remix)	Goodbooks	Control Freaks (The Remixes)	03:54
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk / Composers: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk
01	Beautiful to Watch	Goodbooks	Control	03:50
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk
02	The Illness	Goodbooks	Control	03:19
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk

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Discography

Albums

2021 GoodBooks: 19-11-2007

Control Freaks (The Remixes)

01	The Illness (The Teenagers Remix)	Goodbooks	Control Freaks (The Remixes)	03:54
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk / Composers: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk
02	Leni (Crystal Castles vs GoodBooks)	Goodbooks	Control Freaks (The Remixes)	04:16
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk / Composers: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk
03	Turn It Back (Freaks Remix)	Goodbooks	Control Freaks (The Remixes)	06:13
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk / Composers: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk
04	Leni (Kissy Sell out Remix)	Goodbooks	Control Freaks (The Remixes)	07:57
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk / Composers: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk
05	Passchendaele (Minotaur Shock More Faithful Remix)	Goodbooks	Control Freaks (The Remixes)	05:12
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk / Composers: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk
06	Walk With Me (Subsource Remix)	Goodbooks	Control Freaks (The Remixes)	03:52
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk / Composers: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk
07	Turn It Back (Lo-Fi-Fnk Mature Remix)	Goodbooks	Control Freaks (The Remixes)	04:20
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk / Composers: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk

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2007 Columbia: 30-07-2007

Control

01	Beautiful to Watch	Goodbooks	Control	03:50
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk
02	The Illness	Goodbooks	Control	03:19
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk
03	Passchendaele	Goodbooks	Control	03:52
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk
04	The Curse of Saul	Goodbooks	Control	03:14
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk
05	Alice	Goodbooks	Control	03:38
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk
06	Good Life Salesman	Goodbooks	Control	03:52
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk
07	Violent Man Lovesong	Goodbooks	Control	03:16
	Writer: Christopher J Porter - John-Paul Duncan - Maxwell Cooke - Nicholas von Bulow-Quirk

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