― parsifal, Monday, 13 March 2006 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Although they wouldn't exist without The Strokes as a precursor, in their favor AM are less fashion-layout-ready and display more musical agility. The Strokes had better songs, though (speaking in past tense 'cause their expiration date passed after the first album).
Verdict: Arctic Monkeys huge in UK, won't mean shit in the US.
― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 13 March 2006 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link
they're gonna have to get to used to that
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 13 March 2006 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 13 March 2006 02:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sean Braudis (Sean Braudis), Monday, 13 March 2006 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Monday, 13 March 2006 03:00 (eighteen years ago) link
You know, I just finished reading this issue, and my eyes fell out of my head when I saw that.
These kids are going to have such a long, long way down...
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Monday, 13 March 2006 03:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Ha ha
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 13 March 2006 09:53 (eighteen years ago) link
O RLY?
― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Monday, 13 March 2006 10:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― [apal fret, Monday, 13 March 2006 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link
That's a thread unto itself. (And, somewhere on here, it probably already is.)
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link
oh you like something, that's so interesting.
― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Monday, 13 March 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 March 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
music is make-believe, the monkeys know that and their fans live like it. just because it seems a somewhat dull existence to aspire to (naturalism/cynicism), compared to say...glam, doesn't make the role play any less valid.
― [apal furtivity, Monday, 13 March 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 13 March 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 13 March 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― [apal apple, Monday, 13 March 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link
'oasis are actually very talented.
clever talleneted and sucessful.
the furries, were sh*te, and more like a 3rd rate pub band.
brit pop was a huge movement throught the nineties and very succesful, and i doubt you'd have the sh*t art rock bands that pussy foot around today if if it wasnt for that.
artic monkeys say it perfectly
"the weekend rockstars in the toilets practisicing there lines""super cool bands with there trilbys and glasses of white wine"'
― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― [apal wdw, Monday, 13 March 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link
And anyway musical history is full of people outside of a music's cultural area of origin wanting to be part of that scene. I think what have people upset here is the Arctic Monkeys are a throwback to a type of music they personally don't much like and don't want to see it gain any traction. Doesn't the UK know they should be listening to Grime?! Dizzee needs to eat too! Come on!
― lykvun stratta, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 01:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― [apal class hero, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 04:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 05:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― lovethefrench (lovethefrench), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 06:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― BeeOK (boo radley), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 06:37 (eighteen years ago) link
The new tracks on the EP were very disappointing.As I suspected, they're already on the rocky/rockist road to self-mythologising/self-justification.They should concentrate on their music instead of getting bogged down over what people, contributors to this thread included, think of them.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 06:56 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/imperfect-sound-forever.htm
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:25 (eighteen years ago) link
This is another reason why The Drift comes as such a sonic delight (relatively speaking); the emotional peaks and troughs of the music are accurately mirrored and recreated (the truly cinemascopic drum avalanche at the beginning of "Cossacks Are," Donald Duck plus orchestra in "The Escape," etc.).
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:27 (eighteen years ago) link
interesting article, but personally i think its a more sinister problem, relating to the streamlining of sound to make people less aware of 'quality', and making music more easy to manufacture. can you create another pink floyd? no. can you create another arctic monkeys? yes. they both make money. only one is a product that can be made instantaneously. one is legendary, one is crap.. but its relative. and relative to the current state of music lovers, crap is apparently good. :)
― lovethefrench (lovethefrench), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:32 (eighteen years ago) link
X-post - lovethefrench - that's something I'm looking into now, actually, the A&R marketing aspect of it.
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Which is off-topic, but came to mind re: looking at marketing and turnover of acts.
― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 08:02 (eighteen years ago) link
or BOTH
re. touring & promo -- yer beatles and stones were always on tour weren't they?
― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 08:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 08:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 08:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 08:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 08:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 08:13 (eighteen years ago) link
1966: five or six major record labels run by people who had been around since days of al bowlly/glenn miller, didn't really have a clue about what the kids liked so were happy to throw anything into the mixer to see what came out.
2006: three or four multinational shareholder-driven organisations relying on instant returns, usually run by people who weren't even around in days of cobain, decided by committee what the kids should like so unhappy to throw anything into any mixer which doesn't sound like something that already came out, and therefore will make immediate money.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 08:16 (eighteen years ago) link