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like maybe he could be the paul weller for kids that play playstation or someting someday.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

They do have a pinch of charm about them, despite the cliches and hackneyed subject matter. Especially in comparison to their competition (ok maybe I doo need to hear the Long Blondes & Gossip albums too... ), enthusiasm though, is something that they don't quite spark in me.

― //// (fandango), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Look (on Metacritic) at which publications'/reviewers' end-of-the-year lists they topped. Bit of an Atlantic divide, whatwhat?

― M. V. (M.V.), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Ive only heard a few songs and i think they're above alright, but not half as stunning as the hype suggests. My point is a dry one though. The 'working lads and lasses' et al who apparently will love this record, probably won't. The middle class fans (rock is pretty middle class these days, admit it!) who wish the proles would dig t'monkeys are missing one thing. Youth proles dig Mc'ing, rap, and other such genres, not rock! Round my area they don't anyway. Im afraid that the belief in, and empathy with the modern; 'gawd bless em workin' claas' which may give t'monkey's added cred, is a lie! Rock aint these kids main thing at all. Its just t'middle class kids hoping that a few kitchen sink lyrical snippets and regional accents might make it such. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. So there.
Dom, london

ha ha

― acrobat (elwisty), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

still never heard an arctic monkeys song :D

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Saturday, 13 January 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Please keep us informed on this, lex.

― Clothing the Gotterdammerung Doors (noodle vague), Saturday, 13 January 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

it seems like you could have any opinion of this band, depending on how charitable you feel like being and how much credit yr willing to give them cuz of how young they are.

i guess my default position is that every new "buzz band" of the UK is going to be a big huge pile of shit, so when something's kinda decent i'm all like "oh that's kinda nice, good for them!"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 13 January 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Lucky you, Lex!

Srsly, are these losers still around?

― SAVE IT FOR THE CAKE LIST YOU CRAZY BROAD (patog27), Saturday, 13 January 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Just listen to NME, MTV2, Q and any other half decent journalists... they are brilliant

― DavidM* (unreal), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

that's a good one, but for nuclear holocaust in ABOUT ZERO SECONDS:

had to laugh at the reviewer here..what a shoddy review. Of course nothing in guitar based music is groundbreaking anymore,,its just impossible, its all been done before. However as someone who has not been particularly touched by anything musically since the Stone Roses debut this album is phenomenal, as good as you can get.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

~~Poor~~ Destitute Man's Carlin.

― SAVE IT FOR THE CAKE LIST YOU CRAZY BROAD (patog27), Sunday, 14 January 2007 01:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Hnestly, 4 shit versions of a top zing rly serve to bang the msg hOm.

― Clothing the Gotterdammerung Doors (noodle vague), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:50 (seventeen years ago) link

does the british press shorthand their name to "the arctics in glasto dust-up" or "the monkeys in glasto dust-up?"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 14 January 2007 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...

Wow, that's odd, when I bought a cheapo DVD player recently, there was a CD already in it when I took it out of the box... I played a bit of it and then put it away 'cos I thought it'd be some crappy compilation being given away as a freebie. However when I put it into iTunes just now it turns out it's the first Arctic Monkeys album... what gives?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

must be an evil dvd player.

― funny farm, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

they can't give 'em away! except in this case obv.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Was somebody listening to it in the DVD factory and forgot to take it out?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

love the idea of the Arctic Monkeys album being used as a Reference cd to check the DVD player works ok with audio cds.

― mark e, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone probably returned it and forgot to take their CD out. Bummer!

― musically, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

five months pass...

Someone please explain why "Fluroscent Adolescent" is meant to be a modern classic. Thanks.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 22 October 2007 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link

that's a clever title.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 22 October 2007 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Drastic_Fantastic.jpg

― Just got offed, Monday, 22 October 2007 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Would smash the shit out of.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 22 October 2007 12:24 (sixteen years ago) link

alex turner is a smug, snidey little cunt.

― max r, Monday, 22 October 2007 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link

IS he? in person? i'm genuinely surprised if so cause that's not what i've heard.

― pisces, Monday, 22 October 2007 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link

in the lyrics, obvs. i reckon he is in person as well tho.

― max r, Monday, 22 October 2007 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link

i always wondered why people go to such elaborate trouble to "pretend" they're a twat. why not spend the same amount of energy pretending to be funny and engaging and insightful?

-- Tracer Hand, Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:33 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Link

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 22 October 2007 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link

so true, so true.

― max r, Monday, 22 October 2007 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

This band has a song called "Brianstorm"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 03:33 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

new album 'Suck It And See' l£4k£d.

― piscesx, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link

(i kno)

― Mark G, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link

first single sounded a bit non descript/oasis-ish

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link

Single is a horrible choice but the last third of the record is pretty great.

― We need to talk about Bevan (DL), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link

it took a while to sink in but it's a pretty fine album. a couple of dud-ish trax but the good ones are a-ok-imo.

funny to read the haters up thread: pretty sure that a.turner is as far away from a snidey littlecunt as max r and others are close to it.

― nultybutnice (whatever), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link

single worked on the letterman performance. tight band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr5U1A94IRM

― nultybutnice (whatever), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link

That single is awful.

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link

Good album -- I guess they've entered their Morrissey circa '89 phase where it's all jangle and semi-acerbic couplets.

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link

Like this album a lot.

― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link

the lyrics he wrote for the submarine were dreadful. hopefully he doesnt overwrite the life out of each line on this album like he did there.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

new single! won't win over any naysayers but it's sweet enough to be going on with

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/jun/19/arctic-monkeys-do-i-wanna-know?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

― piscesx, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link

Jeez, this is great. Dunno why I didn't expect it because they always deliver, but this is a belter.

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 24 June 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link

When Album?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 08:00 (ten years ago) link

September

― Iain Mew (if), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 08:27 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

lol. glad i get to bump this thread, some good posts above like that dave matthews thread.

anyway, watch this fucking asshole:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOVT5ujsr8s

lololol

― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 31 August 2014 01:18 (nine years ago) link

i love the parts when you can see people milling around in the background just not even paying attention or giving the slightest shit

― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 31 August 2014 01:21 (nine years ago) link

oh well this is old i guess (july) so there was probably already a thread about it. never mind, carry on

― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 31 August 2014 01:31 (nine years ago) link

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