Arctic Monkeys

I really do like the Libs. These guys just might be the biggest thing since to come out of england since the Stone Roses.

I don't give an ass what anyone says, Just because a band gets a bit of hype doesn't mean you have to hate them.

Viva la Monkeys!

I just think this band is going to be big in some sort of way.

But hype aside, the last thing anybody needs now is a new Libertines.

All the people that got wound up by the I Predict a Riot lyrics will be going crazy over A Certain Romance:

Well oh they might wear classic Reeboks
Or knackered Converse
Or tracky bottoms tucked in socks
But all of that's what the point is not
The point's that there ain't no romance around there

....

You know, oh it's a funny thing you know
We'll tell 'em if you like
We'll tell 'em all tonight
They'll never listen
Cause their minds are made up
And course it's all okay to carry on that way

And over there there's broken bones
There's only music, so that there's new ringtones
And it don't take no Sherlock Holmes
To see it's a little different around here

etc.

The singer has that really annoying 'check it out man I'm telling you THE TRUTH' voice that has become de rigeur in Brit indie, and they have that stupid half skanking motion that everyone seems to have today as well. They're like a muscular Libertines. I've got a can of lager and it's all lads together innit.

Doesn't excuse the band being shit, though.

I have to say they are fuckin wicked and funny 2. can see why people are comparing them to the libertines in as much as they are british and good. But they are very different too.. for a start there northern and havent got some sort of romantic illusion with poppies/herion that carl and pete seemed to have.

I'm a big fan of the libertines self titiled album and the lad who wrote about that above is dead rigth.. its a classic already.

But there's no need to slag of a band for gettin hype.. if anyone had heard the interviews theyve done they sound like proper decent lads. good luck to em!

and that bird who shagged the lead singer.. haha quality! glad to see rock stars, even lads from yorkshire get groupies and shags back stage!

Live the dream :-)

Looking around a bit seems like you can grab some of their songs here. The first thing that comes to my mind is Libertines.

http://www.dominorecordco.com/site/downloads/Arctic_Monkeys/I_Bet%20You_HIGH.mov

What has become of Domino? You'd think with the Franz money they'd sign some good acts, but instead we've got Artic Monkeys and Archie Bronson Outfit. I don't begrudge Domino having another cash cow, but y'know, Franz are actually good!

I just suspect that there's a better band playing in a bar about twenty minutes from where you are now, wherever that might be.

In that Guardian article Conor McNicholas also recommended Carl Barat's new band, who will surely turn out to be the new McAlmont and Butler, only shit.

this band is utterly mediocre! wtf?

I don't understand the Arctic Monkeys appreciate either. I downloaded a couple of tracks about six weeks ago, and they went straight into the trash. Who has time for this kind of generic British indie? Of course, I see no appeal whatsoever to the Kaiser Chiefs, either, so what do I know.

In real life, I like the online "tastemakers'" picks way more than the print ones, frankly. Give me Fluxblog and Pitchforkmedia's darlings over the NME and BBC, any day.

and they're going nowhere looking like a spotty Coral.

rubbish lite singalong tripe with crap production:

Kaiser Chiefs
Hard Fi
Dead 60s

...Arctic Monkeys

On a site like rateyourmusic.com which has contributors across the world these crap bands are rightly ignored.

Because Britain has useless playlist stations such as Xfm, Virgin, Radio 1 and no weekly competition for NME, rubbish tripe like this rises to the top like slime on a stagnant pond.

start from about 2/3 of the way down. my first, but not my last, music-forum flame-war!

I'm really not proud of a lot of what I said (ESPECIALLY the 'saviours of British rock', whoops), not to mention the manner in which I said it, but hey, a rant's a rant!

i guess i had low expectations.

a lot of it sounds like pretty typical u.s. indie rock w/english accents, but the best songs are pretty good. the lead dude has a good way about him sometimes.

ha ha

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!"

Srsly, are these losers still around?

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.

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

that's a clever title.

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

Would smash the shit out of.

alex turner is a smug, snidey little cunt.

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

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

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

so true, so true.

This band has a song called "Brianstorm"

new album 'Suck It And See' l£4k£d.

(i kno)

first single sounded a bit non descript/oasis-ish

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

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.

single worked on the letterman performance. tight band.

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

That single is awful.

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

Like this album a lot.

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.

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

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

When Album?

September

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

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

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