Arctic Monkeys

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.

AM I MAKING MYSELF CLEAR?

OTM. Nobody talks about it, but I must have ten music TV channels playing what seems like less than a dozen tracks over and over, all day long. This doen't happen by accident. "Taste-makers", my arse.

Capitalism: An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and controlled and which is characterized by competition and the profit motive.

Not sure what you're telling me here though Marcello...

THERE IS MORE TO MUSIC THAN THIS

That, for me is the nub. How much further inward can the horizons and expectations of mainstream 'indie' travel before the whole thing completely implodes? I think the answer is that it's already at that point creatively. The A*ctic Gibbons are not taking us on a fantastic voyage of "whoa! what was that?!" anytime soon.

The NME will be completely fucked (this time) if they fail to catch on to the next big wave of stuff more exciting than this piffle in time.

When students realise that the publication has less than 0.1% of a real clue about music (compare it with it's 1990's self even and it wasn't SO bad, even in the britpop/big-beat years ther was a smidge of diversity) and really is just a (grotty) lifestyle mag, they are as doomed as Melody Maker.

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