Arctic Monkeys

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.

According to one estimate there are already 142 different versions of various Arctic Monkeys songs floating around on the internet, some recorded by fans at concerts.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1593705,00.html

I like the Sheffield references, mainly as I seem to be loving Sheffield again, for some unearthly reason. apart from that, it's just same old same old. Or as they say in Thailand: same same but different

Googlers?

Linked from another message board?

Street team?

Does street-teaming message boards count as spam?

I want a tribute band called the Artex Monkeys.

Max russull must be as thick as a brick.

What, "Ned"? Ooh, ooh! Do me next!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/moiravangough.jpg

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