― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 3 October 2005 09:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 3 October 2005 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 3 October 2005 10:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Monday, 3 October 2005 10:59 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― zeus (zeus), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:51 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 17 October 2005 08:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 17 October 2005 08:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Idle Idle (idleidleidle), Monday, 17 October 2005 09:34 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 17 October 2005 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Max russull, Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Googlers?
Linked from another message board?
Street team?
Does street-teaming message boards count as spam?
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Soukesian, Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
I want a tribute band called the Artex Monkeys.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Max russull must be as thick as a brick.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― asgarner, Sunday, 23 October 2005 03:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 October 2005 03:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― asgarner, Sunday, 23 October 2005 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― asgarner, Sunday, 23 October 2005 03:38 (eighteen years ago) link
What, "Ned"? Ooh, ooh! Do me next!
― telephone thing, Sunday, 23 October 2005 03:49 (eighteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/moiravangough.jpg
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 23 October 2005 03:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― telephone thing, Sunday, 23 October 2005 03:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― telephone thing, Sunday, 23 October 2005 04:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I could get into the Libertines, despite the complete and utter played-outness of the four piece guitar band/Pete Doherty is the indie Keith Richards narrative. Hell, I even like Oasis. However after downloading some of the 142 Arctic Monkeys tracks that are floating around the net, I only made it about 30 seconds through the first track before deleting the entire lot from iTunes. Thank you, technology, for saving me from spending $7.99 on the import CD single of this crap.
― John Hunter, Sunday, 23 October 2005 06:04 (eighteen years ago) link
I would rather a decent band be in the charts making music rather than this bunch of silly "teens" with their loutish fans, dumb street team and horrible, untalented overuse of Protools: guitar music doesn't sound like how this band does without computers being used somewhere, you idiot.
Alternatively, I would be happy for Arctic Monkeys to be in the charts WITHOUT making any music.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 23 October 2005 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― karaz, Sunday, 23 October 2005 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― jackcarter (jackcarter), Sunday, 29 January 2006 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Arctic Monkeys is #1 on Google for Monkeys. Above actual monkeys. That can't be right.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 30 January 2006 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Monday, 30 January 2006 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Monday, 30 January 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― asdfasd, Monday, 30 January 2006 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
The debut Arctic Monkeys album, "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" (Domino), has been instantly — and accurately — hailed as a modern classic
― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 30 January 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 January 2006 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm on google uk. You must be using that commie revisionist Chinese shite that still lists the Beatles as an influential British band.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 30 January 2006 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 30 January 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
The poll to establish the 100 greatest British albums ever has the indie legends at the top, just pipping fellow Mancunians The Smiths at two with their 1986 effort 'The Queen Is Dead', and Oasis, who are at Three with their 1994 debut 'Definitely Maybe'.
Arctic Monkeys make an appearance at Number Five in the week that their first album 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' looks set to become the fastest selling UK debut album of all time.
The Top Ten is as follows:1. The Stone Roses 'The Stone Roses'2. The Smiths 'The Queen Is Dead'3. Oasis 'Definitely Maybe'4. Sex Pistols 'Never Mind The Bollocks'5. Arctic Monkeys 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'6. Blur 'Modern Life Is Rubbish'7. Pulp 'Different Class'8. The Clash 'London Calling'9. The Beatles 'Revolver'10. The Libertines 'Up The Bracket'
― jackcarter (jackcarter), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 4 February 2006 06:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― parsifal, Sunday, 12 March 2006 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― gekoppel, Sunday, 12 March 2006 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link