― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Sunday, 28 August 2005 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link
I just think this band is going to be big in some sort of way.
― Voodoo Child, Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link
But hype aside, the last thing anybody needs now is a new Libertines.
― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― snotty moore, Monday, 29 August 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link
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 ReeboksOr knackered ConverseOr tracky bottoms tucked in socksBut all of that's what the point is notThe point's that there ain't no romance around there
....
You know, oh it's a funny thing you knowWe'll tell 'em if you likeWe'll tell 'em all tonightThey'll never listenCause their minds are made upAnd course it's all okay to carry on that way
And over there there's broken bonesThere's only music, so that there's new ringtonesAnd it don't take no Sherlock HolmesTo 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.
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 29 August 2005 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 29 August 2005 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Blowhard, Monday, 29 August 2005 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 29 August 2005 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link
Doesn't excuse the band being shit, though.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 29 August 2005 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― hollie longden, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― hulligan, Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― paggle gaggle, Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Clo, Thursday, 15 September 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 15 September 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― DOMINIC MIRZAI, Saturday, 17 September 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― alice, Sunday, 18 September 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 18 September 2005 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 18 September 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
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 :-)
― Rennie, Friday, 23 September 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Looking around a bit seems like you can grab some of their songs here. The first thing that comes to my mind is Libertines.
― gspm (gspm), Saturday, 1 October 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.dominorecordco.com/site/downloads/Arctic_Monkeys/I_Bet%20You_HIGH.mov
― holojames (holojames), Saturday, 1 October 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Saturday, 1 October 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link
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!
― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 1 October 2005 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Soukesian, Saturday, 1 October 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap0))), Saturday, 1 October 2005 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 1 October 2005 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap0))), Saturday, 1 October 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 1 October 2005 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 2 October 2005 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 2 October 2005 00:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― jimmy glass (electricsound), Sunday, 2 October 2005 03:31 (eighteen years ago) link
this band is utterly mediocre! wtf?
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Sunday, 2 October 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 2 October 2005 10:47 (eighteen years ago) link
and they're going nowhere looking like a spotty Coral.
― piscesboy, Sunday, 2 October 2005 10:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Sunday, 2 October 2005 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
rubbish lite singalong tripe with crap production:
Kaiser ChiefsHard FiDead 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.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 2 October 2005 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― jive session (elwisty), Sunday, 2 October 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― zeus (zeus), Sunday, 2 October 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― vinegar (Koens), Sunday, 2 October 2005 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― zeus (zeus), Sunday, 2 October 2005 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― vinegar (Koens), Sunday, 2 October 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Soukesian, Sunday, 2 October 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― zeus (zeus), Sunday, 2 October 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
AM I MAKING MYSELF CLEAR?
― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 2 October 2005 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Soukesian, Sunday, 2 October 2005 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 3 October 2005 08:01 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 3 October 2005 08:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Not sure what you're telling me here though Marcello...
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 3 October 2005 09:03 (eighteen years ago) link
ha ha
― acrobat (elwisty), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― lex pretend (lex pretend), Saturday, 13 January 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Clothing the Gotterdammerung Doors (noodle vague), Saturday, 13 January 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
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
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
― DavidM* (unreal), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― SAVE IT FOR THE CAKE LIST YOU CRAZY BROAD (patog27), Sunday, 14 January 2007 01:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Clothing the Gotterdammerung Doors (noodle vague), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 14 January 2007 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― funny farm, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark e, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― musically, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
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
This band has a song called "Brianstorm"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 03:33 (fourteen years ago) link
new album 'Suck It And See' l£4k£d.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
(i kno)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
first single sounded a bit non descript/oasis-ish
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 13:33 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
That single is awful.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 20:05 (twelve 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
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
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