This band really is fanstastic. Have kind of been avoiding them because of all the hype (oh contrary me) but caught them by accident peforming live while flicking around the telly channels. Stunningly good. Listening to the whole album now.

I like them a lot in small doses, but towards the end the LP I start getting bored.

Another #1 single and early estimates would suggest the biggest selling debut since Definetly Maybe is on the cards.

We are talking 200k a good deal more than Coldplay's 140k and Keane's 155k first week figures.

I was bored just three songs in. Suppose I'll give it another try sometime.

I only heard one or two of those singles everyone was going crazy about last year. Didn't get the hype.

both Public Enemy and the band themselves both say don't believe the hype. I say the people made the hype not the media.

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I loved this after 1 minute - which I hope doesn't have an equal reaction of a lack of longevity for this band.

Also the live thing I saw beats the studio recordings - although I think I must have downloaded the wrong version, as there are too many songs and the levels are all over the place. Will wait for a proper version before really deciding.

Still, what I've heard sounds really good and I will be giving it plenty more spins. Some of the songs seem a little lacking, but I have a feeling that may only be in comparison to the highs in some of the others - which are very high.

Anyone who gets bored after 3 songs should skip to the album closer, "A Certain Romance," and listen.

It's their best song.

Watched them in session on the kcrw site, wasn't at all impressed. Then I switched to Editors, they were very impressive.

These guys are the real deal, goofy band name and all. It's the lyrics that clinch it.

hmm... so at the end of '06, which band will Arctic Monkeys most resemble from 2005 in terms of overall SOMB approval/opinion...

Bloc Party?

the album has already grown a bit tiring for me, will be curious to see where it ends up end of the year. even when i was really digging it a lot, still wasn't really one of my faves of '06.

solid for a debut though, no dout.

they are good, is it me but this board is all way over on the right, i cant get the whole picture in my screen, cant even post topics.

it makes me physically ill to listen to this band.

take your reeboks and shove them down your throat when you get a minute.

You suck!!

no, your country's most celebrated band of the moment sucks.

you can keep them so long as i don't have to hear their shit on US modern rock radio.

something tells me i won't be so lucky.

They sound a slightly bit better than Jet. Not much of a compliment.

I'm not yet sure how I feel about the whole album (gotta give it a couple more spins), but "Dancefloor" is still a great single - especially when combined with the B-sides. I can't believe that this thing is supposedly going to beat out Oasis' first week sales though.

I really, really don't get it. i don't hear any of the greatness. every single song of theirs i've heard sounds like very middling, stereotypical british indie. there are a thousand bands out there doing the exact same thing at the moment -- and none any more distinguished than the other to my ear.

when you hear those early oasis singles alongside the monkeys singles, there's just no comparison. i mean, people could try to emulate oasis (and many did), but nobody could touch them. liam's voice just immediately singled them out in my mind and put them head and shoulders above the competition.

the monkeys, on the other hand, have no mark of greatness. nothing distinctive to fall back on. it will be a national embarrassment if they beat oasis.

No, you suck because you said the music makes you "physically ill" which, unless you have been subjected to the Ludovico technique, is unlikely. You just dislike it a lot that's all.


Deal, as long as don't have to listen to Fall Out Boy or Good Charotte.







They won't beat Oasis figures. Not going to happen. 360k is a long way from 220k.



It's not anything distinctive per se it's more that a band has firstly created themselves an interesting back story and secondly they have elements of the other great British guitar bands of yore which come together in some songs and in others they don't.



Don't you think people said at the time (and even now) the same of Oasis?



Let me know when a witty, touching song about prostitution is the biggest selling song in the USA. I won't hold my breath. A national embarssment? I'm sure HRH is anticiapating the return of dozens of MBE's if there was such an event to happen. First the whale, then this!!


They share one thing in common with Oasis of 1994. They've put the geneartion gap back in music in this country

Oasis Sucks and Noel and Liam are wankers. At least these kids seem to fairly humble folks.


Their music is extremely pleasant. I'm happy they've found success. I'm even sort of considering that metro show.

Props for insulting within proper cultural context to the mentioned band.

Arctic Monkeys have already got some big US hype. They are playing at the Henry Fonda Theatre in LA which is about 1000 cap. It's too early to tell if the US will get them but I would say not. They are just too lyrically clever and witty and the US usually doesn't get that kind of thing. We just want to hear lyrics that rhyme with cheesy melodies.

I just wasted my whole comute listening to this new album (thanks for the ysi, mitch). I'll admit I like the singles, "I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor" and the one jiga is pimping in the other arctic monkey's thread on this board "When The Sun Goes Down" (which they played live in the studio on Radio 1 yesterday). And I'll admit they are good musicians but much like The Futureheads before them, this band just bores me terriblly.

Are they really forcasting upwards of 150,000 for the first week?!? I don't think this'll catch on in the States, if "Banquet" barely made a splash there's nothing here that will either.

220K sales in the UK is the equivalent of 1 million in the US.

This album come out in the Uk yet?

Yeah, and it flying off the shelves like no fucker would believe.

100k in the first day.

Wow, weird part is that they'll be lucky to sell that much in the US in the first year.

holy christ... the monkeys are officially the arcade fire of mainstream british music, except worse because at least arcade fire have "rebellion (lies)." i still haven't found one great arctic monkeys track.

I don't understand the comparison.

arcade fire : pfm-obeisant indie set :: arctic monkeys : gen y brits

hmm...i smell a sick puppy.

What does "gen y brits" have to do with it?

yeah, this pup can't hide his illness.

and the only ..cure..is more artic monkeys?

quiet before i call up the pentagon and have them haul you off to nam, you draft dodging scum.

edit: see, i'm on the phone right now. lock your door.

Come on Lyndon, we all know you grew your hair out long and let your freak flag fly.


Got ya cornered.

They like Robbie Williams too.

pfft, you have no. 1s about prostitutes, we have no. 1s by pimps. come and have go, etc.

I won't say anything more about 'em since I have a review going up tomorrow anyway

wait a minute, i collect songs that directly or dimly refer to prostitution. new knife album uh huh. anyway, mitchell or another artic fan, ysi the one that does please.

wow, on first listen to Dancefloor, i feel sort of silly for avoiding this for as long as i did.

i can't be the only one who thinks the backing vocals on "You Look Good OnThe Dancefloor" sound like The Offspring? that song doesn't really do it for me, wouldn't even consider it in the top 5 on the album for me.

seriously though, i mean i dig this album some, but i cannot fathom why it's getting so much buzz compared to even last years crop, Maximo Park, Bloc Party, etc. I'd take either of their albums over this still, The Kooks probably even as well.

Hah -- the Offspring!

I laugh because I'm listening now and you're right. Anyway, I'm still not sure about this full album.

i too listened to this song for the first time today and wasn't floored. giving it a 2nd spin now...maybe it'll grow on me.

i seriously think i'm the most oblivious person of all time, i had no idea this band was that hyped. in fact i'd never heard of them outside from their placement on the SOMB singles list.

also, Fake Tales of San Francisco sounds like The Advantage. you know, that band who covers 8-bit NES songs? no lie!

the first three songs sound exactly alike. i was sitting here trying to do work and i'm all "wow this is a long song, oh track 3....okay..." nonetheless, they aren't bad. but they aren't particularly jaw droppingly great, either. maybe once i get past the first [three] tracks i'll be impressed but right now they're just kind of generic rock background music. la ti da.

Here's the whole single



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It's the lyrics; they appeal to "the kids". The album is being bought by people who have never even looked at a copy of the NME.

ah, well then i guess maybe that explains it. not aimed at my age group whatosever.

thank you very much mitchell. lyrics are little too obvious for my liking. i like spacious non-specific lyrics, but not so spacious as to be unrelatable.

i'll still get in late on this album and give it a fair listen.

later edit: i have a feeling this band sounds better live in person, as for the tunes, i'm not feelin' it.

the pfm review is so grudgingly positive that i almost felt bad for the writer...

I have that same feeling. I posted earlier in this thread that I heard them on Radio 1 play "When The Sun Goes Down" and was really impressed. But I don't know if I can sit through the whole album again (I've spun it 3 times now, that's enough isn't it?)