Arctic Monkeys

[Biz]

I was able to listen to the full album of Arctic Monkeys at a store today and I was really dissapointed. I thought their was really no direction that the cd was going to and I got really bored of it. It sounded much like fuzzy crappy guitar with bad lyrics. I expected much better since they are the "next" big thing, and since they did so great in England. Anyone else have an opinon?
-Biz

[musicisgood]

did you search for an old thread at all? we had this conversation recently...

to sum it up: the arctic monkeys suck

[Kurtz]

I really like them.

The album is fun, catchy, and anything but boring to me. They're probably not the next big thing like all the hype says they are, and it isn't a masterpiece, but it's very enjoyable music and I view it as that.

[PinkFreud]

i like the album. its very catchy. don't look for anything more than that in the album or else you'll be disappointed.

[sgrevs]

I agree, it is good. Not amazing, about 3-3.5. Very catchy indeed, I love 'Dancing Shoes'.

[Kayetan]

I almost downloaded their album yesterday, but then I was like, "Oh wait, this sucks."

[Kurtz]

I agree, it is good. Not amazing, about 3-3.5. Very catchy indeed, I love 'Dancing Shoes'.
I was thinking more of the 4 range myself.

[Biz]

I almost downloaded their album yesterday, but then I was like, "Oh wait, this sucks."
Thats funny.
-Biz

[dilettante]

The Arctic Monkey album is ridiculously terrible. The only reason anyone likes them is because those fags at NME hyped them up. I was able to see past that, though, and expected typical NME garbage (i.e., Bloc Party), and wasn't in the least bit disappointed.

I hope one day everyone will ignore what NME has to say about anything pertaining to music so that those bastards will learn to write a decent review without cumming over every new British band that comes out.

[PinkFreud]

or you know, we might actually find it catchy and appealing. im glad that YOU were able to look through the bullshit though. good for you man. the cookie and the medal are in the mail, on the way to your house. enjoy.

[W.M.A]

yeah dip**** i really like bloc party so keep your rants to yourself.

concerning arctic monkeys, if you listen to an album expecting it to be the next big thing, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

[cap]

I don't like AM. I love The Libertines though, AM just seems cheap in comparison. I have never really had a problem with Bloc Party to be honest, may I be slated for it, but they have some tunes that are just fun, and that's what I like about it. Though, I never listen to them at home, only at parties/clubs and what not.

[Clunge]

As much as I like some of the early 'indie' stuff from NME, Bloc Party, The Zutons, Franz F, it just seems to have gone to far now with bands like Arctic Monkeys and We Are Scientists who I don't really like very much at all. It's just all too samey and manufactured I find.

[morrissey]

I really like them.

The album is fun, catchy, and anything but boring to me. They're probably not the next big thing like all the hype says they are, and it isn't a masterpiece, but it's very enjoyable music and I view it as that.
I agree with you, although it is in 3-3.5 range for me instead.

or you know, we might actually find it catchy and appealing. im glad that YOU were able to look through the bull**** though. good for you man. the cookie and the medal are in the mail, on the way to your house. enjoy.
And I definitely agree with you.

[zink182]

I haven't listened to them much but what I've heard takes a little of listening before you start liking it..

I give them 3/5

[mikethecoug]

I think the album is really good.. and particularly the lyrics and the catchiness of the songs.

[The_Passenger]

It's not that good. It's catchy, I'll give it that, but it's not really anything else. It's OK to listen to a couple of times but then it gets a bit boring.

[Zebra]

It's above average pop music. Sometimes the music can seem a bit dull and uninspired but the music is still catchy and enjoyable on an occasional listen.

[Iai]

I haven't really stopped listening to it since I got it.

I also find it hilarious how the anti-NME fury has gone so far that when they DO eventually get something right, people are too blind to realise.

[Kyle]

I also find it hilarious how the anti-NME fury has gone so far that when they DO eventually get something right, people are too blind to realise.it's the boy who cried wolf....in a strange sort of way. They battered us with Hard Fi, The Futureheads, Bloc Party e.t.c, now we don;t believe a word they say. I think 'the monkeys' are ok, but don't like them enough to buy the album.

[Iai]

Hah, you just named three of the few other NME-endorsed bands I like there.

[Kyle]

Hah, you just named three of the few other NME-endorsed bands I like there.I like Bloc Party enough, but I've seen Hard Fi live and was bored to pieces. I like The Futureheads at times, but except a few cool vocal tricks they don't seem to have much going on.

I probably should have used better examples, but I get all their names confused so can't tell who's good anymore.

[Krash100]

Maybe since NME is barely known in the states, that's why nobody outside a few small circles has heard of Artcic Monkeys here.

...and that's probably a good thing

[dance to the radio]

Maybe since NME is barely known in the states, nobody outside a few small circles has heard of Artcic Monkeys.

...and that's probably a good thing
yes because 'alternative' america is much better off with the likes of my chemical romance and fall out boy.

Get a grip, arctic monkeys live up to the hype live, writing songs that can be enjoyed and related to, the albums a solid 4/5.

[dilettante]

NME still hasn't gotten anything right. Need proof? NME put Arctic Monkeys' Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not FIFTH on their Best British Albums Ever list.

Here's their top 10:
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'

Notice how Pulp is lower on the top ten than Blur and Oasis, and how the Sex Pistols even made it to their Top 100 list. I'm pretty sure I'm right when I say this: NME is bull****.

[PinkFreud]

NME still hasn't gotten anything right. Need proof? NME put Arctic Monkeys' Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not FIFTH on their Best British Albums Ever list.

Here's their top 10:
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'

Notice how Pulp is lower on the top ten than Blur and Oasis, and how the Sex Pistols even made it to their Top 100 list. I'm pretty sure I'm right when I say this: NME is bull****.
yeah. great. we know the list is crap. that doesnt stop us from making up OUR OWN opinions. just because you get all your information and opinions from magazines and other forms of mainstream media doesnt mean everyone else does. just stop posting about it. let us like what we like and we'll let you do whatever lame things you do. deal?

[insanepunkguy]

did you search for an old thread at all? we had this conversation recently...

to sum it up: the arctic monkeys suck

no they dont suck, they just sound like the libertines w/ a northern accent

[JonM]

I like the record. Use the search function next time.

[Ross]

no they dont suck, they just sound like the libertines w/ a northern accent

Where I live, it sounds like a southern accent ^_^

I heard a few sougs, wasn't too impressed, but I don't hate them. Just fairly average popular stuff to be honest.

[rocknrollstar5]

The reason they did so well in england is because if you listen to the lyrics they are about english life and do actually make sense and have a meaning. Americans arent really going to GET it.
And I do think they are very overated, maybe its the NME's fault though i couldnt care. that album has about 4 good songs

[insanepunkguy]

Where I live, it sounds like a southern accent ^_^

I heard a few sougs, wasn't too impressed, but I don't hate them. Just fairly average popular stuff to be honest.

lol, wher the hell do u live then?? newcastle?? and obviously uve never been down here to the south man

[lilsolsman]

They're not bad, but they're not very good either.

Very 'meh'.

[ATM]

I like the first couple songs on the album. After that it goes downhill.

[Kurtz]

The reason they did so well in england is because if you listen to the lyrics they are about english life and do actually make sense and have a meaning. Americans arent really going to GET it.
And I do think they are very overated, maybe its the NME's fault though i couldnt care. that album has about 4 good songs
True, but I guess you could say that for the whole Britpop scene; you know, middle class kids begging to be working class.

I also find it hilarious how the anti-NME fury has gone so far that when they DO eventually get something right, people are too blind to realise.
It's the boy who cried wolf, you know.

[rocknrollstar5]

True, but I guess you could say that for the whole Britpop scene; you know, middle class kids begging to be working class.

I know they piss me off no end, but what can you do really. The whole Britpop scene was sort of a rivival of working class music for the working class. This NEW wave of Britpop like Kaiser Cheifs, Franz etc dosent really have the same edge, its got no meaning and its going nowhere

[2muchket!]

no they dont suck, they just sound like the libertines w/ a northern accent

Bad analogy my friend, Arctic Monkeys are a northern band and manily working class, were as the libs well, just look at the type of audience they got at gigs. Posh stuck up public school kids.

Also TS what justification have you to say that AM lyrics are crap, english maybe, maybe you just don't understand them I dunno.

I don't see AM as revolutionary but just a good indie band.

[cap]

Bad analogy my friend, Arctic Monkeys are a northern band and manily working class, were as the libs well, just look at the type of audience they got at gigs. Posh stuck up public school kids.

Also TS what justification have you to say that AM lyrics are crap, english maybe, maybe you just don't understand them I dunno.

I don't see AM as revolutionary but just a good indie band.

The Libs have infinitely better lyrics, they outlined everysong by AM in a couple of lines. The Libs had class, maybe that's what your confusing with 'stuck up'.

[Little Man being Erased]

Class is one thing the Libs definitely did NOT have.

[Biz]

Class is one thing the Libs definitely did NOT have.
Yeah, I totally agree with you on that.
-Biz

[Kurtz]

Last time I checked, an out of control heroin addiction wasn't classy.

[rbv]

I like the first songs but it gets boring, still it's really fun to listen to if you're in a mood to listen to some music you're not supposed to be intensely listening to.

[guitarbaz]

it's the boy who cried wolf....in a strange sort of way. They battered us with Hard Fi, The Futureheads, Bloc Party e.t.c, now we don;t believe a word they say. I think 'the monkeys' are ok, but don't like them enough to buy the album.

i'm just avoiding the hype.

i'll get the album in a year or two when it's all died down and they've been forgotten about, and i'll probably like it. until then it's fingers in the ears and la la la every 5 minutes they get played.

and there's bugger all wrong with hard fi, futureheads (even though they are sad mackems) and bloc party.:smash: :p

[W.M.A]

Posh stuck up public school kids.


I resent that.

Arctic Monkeys are fun disco pop. There's nothing wrong with that, stop expecting the next big thing.

[mikethecoug]

I find the album easy to listen to. All the songs are in good spirit.

[2muchket!]

I resent that.

Arctic Monkeys are fun disco pop. There's nothing wrong with that, stop expecting the next big thing.

Resent it all you want its true.

I quite frankly think once the NME readers have new band to idolise and threw their stupid hype ridden expectations of the "next big thing", AM may then get some recognition. But still I'm a big fan of theirs.

[RIPJoeStrummer]

I really like it. And The Libertines comparison seems a bit off to me. They seem more...put together? Either way, I like both bands. I'd definitely agree with this album being easy to listen to.

[W.M.A]

Resent it all you want its true.

I quite frankly think once the NME readers have new band to idolise and threw their stupid hype ridden expectations of the "next big thing", AM may then get some recognition. But still I'm a big fan of theirs.

it isn't true, its sometimes true.

[I Was A Kaleidoscope]

I heard the album for the first time in full today.
It was okay.
They sound like a poor version of Art Brut to me.

[zink182]

Last time I checked, an out of control heroin addiction wasn't classy.

of course it is.. just like being considered a crack whore is good :rolleyes:

[EmergencyRoom]

Having bought the album on the strength of the two songs that i heard ( not the singles) i'm incredibly dissapointed. There are some witty lyrics but not enough to justify the "voice of a generation" tag that they're being given. The main problem i have with the album is that as a whole it becomes very repetitive. It's my main problem with most of the post-punk-piss-poor-pop **** that's around in the UK just now. Once you've heard a couple of songs by most of these bands then there's no point in listening to the rest of the album. Getting drunk at the weekend, being poor and working class, getting into fights and being arrested. The themes are all identical. It's a ned/chav soundtrack maybe, but it doesn't appeal to me. And i'm as working class as these fools, only difference is that i've got more of a brain.

On a sidenote, comparing them to the Libertines is ridiculous. Their lyrics (both Pete and Carl's) had much more intelligence and the music had an authentically haphazard punk style to it. The Monkeys music is far to jagged and produced to let them be the same type of band.

[I Was A Kaleidoscope]

There are wayyy too many of these UK 'indie' bands that are hyped by the NME and sound like Gang Of Four.
It's making people think that this UK 'indie' is all that indie is.

[EmergencyRoom]

There are wayyy too many of these UK 'indie' bands that are hyped by the NME and sound like Gang Of Four.
It's making people think that this UK 'indie' is all that indie is.

It's not indie at all. As a genre it's probably best described as post-punk and mainstream as ****. I ****ing hate genre labels though.

[2muchket!]

It's not indie at all. As a genre it's probably best described as post-punk and mainstream as ****. I ****ing hate genre labels though.

Don't we all