Topic: Arctic Monkeys (Read 18840 times)

Evilpopsicleguy · « **on:** 04 Mar 2006, 12:18 »

The Arctic monkeys are a new band from england, and they're pretty damn good. it's inda beatles-esque, wih sort of a monotone singing (like the Hold Steady, but less drunk, and they haven't just competely thrown away all poetics and syllable patterns). definitely worth checking out, and their debut album is only 12 bucks, so go for it!

Thrillho · « **Reply #1 on:** 04 Mar 2006, 12:22 »

Simultaneously overrated and underrated.

Hell, this calls for shameless self-promotion:

http://www.rockmidgets.com/releases.php?p=1&page=3&id=924

Thrillho · « **Reply #2 on:** 04 Mar 2006, 12:23 »

P.S. Most of the lyrics by this band are going to completely pass Americans by.

Thrillho · « **Reply #3 on:** 04 Mar 2006, 12:41 »

Quote from: Spinless

I agree completely with the Tiny Mix Tapes review of the album. Except I hated the 'good' songs as well.
They already threw the entire british music scene offbalance, don't let them mess up the states...

Edit: Double posting is a waste of space. I've seen double and even triple post today...
We have the edit button for a reason. Sorry to be an ass, I'm just one of those people who gets angry at acronyms like 'lol'. 'Lol' is just a way of saying 'that may or may not be funny, but I won't confirm it by tpying Hahaha, funny' because I'm too goddamned lazy'. To me, double or triple posting is the same thing.

TOTM?

Hmm. Yeah I think I saw you obliterating that metal-obsessed cunt over this earlier on.

I considered it.

And then decided I didn't care.

Nevertheless, I apologise.

pat101 · « **Reply #4 on:** 04 Mar 2006, 13:02 »

They really aren't very good, and it's too bad how huge they're going to get.

Thrillho · « **Reply #5 on:** 04 Mar 2006, 13:35 »

Quote from: Spinless

Nah, you're safe. But don't say 'metal obsessed cunt'. It's not right. Try 'metal obessed ingnorant cunt'.
...TOTM? This is like the time somebody said 'brb' and I spent the whole 15 minutes asking "what the hell is 'brb'? Hey? HELLO? WHAT IS BRB? Fine. Screw you. Jerk."

I was jokingly asking if it was your Time Of The Month.

Thrillho · « **Reply #6 on:** 04 Mar 2006, 13:49 »

Quote from: Spinless

Oh!
Yeah, all the extra hormones are driving me nuts. Sleeping is difficult.

My breasts are all tender.

Thrillho · « **Reply #7 on:** 04 Mar 2006, 14:01 »

Quote from: Spinless

Ack. Don't girls know how much it hurts when they lean thier heads againsts them?

I know! Bitches.

By the way, I only just had a proper look at your avatar, and it's genius. I want that guitar.

Millerz · « **Reply #8 on:** 04 Mar 2006, 14:34 »

Seriously now, are they really that good? I sort of disregarded them soon as i heard of them as being grossly overrated.

Zaarin · « **Reply #9 on:** 04 Mar 2006, 14:42 »

They're just boring. Not actively bad, just boring. Vastly overrated, too. NME put their debut at #5 on a list of greatest British albums of all time.

Yes. Only several days after it was released.

jcknbl · « **Reply #10 on:** 04 Mar 2006, 15:38 »

NME is the most ridiculous thing ever. Whats weird is that all of the bands they like sound exactly like the Artic Monkees. I mean EVERY SINGLE front page story is about the SAME EXACT BAND.

I listened to the album at the record store about a week ago and didn't even get through it. Everyone says its supposed to "get the indie kids to dance"- whatever the fuck that means. In any case, I didn't feel like dancing. At all.

Joseph · « **Reply #11 on:** 04 Mar 2006, 15:38 »

NME is probably the worst music magazine I've ever had the displeasure of hearing about. They really put Rolling Stone to shame... I mean, the highest Beatles album on their list of best British albums is Revolver... At number 9! Yes, that's right, somehow the Arctic Monkey's lone album is better than the entire Beatles catalogue... I want to go kill someone...

Kai · « **Reply #12 on:** 04 Mar 2006, 15:46 »

Well, NME will, to quote David Thorpe, "do features on any band that so much as trips over a guitar in a darkened room, often proclaiming them to be the saviors of rock and roll and the greatest thing since The Smiths and the one band that you MUST see before you die."

ASturge · « **Reply #13 on:** 04 Mar 2006, 16:33 »

Yeah, I hate them too.

But what I really hate is that almost everyone I know loves them.

Gryff · « **Reply #14 on:** 04 Mar 2006, 18:10 »

It's no secret that they're overrated.

I don't really like them either. That Dance Floor song is really starting to bug me.

Evilpopsicleguy · « **Reply #15 on:** 04 Mar 2006, 22:42 »

man, you guys make not enjoying things into an art.

I mean, to all their own and all that, but I haven't even heard any reasonings as to what makes them bad. all I hear are "blah blah blah overrated blah pretention blah hate". I guess blatant disgust is the new constructive criticism!

Kai · « **Reply #16 on:** 04 Mar 2006, 23:19 »

How about this: THEY'RE BORING.

Course, I can say that about most of the bands people talk about here, so don't mind me.

jcknbl · « **Reply #17 on:** 05 Mar 2006, 02:40 »

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I guess blatant disgust is the new constructive criticism!

Well its not like the Arctic Monkees are sitting somewhere and reading the QC forums to see what we think of them- so I'm not sure what the point of constructive criticism would be. Plus it isn't as if you've given sound reasoning behind your liking them. You've just said they're pretty good and sound like indie-esque Beatles. A statement which, while being both false and meaningless, is pretty much code for "sounds just like everything else".

Were you not expecting a bunch of people to post their opinions on the band when you started this thread?

The Tiny Mix Tapes review pretty much nails it: http://www.tinymixtapes.com/musicreviews/a/arctic_monkeys.htm

Emma · « **Reply #18 on:** 05 Mar 2006, 04:02 »

I think they got big too quickly so they'll fade out pretty quick too. They're fun and I don't mind listening to them but I wouldn't make the effort of going to buy the album.

sam@cracker · « **Reply #19 on:** 05 Mar 2006, 04:29 »

i bought the album last week and i'm very impressed. who cares if they disappear tomorrow? the point is to enjoy music, tastes are diffrent.

ps. i think that 'Mando Diao' sounds a hell lot more like the beatles.

The Mighty Mopdecai · « **Reply #20 on:** 05 Mar 2006, 07:16 »

Hey take it easy this is the main reason why most people stay out of the music forums. I have seen the Arctic Monkeys on the NME tour and the most annoying thing about them was that all their fans left before Maximo Park came on. That annoys me more then being over hyped. It is same attitude in this forum. In that you refuse to listen to things as they are hyped and the Arcrtic Monkey fans refuse to listen because they are not 'hyped'

The best band on the night on the tour was We are Scientists

Thrillho · « **Reply #21 on:** 05 Mar 2006, 07:29 »

The NME is fucking shite. Really, really bad. Complete scene whores.

sac_magic · « **Reply #22 on:** 05 Mar 2006, 08:29 »

amen to that. but in all fairness I've yet to find a music publication that isn't either vomit-inducingly fawning or elitist and dismissive.

Luke C · « **Reply #23 on:** 05 Mar 2006, 10:11 »

They are bad bad BAD. Overhyped typical NME bandwagon trash.

lessthanfirst · « **Reply #24 on:** 05 Mar 2006, 12:13 »

Quote from: jcknbl

NME is the most ridiculous thing ever. Whats weird is that all of the bands they like sound exactly like the Artic Monkees. I mean EVERY SINGLE front page story is about the SAME EXACT BAND.

I don't mind NME but basically, yeah, that's true. I also agree with what someone said about how they're not very good so it's a shame about how big they're gonna be.

sac_magic · « **Reply #25 on:** 05 Mar 2006, 12:35 »

in the end, it's not as if they're here to stay. NME are pretty ADD and about as loyal as a swiss hitman, so by the summer they'll either be trashing them or have forgotten about them completely.

remember, they have to fill the summer covers with pictures of dave grohl brownosing the latest festival phenoenon.

Thrillho · « **Reply #26 on:** 05 Mar 2006, 13:39 »

Quote from: sac_magic

amen to that. but in all fairness I've yet to find a music publication that isn't either vomit-inducingly fawning or elitist and dismissive.

Hmm. I think Q daintily walks the line between.

sac_magic · « **Reply #27 on:** 05 Mar 2006, 13:56 »

oh man, my mum got a subscription for christmas last year. bless her, she tries.

it can be ok, even entertaining at times, but when there's an interview conducted by some suck-up sycophant in the front and a well-they're-not-as-good-as-they-used-to-be-are-they interview in the back, everything gets a little confusing.

ASturge · « **Reply #28 on:** 05 Mar 2006, 14:19 »

NME is so annyoing.

Also, why pay for a bad magazine when TMT and CokeMachineGlow are free!?

Gryff · « **Reply #29 on:** 05 Mar 2006, 16:17 »

I don't dislike them because they're overhyped (I am a fan of the Strokes). I dislike the Arctic Monkeys because they sound contrived and uninteresting.

zutonna · « **Reply #30 on:** 05 Mar 2006, 16:25 »

I can't understand why people like ..Dance Floor so much. I think the first minute is pretty good (what you hear on Zane Lowe's advert) but then there's nothing to it after that.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #31 on:** 05 Mar 2006, 16:50 »

On the topic of bad music magazines: Metallica got Kerrang's Best Band on the Planet award three times in a row. This in itself wouldn't be bad... if it weren't 2003, 2004, and 2005, the three years AFTER the travesty that was St. Anger was released.

sac_magic · « **Reply #32 on:** 05 Mar 2006, 17:00 »

kerrang is the most useless magazine ever published; not quite glossy enough to give it any credibility, too glossy to make effective toilet paper.

ozphactor · « **Reply #33 on:** 05 Mar 2006, 18:44 »

See, I was trying to ignore the hype around this band until I noticed that their album had a Metacritic score of 80-something. I don't put too much stock in music reviews, but when every one (or almost every one) says these guys are awesome, I give 'em a chance. Turns out they sound pretty much exactly like I thought they'd sound, which is pretty boring. I mean, at least Franz Ferdinand is danceable.

On a side note, props to tinymixtapes for not succumbing to the hype. +1 respect.

CammyKnoxville · « **Reply #34 on:** 06 Mar 2006, 15:24 »

For any of you who watch Saturday Night Live, Arctic Monkeys will be on this Saturday when Matt Dillon hosts.

Kai · « **Reply #35 on:** 06 Mar 2006, 15:49 »

Saturday Night Live is still on? ...Daaaaamn.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #36 on:** 06 Mar 2006, 17:08 »

Quote from: sac_magic

Kerrang!

Kerrang! is literally the biggest joke ever. Prick-Tees do a rather nice 'Kerrap! (life is lame)' shirt which parodies their logo. The really sad thing is how Metal Hammer desperately, desperately wants to be Kerrang! monthly. It's now at least 90% OMGZ POISON THE AUTUMN FUNERAL BULLET FOR MY CHEMICAL VALENTINE wrapped around a hideously out of place core of genuine heavy music journalism. Their 'top 50 metal guitarists of all time' list (which included the guitarist of LIMP FUCKING BIZKIT) was so, so, so awful I almost cried with impotent rage.

I do have to admit that, of all the current bands trying to be the nex bad 1980's, the Arctic Monkeys are one of the more tolerable. But that's all I'll admit. There's this girl at my school who's obsessed with them. She's terribly nice, but it's cripplingly obvious she really WANTS to be a trendy hipster, but she's never met another one so no-one's told her NME isn't gospel. It's kinda sad.

Kai · « **Reply #37 on:** 06 Mar 2006, 17:11 »

That little story actually made me do the kind of half hearted pity moan.

The Mighty Mopdecai · « **Reply #38 on:** 06 Mar 2006, 17:53 »

OMGZ POISON THE AUTUMN FUNERAL BULLET FOR MY CHEMICAL VALENTINE. That's the funniest thing I ever read espically as I'm listening to Funeral at the moment. Kerrang has no identity any more its like a metal smash hits seriously man my brother is obcessed with pop culture and I remember him leaving a WH Smith once and asked a girl who bought TV Hits which is even worse why she bought it and the reason was the posters. Kerrang now has posters every issue I rest my case.

I remember interviewing my favourite band Brigade about it they got the One to watch in Kerrang. They weren't that stoked about it. Hang on (Goes and listens to interview) No not that big a deal. They like Rocksound magazine and so do I.

Interestly I'm going to see Fightstar in a weeks time and I might get an interview with them - since that band is looking for approval from the REAL rock fans should I make a question up about this.

Gryff · « **Reply #39 on:** 06 Mar 2006, 17:58 »

Yeah, don't get me wrong - there are plenty of bands I would much less like to see selling all those albums and getting so much success. The Arctic Monkeys just don't particularly do it for me.

By the way, Arctic Monkeys is a really dumb name for a band.

jcknbl · « **Reply #40 on:** 06 Mar 2006, 18:21 »

Quote

For any of you who watch Saturday Night Live, Arctic Monkeys will be on this Saturday when Matt Dillon hosts.

A perfect storm of mediocrity?

Thrillho · « **Reply #41 on:** 07 Mar 2006, 08:36 »

Quote from: The Mighty Mopdecai

OMGZ POISON THE AUTUMN FUNERAL BULLET FOR MY CHEMICAL VALENTINE. That's the funniest thing I ever read espically as I'm listening to Funeral at the moment. Kerrang has no identity any more its like a metal smash hits seriously man my brother is obcessed with pop culture and I remember him leaving a WH Smith once and asked a girl who bought TV Hits which is even worse why she bought it and the reason was the posters. Kerrang now has posters every issue I rest my case.

I remember interviewing my favourite band Brigade about it they got the One to watch in Kerrang. They weren't that stoked about it. Hang on (Goes and listens to interview) No not that big a deal. They like Rocksound magazine and so do I.

Interestly I'm going to see Fightstar in a weeks time and I might get an interview with them - since that band is looking for approval from the REAL rock fans should I make a question up about this.

Brigade > Fightstar.

http://www.rockmidgets.com/releases.php?p=4&page=2&id=756

KharBevNor · « **Reply #42 on:** 07 Mar 2006, 12:12 »

Quote from: Gryff

By the way, Arctic Monkeys is a really dumb name for a band.

I would agree with this, but I did once seriously suggest calling a band 'Frigid Moon Cock'.

So I won't.

Gryff · « **Reply #43 on:** 07 Mar 2006, 14:15 »

guffaw.

"Cock" is not a word I want to see in any band name, really. Also, the cover of the new Goblin Cock album is just terrible. http://www.absolutelykosher.com/AK034_400px.jpg" target="_fresh">NSFW!

sac_magic · « **Reply #44 on:** 07 Mar 2006, 16:50 »

I just thought what it is that makes me not instantly loathe them: at least they're northern. that little tyke singer could kick pete doherty's face off.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #45 on:** 07 Mar 2006, 17:03 »

Dude, the only person who can't kick Pete Doherty's face off is Pete Doherty.

McTaggart · « **Reply #46 on:** 07 Mar 2006, 23:17 »

I bet he could, but it'd only happen in the act of trying not to.

ozphactor · « **Reply #47 on:** 12 Mar 2006, 23:27 »

Dunno if this has already been posted, but I thought his video summed it up nicely: http://www.stereogum.com/archives/002392.html

My favorite part is the guy going "They sound like The Strokes, The Clash, The Libertines, The Strokes... also The Clash..." Hehehe.

BraveCaptain · « **Reply #48 on:** 14 Mar 2006, 10:34 »

Quote from: sac_magic

amen to that. but in all fairness I've yet to find a music publication that isn't either vomit-inducingly fawning or elitist and dismissive.

I think Plan B is a pretty good magazine.

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Author Topic: Arctic Monkeys (Read 18840 times)

Evilpopsicleguy

Zaarin

jcknbl

ASturge

Evilpopsicleguy

jcknbl

Emma

sam@cracker

The Mighty Mopdecai

sac_magic

lessthanfirst

sac_magic

sac_magic

ASturge

zutonna

sac_magic

CammyKnoxville

The Mighty Mopdecai

jcknbl

sac_magic

BraveCaptain