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Originally Posted by LedZepStu
thats a typical comment from someone who dislikes the band because their too popular and commercial.
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Well I thought they were bland, uninventive pish when I first heard them about eight months ago as well. I couldn't give a stuff how many albums they sell, Radiohead sell a ton of albums, and they're bloody great, so the implied elitism won't really work out for this one.
Had 'Creep' been sent round the world in seconds by a clamouring group of students back in 1992 then Pablo Honey would no doubt have obliterated record sales, and probably obliterated the band as well. Generating huge sales is nothing new, nothing at all. Being plastered over newspapers is nothing new, nothing at all. The Arctic Monkeys have been as well marketed as Britney Spears was before 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' came out. Just aimed at a different target audience, what will no doubt become known as the 'I-Pod Generation' in Sociology classes up and down the land.