Arctic Monkeys : Favourite Worst Nightmare (country, dance, indie, pop)

[Piss Me Off]

Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen

lol, what a load of twaddle. this was a considerable improvement on album no.1 and if anything, brianstorm itself is the most average half-assed song on the album. you just didn't get what you were expecting/wanting. that's all it is.

sad thing is, i'd bet you're one of those who thought hard-fi's pile of steaming horse excrement "once upon a time in the west" was good.

Eurgh yuck no. That was severely bland. What makes you think i'd like it? :S

[Demonoid]

Average IMO.
Got bored of it real quick(although i liked it at first).

[jackhammer]

I still think the first album blows this out of the water.

[sweet_nothing]

yeh i know i'm late, but I just got this album yesterday and wow.

It's sooo much better than their first, i have to say my favorite track is Fluorescent Adolescent. Really great!

[jackhammer]

I still cannot remember a lot from this album, even though I have heard it many times. The musicianship is better than the first and maturity has set in but for the worse. This is just another banal guitar pop album that will not be remembered in ten years times whereas the debut definitely will due to the multitude of genres it lightly touches upon.

[sweet_nothing]

i disagree =\

[Rainard Jalen]

Originally Posted by jackhammer

I still cannot remember a lot from this album, even though I have heard it many times. The musicianship is better than the first and maturity has set in but for the worse. This is just another banal guitar pop album that will not be remembered in ten years times whereas the debut definitely will due to the multitude of genres it lightly touches upon.

It's far from banal. You are right that in all likelihood it will not be remembered in two years time let alone ten, but that's not because of its insipidity or whatever. It's just because it doesn't contain any of those "massive" songs: A Certain Romance, I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, Mardy Bum, When The Sun Goes Down, The View from the Afternoon... those are what will make the debut the memorable one, not the "multitude of genres" is supposedly touches upon. But the sophomore album is the one where the Arctics find their own sound and stop aping others. And yeah, so it has a more brooding tone and doesn't scale the pop heights of Whatever People Say I Am, but that wasn't the idea - Turner's not one to get stuck in a niche, unlike so many others, and exploration/redefinition is his game. As such, this album proved that if any of these New Wave Revival/Britpop bands have anything actually special, exciting and new in store for the future, then it's the Arctic Monkeys.

[right-track]

Originally Posted by sweet_nothing

i disagree =\

^ This post is what internet discussion boards were made for.

C'mon man, I know you can do better than that...

[Piss Me Off]

You never answered me Rainard

[sweet_nothing]

Originally Posted by right-track

^ This post is what internet discussion boards were made for.

C'mon man, I know you can do better than that...

Sorry to disappoint , but after listening to both, I'm starting to see what Jackhammer is on about. But I do think it'll be remebered as will the Monkeys, and this album will be remembered as the album where the found their sound.