Arctic Monkeys (funk, single, album, band, songs)

djchameleon · 07-08-2009, 03:42 AM

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Originally Posted by sweet_nothing

I agree I think the bands best moments come from Alex having energy while singing such as on The View From The Afternoon.

And singles are made to promote albums and get people interested in buying it but this however has done the opposite for me.

Also anyone else find Arctic Monkeys fans abit annoying? I can only endure so many "OMG ALEX IS SOO CUTE" and "I want to marry alex" before I start to lose respect for the band for apparently having a fanbase made up of teenage girls. Thank god Thom Yorke is fucking ugly.

I know what singles are supposed to do. Sometimes they just pick awful singles that's why I listen to the album in full anyways. Majority of the time I find hidden gems on an album that had a shoddy single.

You lose respect for a band because of their fan base and not their musical content? what?

Antonio · 07-08-2009, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

I know what singles are supposed to do. Sometimes they just pick awful singles that's why I listen to the album in full anyways. Majority of the time I find hidden gems on an album that had a shoddy single.

You lose respect for a band because of their fan base and not their musical content? what?

i feel your pain, people like that piss me off

sweet_nothing · 07-08-2009, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

I know what singles are supposed to do. Sometimes they just pick awful singles that's why I listen to the album in full anyways. Majority of the time I find hidden gems on an album that had a shoddy single.

You lose respect for a band because of their fan base and not their musical content? what?

I should have probably thought that statement out more clearly. Sure I hate most Arctic Monkeys fans sense they tend to focus on Alex's looks rather than actual music output but it's no real reason to lose respect for band (I think FWN and the new single are already doing that) because other bands have suffered from the annoying teenage girl fanbase. Such as Blur, with their catchy songs and good lucks they had a small army of teen girls ranting on about Damon's good looks but luckily they were able to lose them with their self titled album. And I completely agree with adidass about the 'I love the Monkeys for their energetic punk rock' thing, which is why I found most of FWN to be boring and non memorable. You can go on and on about them going for something new and trying to change things up but they really shouldnt be doing that, not at this point in their career atleast. If you sound great doing something on thing you really shouldn't go to another thing at the drop of a hat.

dac · 07-08-2009, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by sweet_nothing

If you sound great doing something on thing you really shouldn't go to another thing at the drop of a hat.

Says the Radiohead fan...

LoathsomePete · 07-08-2009, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by dac

Says the Radiohead fan...

Ohhhhh snap.

sweet_nothing · 07-08-2009, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by dac

Says the Radiohead fan...

OH wow you're clever.

Radiohead unlike Arctic Monkeys CAN pull off doing something like this.

Also is Crying Lightning supposed to have bad quality? I thought it was just the link that dac posted but today I bought the single of itunes and it still has bad quality unless they are going for that garage rock sound.

dac · 07-08-2009, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by sweet_nothing

Also is Crying Lightning supposed to have bad quality? I thought it was just the link that dac posted but today I bought the single of itunes and it still has bad quality unless they are going for that garage rock sound.

They are open about their fanboyism of The Strokes...

djchameleon · 07-09-2009, 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by sweet_nothing

You can go on and on about them going for something new and trying to change things up but they really shouldnt be doing that, not at this point in their career atleast. If you sound great doing something on thing you really shouldn't go to another thing at the drop of a hat.

I get what you are trying to say about the fans but past that. When they create material if they end up with a different formula than they are used to doing they will go with the flow and change it up. I have no problem with that. Some bands stick with the same formula for numerous albums because it works for them and fickle people will slam the same band for having songs that all sound the same. Then there are people that like you that slam bands for going with their creative motivation but because you don't like the sound you feel like they shouldn't be changing their formula. They know they can't please everyone so they just go with whatever they feel creatively while in the studio and song writing process. It comes down to a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation.

FWN is pretty forgettable to me also though lol. there were about three or four tracks that stood out for me and I haven't listened to that album since I heard it awhile ago.

TapSurface · 08-29-2009, 11:43 PM

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