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Arctic Monkeys: Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

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by Rob Webb
For the uninformed, this Sheffield quartet have been causing a buzz of late in the capital with some boisterous and overpopulated live performances; shows so packed that even Steve Lamacq (yes, the Steve Lamacq) couldn’t get in.

Fake Tales Of San Francisco,’ featuring a riff so simple yet so addictive it hurts, is three minutes of the Monkeys doing what they do best, namely offering sharp but funny social commentary in a South Yorkshire patois over bursts of punky, poppy, sometimes ska inflected, guitar.

With lyrics like ‘you’re not from New York, you’re from Rotherham / so get off the bandwagon and put down the handbook,’ they might just be the antidote to the Poptones roster.

From The Ritz To The Rubble,’ describing encounters between overzealous bouncers and inebriated clubbers, starts slowly with a spoken introduction but ends frantically with overdriven guitars all over the shop. It’s the nearest you can get to their live show without actually being there. One for Mr Lamacq, then.

If five minutes with Arctic Monkeys is this much fun, god help us when the little blighters finally get around to releasing an album.

  • Arctic Monkeys 8 / 10

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys are fab. Them and Art Brut are the funniest, smartest new bands about at the minute.

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

best thing since sliced bread.

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I hate to use the 'you like band A so don't have a right to slag off band B' argument, but you like fucking Ash. Ash.

*Shakes head*

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Ash have some of the best pop hooks I've heard, seriously, I cannot for the life of me see why they are considered to be lame by so many people. I'm not going to use the word "summer" in connection with them cos last time I did that I got criticised for associating a band with a season, which apparently is a musical crime, but they are really just pure fun and I love their music.

The Arctic Monkeys on the other hand seem to be pitched somewhere between the Kaiser Chiefs and the Ordinary Boys on the shitscale of nu-Britpop. Unpleasant stuff.

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I like Ash too. Ash make top pop.

I took a look at your profile... and apart from that, you pretty much like the same stuff as me. Odd.

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I think the problem with Ash is that they used to be amazing, back in the Trailer and 1977 days. By comparison they're now really dull and derivative. The old energy and summer fun seems to have disappeared into adult m.o.r. snow patrol mush. Sorry if you disagree but can you imagine them pulling off another Kung Fu these days?

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Ash have made better records since '1977'.Kung Fu sounds shit now.

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

Sliced bread is over-rated. Tis never thick enough.


Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

Saw this lot live. Am seeing them at Jabez Clegg in the very near future. My mate Matt from uni is from Sheffield and actually grew up with them as his mates, so I will quite possibly have the chance to buy them all a pint for being so ace.

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

Im at Uni here and gettin fed up of this Arctic Monkey buzz. I really don't like them. Was forced into dancing to 'Fake Tales of San F' in a club the other night. Not a pleasant experience. However, they are good live, have a good set of fans and should do well with those stop start pop songs.

You have been warned!

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys are great. I know it, you know it. Admittedly (and i hope it doesn't), their career may only span a year or so. But their songs are awesome, and they deserve to sleep with many desperate and shameless indie girls.

"I bet that you look good on the dancefloor... dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984.... from 1984."

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

Just back from seeing the first night of the tour and they were absolutely fucking tremendous.

Just so damn good, went with one of my best mates and now she wants to marry them all. Think i do too. Awesome

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

sub-par razorlight/streets 'mash-up' with lyrics that make the fast food rockers sound like wordsworth.

and i'm a fan of Art Brut and live in a terraced house, so dont give me the 'this is not for you' sorta replies.

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I have to say this lot do reek of the emperor's second hand clothes a bit. And surely one Streets-style middle class posho pretending to be down wiv da chavs is more than enough.

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Dom,

The Monkeys are friends of mine and they are not middle-class poshos, I assure you.


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Thats a relief then! I'm yet to see a full live set of theirs so I'll reserve my better judgment until I have.

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what's wrong with being a middle class posho?

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Nothing if you behave like one.
Its the ones who try to pretend they're "working class" by wearing Burberry, speaking "da blak manz speak", and administering fake cockney accents that piss me off.

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"da blak manz speak"

Sorry, but, wtf?

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Chavs. In shellsuits. Thinking they are 50 Cent. So despite them being from deepest Sutton-In-Ashfield they adopt poor wannabe from Negril accents. You follow?

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"Chavs. In shellsuits. Thinking they are 50 Cent."

Arctic Monkeys? Do you actually know anything about them?

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That wasn't a reference to the Arctic Monkeys Thom, which you'd have picked up on if you read the whole thread from start to finish.

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since when has being "down wiv da chavs" been to do with good guitar music..?

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You live in a terraced house?! Who gives a toss? You make the worst "point" i have ever read.

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what? no one gives a toss of course. its just the two comments i always get when saying i dont like them is
"Its not for people who are middle class" or something relating to my tastes in music, so i was covering both comments. and why is it the worst point you have ever heard? can you actually argue against it? without resorting to insults or the two comments i highlighted earlier?

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I spy no insults in my reply...!?

And i MAY have been exaggerating! Also if you say "I live in a terraced house" for comedy value, i was unaware.

Listen to some Arctic Monkeys anyway, they sparkle. And Little Flames are supporting them on tour which'll make for a brilliant gig.

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Nah, it's pants. Sub-NME-garagy-half a song-drowned in sound will love you even though you're pants fodder.

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odd thing to say considering you highly rate a band DiS has signed...

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

they are fun,exciting and have good tunes.enjoy them for what they are

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

By far the best band I've heard in ages. Absolutely fucking stunning!

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

hmmm... the EP is being released today, right? I wonder if I should buy it...

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Question answered for you. No. Unless you want to pay £30 for one on Ebay - you'll never get it!

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Or you can wait 2/3 years and get it for £1 on e-bay.

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Or... you might be dead.

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Depends of the success they will get !

Or you might want not to buy it anyway because it's nothing special.

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I don't know if I've heard it yet, I think I may have in passing on Lamacq a few weeks ago. Oh well, am seeing on Thursday in Southampton - that will be the acid test!

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Would have been a good move. I was disappointed that I could only find one CD copy of it left anywhere by the afternoon when I got a chance to go look, was hoping to get a couple of each version...

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

dullest of the dull post-libertines bandwagon-jumping yamn inducing tripe. no surprise that Jo Wiley was licking their arses on her show the other day.

music for people who can't think for themselves.

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that should have been YAWN inducing
I don't know what a yamn is

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

I love the Arctic Monkeys. In fact, I think they are better than The Libertines AND Babyshambles crammed in together !!. I've seen them twice, hoping to see them again. Look out for " A Certain Romance ", cracking and hilarous song all about chavs :-)). xx

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

How come no one's mentioned Kaiser Chiefs yet? From the opinions and the review, they sound like Art Brut meets Kaiser Chiefs.

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

Art Brut are one million times better than Arctic Monkeys. Who suck.

Buy who wants to buy my CD? 30 quid?
Anyone for the 7"?

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

Hmm, just heard/saw it on 120mins. Kinda meh. Some possibly decent lyrics and a catchy enough tune ruined by the guy's vocals. If you're angry or have something to say, say it like you mean it! Not like you're just reeling off the lyrics trying to sound clever. No passion........man.

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seriously "art brut are one million times better than arctic monkeys" u evidently don't live in the real world otherwise you'd have seen the genuine relevence in their lyrics.
i seriously suggest art brut change their name to art school. as they are tossers

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

I have just heard this EP. Lame Lame Lame. This band have no idea about how to write an actual song, it's just a collection of average riffs over cringingly obvious lyrics (people who wear trilbys = lame. NO SHIT SHERLOCK!). NME toss of the highest order.

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

how bouth this!!!!!!!! why dont you all stop your bitchin to each other! jesus! its like reading kids fighting! they obviously have impressed some to have got this far! their "i bet you look good on the dance floor" is awesome! so why dont you all just see what else they produce and then start bitchin at least you would have a decent amount of evidence to form a bloody opinion! give em a chance!

Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys

arctic monkeys are fucking amazing all every one seems to talk about is fake tales and bet you look good on the dancefloor. Listen to from ritz to rubble,bigger boys and stolen sweethearts,curtains closed,ciggarette smoke,mardy bum,riot van,choo choo,still take you home.(amazingly no has mentioned a certain romance which is the best arctics song)...sticking to the floor,still take you home,settle for a draw,space invaders,on the run from the mi5, and waving bye to train or bus...listen to them then say they are shit and cumon ash are aload of bollocks its gunna piss me off cos someone like me who have liked the arctics for about 9 months are gunna listen to the songs i wrote above and thing fuck this band is amazing so to the people who like them good on ya (Y)




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