‘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 - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
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*Shakes head*
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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 took a look at your profile... and apart from that, you pretty much like the same stuff as me. Odd.
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Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
You have been warned!
Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
"I bet that you look good on the dancefloor... dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984.... from 1984."
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Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
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
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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The Monkeys are friends of mine and they are not middle-class poshos, I assure you.
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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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Sorry, but, wtf?
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Arctic Monkeys? Do you actually know anything about them?
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"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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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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Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
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Or you might want not to buy it anyway because it's nothing special.
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depends 'of' the success?
OF?!
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Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
music for people who can't think for themselves.
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I don't know what a yamn is
Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
Buy who wants to buy my CD? 30 quid?
Anyone for the 7"?
Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
i seriously suggest art brut change their name to art school. as they are tossers
Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys - Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys