OK, so who amongst us is popping out lunchtime to buy the Arctic Monkeys album?

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WHO MOTHERFUCKERS WHO

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

BLAM BLAM

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

hahaha!

It's almost enough to make ME rant about British people.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

popping out lunchtime

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Instead I'd like to rant about all the people acting as if the new Villalobos EP is a return to form when he's been pretty consistent for the last two years.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:48 (twenty years ago)

np: richard villolobos - achoo

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:49 (twenty years ago)

GESUNDHEIT.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

adam have you heard it?

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

have you heard achoo?

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

YSI?

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

I really have no idea who the Arctic Monkeys are. They sounds like a "cutty" band.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

I DID finally hear Franz Ferdinand though and I liked them.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME, as per today's NME

10) The Libertines - Up The Bracket 2002
9) The Beatles - Revolver 1966
8) The Clash - London Calling 1979
7) Pulp - Different Class 1995
6) Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish 1993
5) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 2006
4) Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks 1978
3) Oasis - Definetly Maybe 1994
2) The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead 1986
1) The Stone Roses - S/T 1989

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:52 (twenty years ago)

what you people need is another blitz

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:52 (twenty years ago)

YOU WOULD GAYWAD XPOST

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:53 (twenty years ago)

someone was playing me this record and i asked "what is this shit" and then they told me and i had to pay attention and then i thought maybe it is not that bad but i prefer to go with my first instincts and now i am going to sit in my pajamas all day and play pavement songs on my guitar.

― ShawShank Rambo Connection (Carey), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

i like franz ferdinand :-(

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

here you go adam

http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=19BESJQ7LX07E0K9MC3R23EUJ5

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

are these guys "cheeky"?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

actually i liek the futureheads... sorta...

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

GARAGE GA GA GARAGE ROJ ROJ THE GARAGE ROJ ROJ

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

I've only heard "Take Me Out", Jon. Funky dance-rock your mother could love (and hopefully does).

xxp - Milton, I was kidding! but thank you.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

that's what the whole futureheads album sounds like (xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

haha i like the futureheads too. a lot. :-(

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

I think you should listen to 'achoo' it's a real return to form

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

oh, I SEE

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

futureheads are TIGHT.

― ShawShank Rambo Connection (Carey), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

why does english people never want to make the few good bands they crap out a decade more than semi-popular?

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

My brother should probably post to this thread.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Like Futureheads? Yeah. Maybe the Mystery Jets will GO FAR. (xpost)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

And the Long Blondes. Hv you guys fucking heard the Long Blondes???

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

yeah i dont like 'em that much. are they from england?

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:01 (twenty years ago)

everything on what's yr rupture sounds exactly the same

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, where do you guys hear this stuff?

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

england.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

adam u forget i work for the devil.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

evidently i really blew my lunch by eating...

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

i did forget that, jess.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

my mom does not like FF

my mom likes outkast, blondie and van halen.

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

my mom has a karaoke machine and just sings beatles and abba songs.

― ShawShank Rambo Connection (Carey), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

OK, so I googled arctic monkeys and this is what they look like
http://www.badmintonstamps.com/images/arcticmonkeys.jpg

Comments?

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

SECRET PITCHFORK FTP

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

xpost?

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

My mum likes Streisand, The Carpenters, Janet Jackson and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Yes...I'm Tokyo Rosemary's son.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

i saw met the W. Y. Rupture guy while he was trying to get all the Love Is All cds out. He looked about to keel over. And of course all I did was ask about the Hey Dude DFA guy.

― ShawShank Rambo Connection (Carey), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

The Arctic Monkeys look like they're 16 years old.

I wish I liked the Futureheads more than I do. "Hounds of Love" is probably their best song. :(

What about MAXIMO PARK?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:08 (twenty years ago)

long blones are so good

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:10 (twenty years ago)

I liked The Futureheads for a while but now I don't listen to them. Their dad sent me the single of "New Day" after I wrote something nice on ILX, though.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:10 (twenty years ago)

i heard an early futureheads single that was mad abstract. i never would have guessed it was them if i hadn't looked at the tracklist of the comp.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

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VdGG
Scritti Politti
Fall-Group
Luke Haines
Happy Mondays
Roxy Moosic
Pulp
Nurse With Wound
Throbbing Gristle
The Stupids

― Madam, I Am Not a Doctor (noodle vague), Thursday, 26 January 2006 10:19 (twenty years ago)

also 100% for jess' list.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:11 (twenty years ago)

spontaneous music ensemble
skullflower
ascension
spacemen 3
whitehouse
vibracathedral orchestra
amm
shadow ring
this heat
the adverts

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:44 (twenty years ago)

i dont really like...ouevres, but heres a ten to redeem this island

1. urban shakedown - some justice
2. glenda collins - its hard to believe
3. roy budd - hallucinations
4. manix - alright wid me
5. st etienne - language lab
6. year one - will you be staying after sunday?
7. john cooper clarke - a distant relation
8. johnny hawsworth - salute to thames
9. jonny l - ooh i like it
10. pickettywitch - same old feeling

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 26 January 2006 13:06 (twenty years ago)

Were Gallon Drunk "britpop"?

-- phantasy bear (adamrl@

It's a few years ago now, but as I remember, GD were part of a scene called "camden lurch". It preceded britpop by quite a few years. It consisted of bands whose sole creative touchstone was "Junkyard" by the Birthday party. A fine album, but one that I think pretty much used up any meaningful creative gestures available to that particular sound. I went to Belgium as FOH enginner for GD's labelmates, the sunflowers. They were playing a 5-band gig - GD, The sunflowers, earwig, and 2 local bands. GD were unbelievably bad live. The drummer was outstanding but the rest of the band just sounded like a bunch of flailing tits. When I saw atdi years later, the effect was similar - a bunch of flailing shit that all sounded the same, the difference being that I was getting paid to see GD. They were all really nice people though, courteous, likeable & professional. I feel bad about slagging them, but they were awful.

The only other "camden lurch" band I can think of was a band called "dog hutch" or perhaps "dog hunch" I forget. I remember reading a review of them in melody maker and thinking "why the fuck are you trying to get me interested in a band called 'dog hunch' here".

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:21 (twenty years ago)

"British pop music is still about... homosexuals, isn't it?" - John Lydon, 1983

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

damn...what was the middle of that quote?

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

dog man star is a good album!

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I like that one a lot too.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

gotta love them guitars. or guitar "sound".

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

same with stay together. what the fuck was that recorded in, a vaccuum cleaner?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

i like "the drowners"

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

it's a bit...much, tho

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

I do actually like the guitar sound on "Dog Man Star". Awesome "tone", maan! Their other stuff is a bit shrill.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

was "the lving dead" on the stay together ep? amazing how the b-side collection is better than any of their albums.

i pulled out sleeper's smart and enjoyed it..but understood it to be entirely pants...some of those lyrics ...ulllgh ... and she writes novels now?

one of my big dissapointments when living in london was watching Miki Lush stand at a dangerous angle and chat up a child in the Underworld...when teenage dreams burn down...haggard, awful woman.

Starting on sunday i will play the chemical bros remix of "swastica eyes" every evening at 1105. but thats not britpop is it?

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

its dangerously close

when did you live in london? and where?

did earwig become insides? or did insides become earwig?

thats a shame, about miki berenyi

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

As I remember earwig became insides, then became earwig again.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

but, I might be wrong about the last bit.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

camden, on camden rd (3 blcks up from the railway bridge)...sept 1999 - june 2000

a avantage point that allowed me to witness the shriviling britpop world too closely. i liked the good mixer cause it was quiet and bright and i could read there. of course reading in the pub always attracted attention. but the scene seen was...less than "Popscene" promised, to say the least...and passing shane mcgowan in the oxford arms' window every sunday was a bit depressing as well. miki was the worst of it...given my teenage lust in 1992/3

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

another mile or so up that road and you come to where i live now, in holloway

i quite like the good mixer. its fake-rockabilly rather than britpop now. perhaps, in a way, it always was

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:35 (twenty years ago)

yeah i used to go to the cinem up on holloway rd i think...orr the highstreet...i can see it, but can't think of the names anymore.

the mixer wsa mostly nothing of anything when i was there. crazy american woman who barked at me one night, random italian girls. graham coxon would come in (most of my good Good Mixer stories come from wierd run-ins with Graham), some of the guys from food (though they had moved office by then, i think) some others..it was quiet mostly...i haven't been back since. i heard they closed george and nicky's. i used to like taking late breakfasts in the garden there. i do wonder what camden's like these days, but i'd have to see it to understand. i wonder whatever happened to the very very cute girl that worked at the chain-cafe down the block from the wagamama's that would make me coffee and unintentionally tug at my heart. i wonder if the wierd hobo that would lunge at me around the tube stop while making smoking signals and terrifying grunts is dead yet (he was always covered in bruises)...la la la

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

In June 2004 the British newspaper The Observer asked Morrissey what his top ten favourite British albums were. He responded he could only think of one great British album: For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music.

― CHOOSE MOZ, HE DO THE REST!!!! (ex machina), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Gallon Drunk were good. GALLON DRUNK WERE GOOD.

I used to be "friends" with many of the "hobos" of Camden, even while some of them were allegedly wanted by the law.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:53 (twenty years ago)

look at oliver twist over here!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:54 (twenty years ago)

this one was goddamned horrifying...

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:59 (twenty years ago)

http://maxallancollins.com/media/blitz1024.jpg

― gear (gear), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Steel Pulse is UK they rool!

― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:17 (twenty years ago)

I had a dream the other week where I was walking up Camden High Street with Carey and Matos.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 27 January 2006 00:58 (twenty years ago)

i really like the first aswad album.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 27 January 2006 01:03 (twenty years ago)

these are lyrics "worth waiting for" and "memorizing"?

Last night these two bouncers
And one of 'em's all right
The other one's a scary 'un
His way or no way, totalitarian
He's got no time for you
Looking or breathing
How he don't want you to
So step out the queue
He makes examples of you
And there's naught you can say
Behind they go through to the bit where you pay
And you realize then that it's finally the time
To walk back past 10,000 eyes in the line

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 30 January 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

re: arctic monkeys. i heard the single.

THANKS BUT NO THANKS.

what's the big deal again?
m.

― msp (mspa), Friday, 3 February 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

"Handsworth Revolution" by Steel Pulse is FUCKING GREAT.

The wack bbc radio 1 indie music show I listen to on the way home from work has the AMs album on heavy rotation, and the DJ (Zane Lowe) keeps BIGGING. THEM. UP. in his weird stentorian manner.

They're an OK band, I mean they play well together, and they almost rock in places, and the singer's lyrics do tell a story quite effectively, but I just don't "get it". They've sold a shitload of records, enough that it's obviously not just about the hype, but at the same time something like this surely can't be just about the music either?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 3 February 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

i saw some videos on domino's site and those seemed to hit me a bit better. maybe that single is just weak.

― msp (mspa), Friday, 3 February 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe this is on the noise board.. I am going to go find a song to listen to by these guys, but I don't think I'll like it.

I mean, they're called the Arctic Monkeys! how good can they be? not very!

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 3 February 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

JOEK THRED, DUH.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

man, I feel dumb. I guess there's a reason for that

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

don't feel dumb! it's just joeks!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

eh, i was equally duped in a way.
m.

― msp (mspa), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I guess I was duped too, but I don't care. i like music talk on noise board better than most music talk on ilm, tbh.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)

tho you never know wit dat slocki, he might actually like these dudes.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I can't stand ILM anymore.

why would anyone name a band artic monkeys though?

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

All the good band names have already been taken, perhaps? That's the only justification I can think of.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

yeah... seems reasonable. ilm is hard to deal with. i used to like it but then realized that for me at least, all the joy of music was being booted out by arguing and filing and so on. plus, i really just can't be bothered with 75% of what's being pushed on the record buying public from both major and indie labels. how can you really have an opinion about the BEST record of the year if you haven't heard all the supposed contenders.

rock on! just my feeling on the thing. i still like talking about music and probably do my share of arguing and filing...
m.

― msp (mspa), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

why would anyone name a band artic monkeys though?

most 14 year-old boys would think of worse ones, i'd think.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Arctic Monkeys is an OK band name. Better than Liars.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 3 February 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Arctic Monkeys is such a bad name! I can't explain. It's like the fake vintage t-shirts you see in department stores where they try and put a random slogan on them but their customers don't get irony and so the slogans aren't funny, just cheap and stupid.

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 3 February 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

the album cover is truly one of the ugliest ones i've ever seen.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 February 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that cover is horrible.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 3 February 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

and when i say that i'm including the terrible font for the band name, too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 February 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Arctic Monkeys Defend Album Cover

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 3 February 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

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