Did I tell you about thatTime I was sucked into a hole?
― California scheming (Ross), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
cheeeeeseburger
― devvvine, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
Also this album does in fact rock
Track 3 loud on the stereo banged hard!
― California scheming (Ross), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
can't get enough of this
― flopson, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
Me too man. It’s like crack but (cheaper)
― Ross, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
you people have mad cow disease
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
Your face
― Ross, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
idk what you're not hearing here alfred
i revisited favourite worst nightmare the other day and it's great, those opening two tracks are furious, but it gets kinda loose on the second side!
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
Alfred needs a cock tail
― Ross, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
every time i listen i latch onto a different lyric, bass lick, drum fill
― flopson, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
Lyrics are so self effacing and funny it’s easy to love
― Ross, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
I like half the album! But I can't get past the mismatch of ambition and prowess. He can't sing these songs, crams too many words, and sounds awful doing so.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
after a few listens the words relaxed really nicely into the knotting song structures. i have zero problems with his singing here
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
I actually totally get what Alfred’s saying
:-/.
There’s definitely a lot of space filling with esoteric lyrics. I noticed this the other night when my buddy was over. It’s not reallyBackground music and commands everything
― Ross, Thursday, 31 May 2018 03:16 (five years ago) link
Humbug > Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino > AM > Suck It and See > Favourite Worst Nightmare >>> The debut.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 31 May 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
Descending order:
Favourite Worst Nightmare AMdebutTranquility Base Hotel & CasinoSIASHumbug
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 May 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
tranquility > humbug > nightmare > am > suck > debut
― devvvine, Thursday, 31 May 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
poll!
― piscesx, Thursday, 31 May 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
I suppose we aren’t really friends anymore
― synonym toast crunch (Ross), Friday, 1 June 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
― devvvine, Thursday, May 31, 2018 1:04 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
absolutely correct, wow
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 1 June 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
here ain't no place for dolls like you and me
― devvvine, Friday, 1 June 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
The rolling stone issue in which the band was recently featured gave the album 2 stars.
Review:
“The Arctic Monkeys have come a long way since the stun-gun punk of their 2006 hit “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”. A really long way. Their first LP in five years is a lounge-rock odyssey set in a casino piano bar on the moon. Frontman Alex Turner lands somewhere between glum-glam Bowie and Dean Martin on tracks like “Star Treatment” where he croons, “I’m a big name in deep space, ask your mates/But golden boy’s in bad shape.”It’s not without a certain vermouth-zonked charm. But after a while in Turner’s wee small hours, you may want to hop the next shuttle back to Earth.
― synonym toast crunch (Ross), Monday, 4 June 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfF9BSJXUAAgc2X.jpg
BBC2 tomorrow night
A new Arctic Monkeys BBC special will air tomorrow (June 8).The band will be the latest to be the subject of an At The BBC show, following in the footsteps of the likes of Adele, Sam Smith, Harry Styles and U2, amongst others.
Fans had petitioned for the band to be given a live concert special on the network
― piscesx, Thursday, 7 June 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
OK he's really trying for "Vogue photographer circa 1976" isn't he
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 June 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
he is, i love it.
― piscesx, Thursday, 7 June 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
if you are a fassbinder fan you can't help but see the connection between him and the aesthetic on a lot of these recent shots
― clouds (peanutbuttereverysingleday), Friday, 8 June 2018 09:28 (five years ago) link
i went to Target today and saw this for $8.99 and almost bought it, but i resisted my impulse buy as i don't buy CDs any longer. it seemed like such a good deal but still passed.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 9 June 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link
Four stars out of five!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 June 2018 01:51 (five years ago) link
And that's unheard of!
― Simon H., Saturday, 9 June 2018 02:00 (five years ago) link
Good session on bbc2 last night
― Mark G, Saturday, 9 June 2018 07:18 (five years ago) link
is that on-line anywhere?
― Bee OK, Saturday, 9 June 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96gk33voxz8
― devvvine, Sunday, 10 June 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
it's kinda funny seeing turner use his newer vocal approach for "dancefloor," but he makes it mostly work imo
― lowercase (eric), Sunday, 10 June 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
that video is so awesome
― Slippage (Ross), Sunday, 10 June 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
link has been taken away but i was able to watch before that happened. it was great, love that they played "R U Mine."
― Bee OK, Thursday, 14 June 2018 01:27 (five years ago) link
this album is so addicting. i always look at my new stuff and think what should i play today. this seems to win on most occasions.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 14 June 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
definitely. i went through that spin for awhile, now back to beach house
― Slippage (Ross), Thursday, 14 June 2018 03:19 (five years ago) link
the BBC performance was amazing
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 June 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
excuse me miss, i lost train of thoooughrt
― flopson, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
the ex-cit-ingsound of data storagefirst thing in the morning
― flopson, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
smile like you got a straw in something tropicaaal
― flopson, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
but the truth is i'm probably not... if I ever was
good line and poignant delivery right here
― Milton, Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
i lost the moneylost the keysbut i'm still handcuffed to the briefcase
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 22 June 2018 07:27 (five years ago) link
This is like if ween and three dog night had a bastardI like it
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 23 June 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
Ween's a good spot!
There's another Spotify playlist here, the music they've been playing in the hour or so before they come on at shows
https://open.spotify.com/user/nobodytoldme/playlist/6MwQUZDrUdBs2UW3vMZDu0?si=Y_07xtgrR6yPgrS4n33R3Q
― piscesx, Saturday, 23 June 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
cockney rebel just occurred to me as well
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
i somehow haven't posted on this thread yet, but this is obviously fantastic. "four stars out of five" is the obvious standout, but i'm really digging the final two tracks right now. "batphone" has my favorite piano part on the record and i love the slinky guitar and the chintzy synth. and "the ultracheese" is a beautiful country torch song, reminds me a bit of conway twitty and a bit of "on top of old smoky"
― paul mccartney & whinge (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
Killer pink flamingosComputer controlledPanoramic windows looking out across your soul
I think a lot of fans of the album might appreciate this from The Last Shadow Puppets, Alex Turner wrote this one on his own and it features no Miles Kane vocal either so it's essentially a solo song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omm4d6aCR5k
― piscesx, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
That "moon's side boob" lyric, tho!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link