Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Sound fun live, but couldn't get into it.

It’s ok

Another very British album. Vampires is the best track among a very monotonous album.

Tries a bit too hard at times to be edgy in what I call a "bloke pop" kind of way. A few good tunes.

Favorite Song : When the Sun Goes Down Runner Up: A Certain Romance

I find this singer irritating.

Meh

Ugh.

Very cohesive, but may be so much that the songs sound too much alike. electric guitar heavy rock album

I feel like I could like them if they toned down the poppiness. Some cool baselines.

Overhyped

The album apparently is in the "indie" genre but it wasn't overtly indie music to me. There are elements of it but more rock if anything. With that said I cannot recall one song or part that is particularly noteworthy or to point to and say listen to this. It is better than a 2 but not really a 3.

I absolutely hate this band and always have. Having said that, the only 3 songs of Arctic Monkeys I could ever listen to are all on this album (Fake Tales of San Francisco, Mardy Bum and When The Sun Goes Down), They remind me of student days so maybe it's more the nostalgia than the music!

Not for me. Too frenetic. Two stars.

Hmm, this is at times OK, but mostly is a type of energetic and upbeat that I'm not really a fan of.

Some Good, some alright, some MEH. Best: "Mardy Bum"

1.7 really was hoping to have my mind changed about AM but alas.... just very boring nothing exciting going on, all the songs sound pretty much the same. fave songs: a certain romance

I like the arctic monkeys, but this album in no way belongs on a list of the best albums of anything ever. 2/5

I don’t know why I can’t get into this album/band. I feel like their guitars have the same tone in each song. Not saying it’s bad, probably just not for me.

Acho que já ouvi alguma coisa deles, é um indie que conheço, mas não pretendo escutar novamente.

ei vaan kiinnostas vittuakaan brittiläinen kulttuuri...underground indie band. moni ei kuulukkaan moisesta... on niin turvallista musiikkia kun mahdollista, onko huono asia? no ei välttämättä mutta tällä kertaa on heh... no kaikki biisit on ok. onneksi en montaa tästä ole joutunut eaa. kuulemaan (ennen albumien aikaa) vaikka massiivinen populäärialbumi kyseessä. on tässä hyvääkin, basso... mutta yksi asia tästä puuttuu, ultimate lyriikki ''You think you're special'' olisi sopiva tämänkaltaiseen runkutukseen. olen antanut indieperseilylle vitosia aiemmin joten objektiivisuus on todistettu. tämä ei vitosen suuntaana edes vilkuile. red light indicates doors are secured

arctic monkeys mid

Generic uninspired Brit rock that tries too hard. Is it horrible, not really but why is it on the list? At least it wasn't the AM album.

wasn’t a huge fan but okay

Ikke deres beste album

2.5

Another of those bands that I should have liked but just didn't. I think alex turner is just trying too hard to sing 'cool.' The strokes mastered the 'try hard and say it's easy' and looked so damn easy. The arctic monkeys always looked like they were trying very fucking hard. Maybe the melodies just aren't there? Rock stomp after rock stomp. Not very memorable or catchy.

p913. 2006. 2 stars. Loud, obnoxious, shouty, average pub band that got lucky. Alex Turner's voice grates like chalk on a board - every time he opens his mouth I wanted to smack him to make him shut it. Bonus star for When The Sun Goes Down.

Rubbish… Absolute rubbish innit? I don’t even know where to start with this dog-water of an album. Honestly this is the worse thing England has done to us since the Beatles, I can’t even understand half the words they’re saying with that mid accent. Thank god for the revolutionary war so we don’t have to put up with this chicanery. If you know someone who’s into this stuff, keep an eye on them, they very well could be a traitorous loyalist to the crown. Long live the American revolution 😤 💯🗽🇺🇸 🚫🇬🇧🫖

Likes: Drumming and rhythms reminiscent of In Utero at times, solid band, fun vibe that stays consistent Dislikes: Vocals and melodies don’t do anything for me at all, songs feel a little too similar/one-note Overall, this is an album where if you like one song, you’ll probably like the rest. But I don’t, so it was a bit of a slog for me.

I've never been a punk fan. I don't know why, it just doesn't appeal to me. This record was mostly that: a more modern punk-inspired English rock album. I didn't hate it but didn't find it enjoyable either.

I found it difficult to hold on to anything on this album. It sounds really samey overall and I can't understand why it is so praised.

Tja...wat voegt dit nou weer toe aan onze muziekgeschiedenis? Zang en instrumenten zijn hier twee losse dingen. Vaak een lekker tempootje hoor. Maar dat maakt het geen voldoende.

Highlights: "Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured" The Strokes were five years ago at this point, so with added dashes of garage and surf aside, the main contributions here to the broad blend of pop punk and classic soul is Spencer's larger-than-life ethnography of Northern English pubs. Which is to say there's not much to say but lots of fun ways to say it. The clever rhyme schemes, eye for detail, and loads of punchy rhythms have the vocals and drums carry us through, but it's rare for a track to go by without a minute of jamming on some truly tedious and stale guitarwork. A lot of 00s retro hasn't aged well.

I've somehow managed to never listen to Arctic Monkeys even though I think I was their target audience during college because this album was everywhere and everyone was going gaga over it. This is the album I would have checked out during that period if I gave it a chance. I had a feeling I knew what they sounded like anyways and I had a feeling it wasn't for me. Now cut forward about 17 years and here we are. It's exactly like I thought it would sound and still isn't for me.

Always struggled with this. Messy and just doesn’t hook me - Later stuff much better.

The Artic Monkeys debut is a fine modern punk pop album. I fail to see what all the fuss is about. They are fine.

This band and album came just a bit too late for me to get into. Sadly, full-time work and the misery of adulthood had hit hard by this point, and I wasn't really listening to music much. So I've heard "I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor" before, I'm sure every one in the world has. Everything else is new to me so far, decent indie rock and I love the singer's accent. Frank Spencer! I like the copper bashing song, "Riot Van". I thought I might recognize "Mardy Bum" but nope, new to me this one! Ooh, I know this one! (When The Sun Goes Down) Who came first, The Strokes or Arctic Monkeys?! I checked, I think The Strokes were first. "Just cos he's had a couple of cans, he thinks it's alright to act like a dickhead." Haha, just about everywhere on a Friday / Saturday night in the late 90s / early 00s!! That was alright, that. Can't give half stars, as I'd give it 2.5 / 5, so I'll go with 2 because it wasn't /that/ good.

Just ok.

Best track(s): Still Take You Home // Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured // Mardy Bum Worst track(s): any of the others. Little to no variation between the tracks. Mostly had to lower the volume on every track and nearly stopped halfway through. I like the song titles.. the songs.. not so much. I like my ears intact. Baselines are good though.

It’s ok, not my taste

I wasn't sure why I never really got into Arctic Monkeys. Now I know. It reminds me of a night in the late 90's, at a dive bar, very late. We're drunk and a buddy is pumping money into the jukebox, playing Harvey Danger and going on repeating all the reasons why they were the best band ever. Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone is a great album, ruined for me by mundane drunken repetition. The Arctic Monkeys seem to have encapsulated that feeling for me and now it's playing on repeat as I write this. There could be some merit in this album, but it's lost to me. The lead singer reminds me of to many things I hate. If the drumming was a little more subdued, maybe I wouldn't notice how boring it is. The whole album sounds like the drunk guy in the bar telling me the same ridiculous story on repeat and I'm not drunk enough to go with the flow here. I do think the bass player has got something good to share. I'm not going to look any further into it though. So glad this is over and not upset that I slept through the AM wave 10-15 years ago.

Yeah this was a bust for me. I get the feeling this would have been a fun album to hear live, but coming out of my office computer speakers as I'm submitting a Walgreens photo order is just not the mood. I also feel the need to mention that 4/5 of the albums weʻve listened to so far have been by British artists, so thatʻs... interesting. This had some moments but overall I kinda despised it. Not enough catchy hooks and a lot of the songs sound exactly the same kind of bland garage rock. Also Iʻm very hungry and the walgreens website is malfunctioning, so that may be feeding into this negative opinion..

Wow, The Artic Monkeys. I really missed these guys in the early 2000s. I was too busy copy/pasting the VH1 top 20 onto my Bat Mitzvah mix to really appreciate them. I thought this would be too punk rock for me and that was true. I liked the beginning of “Dancing Shoes,” and “Riot Van” but the rest of the album sounds so similar to me with the frantic guitar and doubled vocals. I realize I’m just not getting it and that’s okay. I think I need to listen to the whole thing again and I might have a different take. Big apologies to the Artic Monkeys fans out there.

It was ok. I couldn't say it was something you needed to listen to before you die.

I’m happy for anyone that thinks this album is profound. You like new cool, boy bands? Rad. This one is for you. But, honestly, I never understood this album. I was young when it came out, I listened to it in my 20’s and 30’s, and here we are, visiting again and discovering it is nothing special. It is a British guitar rock record that maybe is fast? or fun? or talented at guitar? or? Why is this album celebrated? It has okay guitar lines, okay guitar riffs, it mostly sloggs along in jangly and bouncy dance minor chords. Yuck. Good for you all for loving it. Honestly, I like their later poppier stuff a loooootttt more. Each his own yall. Fuck Arctic Moneys.

All the songs sound the same and I don’t have the benefit of nostalgia to carry this one

Truly not for me. Found the album as a whole to be pretty uninteresting and basic Brit pop/punk. A Certain Romance is a fun song that is 10 years ahead of Vampire Weekend. Still Take Your Home made me bop around a bit. Mardy Bum had an interesting progression. Maybe Im just not into punk.

This is not for me. I remember people loving it, but it feels needlessly aggressive and bitter. Like a 20-something pretending to be cynical. It's not my vibe. Some nice sounds, though.

“Like a 20 something pretending to be cynical.” Lol. It does feel like that doesn’t it?? I’m not even sure these monkeys were 20 when they recorded this. Wasn’t that the story on them when they broke? They were basically babies. It’s fine. I don’t hate it, nor do I really want to listen to it again. I like the poppier record they broke through with a few years back. I think they must have also realized the whole overall attitude on this one wasn’t going to work once they reached voting age. #adulting

I didn’t need to listen to this. Every Arctic Monkeys song sounds the same.

Turnerin papatus kulkee pentatonista skaalaa ylös, alas, ylös, alas... Ymmärrän, miksi jotkut näkevät tässä oman romantiikkansa, mutten usko ketään, joka väittää teini-ikäisen biisintekomaneerin käyvän koukusta. Kyllähän tätä kuuntelee. Isompi annostus faijan levyhyllyä olisi kuitenkin ollut näille paikallaan.

This was okay, I recognize the radio song. It didn't make me want to hurt anyone, but I was kind of glad when it was over.

Not bad, just not my type. Riot van and marry bum are my favorites - two slower songs. I can understand it’s popularity in indie/alternative UK scene. Mix of indie/punk sound. To me, not enough intricacy in the instruments, but overall it’s a very cohesive album.

Heard Fake Tales of San Francisco and When the Sun Goes Down ages ago not really feeling the rest of the album, the two aforementioned at least have some hint of nostalgia

2.5

I was quite taken with this album when I first heard it. The lyrics of Fake Tales are still hilarious and When The Sun Goes Down and A Certain Romance are wonderfully-observed slices of life. But coming back to this now, the lumpen backing sounds even more so now. The band aren’t really pulling up any trees. I’d love to hear those songs with a more interesting band behind them. It’s all a bit one-dimensional. Worth it for the words of Fake Tales alone, and the songs pick up a bit towards the end, but it’s all pretty straight ahead for much of this album.

This album was first released roughly when I lost all interest in most things Indie. It meant that it passed me by. I didn't miss much. I still find it dull. It reminded me of the reasons I looked elsewhere for my musical thrills at the time. It feels like the band is forcing the tunes out, almost out of breath before the end of each track. There's no control or pacing. Chill, dudes. I'm such a snob. The whole Northernness really annoyed me. Riot Vans came close to saving it.

I’m not sure why I’ve always had the impression they were a Strokes knock off. Not for me.

I’m not a fan of Arctic Monkeys

meh. couldn't vibe.

pretty forgettable imo. felt like one song stretched out into a whole album. not my cup of tea.

"Laddish" mentioned as both a positive and a negative. Bill - 1 Shannah - 2 Conor - 3.75 (2.25/5)

I conferred with my son Dylan about this one. Our conclusion is that we don't dislike it but if we listened to it more often we would probably hate it.

Not my cup of tea. I sort of liked a couple of songs.

Boring, forced, scratchy and annoying, apart from the obvious ones, which are ok.

Blijkbaar zitten er nog behoorlijk wat albums tussen deze en AM, mijns inziens het beste werk dat de apenkoppen uit de UK hebben voorgebracht.

Nooit zo'n fan geweest, hoewel ik het latere werk wel beter vind. Dit is me gewoon te puntig en te Brits.

Reminds me of the Clash but with a worse vocalist. Also kind of pop punkish. Seemed to annoy my cat.

It was fine. Like the Springsteen one (Nebraska) before, it was OK on first listen but then became very samey/grating on subsequent listens. So as per Nebraska it gets knocked down from a 3 to a 2 on grounds of pettiness.

“It turned out that all the Monkeys needed to conquer the world was scrappy, lager-fueled tunes about being young and bored in a bleak steel town.”

The thing that stands Arctic Monkeys aside is their unique sound, which - generally speaking - I dislike as too noisy. That said, I prefer and even like the added sophistication of AM so much more, but AM is the exception rather than the rule.

Die langweilige uninspirierte Version der Libertines? Mich hats nicht überzeugt. 2 Trostpunkte.

This project is really starting to wear me down. Too many generic, uninspired rock albums, too few classic jazz albums and boundary-pushing avant garde albums. Every heavy metal album on this list is incredibly obvious and mainstream. This album sounds like a bunch of songs written to be on commercials for cell phone companies. This is so polished and clean and antithetical to the rebellious spirit of rock. It's not clever, or unique, or original. I listen to this and all I can ask is "why?" Why does this exist. I'm sure it will score in the high threes to mid fours too. Much like Metallica, Oasis, and Foo Fighters, this is the sort of basic shit that people on here really eat up. Downvote Pere Ubu and John Zorn and Laibach and upvote this generic garbage.

Hatte ich mir auch wesentlich schlimmer vorgestellt, stellenweise ganz ok. Aber keine 3 Sterne.

about 2 good songs but they're all the same (2)

meh

I'm still not on board the Arctic Monkeys train.

Mnie, sobrevaloradisimo

Never been a huge fan of this sound. Maybe 2.5 stars, it's OK.

Oooh, cheeky chappy laddie etc. Bit boring.

I never listened to the attic monkeys before and I’m ok with that decision.

Didn’t impress me

I've never really got the Arctic monkeys, I just don't really enjoy their stuff, the highlights are probably the hits but even then don't love it

Maybe I'm showing/feeling my age, but I just don't have a lot of room for aggressive, loud rock. It generally doesn't give me cathartic release and make me feel better, but tends to come off as noise and make me more tense. I liked couple of tracks on this album that are not so aggressive: Riot Van, Mardy Bum, A Certain Romance. I liked the singer's voice better on these, too, because I could better understand him and follow the story of the songs, stories whose characters fit well with his Scouse voice. Musically, I really liked some of the bass lines (too bad this was the bassists only album with them), and some of the less-aggressive drumming. I don't think I'd listen to this again.

Really meh

Not for me, but I can see why others enjoy them.

Ok

that classic later brit sound... not the most pleasant voice, but catchy beats.

Old school

Too punk, not for me

Meh

meh, generic 2000's rock

I can't put my finger on why this doesn't connect with me at all but there it is - it just doesn't. The description would ideally sound good to me: British guitar rock revival with an edge. But if you tend towards getting chills and sucked in by a killer hook or melody...this album doesn't have that for me at all. Not terrible but personally not memorable nor enjoyable. 2.

Однотипно

I hate this record its a bad mashup of white stripes and the strokes. I get why people like it, i just do not

Ok music, irritating vocals

It's ok, I was never really a big fan of this style at the time and it hasn't convinced me otherwise this time round. 2*

It was okay

Tan repetitivas como siento todas estas bandas de Garage Revival también siento que lo que escribo aquí termina sonando igual. Sin embargo no tengo otra forma de decirlo realmente; suena bien... todas las canciones terminan sonando indistintamente iguales, la producción y el sonido son igualitos a los Stripes y los Yeah Yeahs... Sigue siendo una masa medio amorfa de bandas que suenan todas muy similar decente de música de fondo pero sin mucha propuesta que cambie. Debo decir en este caso no había escuchado nunca a los Arctic Monkeys, al menos no consciente de que fueran ellos como para recordar una canción y hasta el momento de las bandas que llevamos del género son los que menos me han gustado. Siguen sonando decente pero al menos los otros quizá tenían un par de detalles más personales. Esta banda se pierde aun más y se siente más genérica que las anteriores. Decente, nada más que decir. Se me hace gracioso pensar que me quejo de este género y dos de mis músicos favoritos (Rammstein y Rob Zombie) pueden ser, justificadamente criticados de tener música muy repetitiva; la diferencia creo es que en esos casos solo existe un Rammstein y solo hay un Rob Zombie; pueden ser repetitivos pero son muy reconocibles y de estilo propio. En este caso el problema es ese... decenas de bandas que corrieron a hacer exactamente el mismo sonido... Música buena genérica de fondo otra vez...

It was a good album for what it was, but not really my style.

"Dancing shoes" is alright. "Do I wanna know" is still their one hit wonder though

Otra banda del montón de las que salieron a principios de siglo, el disco no es malo pero no me aporta nada parece una sola canción

Meh.

Just not at all any fun to listen to

When the sun goes down came off as the obvious hit, good track, rolling stone labeled this one of the top 30 debut albums of all time in 2013, I don't get that but it was a decent listen

beliebiger Rock

This blows so much

Another Punk one. Ugh

It’s hard to define the line between innovative homage and derivative hack. This is on the wrong side of that line.

Mark Fisher was right

Listened to this once when it came out and it was landfill indie slop. Hasn’t got any better since.

If I could I would give it a zero. Not for me

Nah. 1.5

I liked Riot Van well enough, but this is not my jam. 1.5

Another album I didn't realise I knew a lot do the songs by force ! It's not a favourite at all.

lord no. Not completely horrible I suppose, but they are not for me.

favorite song: i bet you look good on the dancefloor vibe: tasty bass lines ruined by rampant misogyny rating: 24/100

Not my jam.

That kind of nasal shrill vocals turn me off.

Heavy guitar segments. Whats he saying? Who cares Throbbing throbbing Just turn down the volume and pry for a quick death

Not what I'm into.

This album did not make an impression on me. I don't have anything critical to say.

Didnt like this, I don't know why but I couldn't care less for arctic monkeys, this is the second album I have heard from them and it didn't do anything. I am not saying it's bad I just can't get into it.

Talk about not my generation

hmmm def not for me gives me pub vibes.

i couldn’t get past the first two songs i just really don’t like it

Not for me

Ich fand AM schon immer komplett langweilig und belanglos und dieses Album bestätigt den Eindruck nur. Es gibt wirklich nichts, was ich dem abgewinnen könnte. Das scheint selbst Spotify nicht anders zu sehen, ansonsten kann ich mir nicht erklären, warum "When the sun goes down" zumindest bei mir einfach durch eine absolut stumme Tonspur ersetzt wurde, von der ich nicht behaupten kann, dass es langweiliger als die eigentliche war. Fröhliche Weihachten!

Not my cup of tea

More noise pretending to be deep and meaningful

they suck so bad idk why people like them

Jive Bunny for indie pop. Cherry-picked highlights stolen from 5 years of indie and mashed into over-produced radio friendly slop. Clearly they can play their instruments but their art is forgettable marketing dross.

Can't get past the "singing"...

loud, banging and screaming

Not my type

If I went to a record store and said “I would like to purchase one rock music please”, this is what they would hand me. It's definitely not as good as Madvillainy. EDIT - I'm going too easy on albums that piss me off. This album pisses me off. 1 star.

Never liked them, never will.

I blame these ‘lads’ for contemporarily perpetuating the very worst subsect of British culture: the “night out”. It’s this soul-sapping, hedonistic hivemind of people that seem to glorify the ‘one night stand’ as the holy grail of life, those who employ cheap alcohol and subterfuge solely to reach orgasm. This forty-minute journey through somebody else’s grimy streetside life in a post-industrial setting is enough to seriously annoy me by the first minute of the first track. Hey, maybe I can be a songwriter too if I appeal to the masses who clearly just love these guys? I’ll write about nightclubs, “tarts”, alcohol and, waking up after a night ‘aat, feeling satisfaction after fulfilling nothing more than the primal goal of the mammal. I’ll slather it in sloppy, uninteresting guitar so I can label it “rock”. Every song here annoyed me to some degree, so I’d like to bestow three more distinct accolades. The song that annoyed me the most goes to: Mardy Bum for masquerading as heartfelt where in truth vulgarity lies. The song that made me feel the most sick goes to: Still Take You Home for its vague services to misogyny and the overall feeling that Alex Turner, or the bloke on the cover that I can’t wait to stop looking at, is shouting over loud music with beer on his breath. The song that annoyed me the least goes to... it’s a tie! The winners are: From the Ritz to the Rubble for being the only song with a memorable tune despite the uniformly unfavourable lyrics, and A Certain Romance for having the least horrible lyrics and for ending my suffering as the last track. With incredibly little redeeming qualities and an association with my least favourite people I’ve had the misfortune of encountering, it’s a 1 star from me.

Puffff...odio a estos tíos. Realmente no los odio a ellos, odio a sus fans, que son unos pijos con ganas de ir de punks. Y a la mierda de prensa que les chupó la polla cuando salieron y los pusieron como los nuevos Beatles. Aquí estamos, 20 años después nadie se acuerda de ellos. Y ahora voy a escuchar el disco.

Not really sure what to say about this album. Couple of okay tracks. Tends to speak the lyrics, and very quickly.

Not really my cup of tea.

Agree to disagree, but this one is lame

Jag föredrar vilket 1995 års britpopband som helst framför detta, ge mig Ash, Mansun eller t.o.m. Menswear anyday. Det här är samma rätt serverad ljummen 10 år senare i nåt fåfängt försök att tro att det kan hända igen. Jag förstår inte vad detta kan ha för existensberättigande än mindre vad det gör på en sån här lista/genomgång? (Övriga album vi har lyssnat på här kan jag förstå vad dom gör här även om dom inte är bra) Det här ögonblicksmusik och inte ens särdeles bra sådan, problemet är bara att ögonblicket var 10 år innan det här släpptes och att det 20 år sen det släpptes nu. Vad ska jag liksom göra med den här nu? Det är dubbelfel och 0-30 i egen serve. Look good on the dancefloor ska vara single of the week i NME ena veckan, nästa vecka ska det vara någon annan singel och då ska AM vara bortglömda för all evighet. Det är så det funkar, det är så det ska funka och det är så det bör funka. Kan man ens sätta nåt annat än etta på det här även om man är inne på sån här musik? Lyssna hellre på Menswear - Nuiance, Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand, Timo Raisänen - I'm indian ...eller ännu hellre denna veckans single of the week i NME

Nope

Not really a fan

I didn't really enjoy this. It all sounded very similiar and uninspiring.

Ahh the feeding frenzy that comes from youth culture latching onto something they all like, even if it blows. No tunes, a sound derived from maybe the basest 90s American punk and indie...English music fans/publications were waiting and waiting for an answer to the Strokes, the Libertines went from having potential to tabloid tedium in months, and so the first thing the kids went mental over got celebrated as the next big thing and well, was this it? My britpop fandom died out around the same time the final run of Pulp and Blur albums were released (before hiatuses interrupted, reunion tour cash-ins greenlit). The clubs I went to still had the same folks in 2003 as 2001, but spending every weekend there wasn’t my thing and I was focused on my own thing, which could be exhausting. Yet, I still had it in my head that England, the source of so many of my favourite groups for 20 years or more, was a special place that would inevitably yield forth bands worth celebrating again. The AMs, after the post-punk revival fizzled, were the anointed ones, but from the first note all I could hear was, well, boring. This marked my first generational taste shift and from that point forward, whatever compass I had for syncing up with the tastes of the new was lost to time. Somehow worse than the Manic Street Preachers? Tough to say.

Just not the kind of tunes I listen to, not a fair critique.

Lazy lyrics, whiny and nasal singing

Skitmusik!

Slog for me to get through.

buh

Gash

Makes anal cunt sound like the beatles

All sounded the same and honestly kind of forgettable. Was fun enough for the first couple songs but nothing stood out

How did I know that the Arctic Monkeys were making music for this long??? It's fine, but there's not one song I feel head over heels about. I still think AM is really the only album of theirs I truly like through and through.

It's like oasis actually figured out how to play something complicated and then decided they wanted to sound just as terrible as oasis.

Joj dosta mi je loše ovo i nikad mi nisu sjeli. Ti britanski pokušaji nekog modernog pank rocka su mi često baš promašaji teški. Kako nije klasični pank, ovi bubnjevi mi zvuče baš očajno, vokal još gore, a ostalo je dosadno za umrijeti. 1/5, 1/10

Arrogant children. Fuck this band.

Nothing on this album appeals to me.

Dogshit

1 stern

Dont lie Artic Monkeys. Too hectic

Alternative band. Not great songs.

Pourquoi pas, mais c'est un rock qui peut rapidement me fatiguer ... je cherche mais j'ai l'impression que rien ne va finir dans quelconque playlist..

Just not my jive here. Not the best Arctic Monkeys album and a roadbump along the path of this project

Meh

fucking sucks 2/10

Hard to digest... You keep waiting for a climax that never cames. The songs are all the same: extremely boring.

Oy. I don’t know about this. Comparing them to Oasis is not a compliment. I’d say this is like a louder, more annoying Oasis on speed. Just cause it’s loud and fast doesn’t mean it’s good. I really don’t like this and need to stop on the second song, which happens to be their big hit. This sucks donkey balls.

Hektischer punkiger Rock. Nix für mich.

1. the afternoon - 0 2. dancefloor - 0 3. zan francizco - 0 4. dancing - 1 5. lightz - 0 6. home - 1 7. riot van - 1 8. red light - 0 9. mardy bum - 0 10. vampirez - 1.5 11. the zun - 0 12. rubble - 0 13. romance - 0

This came out when I worked at Music World and other employees played it plenty. It grew on me a bit but not really, this kind of aughts rock from strokes to jet to white stripes never did much for me, it was everywhere.

God damn I'm still bitter my uni days coincided with this lazy shite British indie rock nonsense. Ruled out 90% of songs played in clubs. Boyband pop for teenagers who think liking guitar music is cool. Only of my biggest regrets is waiting hours at the mainstage to watch these headline Glastonbury. Should have just left my mates for a few hours and actually had a good time elsewhere.

Not for me. I find the delivery to be grating on my nerves.

No, I dont need to listen to Arctic Monkeys before I die.

Didn't care for it.

I really don't want to listen to this. My feeling was justified. I got to track eight before the relentless Arctic Monkiness of it got the better of me. How can something be both oppressive and boring at the same time? Maybe - just maybe - if thus was just one track used in a film to emphasise how much of an arrogant wanker dome coke-addled posh boy pretending to be working class in the mid, 2000s was - I would think that the song was perfect. It isn't, and it just reminds me of how music in the early-mid 2000s killed clubbing, with its posturing androcentric lack of fun and danceability.

so bad i even lose the will to be merrily vengeful and hatefilled and just left here with battered and defeated in deep sadness

Geordie Shore done by no talents. Try and talk to a girl when you're sober you useless twat! 3 stars less 1 for the repetitiveness less 1 for the Geordie Shore shit.

Unmelodic noise

I had not heard of Arctic Monkeys, I did listen to the album. I did not care for this type of music.

Not my fav.

Not really me

Did not like it - too loud and obnoxious

Meh.

Gar nicht meins, mir zu hart

Mostly cringe lyrics. Great voice.

Nič moc

I don't care what anyone else tells me, I can't stand the Arctic Monkeys and I think they suck.

Tiresome, noisy, formulaic rock-pop. Don't listen to the hype.

poor

Not for me!

Yup. Tried a few times with this band and nope. Still not a fan. I have no idea what it is.

Mildly annoying shout-singing stop-start songs that all sound the same.

Nope . Not for me

Didn't like the first time around, don't like them now.

As rubbish now as it was then

Feels like a waitress in a diner saying “we’re out of Dr Pepper, is Mr Pibb ok?” Except it’s Green Day and Arctic Monkeys. Disposable guitar pop/rock. Probably incredible to a 15 yr old English kid.

Not my thing

Not into there sound

The Arctic Monkeys' Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not is appealing right out of the gate. It's got energy to spare, a nice direct sound, and the band is incredibly tight. But by the second song, I was getting worried. They are already recycling musical ideas. It turns out that the Arctic Monkeys are artistically monochromatic, reworking the same tropes over and over. It's dispiriting. Even old punk bands like The Clash had more arrows in their quiver than this. The Arctic Monkeys take limbs from the corpses of their favorite bands (Franz Ferdinand, The Strokes), which are themselves stitched together from other bands (The Clash, Ian Dury), sew them together, and then attempt to breathe life into it, pretending like it's something new. It's fucking boring. Now, I haven't yet addressed the lyrics, which seem to address various aspects of nightlife. Actually, the music is such a turn off, I don't think I will.

Don't under the hype...I hate this. 4/10

- I liked it! This sounds like quintessential alt rock. - Very similar lead vocal sound to The Wombats, though stylistically different sound from the band. - Do rock bands that sound like this actually make music today? Are they still forming?

no

Oh fuck yeah, this album SLAPS and has SLAPPED for as long as i remember

Raw and unformed compared to battle for los angeles. De la Rocha is angry and on point

classic indie album