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

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.

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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

Modern punk, but not my sort of music. One star…

Rubbish

I listened to this album a long time ago and didn't like it then. It's a bit better now but still not good. Great instrumentation and the vocalist puts his lyrics together in a creative way at times, but ultimately the singer's voice is something I just cannot do. His limited range as well as high treble, nasally pitch is completely off putting and forgettable. Even "I Bet You Look Good..." the "hit" I remember the first time around is a completely forgettable song and don't understand how it got popular. 1.5 stars

Some nice drum work, but other than that, this people says this is just noise with attempts at clever words

beliebiger Rock

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.

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