I love AM.

Fantastic album.

And Noel's album a 7/10. The mind truly does boggle.

too much talkin here about nothing

Beady Eye are THE OASIS of their generation

i m just sayin'

cheers

and goodnight!

to me yes, whether you think alex turners a prick or not they are a brilliant band, cant wait to see what direction they're gonna take with AM6

So this is it? This is the most exciting thing this entire country can produce musically. Let's face it, everything we've heard for the past 4 or 5 years has been leading up to this point and then crashing in on a wave of hype so big that they were practically saying 'hang 10' and 'gnarly', the Arctic Monkeys arrive and they're perfect.

The Arctic Monkeys are a Frankenstein's monkster of record Company cynicism. They seem like the product of market research, focus groups, bar charts, pie charts and a few too many listens of 'Up The Bracket'. The signs were all there, people are responding to bands that hold a mirror up to their pointless lives. Hard-Fi, the Streets, The Kaiser Chiefs. These bands that revel in some kind of 'new laddism', they roll around in the filth of their vacuous existence with only a layer of arrogane and a belly full of Stella Artoise (or whatever's cheap at the bar) to shield them from the truth, that they are nothing.

So the music? Sub Libertines scrappy trash, a rationing of three notes a tune as if bumping part of the vocal line up a few tones would have cost more money, valuable money for drinks no doubt. You can basicly guess which note the singer's gonna hit first, second and third before the song has actually started. And that Voice! All the charm of syphilis straight from the back streets of some Yorkshire town. Maybe that's what they were going for? Is no one else sick of people going out of their way to sound colloquial? It's so forced and contrived, it screams 'middle class boys overcompensating' or should I say 'MIDDLE CLASS BOYS OVER COMPENSAATIN''

So not only is it irritating, it fails to connect on any sort of emotional level. Ofcourse, emotions are for 'gurls'. These guys probably worked in coal mines before they got signed, and you don't talk about your feelings down there. So empty track after empty track rolls by, one about a hooker (all the involvement of a Powerpoint lecture on prostitution by a 15 year old) one about drinking, another about drinking, one about bouncers (basicly drinking) one about someone stealing your 'bird' and feeling ambivilent towards this. These guys just say what they see don't they? I'm sure there's a few songs already written for the next album that're just a Rain Man style list of items one of them has found in a bag. Hurray for social realism!

Not that it matters but they're horrible people, arrogant, mysoginistic, homophobic, unintellegent, illiterate morons who would probably call Liam Gallagher 'ded braaineh'. They're insulting fans at gigs, acting like divas and just slumping around waiting for their own delicious downfall.

This album is the lowest common denominator of 21st Century culture. It may not seem like it but it's afraid. It's afraid of it's own feelings, it's afraid of alienating people by talking about something that no one knows about. Yes, everyone has fallen out with a bouncer, everyone has had a bigger guy push them around. Everyone has also eaten muffins, tripped on a loose paving flag, drank water, watched adverts for shampoo and tied their shoe laces. It does not mean that songs about such things are an incicive comment on modern life.

May their fall from grace be quick and painful. Whenever it is I hope I'm still alive.

I've seen this review a good few times on the internet so cheers for pasting it here.

I do wonder where the idea of them being misogynistic and homophobic comes from, I see no signs of that in their music. 

Also, the spelling errors that plague this review render the opinion of the Arctic Monkeys being "unintelligent and illiterate" rather hypocritical.