If you are talking about bands with great album songs, AM are the one.

Their first two albums are littered with genuine non-single anthems.

Songs the general British public know.

A Certain Romance etc.

Fluorescent Adolescent isn't the worst I have listened from them, but it doesn't do anything for me. I think it's the melodies I find really weak. And, maybe that's just me, but I feel something something very superficial from their music.
For example, take The Coral. Same generation, both british indie bands, both claim to be inspired by 90's Oasis, but if we're just talking about songs quality, there isn't any comparison for me : The Coral are far, far superior.

Alex Turner was praised for his social realist lyrics and, in fairness, he is a wordsmith of high quality when he's on it. Without his really good and perceptive lyrics though, they'd just be as shite as bands like Carl Barat's laughably bad Dirty Pretty Things or The Enemy. That's not taking anything away because lyrics are very important in music - if it weren't for Alex Turner, just imagine the illiterate bell whiffs of landfill indie we'd be left with. So there's undoubtedly an authenticity to them that 99% of indie rock bands lack.

I really like them, I have all their albums but I'm not their biggest fan, primarily because although there's depth to the songs, I find their sound a bit tedious after a while and they the lack the melodies to draw you in. That debut was massively overrated though I think - it seemed a case of NME desperately trying to be the tastemakers and form 'trends' that they think is 'cool'.

But they're definitely worthy of praise - they're one of the smarter bands out there who don't just think in terms of tiresome and generic indie rock cliches of getting drunk, having a good night out and hooking up with girls (or in other words, see Catfish & The Bottlemen).

I'm sure that they are the biggest ''young'' band in the world today but I'm not sure that kids in Chile or Serbia or Japan understand every word that he is singing. In fact, lots of them don't understand a word he's saying :-D And those who know English very well, I'm not sure that they can ''catch'' every local reference, joke, slang...to really understand him 100% and fully appreciate him as a writer.

So there is something else, not only his lyrics that separate them from bands like Enemy etc.

They have good songs, good albums, great singles, great drummer, hot singer etc. And that is why are they popular all over the world and above all the other indie bands.

Muse hands down! The Resistance was a little disappointing but 2nd Law and Drones were pretty good. And anything before Resistance was absolutely fucking amazing. No one compares to them live. The sound they create is massive. Their creating process goes far and wide and they still have a message after all these years. They certainly have become my favorite band since oasis released DBTT. I can't say enough about Muse and I guess it's needed since no one likes them here baha!

I'm firmly on the fence with this one...

Am I fuck, Arctic Monkeys all day everyday and twice on a Sunday.

I can stick AM's back catalogue on and gladly sit there for hours, rarely skipping tracks at all. I like pretty much every song they ever did, some more than others of course but they're all decent.

Muse is a 4 letter word that really doesn't get my meaning.