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Post by Felicia on Apr 6, 2007 2:52:38 GMT -5
LOL Alex is just bitter Mark is outsellin' them. They'll definately get the No. 1. So much hype around them it's crazy.
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Post by jaxxalude on Apr 6, 2007 14:19:40 GMT -5
That is why i like segmented radio stations...i dont wanna hear "Brianstorm", "Baby Fratelli" or "Our Velocity " and than hear UM-BRE-LLA LLA LLA =/ Personally, I find "Umbrella" a great pop song. And I'd rather hear something that sounds CONTEMPORARY like "Umbrella" than s**tty, pseudo-credible, uncreative, revivalist crap like The Fratellis. There, I've said it. And variety is what radio lacks most nowadays. The segmentation into tight formats is, among others, one of the main reasons why the music industry is in this sorry state, if you think about it.
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Post by busyboy on Apr 6, 2007 14:36:49 GMT -5
I agree ( about the Fratellis and Rihanna too), it's been ages since I burned a CD or compiled a playlist thematically by genre.
IMO, this kind of segregation push fans of a genre even more into their kind of music on the one hand; on the other it gets mainly songs with potential of success on generic radio, without exposing the "riskier" artists, so to speak. Either way, there's no room to get acquainted with artists you're not supposed to hear all day on the radio or see on TV.
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Post by hidizzyguy on Apr 7, 2007 19:37:07 GMT -5
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You know you're PMing that to me, right???
I'd be "oh so" grateful!!!!!
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Post by hidizzyguy on Apr 7, 2007 19:41:14 GMT -5
Whatever is least trouble to you...
Thanks man!!!!.....
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Post by hidizzyguy on Apr 7, 2007 21:48:30 GMT -5
OKay nevermind, I dedicated some time, and found some links.......
Thanks!!! I'm gonna go check out this album now!
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Post by hidizzyguy on Apr 7, 2007 22:13:17 GMT -5
Not an error... but the end of the song does skip a bit....
And the links I found split up the album in three links... there are 12 tracks...
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Post by jaxxalude on Apr 9, 2007 16:34:25 GMT -5
Actually, I'm seeing Nightmare selling just as much as the debut. Don't ask me why, it's just my gut feeling. The hype is as strong as ever, the excitement is reaching fever pitch... really, I think you're seeing things, deleted. ;)
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Post by Adz on Apr 9, 2007 20:18:50 GMT -5
It won't sell 300,000 in it's first week, more like 200,000 maybe.
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Post by jaxxalude on Apr 9, 2007 20:27:37 GMT -5
Remember: Oasis had the record for the fastest selling debut album in the UK until the Monkeys. And I still have memories of how everybody said how Oasis wouldn't sell that much when Morning Glory was to be released. Needless to say they more than doubled the mark on first week only. And since the hype on the Monkeys is as strong as Oasis's back in the day, don't be surprised if something almost similar happens. I mean, let's face it: they're the biggest thing going on in Britain right now. Leak or no leak, people will buy it regardless. And since it was actually the Internet that made them in the first place...
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Post by Adz on Apr 16, 2007 8:42:14 GMT -5
5 days till the album's out here.
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Post by oscillations. on Apr 16, 2007 8:47:03 GMT -5
I think it's weird how we are about a week away from its release, and yet "Brianstorm" STILL hasn't gone for adds in the US. Horrible marketing plan.
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Post by busyboy on Apr 17, 2007 14:38:26 GMT -5
Thanks deleted!
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Post by oscillations. on Apr 17, 2007 14:51:04 GMT -5
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Post by ashley on Apr 19, 2007 7:10:31 GMT -5
Q magazine gave it 5/5.
I still dunno whether I'll buy this, I've got Fluorescent Adolescents and it's prolly one my favourite AM tracks. I might wait till I've heard more of the tracks though because TBH, I wasn't that impressed with their first album.
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Post by oscillations. on Apr 19, 2007 7:11:44 GMT -5
I'll be buying it the second it's released. It's not like I ever really had a choice. ;) jk (I guess)
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Post by busyboy on Apr 19, 2007 11:17:04 GMT -5
It's the most anticipated album since The Stone Roses' 'Second Coming'. And it's hugeHe hits you like a Brylcreemed cyclone. Smooth-talking his way past security with a flash of his tungsten bright smile he spins into your Tokyo dressing room, all convoluted handshakes, lizard-lipped chat and T-shirt-and-tie combinations. He introduces himself: Brian Storm's the name, and then he's off - wisecracking and story-telling and chattering and flirting, the epicentre of any room. Guys want to be him, girls want to rip the shiny plastic kecks off of him. He is, the average dumbstruck Yorkshire rock singer might conclude, an unforecasted storm. As tosser, so tribute. Inspired by this captivating character the Arctic Monkeys met on tour in Japan last year, 'Brianstorm' - comeback single from the greatest indie success story this decade and opening track on the most doubter-defying second album since 'Modern Life Is Rubbish' - makes just as loud and startling an entrance. Bass guitars stampede in like Josh Homme's personal herd of rhinos. A 12-armed psychopath appears to be playing drums. Some surf guitars are flayed to within an inch of their blood-gurgling life. And Alex Turner's voice is urgent, breathless and Strokes-fuzzy; marshalling a ferocious rock tempest from deep elemental forces. It single-handedly announces 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' as the fire-spewing, balls-out comeback record of your dreams, confirms that (despite speculation to the contrary) we are in the presence of a seminal, generation-defining rock band in the making and declares Monkeys Phase Two go. And the relief is akin to Keith Richards cancelling his RSVP for your father's cremation. Heaven knows we were worried for the wee chucks - only a year after the record-obliterating first week sales of 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not', the whole Growing Up In Public business looked to be taking a weighty toll. Their original bassist Andy Nicholson was pushed out through a lack of love of The Road. The sharp drop-off of album sales leant cynics to suggest they were merely an internet anomaly. And scariest of all, their habit of continually releasing new material exposed a tendency towards on-the-road mithering ('Despair In The Departure Lounge', from the post-album 'Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?' EP) and a paucity of kidney-exploding new tunes to match their immaculate debut. Fears were that 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' would be a bad dream indeed; full of limp half-tunes about never going to awards ceremonies because they don't give you a trolley for all your gongs, how you can't get trustworthy servant staff these days and real tales of what a drag it is in San Francisco. So, so wrong. 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' is a bold, beefed-up and brilliant return, crushing all the bile and brutality of the likes of 'The View From The Afternoon' into a huge rock boulder, packing it with 100 megatonnes of C-4 high explosive tuneage, casing it in a new steel production coating, lighting the fuse and rolling it down a steep hill into Doubtersville. Far from crumbling under the pressure, the Arctic Monkeys have turned Growing Up In Public to their advantage. We've followed them seamlessly through their growing pains on Sheffield dancefloors, their anti-scene teen rants, their broken teeth and stolen sweethearts; now, if 'Whatever People Say I Am...' was the sound of a bunch of bolshy boys kicking against the Yorkshire club scene pricks, '...Nightmare' is four young men-of-the-world casting aside their juvenile naiveté and emerging stronger, savvier and, well, more salacious. Grrrr. It's all there in track two: 'Teddy Picker', a song that sounds like 'Fake Tales...' on a barrel full of Sly Stallone's highest grade steroid supplements and encapsulates the Monkeys' latest concerns: 1) Dark yet jaunty desert rock like QOTSA might play at a limbo contest and 2) Sex. Shagging. Rumpety-pumpety. Bumping uglies. Making the beast with two arses. If sex on 'Whatever People Say I Am...' meant the odd flustered fumble round the back of the Leadmill, here it's a far more degraded affair - the 'Teddy Picker' of the title is a brutish and dominating sexual character, possibly getting his knuckle-sandwiched comeuppance from our protagonist: "When did your lisp replace the twist and turn?/And your fist replace the kiss?/Don't concern us with your bollocks/I don't want your prayer/Save it for the morning after". Coupled with Alex's final bark of "Who'd want to be men of the people when there's people like you?" it leaves a sinister question mark over the track, charged with sexual and physical violence. Although, as usual, Turner's lyrics are so obtuse and subjective he could easily be singing about reality-TV plebs and this reviewer should be sent off for sex obsession therapy. No such ambiguity around 'Fluorescent Adolescent', though. After the Strokesy funk rollock of 'D Is For Dangerous' and the almost Chili Peppers-esque(!) 'Balaclava' acclimatise us to the Monkeys' new love for stonking great Sabbaff riffage, we stumble on the album's most cheery and accessible track, with its cheeky conga-line chug, 'Parklife'-ish pop sparkle and Turner's tongue-twisting Carry On lyrics about a young woman's sex life turned sour: "You used to get it in your fishnets/Now you only get it in your nightdress/Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness/Landed in a very common crisis... Flicking through a little book of sex tips/Remember when the boys were all electric/Now when she's told she's gonna get it/I'm guessing that she'd rather just forget it". The closest they'll ever get to writing a (whisper it) Kaiser Chiefs song, it's all nods, winks, thumbed braces and sleazy northern innuendo ("She likes a gentleman to be gentle/Was it a megadobber or a betting pencil?") and resembles 'Country House' doing the hokey-cokey. Next, a mournful surf guitar melts in, like the opening of a Morrissey torch song or the seductive scene in a Tarantino movie just before the hero overdoses. The ghost of a slide guitar wafts overhead, a blue moon rises over a drive-in somewhere and Alex Turner croons delicately through 'Only Ones Who Know', Arctic Monkeys' first ever ballad. Yes, do not adjust your NME, we said ballad - not 'acoustic track', not 'bit-slower-than-usual number' - a proper '50s dancehall ballad; air of yearning romance, tear-sodden lyric sheet, high chance of getting covered by Tony Bennett and everything. Make no mistake: it will be the first dance at your wedding. Then, naturally, the hero overdoses and 'Do Me A Favour' takes us on a nightmarish psychedelic road trip into some bleak Americana backwoods with David Lynch driving, Nick Cave shooting up in the back and "tears on the steering wheel dripping on the seat". Despite being a distinctly northern vision of the dying moments of an affair (Truman Capote never penned lines like "P'raps 'fuck off' might be too kind"), its sound is pure headlights-on-cactuses; rattling voodoo drums and deviant Link Wray guitars drive us out towards a dark, deserted final verse where a gang of mutant Leatherfaces wait to carve us up for dog meat with their chainsaw guitars. It's staggering stuff - that Arctic Monkeys' new-found worldliness has so effortlessly shifted their perspective from the whore-infested back alleys of Neepsend to the lost highway vistas of New Mexico; once wild at society, now wild at heart. They're still painting portraits of shattered hearts with the poison from men's souls, but now, instead of just Sheffield at night, the whole globe - from Tokyo dressing rooms to Texan truck-stops - is their canvas. Suddenly 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' takes on a panoramic atmosphere, as if what we'd been hearing before was just the crackly narrow-screen pirate copy of the Arctic Monkeys. 'This House Is A Circus', with its Klaxons rave rock beats colliding with a volcanic, firecracking rock chorus, takes on a spy movie blockbuster feel; it's Mission: Impossible if George Formby was still cinema's biggest action hero. "We're forever unfulfilled/And can't think why/Like a search for murder clues/In dead men's eyes", Turner bellows, glossing his classic tale of small-town frustrations with Hollywood sheen, even concluding, "we're struggling with the notion that it's life not film". And the cinematic references keep coming: 'If You Were There, Beware' is a full-on slasher flick pursuit through secluded woodland, complete with a spooky spectral piano interlude featuring "a circle of witches, ambitiously vicious they are"; 'The Bad Thing' is a freewheeling, Smithsy drama of adultery, kind of a punk-rock Alfie; and 'Old Yellow Bricks', with its rifle-sighted bass slashes, cop car siren guitars and sense of besuited '80s urgency, is practically a Duran Duran Bond theme. Fittingly, the final track, '505', is the tear-jerker finale that has you floating from the theatre as the credits roll. See, it seems Arctic Monkeys have realised they'll make a film of their lives one day and with the mature, rounded and relentlessly thrilling 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' have opted to beat the producers to the soundtrack. Except they've got the plot all wrong. They've envisioned here a Pulp Fiction hotch-potch of dark, acerbic and instantly memorable set-pieces, but the true Arctic Monkeys story is a real coming-of-age heart-warmer. It's band meets success, band fools around with rules of success, band almost loses success by agreeing to record with a pissed-up Girls Aloud, but in the end band and success are made for each other. And 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' even subverts Hollywood's biggest truism: the sequel's better.An unforecasted hurricane. Mark Beaumont
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Post by busyboy on Apr 20, 2007 8:36:52 GMT -5
Arctic Monkeys face the music with 2nd album(Friday April 20, 2007 12:52 AM) LONDON (Reuters) - Young indie rockers Arctic Monkeys, who made history with Britain's fastest-selling debut album in 2006, are out to prove they are no one-hit wonders with their second record released on Monday. Critics wonder if the weight of expectation will be too much for the musicians from the northern city of Sheffield, among the first to make it big by harnessing the power of the Internet. Alexis Petridis, music critic for the Guardian, called "Favourite Worst Nightmare" arguably the most anticipated second album in a decade. Judging by early reviews and the reaction of fans at gigs across the country, the followup to the record-breaking "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" will bolster the Monkeys' reputation rather than blow it. "Favourite Worst Nightmare is totally the equal of its predecessor," Andrew Perry wrote in the Telegraph. Pete Paphides added in the Times: "How do you follow up the best debut album in years? In Arctic Monkeys' case, with the best second album," adding that it was "a dream come true". Jonny Bradshaw, from the independent Domino label that signed the band, said he was gratified to see attention turn to the music and away from the hype. "The emphasis for once is on the band and on the music and people are less worried about whether it will it be bigger than the first album," he said after a concert in central London where the performance was typically popular and polished. "People are just saying that it's great, and they have bypassed the dreaded second album syndrome," he told Reuters. NUMBERS COUNT Still, there is no avoiding the fact that "Favourite Worst Nightmare" will be compared to its predecessor. In a sign of how confident Domino is, 400,000 copies are being made for its opening on the British market. "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" sold 1.2 million copies in Britain, 364,000 of them in the first week. The band picked up the coveted Mercury Prize for best British album in September and repeated that success in February by winning best British group and album prizes at the Brits. Over the last year they also underlined their reputation for shunning the trappings of rock'n'roll excess, shying away from publicity, dressing normally and focusing on the music. Bradshaw said 21-year-old lead singer Alex Turner had produced a "faster, meaner" album this time around that reflected the band's travels around the world more than local stories of the first record. "Brianstorm", the first single released from the album this week, is a song laden with sarcasm about a smooth-talking stranger who walked into their dressing room in Japan. The track is up against pop queen duet Beyonce and Shakira's "Beautiful Liar" in a battle for the number one slot on Sunday, and, in the words of the Sun tabloid, the "beauties" were beating the "beasts" by midweek. Domino is seeking to shrug off the outcome of that particular race, stressing the long-term future of its act. "They are proper career band," Bradshaw said. "The way they have underplayed everything will stand them in great stead -- there is none of this flash-in-the-pan stuff."
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Post by Adz on Apr 20, 2007 11:19:56 GMT -5
I bought the album yesterday and it's soo good. Much better than the debut.
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Post by joker on Apr 20, 2007 13:10:12 GMT -5
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare(This is Fake DIY Review) Release Date: 23/04/07 Label: Domino Rating: Arctic Monkeys: the band they love to hate to love. An act that your average scene kiddy may try to throw disdain at, but can't make any of the shit stick. A gang of ruffians so publicity shy and cracking song-heavy that, really, at the end of the day, criticism just seems stubborn. It's true; there's something special about our simian friends. It's incomparably rare that a debut long player could sell as many copies as 'Whatever People Say I Am...', and still not face half the backlash of a Kaiser Chiefs or Bloc Party. Indeed, even comparing Arctic Monkeys to their contemporary peers seems a futile exercise. 'Favourite Worst Nightmare', even moreso than it's predecessor, is a work of council estate magic; a sharp point that hits the spot in a climate of blunt instruments, there's an edge to tracks like 'D Is For Dangerous' that any number of copycats can't replicate. Indeed, while it's true that Alex Turner may have slightly (and we do mean slightly - Ed) turned down the wordplay, there's still enough here to have Sheffield Godfather Jarvis smiling to himself. The trade off - the emergence of a heavier, crunchier Monkeys - more than pays off. So yes, it is possible to get away with a track called 'Brianstorm' when the sheer punch of those drums is enough to make Dave Grohl soil himself at twenty paces. As a single it's a brave move, but mooted follow up 'Flourescent Adolescent', a scummy summer swooner that threatens to redefine grower, may be even bolder. Start mentioning the blissed out 'Only Ones Who Know' and the range of the Arctic Monkeys' sonic arsenal starts to become even more frightening than anyone dare imagine. It's the slow starting '505' that really brings home the bacon, however. Crooning its way through a gradually building two-and-a-half minutes before exploding into life, every button is hit in spectacular style. As album closers go, it's a triumph. It's true to say that, at first glance, 'Whatever People Say I Am..' might seem the stronger album, but with so many familiar demo mountain anthems, it's got an obvious advantage. 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' really is something extraordinary: an album with more than a hope of standing the test of time. More a complete work than a collection of amazing scum-pop singles, it's time to start believing the hype. It's just possible that Arctic Monkeys are that good.
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Post by oscillations. on Apr 23, 2007 22:10:57 GMT -5
83 rating on metacritic
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Post by Adz on Apr 23, 2007 22:14:28 GMT -5
It's miles better than the debut and I think will go down as a classic even.
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Post by busyboy on Apr 24, 2007 4:29:14 GMT -5
Rating: 7.4No longer can Arctic Monkeys be considered underdogs; given the notoriously fickle English music scene, perhaps that means they should be. Last year, the Sheffield quartet's Whatever They Say I Am, That's What I'm Not became the fastest-selling debut album in UK music history, spawning two #1 singles and winning the Mercury Prize. The band's early press clippings, like those for Gnarls Barkley, Lily Allen, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, highlighted their rapid netroots success story as much as their music, which is a traditionalist brew of observational storytelling, post-Libertines meat-and-potatoes guitar rock, and the heady enthusiasm of youth. Fifteen months later, Arctic Monkeys' sophomore effort is already receiving a royal welcome at home, though the premature use of words like "comeback" underscores the precariousness of the group's situation. As for the Arctics, they've come back tougher, sharper, and bleaker, even if to non-fans of this brand of no-frills Britrock it probably still sounds pretty much the same. Favourite Worst Nightmare is in some ways better and in other ways worse than its breakthrough 2006 predecessor, but above all it's the assured statement of a self-conscious young band determined to deserve their acclaim. Eventually, maybe they will. In interviews, singer and lyricist Alex Turner stays low-key about his abilities. "You never think, like, 'We're amazing, aren't we?'," the 21-year-old recently told Mojo. Nevertheless, Favourite Worst Nightmare flexes Arctic Monkeys' considerable songwriting and musical muscle with a confidence that sets the group apart from their UK rock peers; the latest songs seem to glimpse the possibility of greatness even when they fail to attain it. Turner finds new emotional depth on songs like breakup anthem "Do Me a Favour", which climbs patiently from baggy drums to a searing, guitar-led crescendo. Gradually shifting from the man's perspective to the woman's, he concludes, "How to tear apart the ties that bind?/ Perhaps 'fuck off' might be too kind," his raggedly bereaved croon adding Damon Albarn to the list of plausible vocal comparisons alongside Morrissey and Noel Gallagher. Similarly, the drum-less and bass-less "Only One Who Knows" is another big step forward for the band, taking a more deliberate, atmospheric view of a dying relationship: "They made it far too easy to believe/ That true romance can't be achieved these days." If such heartache is a fresh addition to Turner's songs, so too, it seems, is the feeling that makes the pain possible. Real affection glimmered through the bickering on the debut's "Mardy Bum", but the girls on that album are mostly fake-tanned participants in meat-market mating rituals ("I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor", "Still Take You Home"). By contrast, Favourite Worst Nightmare unveils one of Turner's first proper love songs: The closing "505", draped with an apparent Ennio Morricone organ sample, poignantly if none too adventurously describes Turner's longing to get back to a hotel room where his lover awaits. "I'm always just about to go and spoil the surprise/ Take my hands off of your eyes too soon," Turner admits, displaying his usual gift for vivid imagery. However, some of Favourite Worst Nightmare continues in the unfortunate direction of last year's Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys EP, which found the band coming unappealingly to grips with fame. Turner's obsession with poseurs has always been the least likeable thing about his lyrics, but songs like "Fake Tales of San Francisco" at least reflected a nagging desire not just to repel phonies but to crave something true and real; here, with the band's debut certified as the "fifth greatest British album ever" by the NME, Turner's unrelenting bitterness makes him sound like one of the petty fakes he despises. It doesn't help that first single "Brianstorm"-- ostensibly about a T-shirt- and tie-wearing industry creep the band met in Japan-- shows the Arctics at their least melodic, swapping out the Supergrass "Richard III" riff that opened the debut and replacing it with pummeling, double-speed aggression. "Teddy Picker" heaps scorn on "professional pretenders," comparing the music industry to the toy crane machines in arcades, and mocking kids who "dream of making it, whatever that means". Check the mirror, dude, though Turner also squeezes in what sounds like a pointed jab at the music press: "When did your lists replace the twist and turn?" Fair play; the twist and turn here is, indeed, fab. Favourite Worst Nightmare flirts, too, with the notion of the Arctics as an indie-dance group, enlisting the guidance of Simian Mobile Disco's James Ford (who also produced the recent debut album by Klaxons). The throttling playing of drummer Matt Helders has been a big part of Arctic Monkeys' appeal since the beginning, so the differences here are subtle: A thick bass groove on the Dr. Suessian "This House Is a Circus" ("berzerkus"?), four-on-the-floor beat on the Wizard of Oz-steeped "nostalgia" critique "Old Yellow Bricks", or repetitive fuzz-tone guitar jerkiness on fast-paced "If You Were There, Beware". While Ford coaxes commanding performances from the band, he modifies their trad-rock trajectory only slightly; Arctic Monkeys and Klaxons were never as different as the UK press suggested. If Favourite Worst Nightmare is notably lacking something, it's another song like the debut's standout, "A Certain Romance". Arctic Monkeys have now traveled the world, and their new material veers from such detail-rich tales of growing up in provincial England, at times focusing instead on subject matter Blur pursued with sharper wit (and only slightly sharper hooks) on The Great Escape. "Fluorescent Adolescent", the current album's most obvious hit, shares a festival-ready ska rhythm with the debut's "Mardy Bum" (which shares it with Sublime's "Santeria"), but the new song describes something Turner can hardly know much about: a middle-aged woman's dreary sex life. "You used to get it in your fishnets/ Now you only get it in your night dress," Turner cleverly sympathizes. Sure, Arctic Monkeys may no longer belong to their old world of kids wearing "knackered Converse", drinking underage, and getting accosted by bouncers, but they're still too boldly tuneful not to find yourself rooting for them. -Marc Hogan, April 24, 2007
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Post by Paulie on Apr 24, 2007 4:40:24 GMT -5
YES IM loving this, its better than the debut!! Cant wait to see the numbers for this!!
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Post by Adz on Apr 24, 2007 8:30:28 GMT -5
Oh My, "Matador" is fuckin brillant!
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Apr 24, 2007 9:41:50 GMT -5
Out today in the USA!!
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Post by busyboy on Apr 24, 2007 9:59:15 GMT -5
Dream Start For Arctic Monkeys' 'Nightmare'By Lars Brandle, London The Arctic Monkeys have swung back into U.K. record stores in style with exceptional opening sales for their second album "Favourite Worst Nightmare." The hugely anticipated set shifted almost 85,000 units on its release yesterday, according to over-the-counter sales data collated by the Official U.K. Charts Company. The record is "easily the fastest-selling album of the year to date," comfortably outselling the Kaiser Chiefs' 'Yours Truly, Angry Mob' (B Unique/Polydor), which shifted 151,000 on its week of release in March, explains Melanie Armstrong, music manager at Britain's market-leading specialist music and entertainment retailer HMV. If sales continue at this pace, she notes, the Arctic Monkey's first-week sales "should certainly top the quarter million mark. This would not only give the band a sure-fire No. 1, but already leave them well-placed to have the biggest album of 2007." On opening day sales alone, the album has enough support to usurp the current leader on the Official U.K. Albums Chart, Avril Lavigne's "The Best Damn Thing," which accumulated 60,500 sales for the entire previous week. Few newcomers in recent years have commanded as much U.K. media attention and sales success as the Sheffield, north England foursome, whose record-busting debut "Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not " cleaned up the charts, and later at numerous awards ceremonies. The January 2006 debut "Whatever People Say I Am" was a sales phenomenon, shifting 363,735 copies in its week of release in Britain, including 108,000 on the first day alone. The set collected its first IFPI Platinum Europe Award this January -- for pan-European shipments in excess of one million units -- and scooped a plethora of awards, including BRITS, NME gongs and the prestigious annual Mercury Prize. The debut has now shifted more than two million copies worldwide, according to Laurence Bell, head of the band's London-based indie label Domino, with roughly half of those sales generated in Britain. "It was always going to be next to impossible beating the phenomenal day and week one sales of whatever People Say I Am....', which proved to be one of the media stories of 2006, but coming this close is a fantastic result which underlines the band's status as the U.K.'s number rock act," says Armstrong. "People are buying this album not because of any media hype, but because it's had great reviews, and they can't wait to hear it." Rob Campkin, head of music at rival retailer Virgin Megastores, agrees. "From our perspective, we see this as one of the biggest albums of the year," he says. "Customers have been asking for it in store for months. People are raring to buy it. We expect it to do as well if not better than the last album." Record buyers in North American have the chance to hear what the hype is about when the album streets today, where the Domino release is handled via Warner Brothers. The album will be distributed by ADA in the U.S. and Outside Music in Canada. "The band have made an album that's actually more American-friendly," reckons Kris Gillespie, Domino's N.Y.-based label director/A&R for North America. "While it still sounds very much like Arctic Monkeys, there's a rock element to it that is more pronounced; I feel [it] has an even wider appeal than before." In support of the album, the Arctic Monkeys will embark on an international tour, beginning this Friday at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Some of the world's biggest festivals are on the band's itinerary, including England's Glastonbury, Germany's Rock am Ring, Scotland's T In the Park, and Denmark's Roskilde. "Our thing is to play good gigs this year," frontman Alex Turner tells Billboard.com. "We just want to play good shows, [and] to do them in the best way that we can. We're only doing a few big shows, but we don't want to do them in a normal, boring way. And we want to have a laugh and have fun this year."
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Post by oscillations. on Apr 24, 2007 10:21:06 GMT -5
Wonder what US sales will be. Hopefully they can make Top 15 with 40k-50k. Is that too generous? I would hope not, considering their debut sold 300k here.
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