The Arctic Monkeys are shit

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Brainofdz wrote:
    Oh yeah, this is an Arctic Monkeys thread

    I quite like em, but I felt the hype was undeserved and led me to resent them at first.

    and that's why the only voice and ears you trust are your own.
    don't believe the hype. :D
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  • iamsampj
    iamsampj Posts: 784
    catefrances wrote:
    and they're inoffensive enough for my nearly 8 year old to be exposed to. them, the view and weezer. :)

    ohhh...weezer has always been good times from the beginning :D careful of the "hash pipe" song...i wouldn't want to explain that one ;)
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    iamsampj wrote:
    ohhh...weezer has always been good times from the beginning :D careful of the "hash pipe" song...i wouldn't want to explain that one ;)

    it would not be a problem explainng hash pipe. tact and honesty is the best way to go. we're on weezer blue at the moment.
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  • mtilden
    mtilden Posts: 62
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Is anybody else damn sick of hearing about them? Its outrageous how a band with as little talent as them can get the hype and critical acclaim that they do. You know its bad times for the music industry when a band like them get as big as they do.

    Whenever I hear them I can't help but think, "I'd rather be listening to Franz Ferdinand."
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    mtilden wrote:
    Whenever I hear them I can't help but think, "I'd rather be listening to Franz Ferdinand."

    say hello to mr kapranos for me. :D
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Brainofdz wrote:
    God, you really love those guys, huh?

    I thought you were saying that only the more recent stuff is good, not so much their earlier (teen yrs) stuff

    i like all their stuff, though their more recent stuff blows the old material away. nonetheless, their early stuff is damn good for a group of kids.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    soulsinging wrote:
    i like all their stuff, though their more recent stuff blows the old material away. nonetheless, their early stuff is damn good for a group of kids.

    that it is. that it is. their new stuff is too mature for me right now. maybe i'll get there. maybe i won't. but silverchair still rock in my humble unbiased australian opinion. :D
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  • boxwine_in_hell
    boxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    Can you spank an Arctic Monkey?
    one foot in the door
    the other foot in the gutter
    sweet smell that they adore
    I think I'd rather smother
    -The Replacements-
  • boxwine_in_hell
    boxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Is anybody else damn sick of hearing about them? Its outrageous how a band with as little talent as them can get the hype and critical acclaim that they do. You know its bad times for the music industry when a band like them get as big as they do.

    Apparently these days if you play a bunch of noise and have a whiney singer, you're considered a great band. Personally, after about 3 songs in a row of Arctic Monkeys, I pretty much want to go blow my brains out. That would be my critical review of them.

    "Well after the first 3 songs I went straight to my dirt nap so I can't review the entire album, but if the remaining 9 songs are as nauseating as the first 3 then hopefully the band members will all enjoy long lives so I won't have to listen to them here in hell for a long time."
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    boxwine_in_hell wrote:
    Can you spank an Arctic Monkey?

    i'm sure you could.
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  • muppet
    muppet Posts: 980
    They're very good. I bet a lot more people would appreciate their music more if the media didn't think they shit gold.
  • Matty Boy
    Matty Boy Posts: 421
    A shit band from a shit decade!!
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Is anybody else damn sick of hearing about them? Its outrageous how a band with as little talent as them can get the hype and critical acclaim that they do. You know its bad times for the music industry when a band like them get as big as they do.

    Not that I love the AM or anything (I like a few songs), but regardless, someone who has 'Oasis rule' in their sig has no right to complain that another average band 'get the hype and critical aclaim that they do'. AM are young kids; they deserve what they get. Oasis are now a bunch of midlife crisis-stricken, early Brit Pop representatives who should have packed up their guitars and their egos years ago (about the same time as the childish game of 'Pogs'), and haven't had a new musical idea since their sophomore album.
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  • Binaural
    Binaural Posts: 1,046
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    Not that I love the AM or anything (I like a few songs), but regardless, someone who has 'Oasis rule' in their sig has no right to complain that another average band 'get the hype and critical aclaim that they do'. AM are young kids; they deserve what they get. Oasis are now a bunch of midlife crisis-stricken, early Brit Pop representatives who should have packed up their guitars and their egos years ago (along with the childish phenomenon of 'Pogs'), and haven't had a new musical idea since their sophomore album.
    Oh fuck you've no idea what you've done, I tried to make this point and it turned into a giant pissing contest :rolleyes: That said, I agree.
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  • Housing Jim
    Housing Jim Posts: 644
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    Not that I love the AM or anything (I like a few songs), but regardless, someone who has 'Oasis rule' in their sig has no right to complain that another average band 'get the hype and critical aclaim that they do'. AM are young kids; they deserve what they get. Oasis are now a bunch of midlife crisis-stricken, early Brit Pop representatives who should have packed up their guitars and their egos years ago (about the same time as the childish game of 'Pogs'), and haven't had a new musical idea since their sophomore album.


    Nail....hit....on.....head.

    Earlier in this thread pjoasisrule makes a comment about the Arctic Monkeys having meaningless lyrics. I suppose he regards Noel Gallagher as Shakespeare or summat then :rolleyes:

    Ironically, the Arctic Monkeys are in very much the same position that Oasis were 12 years ago. A critically acclaimed second album following a huge debut which is set to see them reach popularity levels similar to Oasis in the mid 90s.
    A democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos.

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  • Hitch-Hiker
    Hitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    I can't stand the Arctic Monkeys. That is all.
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    Edit: Double Post.
    I'll Ride The Wave Where It Takes Me
  • biffy clyro
    biffy clyro Posts: 148
    You daft yanks are too dumb to appreciate them.
  • Mike_Muse_Rage
    Mike_Muse_Rage Posts: 677
    Matty Boy wrote:
    A shit band from a shit decade!!
    True. British music really has hit a new low. Americans can't understand how irritating it is for British people with good tastes in music to have one of the worst bands of all time acting as their representatives for the British scene. Shockingly, depressingly awful band. But still better than a lot of their counterparts (i.e. The Kooks, The View, The Cribs etc.). Don't get me started on them, with their even-more irritating accents.
  • biffy clyro
    biffy clyro Posts: 148
    Mike_Muse_Rage wrote:
    True. British music really has hit a new low. Americans can't understand how irritating it is for British people with good tastes in music to have one of the worst bands of all time acting as their representatives for the British scene. Shockingly, depressingly awful band. But still better than a lot of their counterparts (i.e. The Kooks, The View, The Cribs etc.). Don't get me started on them, with their even-more irritating accents.


    Fuck off ya wee wank,a can only imagine whit your middle class accent would do to ma head.

    You like rage against the machine so you automatically qualify as a twat

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