Whimsical: Playful, imaginative and unusually fanciful

I was listening to The Jeweller's Hands and it inspired me to ask as I think it's whimsical in a sense

thats just the best lyric ever written. taken from the best song ever written. as the final track on the album they made directly after they made the best album ever..

for serious tho perfect sense is beyond mortal music.

Grew up in Yorkshire watching that lad absolutely batter a kit and thinking, right, that is what I want to be doing.

There's loads of talk about Alex and the lyrics, fair enough, but the drumming on the early stuff never gets half the love it should. The energy on Brianstorm still makes me want to break something, in the best possible way.

And then he goes and does the complete opposite on the later albums, all restrained and groovy, and somehow it lands just as hard.

Anyway, drummers and non drummers both welcome. What is the Helders moment that lives in your head rent free.

• 1: Most underated song: Despair in the Departure Lounge

• 2: I overrated song: I Wanna Be Yours

• 3: Heaviest song: Pretty Visitors 

• 4: Most hype song: I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor 

• 5: Most emotional song: Only Ones Who Know

• 6: Most emotional song: Star Treatment

• 7: Best chorus song: Crying Lightning 

• 8: Worst song: N/A, AM has no bad songs

• 9: Best song: A Certain Romance 

• 10: Best cover song: Baby I'm Yours

• 11: Best music video: Cornerstone

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Yesterday's honorable mentions:

• Fluorescent Adolescent

• Four Out Of Five

The rules stay the same: 

• Most upvoted song in 24 hours wins the round.

• One song per comment only. You may justify your pick, if you want. 

Please read before making your submission:

Just so we are all in the same page: 

A breakdown in rock music is a section of a song where the arrangement is deliberately stripped back to create a dramatic shift in energy and build tension. The lead instrument and vocals will temporarily drop out creating immense anticipation before exploding back into a massive, energetic climax. 

Examples: 

• ​Brianstorm at ~1:52
• Pretty Visitors 1:51
  
• Fright Lined Dining Room 1:55
  
• Plastic Tramp 1:45
  
• Matador 3:34

Thanks u/rizzdragon for the examples!

So, what is Arctic Monkeys best breakdown?

I'm pretty sure the sub knows that alex was considering releasing TBHC as a solo work, but soon was against the idea. So this got me thinking, if TBHC and The Car (i included The Car, because it's basically considered to be TBHC crashing down to earth) was release as solo records, what would the monkeys have sounded then?

Both of these records are pretty integral to their discography, so it's weird to imagine them not being their albums. So would the monkeys continue to rock and roll? or the monkeys would be in a long hiatus since alex is more focused and on his solo work?

I hope you like it :)

My question is, how do I reconcile my personal love for the band's wildly varied discography with my desire to feel like I am the only one with correct opinions?

I've been trying a few methods of coming to grips with people who don't like modern AM:

• Saying they just want the band to endlessly make the exact same sound and never evolve

• Accusing them of copying the opinion of a music critic

• The reliable "haters just don't get it"

Despite how much better I am at determining the reasons for other people's music tastes than they themselves are, people seem to be getting less responsive to me informing them why their preference for early AM can't exist for legitimate reasons. Do you guys have any tips for maintaining my status as a real Arctic Monkeys fan?

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might’ve missed a few but these are the main ones
which one is ur favourite?

• 1: Most underated song: Despair in the Departure Lounge
• 2: I overrated song: I Wanna Be Yours
• 3: Heaviest song: Pretty Visitors 
• 4: Most hype song: I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor 
• 5: Most emotional song: Only Ones Who Know
• 6: Most emotional song: Star Treatment
• 7: Best chorus song: Crying Lightning 
• 8: Worst song: N/A, AM has no bad songs
• 9: Best song: A Certain Romance 
• 10: Best cover song: Baby I'm Yours

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Yesterday's honorable mentions:

• Red Right Hand
• Feels Like We Only Go Backwards

The rules stay the same: 

• Most upvoted song in 24 hours wins the round.

• One song per comment only. You may justify your pick, if you want. 

Here is the official YT Playlist for their music videos. 

So, what is Arctic Monkeys best music video?

I have 4 of the 7 LPs, working on completing the collection, and got them hung up today! I think I'll probably buy The Car next, then TBHC and then Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not. I'm buying that one last because I just am not as big of a fan of their earlier sound. I'm going to have to expand this hanging down a little once I add The Car and TBHC, because of course I want them going up in the order they were released!

If anyone's curious, they have plastic sleeves on them, (found a 25 pack for about 20 bucks and they're high quality) and I affixed them to the wall with a CRAP ton of painter's tape in order to not strip the paint. Not entirely confident in how they'll hold, so I stuck a blanket down on the floor there behind the chair in an effort to give them a softer landing if they fall.

there's a line about 'the scores' in the song, and also in live performances of you're so dark he changes the line to 'following goblin on tour.' my question is alex actually referencing the goblins and the scores or did he make them up? i tried doing some research on each band and couldn't find anything on them, wondering if im perhaps missing anything?? 😭

It was a day, it was a very good day. It was a hot day, a very hot day. And the concert was fantastic!

This Friday, AM session / touring guitarist Tom Rowley (also Milburn) is playing a tiny instore show at the new bound store in MCR.

You get an exclusive tshirt & ticket bundle here: https://wearebound.co.uk/products/tom-rowley-boy-is-back-in-town-tee-vintage-charcoal

Should be absolutely class!

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• 1: Most underated song: Despair in the Departure Lounge
• 2: I overrated song: I Wanna Be Yours
• 3: Heaviest song: Pretty Visitors 
• 4: Most hype song: I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor 
• 5: Most emotional song: Only Ones Who Know
• 6: Most emotional song: Star Treatment
• 7: Best chorus song: Crying Lightning 
• 8: Worst song: N/A, AM has no bad songs
• 9: Best song: A Certain Romance 

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Yesterday's honorable mentions:

• Do I Wanna Know? 
• Cornerstone 

The rules stay the same: 

• Most upvoted song in 24 hours wins the round.

• One song per comment only. You may justify your pick, if you want. 

OK so, for the covers I found this old post (also built upon a older post lol) with some broken links in it, I've updated working links, so we can make an informed decision. I hope I'm not alone in listening to some of these for the first time.

• - (Stephen Fretwell Cover)

• All My Loving (The Beatles Cover)

• Baby, I'm yours (Barbara Lewis Cover)

• Colour Of The Trap (Miles Kane Cover)

• Come Together (The Beatles Cover)

• Diamonds Are Forever (Shirley Bassey Cover)

• Feels Like We Only Go Backwards (Tame Impala Cover)

• Is This It (The Strokes Cover)

• Hold On, We're Going Home (Drake Cover)

• Hollywood Hopeful (Loudon Wainwright III Cover)

• Katy On A Mission (Katy B Cover) - live version 

• Last Christmas (Wham! Cover)

• Lipstick Vogue (Elvis Costello Cover)

• Love Machine (Girls Aloud Cover)

• Only You Know (Dion Cover)

• Red Right Hand (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Cover)

• Rockafeller Skank (Fatboy Slim Cover)

• Strange (Patsy Cline Cover)

• Take it or Leave it (The Strokes Cover)

• The Lovers (Rod McKuen Cover)

• The Union Forever (The White Stripes Cover)

• Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed Cover)

• You Know I'm No Good (Amy Winehouse Cover)

So, what is Arctic Monkeys best cover song?

Okay, if anyone here plays Splatoon, I think y'all (splatoon players) know how the vocals sound in the music, and voice lines. What if someone added that to Arctic Monkeys? Vocal effects of course. I just wanted to say this cause I was listening to the cover of "Red Right Hand" that Arctic Monkeys did, and I'm wondering what that would sound like if it were splatoon-ified.

Both of these is like different style but also translates well with eachother. The vibes also hits together. Cameron and Alex, both, deserved to be called a great songwriter.

• 1: Most underated song: Despair in the Departure Lounge
• 2: I overrated song: I Wanna Be Yours
• 3: Heaviest song: Pretty Visitors
• 4: Most hype song: I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
• 5: Most emotional song: Only Ones Who Know
• 6: Most emotional song: Star Treatment
• 7: Best chorus song: Crying Lightning
• 8: Worst song: N/A, AM has no bad songs

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I loved our collective stance that AM has no bad songs, except maybe for:

• 2013
• IDST

The rules stay the same:

• Most upvoted song in 24 hours wins the round.
• One song per comment only. You may justify your pick, if you want.

So, what is Arctic Monkeys best song?

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For tomorrow's post :

OK so, for the covers I found this old post (also built upon a older post lol) with some broken links in it, I've updated working links, so we can make an informed decision. I hope I'm not alone in listening to some of these for the first time.

• - (Stephen Fretwell Cover)
• All My Loving (The Beatles Cover)
• Baby, I'm yours (Barbara Lewis Cover)
• Colour Of The Trap (Miles Kane Cover)
• Come Together (The Beatles Cover)
• Diamonds Are Forever (Shirley Bassey Cover)
• Feels Like We Only Go Backwards (Tame Impala Cover)
• Is This It (The Strokes Cover)
• Hold On, We're Going Home (Drake Cover)
• Hollywood Hopeful (Loudon Wainwright III Cover)
• Katy On A Mission (Katy B Cover) - live version
• Last Christmas (Wham! Cover)
• Lipstick Vogue (Elvis Costello Cover)
• Love Machine (Girls Aloud Cover)
• Only You Know (Dion Cover)
• Red Right Hand (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Cover)
• Rockafeller Skank (Fatboy Slim Cover)
• Strange (Patsy Cline Cover)
• Take it or Leave it (The Strokes Cover)
• The Lovers (Rod McKuen Cover)
• The Union Forever (The White Stripes Cover)
• Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed Cover)
• You Know I'm No Good (Amy Winehouse Cover)

What genre would you call their debut?? And FWN honestly? Fuck it, all of the albums..? Lol

I read somewhere saying first two albums were like postpunk revival similar to strokes? How accurate do you think that is? I have no clue what that even means so I would love to be enlightened!

Im not wishing death on alex or whatever. Im just curious whether this would actually happen since death is an inevitable event that will eventually happen to all of us.