I’m 75, but grew to love, over the past few years, grunge, trip-hop and bands like Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Maroon5, Low…..many others ……..oh yeah, Tame Impala too! If you keep an open mind, there’s so much great music out there to enjoy. You do yet have to be locked into the music you grew up with as being the only “good” music out there!
Totally Agree, once I got over myself, Ha & started listening to stuff past 1989 😳, I found grunge and newer Alt. sounds to be quite Rad and enjoyable, kinda refreshing 😎😎
I would argue that AM is their most successful album so far judging by the amount of songs they play live nowadays from there. My favourite one is probably Favourite Worst Nightmare, AM or Whatever People say....
For me thing song will forever remind me of late night driving with the boys with the windows down, during the second year of my college , pre-covid. Now I'm about to graduate and I'm already missing those times.
I find it funny that people in their early 20s say this album/song is a staple of their time when it was released in 2007! I was around 30 when it came out and listened to that album a lot. My daughter who is early teens now listen to Arctic Monkeys and talks as though she discovered them! I have to keep reminding her that their first album came out in 2006 and that Alex Turner is closer to my age than to hers! The thought of her Mum discovering them way before her is too disgusting for her to comprehend!
What was I doing in 2007 to have missed this??!! ... inexcusable on my part but thanks and thanks again for introducing this one onto my playlist. Earned its spot instantly!
I heard this for the first time about a year ago in a pub in Camden. I even said to my daughter ‘how have I not heard this before? I know what you mean, inexcusable!
'Fluorescent Adolescent' for me off this album, also nostalgic as it appears on the hit t.v series The Inbetweeners! I really enjoyed their first album and for me 'When the sun goes down' is the best track off that album, although they are all belters.
Saw them live in 2006 and 2007 when they toured this album and whatever people say I am before it. I would’ve 19 and 20 for those gigs. First one was in a venue with a capacity of about 1000, the second 5000 - was wild. They were incredibly awkward live back then. Not in their skills - but just the show they put on. They weren’t comfortable in their skin yet. But whatever people say I am was such a massive thing in the life of my friends and I at the time - it was like it spoke about our lives in a way nothing else really did so to be there and to be a young man at that time with that record was something.
@@ruubs111 yeah you should try to get to one for sure. It was amazing back then though - like you and these other 1000 people were in on a secret. That this was the best band in the world and they’re about to be huge.
Love Artic Monkeys, would have started with their signature song I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor tho, but 505 is still a great song! Alex Turner's voice so distinctive.
One of you is a drummer, and the other is a vocalist, I presume. (at least mentally). How does that work out with you feeling understood by each other? I admire you guys SO MUCH for giving each other a chance. I wish my son and I could get together like that. 💕
I just left a reply to this effect, but Arctic Monkeys recalls for me the Libertines, with a dirtier, messier and equally soulful sound. They’re one of my places of nostalgia, especially Up the Bracket (the album, and the track).
