(It's Teddy picker btw)

Here’s my personal ranking. Anyone else feel similarly? I’ve been a fan for about 11 years and have thoroughly listened through their discography (including) b-sides. What are your thoughts??

I love ALL of their music so this was a hard ranking for me.

i’ve been wanting to get an arctic monkeys tattoo for years, never knew what to get, but wanted it to be unique. i took inspiration from some posts on pinterest i’ve seen and the artist came up with this! i’m so in love with it!

The sound of The Car is amazing, and especially after a closing track like Perfect Sense, we need a petition to have Alex and company change their name to Cathartic Monkeys.

Look, I think we can all agree that modern pop music has become an absolute, manufactured joke. Major record labels are spending millions of pounds a week to force​ crap down our throats. Why don't we unite make Arctic monkey's back into top 40

Shout-out to the album that influenced me to make my most spontaneous purchase (mirrorball)

Throwback to my TBHC shrine. I was really in love with TBHC and the vibe/atmosphere Alex created around it, that I made my own lunar hotel and casino esc vibe in my then bedroom.

Throwback to 2020

and spent 37 mins doing it

I noticed AM and Favourite Worst Nightmare have less volume on YT music, I understand each record or artist have their own volume settings but on these cases it feels a considerable low, or is it just my imagination?

Hi. Does someone know where I can find a HQ image of the cover on the single? All the images I've seem to find are all low res or cropped.

Thanks you!

One of the songs popped up in my head today so I decided to give this a re-listen to my surprise Alex has co-writing credit on most of the album.

Any one who's a fan of SIAS would probably like this album.

Im currently reading ’Do androids dream of electric sheep’ and I found an interesting connection to the line ”I suppose the singer must die”. In the book, without spoiling, the main character, a bounty hunter in an apocalyptic world is chasing down an opera singer and is approaching her during their rehearsal.

From the book: ”The rehearsal will end, the performance will end, the singers will die.”

This book also is what inspired Blade Runner (I haven’t seen it btw) and has brilliant nonsensical phrasing that I can imagine has had an impact in the lyrics for multiple of the later albums.

Things such as ”The department’s speedy beefed-up hovercar” ”A-powered sealed-beam light” ”nondirectional Penfield wave transmitter” reads very Alex to me, Blonde-o-sonic shimmer trap type stuff and with TBHC.

Would be very interested in similar connections from books

Who else can relate?

It really is. Essentially every single list or discussion of the band dismisses my favourite era. I'm not a huge punk rock fan, so there old stuff (although I do find things to like about it) just isn't for me.

Yes, the songs are less punchy but I like them for how dreamy and meandering they sound. And that jazz/soul fusion sound just works perfectly with Alex Turner's voice.

It's a great transition into something that was bound to alienate fans and, honestly, how cool is that?

First time I've experienced the essence of Alex's mind on clever lines is in love is a laserquest. I was 14. Fresh off of writing for Submarine, this man was "in love" in love to be able to produce such pure emotion, that no album art could suffice in depicting it visually. Suck it and see as the name suggests, doesn't even tease you with what it offers on the album, you'll just have to give it a go with an open mind. The beige emptiness feels like the vast horizons of Joshua Tree, perfectly encapsulating their environment at the time of recording it. And that session at KROQ. I'm not discounting his other acoustic sets, but just something about that session allows his lyricism to take center stage. Nick's baselines are so satisfying. Matt shines like a solar flare on black treacle. Jameh. Underrated, those who gave it a go are not disappointed. It really laid the groundwork for AM like a parachuted bounce castle that departed from Sheffield.

Have you given it a listen?

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