Arctic Monkeys - The Car (October 21,2022) Album • Page 17

Revisited this on the weekend whilst doing yard work and came away with a much better appreciation of it. Sculptures of Anything Goes is still my favorite tho

 

Didn't play it but we got I Ain't Quite as first encore instead. Aside from the baffling absence of Cornerstone that was an INCREDIBLE show. All the way back in.

 

Have been on a big Arctic Monkeys kick this week. The first two albums and the various singles/EPs are outrageously good. They were firing on all cylinders during that time period.

Need to go back and listen to everything from Humbug on because that's when I stopped following them for whatever reason.

 

GOATED band

 

humbug is my favorite from them still

 

just did a discog run for them last year and i find myself loving the stretch of humbug/suck it and see/am more than the other halves of their discography. humbug is also pretty far and away my favorite of theirs.

 

I continue to think the last two albums are on another level from what came before (though there's a lot to like in those albums too)

 

Tranquility Base, Humbug, and Favourite Worst Nightmare are my top three

 

I love the first two and Tranquility Base, think the ones in between those are good, and STRONGLY disliked The Car

 

Hard to detach him from the fuckup of AM, which placed his looks first, and was for 2cool4school Tumblr girls to reblog 12301230x during peak 2014 Tumblr.

 

Suck it and See is so underrated. unreal closer on that

 

I still hold out hope for the day Arctic Monkeys put out a record that’s closer to their classic sound and not Alex sounding like a drunk lounge singer speaking gibberish.

There’s a few cool songs out of it but two albums worth over the course of 13 years make it insufferable for me personally ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

I could see them leaning back in the mid-period "desert rock vibes" direction a bit but I don't think you're ever getting lads rock back.

 

think that's a bit of an overstatement or generalization for the sound of those two albums, it's like five songs combined across the two records where it sounds like that

 

yeah id take another humbug. i don't need to hear a dude who is almost 40 making more stuff like the debut lol

 

Would gladly take that over what the band has become lol

 

Way happier to see them following their (possibly just Alex's) bliss even if (especially if) a sizeable chunk of the fanbase is clearly never going to be into it. Plenty of bands making hooky pop-rock records, not a lot making lush sleek sad opti-genre art rock for movie nerds.

 

I very much doubt they would still be together in their current configuration if they weren't all into it, I know it's tempting to think the lead singer calls the shots but yeah, it's been the same lineup for 18 years at this point.

 

AM is a good record.

 

And still somehow my least favourite AM record.

 

Whatever People Say
Humbug
AM
Favourite Worst Nightmare
Tranquility Base
Suck It And See



The Car

 

that’s fine I just don’t get when people act likes it’s not good at all, it’s a fun record.

 

I doubt he "calls all the shots" but I do get the feeling his specific interests and quirks steer the direction of the band quite a bit.

(If any of the other guys are secretly sticking around for a paycheck, it would be tough to blame 'em. Have you seen this economy?)

 

Tranquility Base
The Car
Humbug
AM
FWN
Suck It and See

Whatever People...

 

yeah AM is easily my least favorite but still good