I have missed this band until now. Better late than never. I need to break my mundane 70's, 80.s etc habit. I like the energy.

Ok.. it's ok.. but Zeppelin's coming up next & I'll enjoy them more.... .... as head banging is to rock n' roll ... that's my opinion.

Okay, I give in. I tried not to like these guys but I do. They rock!

The word from SXSW is that they were underwhelming live. The crowd began leaving after just a few numbers. But I personally think their album is fresh and interesting.

Yum!

catmaven wrote:
Oh, Catmaven. Get on your dancing shoes, you sexy little swine.

This is a terrific hard-driving rock-and-roll album. All of you who are obsessing about whether they live up to the hype need to just ignore the hype and listen to the music.

9-volt wrote:
They're not. They're the ordinary common or garden variety of shite

I'm not impressed so far - I'm not sure why these guys are supposed to be such hot shite.

"Get on your dancin' shoes, you sexy little swine"...what a classic rock and roll line. Great song, great album.

Nankel wrote:
I live in Spain. It has been officially declared to be the noisiest country in Europe.
My collegue sitting next to me is from Romania. He says Spain is noisier, except for walking in the middle of Bucharest, maybe.
But this stuff coming out of the speakers at the moment is just plain NOISE

As much as I want to dislike this album and band, they write some damn-catchy tunes. Yes, it's not ground-breaking or earth-shattering. Yes, it's derrivative but what isn't nowadays?

Nankel wrote:

Why do I find this completely hysterical!!

i like the cd. nothin groundbreakin but entertaining.

discochuck wrote:

It is more of the vocal style.

squidish wrote:
Excellent... for ARCTIC monkeys

algrif wrote:

Do u think this is noise....como to live to romania.......u will die in one week....

Wow...pretty good for monkeys...

Is that Bode Miller on the album cover? Hell yeah, go USA Ski Team!

Absolute garbage. So much of this kind of noise is one of the reasons I stopped living in UK.
I give it a 1 simply cos there is no 0.

They're fine, but I am not quite sure what all the hysteria is about. I have the album, and there's a couple of decent tracks, but two-thirds of it is filler. Yawwwwn.

So this is the new "it" band, eh? This reporter is not impressed.

as a mutant Brit Bastard I am supposed to luv these post Libertines sound a likes....BBC6 has been playing them non-stop.......come see them @ South by Southwest in Austin in a couple of weeks...& you will understand..">

AphidA wrote:

Twice today, I do believe. Unless my days are running together too

Bizzarefall wrote:
Odd. I didn't hear any similarity... might have to hear this one again. Gotta be the vocal style, definitely not the genre.

I really haven't check because I listen in the background throughout the day, but...

Does Arctic Monkeys get airtime multiple times daily now?

Or are my days running together?

Energic yet relatively nice.

Sounds like the Hawaii band Pepper. (or vice versa)

There currently seems to be a gazillion bands like this; format is something like: very straight cornery rhythm, simple chord structure, basic chords (no jazzy dim/add/sus/embellishment stuff going on), instruments: 2 guitars, bass, drum (no synth), yelling lead singer, guitars: telecasters or es335 (no effects), slightly overdriven amps (preferably orange/fender), lots of strumming, beatles style long hair, lots of energy, hmm that seems about it.
Having said that, I do like some of them, namely this band and also "Bloc Party".

good energetic jam for an early Friday morning.....it's gonna be a good day!