Not bad.

But it's "You look good on the dance floor"

At least, at this stage of their career, the lyrics are excellent and *unforced*
It is exceptionally British music and probably a lot of it just doesn't translate across the pond.

The most recent album, the lyrics are so clever forced, it's embarrassing to listen to - they completely lost that mojo.

 

it's just rock and roll, but i like it.

 ncollingridge wrote: 
Excellent post! This and the post that inspired it from fredriley. Thank you! Now, if I could just get this message across to more people in the state I live in...

 fredriley wrote: 
Neoliberalism, like any form of fundamentalist ideology, is a grossly misguided and simplistic way of approaching a country's economy. That should be obvious to anyone with any sense. Unfortunately there are still hordes of people on the right of politics who believe that it IS that simple. But in practice all you end up with is rank after rank of big corporations who run everything for profit with no mind to the common good; basically where we are right now in the "wealthy" west.

Extreme capitalism is, in my view, as corrupt as communism. No-one in their right minds would want to live in a communist country, but because business pulls the political strings in the west we end up with a system that is becoming equally as unjust. In theory capitalism offers equal opportunity for all, but in its extreme form the only people who succeed are those who own or run the big corporations which can smother out the smaller businesses before they even get going.

Just to be clear, fredriley, I am essentially agreeing with the thrust of your post! And I love this track.

Proper Arcttics.  This song rocks.

 Cynaera wrote:  same. (we miss you! )

First listen for this song, but it gets an automatic 8 because of that accent!  The lyrics remind me a bit of some of Francis Dunnery's stuff.  I'd happily listen to more from Arctic Monkeys! 

There's not many songs about getting taxis in Sheffield after pub closing time. I really love that about the Monkeys, that they're so truly local and paint such vivid pictures of working-class Sheffield life. How they've become so popular internationally is a mystery to me, but they've helped to put Sheffield back on the map after the death of the steel and mining industries.

 peter_james_bond wrote:
 
I get the cluster bombs, but leave my bacon alone!!

 My dad died of cancer in 1990 (age:70) and was a lifelong smoker. Sadly, it's one of the things that I think of, when I think of him. He always had a cigarette in his hand. I tend to forget that he could play guitar and harmonica at the same time, played piano cross-handed and could grow anything. Miss you, Dad!

  9 thumbs up!

 Atlantis wrote: 

I'd introduce you to five friends who bitterly regret their ciggie habit...only they died, slowly and painfully. 

 Atlantis wrote: 
Right up there with cluster bombs and trans fat.

Great spewing narcisism.
My gawd he loves to hear himself yap, doesn't he?

I love cigarettes fo rthe record.  One of the greatest things on the planet as far as I am concerned.

 Vandy005 wrote: 
My brother didn't look so cool at age 54, himself eventually reduced to a box of ashes after several years of fighting cancer. Now one year olde than he was when he died, I'm sure glad I quit 30 years ago, after "graduating" from several packs of Marlboros per day to the same number of Camel straights (I didn't need no stinkin' filter!).

Do rich rockstar people's wives pay their taxes for them, in a people's republic?

 ocsike wrote: 

Lighten up, O Didactic One. Sheffield in the 80s was known semi-seriously as the People's Republic because it was run by a Labour council under David Blunkett (yes, he once really was left-wing) and spent a lot of money on, amongst other things, public transport. It was a bastion of resistance to the destructive neo-liberalism of the Thatcher regime, and for that reason was directly targetted by the regime.  It was most definitely a better place to live than other regions of the UK which had been ravaged by untramelled Thatcherism, destruction of social welfare, and asset-stripping.

This set (Arctic Monkeys, High Violets, Radiohead) is turning out to be really nice!

 Vandy005 wrote: 
It makes your chest x-rays look really cool ... eventually. Hack ... cough. Oh yeah and the song is pretty OK. 

 Vandy005 wrote: 
Actually, the other way around: you make it look cool. So, if you're not cool already, no amount of ciggies are going to help you.

 WonderLizard wrote: 
Don't any of you know that he's hiding his Tracheotomy stoma with his smoking hand?

 rockasaurus wrote: 
giggity-giggity

Jack_Jefferson wrote:

WTG! I quit last October after some 40 years. I started mostly to look cool--and because everybody else did. Last year we lost my best friend's father and older brother, both to lung cancer. Neither of us smokes now.

Vandy005 wrote:

Especially when you're lying in a hospital bed breathing from a hole in your neck. Man, that's hot.

Kinda catchy...

Sounds like The Clash, but not nearly as good. Well, I guess it is hard to compare to The Clash.

My first listen back at the end of April I gave it a 7. Second time, I'm liking it a bit more . . . 8.

Vandy005 wrote:

I started smoking as a teenager to look older. Not to look older while smoking, but for my face to look a little weathered and, consequently, appear older. I looked young for my age then and did not like it.

Now, I just recently quit. I smoked my last cigarette on St. Patrick's Day.

westslope wrote:

I don't care what you say, it does make you look cool... Ha!

MattB099 wrote: