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The one thing that I really do like about the album (and is its saving grace for me) is that the band really gives off a feel that they entered the studio and started playing music, rather than fiddling around with amp tones for hours on end and adjusting the microphones to every millimetre for each take.

 

They have a certain energy to them, and that's a rare quality in today's music. The real downfall I see to the album is that it lacks any sort of structure... there is no clearly defined beginning, middle and end. I've heard far better debut albums from the like of Limblifter and the New Pornographers, but this band definitely has space to grow.

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i listened to the whole album just so i wouldn't be talking out of my ass, and it does, indeed, suck ass.

you know just as well as anyone that sometimes things have to grow on you, though. remember how you were all 'metric is not good, fleetwood suck, blah blah rock on blink 182?'

 

yeah.

 

i'm just saying.

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Not all good bands have substance. Sometimes it's as easy as thinking of a style no one else has yet. Arctic Monkeys haven't done this, and I won't contest that. They are imitators who come at you with as many riffs and catchy lyrics as possible. It gets tiresome after a few listens to be filed away until it pops in your head a year later.I think for what they are at least going for, Art Brut does much better (if you'd like to sample them).

 

i've heard a bit of art brut's stuff and like what they do. as a fan of suede, have you listenned to the tears album? is it any good?

 

The fact that you don't like it is fine with me. Couldn't care less. The fact that you suggest that anyone who does is inferior? Yeah, that bugged me just a tad. I don't think you noticed it by the way your response reads, so my apologies for the harshness, but that's what it was.

 

yeah sorry, i didn't mean for it to come out that way. people certainly aren't inferior for genuinely liking something.

 

I don't hate you, just didn't like what you said.

 

awesome, let's be friends.

 

mike, just because you dont like the band doesnt mean they are "shit" or talentless.

 

right. although, its not the band i dont like, its the music. who wrote it is irrelevant. to me the songs are bad and thats all i was expressing. obviously i dont think everyone is going to share my opinion nor was i saying that they should have to. the arctic monkeys just don't have a spot on my playlist. i'm not saying they never will. they could come back and write some really good stuff. music is subjective blah blah blah... this is a speech everyones heard before. i never said they don't have talent. i said a lot of things, but not that. if anything i said about them was completely unfounded and worth disagreeing with, people would've done so. people like music for different reasons, and thats fine. i just don't see why this band is more preferable to listen to than any other.

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havent heard anything by them because, 1) i dont really listen to radio anymore, and 2) thankfully i dont get muchmusic. but they are playing on SNL this weekend, so i am going to try to check them out

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You know what they played? Someone without the capability to download is looking for 'whatever song they played on SNL'...

Huh?

 

They have one good cut on their album.

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