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Tommy B

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What do you think of Arctic Monkey's new album?

I'm a little disappointed to be honest. Most of the tracks have been floating around the net for months, and there are a good 5 tracks that have been released as EPs on iTunes already.
 
I think you are kinda missing the point a bit.

Youve been able to downlaod them for free for months, now is the time to show a bit of loyalty and pay for the tracks properly.

Just because youve had them for ages, doesnt make them any less than good.
 
They are sort of like a rock and roll version of Mike Skinner; take that as you will, I could probably only listen to it and like it when drunk. :)
 
vodkacokebloke said:
I think you are kinda missing the point a bit.

Youve been able to downlaod them for free for months, now is the time to show a bit of loyalty and pay for the tracks properly.

Just because youve had them for ages, doesnt make them any less than good.
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No, what I meant is that I've bought all their tracks from iTunes. EPs are meant to have different tracks. Anyway, I know that about 90% of OCUK users downloaded their songs because of our Last.FM Top 10 songs. They included several tracks from the new album, and were on there long before it was released :D
 
I was really looking foward to this album, i really enjoyed the stuff id heard so far off the singles and EPs, but its kinda been ruined for me by Germaine Greer saying she liked it on newsnight review.
 
Tommy B said:
No, what I meant is that I've bought all their tracks from iTunes. EPs are meant to have different tracks. Anyway, I know that about 90% of OCUK users downloaded their songs because of our Last.FM Top 10 songs. They included several tracks from the new album, and were on there long before it was released :D
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EPs are meant to have whatever the hell the band wants to put on them! I think that moaning that you've heard all their tracks before serves you right for downloading them early. The Beta Band's first album was nothing more than a compilation of their first three EPs. I seem to remember that Hundred Reasons released four or five tracks from their debut album as EPs long before the album saw general release as well.

Also, I think that most people from OcUK will have downloaded their tracks because Arctic Monkeys have been absolutely hyped to death for about the last eight months and they've heard about them on the radio, in newspapers, magazines, blogs, websites, word-of-mouth, television... not because they read the group's top ten tracks religiously ;)
 
Love it, heard all the tracks bar about 3 but that hasn't taken anything away from the album. Plus a lot of the tracks have been tweeked and polished :)

Seeing them on the 4th Feb, can't wait. :D

Wonder how many sarcy comments there will be in this thread :rolleyes:
 
They are alright, better than much of the other nu-indie stuff that is floating about, they wipe the floor with Fanz ferdinand, the Killers etc. A middle of the road band for me, nothing to make my think, my god they are musical gods, and nothing to make me think they got their record deals straight from Satan himself.

Hopefully they will improve on what they have done and can avoid being lost when the whole indie trend dies and bands like Franz ferdinand and their ilk dissapear off the face of the planet. Arctic Monkeys would be the only one that i would be slightly dissapointed to loose.
 
Anybody read the article about them in the Sunday Mirror today (my wifes)?
Its about the owner of the local club who took a chance with them and the landlady of their local.
They sound like a bunch of nice lads.
 
TripleT said:
Plus a lot of the tracks have been tweeked and polished :)
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Hmm, not a good thing in my opinion. The demos of such songs as Fake Tales, Mardy Bum, A Certain Romance sound much better than the final product. But then again, that was their problem for unknowingly putting out better versions in the first place, and they couldn't very well put the same versions on the final record.

Spud21 said:
They are alright, better than much of the other nu-indie stuff that is floating about, they wipe the floor with Franz ferdinand, the Killers etc. A middle of the road band for me, nothing to make my think, my god they are musical gods, and nothing to make me think they got their record deals straight from Satan himself.

Hopefully they will improve on what they have done and can avoid being lost when the whole indie trend dies and bands like Franz ferdinand and their ilk dissapear off the face of the planet. Arctic Monkeys would be the only one that i would be slightly dissapointed to loose.
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'Nu-indie', that's 'nu' to me...

You sound like you have very high standards, that every artist that you like simply must make you think they are musical gods. Not everybody is Vai or Satriani (or whoever you might like)! And as chrisd asked, how exactly is indie a trend? :confused:

Also, LOL at Germaine Greer. I bet that she looks good on the dancefloor... ;)
 
Marvt74 said:
Not an trend exactly but you have to agree the current "your cool if you listen to it" music is indie and that can be seen with the insane amount of indie bands popping up at the moment.

But lets see how many are still as common when its rap or dance is the flavour of the month
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Erm, I don't personally agree that anyone thinks they're 'cool' if they listen to indie. I listen to it, I most certainly don't feel 'cool'. You could say the same thing about people into dance/trance and hip hop. People who drive slowly down streets with this stuff blaring from their 3 million watt amps with the windows down think they're cool.

And indie bands have always been popping up, at the same rate as they always have, it just so happens that more are hitting the limelight than normal. It's just a phase in music, it happens with every genre, we've had it with dance, pop, r'n'b (still happening), so why not indie/rock (all types) :confused:
 
How the hell can Indie be a trend?
Indie was going when I was a young man and that was many years ago.
Indie means or did mean Independent labels. In other words bands who couldn't get signed with the big boys so the smaller boys took them on and in some cases made a killing.
 
dmpoole said:
How the hell can Indie be a trend?
Indie was going when I was a young man and that was many years ago.
Indie means or did mean Independent labels. In other words bands who couldn't get signed with the big boys so the smaller boys took them on and in some cases made a killing.
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That is what indie is, and are many of the new wave of indie bands signed to independant labels, a couple are, but a fair amount aren't. From what i have heard in my time Indie has had relatively little to do with style of the music, i,e i would say the Cure sound naff all like the stone roses or the Charlatans, yet all three are classed as indie bands.

Yet the current indie that is floating around and is popular, much of it is very much based on a similar style of music, the style of music dictates the fact that they are indie rather than the whole ethos of independant music, which is why i differentaite between the two, well that and the small fact that IMO the current bands are absolutely nothing compared to the likes of the Cure, the Stone roses, New order, Joy Division etc, etc.

As for the trend thing, the music that these new indie bands are coming out with is mostly down to the trend of that sort of indie currently being popular, or Cool, or whatever, most will last till the current trend dies and something else is the flavour of the month, then most will wither and die, leaving a couple of bands, artic monkeys being on i think will outlast it while the likes of Razorlight, etc get forgotten, i maybye should have made that clearer, as i'm fully aware that indie is not a new thing, being that i have a fair few Indie Cd's ranging from the Cure's early stuff from like 1980 to the mid 90's.
 
Doohickey said:
Hmm, not a good thing in my opinion. The demos of such songs as Fake Tales, Mardy Bum, A Certain Romance sound much better than the final product. But then again, that was their problem for unknowingly putting out better versions in the first place, and they couldn't very well put the same versions on the final record.



'Nu-indie', that's 'nu' to me...

You sound like you have very high standards, that every artist that you like simply must make you think they are musical gods. Not everybody is Vai or Satriani (or whoever you might like)! And as chrisd asked, how exactly is indie a trend? :confused:

Also, LOL at Germaine Greer. I bet that she looks good on the dancefloor... ;)
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What i was infering that they are exactly in the middle of the road, many bands i like have things i like about them, and things i don't like about them, , it's a scale, there are some artists/bands that are at the very bottom end, some not so bad, then some sat right in the middle, neither make me think wow thats good in any way at all, or my god thats cack in any way at all, innofensive music. Then some range from having only a few good points about them, and then some on the top end of the scale like Tool, who have IMO released on of the best albums ever written in Aenema. You see, i don't have particularly high standards and can pick out something good in most things, or at least see no bad in them.
 
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