Are the Arctic Monkeys terrible

[BloodMountain]

well they dont play widdly widdly or de tuned thrash muck that hasn't gone anywhere for 20 years, so I like them better than a lot of stuff discussed on this site  :shock:  :twisted:

must.......resist.........knife.........

[Elliot]

Yes - a knife is not the best way to commit Hari Kari, I find a katana is swifter and less painful    

[99_not_out]

If you're going down the seppuku route, the real trick is to make sure you have a competent kaishkunin :) that way its almost painless ...

[sambo]

can't say they sound like anyone else I've ever heard - lyrics and vocal style are quite different to most other bands too.

+1

they nail the same kinda indie VIBE as everyone else...

but to me they sound substantially different... their own little niche...

used to like 'em a little bit some years ago, before the first album was released, before everyone knew about them....

not bad.... not amazing...

there are FAR worse bands... so really don't understand the whole "worst band on the planet" thing... at least they know how to write a well-structured and melodic song which is more than can be said for a lot of others.

[Kilby]

heh,

If I had desires to head on the worst band in the world direction, it wouldn't have been the Arctic Monkeys, and I would not have been so gentle as to say "are they terrible"

Rob...

[Muzzzz]

Personally, I think the urge to call the Arctic Monkeys 'cr@p' is the subconscious trying to balance out all the hype, and I'm feeling that way too at the moment - I didn't even notice the hype until I read some magazine saying that the guy from AM is "the best songwriter in 20 years" and calling them "genius" and everything, which made my respect for the magazine AND the band go dowwwwwwn.

They were clearly destined to be some little indie band which nobody knew or cared about, and all the fame and hype has killed them.

RIP, Arctic Monkeys.

[BloodMountain]

well said

 *applauds*

[Muzzzz]

Haha, do you applaud regularly at funerals?  :D

[BloodMountain]

Haha, do you applaud regularly at funerals?  :D

 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

hahhahaha

[sambo]

how has the fame and hype killed them?


last time i checked they were doing reasonably well for themselves i think... what with their two successful albums on a major label, and a global sell-out tour. :?

the fact that most people here dont like any popular music at all, makes it no surprise that most arent fans of the arctic monkeys.

obviously none of you lot are gonna like them if your a metal fan... (there are exceptions im sure).

basically what im trying to say is... you guys saying

"arctic monkeys are shitee!"

gives the impression that you actually like some indie, and that its this band in particular that stand out as bad. if you see what i mean.

which isnt the case at all is it? most of you think pop/indie in general is shitee...

so i just dont see why half the people here are commenting about how bad the arctic monkeys are, when someone could give you a list of all succesful indie/pop bands and youd regard each and every one as bollocks as well...


catch my drift?

[Kilby]

Wooohhhh Sam,

there are bands that are (considerably) worse than the Artic Monkeys.

Anybody who has wandered through the late 70s & early 80s so called 'new wave / post punk' back catalogue will have heard it all before, but done much better and considerably more conviction.

Same as anbody who has listened to the Beatles and Mott the Hoople (amongst others) will have already heard 90% of what Oasis has or will ever produce.

Personally the best I can say for them is that they are a no more than average band, that have been known to put on an energetic live show.

To me they are pretty terrible (and very derivitive), but then I would also class U2, Oasis and many other popular (many of which are mentioned on this site) bands into that catagory.

Given the lack of any decent music media these days (theyre all owned & run by the same small group of people) why should I expect anything better.

The reason I don't bitch about the bands mentioned here is because I am not having them pushed down my throat, evert time I turn on the TV or radio (even radio bloody 4 straight after the Archers), every newspaper & magazine that is remotely conencted with music) and even fecking shops.

In their case I am completely happy becasue I don't hear them very often and I don't have to look at their ugly faces 20 times a day, and their songs 40 times a day.

For other people and their intense dislike of the Arctic Monkeys them I will put that down to the exuberence of youth, the same way as I excuse their loyality to downtuned guitars and cookie monster vocals.

Rob...

[Philly Q]

I read some magazine saying that the guy from AM is "the best songwriter in 20 years" and calling them "genius" and everything

I thought that was supposed to be Pete Doherty.  Allegedly.  :?

But that's another topic all on its own, I suspect.

Anybody who has wandered through the late 70s & early 80s so called 'new wave / post punk' back catalogue will have heard it all before, but done much better and considerably more conviction.

Same as anbody who has listened to the Beatles and Mott the Hoople (amongst others) will have already heard 90% of what Oasis has or will ever produce.

I totally agree, Rob, and the popularity of bands like Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine is a complete and utter mystery to me for much the same reasons.

But you and I are old.  I guess every generation needs its own new heroes.

[noodleplugerine]

gives the impression that you actually like some indie, and that its this band in particular that stand out as bad. if you see what i mean.

which isnt the case at all is it? most of you think pop/indie in general is shitee...

The fact that current indie bands suck is totally unrelated to the question of whether Indie is good or not.

Indie can be great - But all the current popular indie bands suck.

Honestly even Kurt Cobain writes better songs than that guy...

[Philly Q]

What exactly is "indie"?  The term seems to be used for any band that uses guitars, bass & drums and isn't obviously pop or metal.

There are those dreary bands who sound like Coldplay impersonators (Athlete, Snow Patrol) but then there's loads of other stuff like Bloc Party, Editors, The Bravery, The Automatic, Hard-Fi, The Killers, The View, Kasabian and of course the popular Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs and Arctic Monkeys.  It's a pretty broad range of stuff.

But I take Sambo's point - I don't particularly like any of these bands (from what I've heard) so I'd hesitate to pick any of them out as better or worse than the others.

[sambo]

I don't particularly like any of these bands (from what I've heard) so I'd hesitate to pick any of them out as better or worse than the others.

thats what i was getting at- thanks for saying it better than i could have Philly  :D

in terms of 'what is indie'... by todays classification, i would say pretty much all the bands you named would be described as indie to at least some degree.

razorlight is another one i'd pick out.

although stuff like Kasabian... people seem to class as like... indie/indie-'rock'...

i hate it when all these 'TV-bands' are described as Rock.... it really confuses me.... ive seen ads proclaiming that even franz ferdinand for example, are Rock... which is verging on ludicrous.[/i]