Arctic Monkeys

[Hugh Jass II]

6 hours ago, thewayiam said:

Behave! TBH&C is and they sacked off the rest of their tour to prove it. AM made them a massive force again after Suck it and see made them disappear quickly.

AM was what Arctic broke the US with and got headline slot off of basically and if you can be an English Rock band and do that in America in the last 10 years you're doing okay.

Bar their debut album which goes down as one of the top 5 debuts certainly from and English Rock band in history, AM is by far their best selling album.

None of that makes it good though.

[Matt42]

I feel like am has aged poorly too. Tried to give it a listen the other day and got pretty bored.

[efcfanwirral]

8 hours ago, Hugh Jass II said:

AM is their worst album by a country fucking mile, and yet they continue to fart it out for almost a decade now.

I hate it too but we're in the minority there - it's easily their most popular album with the more modern audience.

I'm happy to admit I just hang on to the old days and I'm not entirely convinced I'd like much by them if it wasn't for the memories associated with those first two albums and being at uni, indie nights etc. 

[Etodd22]

9 hours ago, Hugh Jass II said:

AM is their worst album by a country fucking mile, and yet they continue to fart it out for almost a decade now.

Humbug is there best album, sad they don't play it much these days apart from Pretty Visitors. Good to see they are playing Potion Approaching again but 8/9 songs from AM is poor. Shouldn't be dropping 4 out of 5 from the setlist too!

[fraybentos1]

54 minutes ago, Etodd22 said:

Shouldn't be dropping 4 out of 5 from the setlist too!

Yeah I really don't get this, it's clearly the most accessible song from TBHC and then by all accounts it looks like AM7 will be in a similar-ish vein. It's weird they tried so hard to move on from AM and even admitted to scrapping songs which were too 'AM2' like and then writing a slow album about a hotel on the moon but then they still just play live as if it's the AM tour.

[Fake Encore]

1 Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

2 AM

3Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

4 Favourite Worst Nightmare

5 Suck It And See

6 Humbug

[Neil]

i've just seen that am ARE PLAYING outdoors in  a roman arena in croatia this summer, it looks a fantastic venue. if i was a fan i'd try to go.

[Hugh Jass II]

Matt hit the nail on the head further up - AM is boring. First two tracks are decent but it quickly becomes one paced and lyrically dull.

Humbug and SIAS are both far more interesting both musically and lyrically and TBHC at least tries to do something a little different. AM just plods along to an unsatisfying finish. That they have been filling their setlists with the same turds for close to a decade now is seriously dispiriting. Does anyone really need to hear One For The Road or Snap Out Of It again?

• Humbug
• SIAS
• Whatever...
• FWN
• TBHC
• AM

[gfa]

Theres nothing wrong with AM its just so frustrating they hardly touch the first album and play AM near enough in full every night

[fraybentos1]

Would kill for That's Where You're Wrong or Black Treacle from SIAS but it's never gonna happen unfortunately, bit of a forgotten album despite being amazing.

[Green Croc]

10 hours ago, Hugh Jass II said:

AM is their worst album by a country fucking mile

That's a bit harsh, I think people just love to hate it now because admittedly there are some over played tunes on it. But it probably has the most singalong tracks since their debut.

I'd also put No. 1 Party Anthem and I Wanna Be Yours in my top 10 Monkeys tunes

[majormajormajor]

Humbug and Tranquillity Base are their two best IMO. SIAS had some incredible stuff on it too.

Would love to see them in a club and hear (amongst others):

That's Where You're Wrong

My Propeller

Jeweller's Hands

Dance Little Liar

Fire and the Thud

All My Own Stunts

Suck It And See

[Punksnotdead]

If they came on at Reading & played only Humbug and TBHC tunes, they'd get bottled off!

I like both albums, but in terms of festival bangers (that word again), AM & the debut album have far more.

[gfa]

20 minutes ago, Punksnotdead said:

If they came on at Reading & played only Humbug and TBHC tunes, they'd get bottled off!

I like both albums, but in terms of festival bangers (that word again), AM & the debut album have far more.

only kidding myself here but i'm hoping something like when the sun goes down comes back for r&l

[thewayiam]

3 hours ago, Fake Encore said:

1 Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

2 AM

3Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

4 Favourite Worst Nightmare

5 Suck It And See

6 Humbug

1, 2, 6, 4, 5 for me. 3 isn't even worth the mention for me. It's the definition of we tried something completely different and forget about that period.

Humbug grew on me more over time.

[Matt42]

AM are known by two generations, the whatever generation and the AM generation.

And I think they’ve essentially doubled down on the AM generation and decided that’s the album they’d prefer to be known for.

[Hugh Jass II]

6 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

AM are known by two generations, the whatever generation and the AM generation.

And I think they’ve essentially doubled down on the AM generation and decided that’s the album they’d prefer to be known for.

When you're a multi-millionaire rock star you don't really wanna sing about girls in chip shops.

[FloorFiller]

4 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

AM are known by two generations, the whatever generation and the AM generation.

And I think they’ve essentially doubled down on the AM generation and decided that’s the album they’d prefer to be known for.

I think it’s largely just a case of them really not liking their earlier stuff all that much and AM being their most recent popular album/the one that gained them the most fans worldwide so they’ve decided to just go with it as their setlist filler. Guaranteed to get the crowd going and probably still enjoyable to play for them unlike the really early stuff which they seemed to go off pretty early on. 

[Matt42]

Although it looks like they listened to me and moved Do I Wanna Know to the end of the set

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/arctic-monkeys/2022/obudai-sziget-budapest-hungary-3bb3e8c8.html

[st dan]

2 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

Although it looks like they listened to me and moved Do I Wanna Know to the end of the set

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/arctic-monkeys/2022/obudai-sziget-budapest-hungary-3bb3e8c8.html

A solitary song from Suck It And See is a travesty. 

[Matt42]

8 minutes ago, st dan said:

A solitary song from Suck It And See is a travesty. 

Arabella, One For the Road, Knee Socks don’t need to stay. A good setlist from them imo would be 

 

The View From The Afternoon
Brianstorm
Snap Out Of It
Crying Lightning
Teddy Picker
Dancefloor
Pretty Visitors
High
Tranquility Base
Fireside
Potion Approaching
Cornerstone
Do Me A Favour
Four Out Of Five
One Point Perspective
Fake Tales of San Francisco
Mardy Bum
Do I Wanna Know?
505

When The Sun Goes Down
Suck it and See
R U Mine

 

Still sticks with 21 songs like they enjoy doing. 90 minute.

[lighthouse]

And still no Fluorescent. 

[fraybentos1]

3 minutes ago, lighthouse said:

And still no Fluorescent. 

good cause it's absolutely butchered by them these days. I would drop Dancefllor too tbh.

Only first album song they do well is View from the Afternoon imo.

[Matt42]

5 minutes ago, lighthouse said:

And still no Fluorescent. 

Forget it exists. Never really liked it tbh.

[Etodd22]

35 minutes ago, fraybentos1 said:

good cause it's absolutely butchered by them these days. I would drop Dancefllor too tbh.

Only first album song they do well is View from the Afternoon imo.

From the ritz to the rubble was brilliant live on the last tour especially at TRNSMT 18, should be played a lot more