Arctic Monkeys

[Meerkat]

I can’t listen to Hello You without picturing this scene from Extras

 

[kingcrawler]

If they were that bothered about streams and sales they wouldn’t have released an album that sounded like this. I really like it on first listen though. I’ve listened to Mirrorball and Body Paint loads since they came out but those two and Sculptures seem like the early highlights.

[NorthernSoul52]

Good record, will mostly die on its arse in stadiums. Absolutely understand why they've moved into stadiums - but yeah.

1 There'd Better Be a Mirrorball
2 One Point Perspective
3 Snap Out of It
4 Crying Lightning
5 Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
6 Sculptures of Anything Goes
7 The View From the Afternoon
8 Brianstorm
9 Do Me a Favour
10 Teddy Picker
11 Body Paint
12 Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino
13 Do I Wanna Know?
14 Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair
15 Pretty Visitors
16 I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am
17 I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
18 505

19 Cornerstone 
20 Arabella
21 R U Mine?

[gazzared]

10 minutes ago, Al2006 said:

This crossover ain't quite where you think it is

must admit listening to old swifty songs the lyrics do crossover a bit 🤔

I stay out too late, got nothin' in my brain
That's what people say, mmm hmm, that's what people say, mmm hmm
I go on too many dates, but I can't make 'em stay
At least that's what people say mmm mmm, that's what people say mmm mmm

But I keep cruising, can't stop, won't stop moving
It's like I got this music in my mind, sayin' gonna be alright

I bet that you look good on the dance floor
I don't know if you're looking for romance or
I don't know what you're looking for
I said, I bet that you look good on the dance floor
Dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984
Well, from 1984

I'll never miss a beat, I'm lightning on my feet
And that's what they don't see mmm mmm, that's what they don't see mmm mmm
I'm dancing on my own (dancing on my own), I'll make the moves up as I go (moves up as I go)
And that's what they don't know mmm mmm, that's what they don't know mmm mmm

But I keep cruising, can't stop, won't stop grooving
It's like I got this music in my mind saying it's gonna be alright

I bet that you look good on the dance floor
I don't know if you're looking for romance or
I don't know what you're looking for
I said, I bet that you look good on the dance floor
Dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984
Well, from 1984

Hey, hey, hey
Just think while you've been getting down and out about the liars and the dirty, dirty cheats in the world
You could have been getting down to this sick beat

My ex-man brought his new girlfriend
She's like "oh my God", but I'm just gonna shake it
And to the fella over there with the hella good hair
Won't you come on over, baby, we can shake, shake, shake, yeah oh

I bet that you look good on the dance floor
I don't know if you're looking for romance or
I don't know what you're looking for
I said, I bet that you look good on the dance floor
Dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984
Well, from 1984

[misterplow]

6 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Good record, will mostly die on its arse in stadiums. Absolutely understand why they've moved into stadiums - but yeah.

1 There'd Better Be a Mirrorball
2 One Point Perspective
3 Snap Out of It
4 Crying Lightning
5 Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
6 Sculptures of Anything Goes
7 The View From the Afternoon
8 Brianstorm
9 Do Me a Favour
10 Teddy Picker
11 Body Paint
12 Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino
13 Do I Wanna Know?
14 Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair
15 Pretty Visitors
16 I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am
17 I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
18 505

19 Cornerstone 
20 Arabella
21 R U Mine?

Only 4 tracks from the new one? I’d imagine there will be 5-6ish new ones and 2 from TBHC…

[Hugh Jass II]

Vinyl has just turned up.

[st dan]

Really like it. Would love them to have toured this album even in an arenas with a full orchestra. Could have worked really well. 
I just can’t see how the tracks won’t just get lost in stadiums/festivals.

[NorthernSoul52]

1 minute ago, misterplow said:

Only 4 tracks from the new one? I’d imagine there will be 5-6ish new ones and 2 from TBHC…

Think you'll be right for the first few shows. They might do something akin to The Killers and phase cuts out across the leg dependent on reception. Think their first shows on Imploding the Mirage packed around six new cuts, and by the closer in Ireland, that had dropped to three.

[Hugh Jass II]

They might be best served splitting the stadium/festival sets into sections - half an hour of old stuff, then a section of Car/TBHC stuff then back to the older stuff.

[PGTIps]

3 minutes ago, st dan said:

Really like it. Would love them to have toured this album even in an arenas with a full orchestra. Could have worked really well. 
I just can’t see how the tracks won’t just get lost in stadiums/festivals.

Exactly this, really been enjoying the record and would love to hear it in full with an orchestra. Would be a special experience.

In a stadium... I think it's going to be interesting, especially considering the reception the latest material got at Reading for instance, who even turned their nose up to the pre AM material that wasn't a chart hit. 

[fraybentos1]

The only time the strings are coming out is for Glastonbury I think I read on the AMUS forum from the in the know guy 

[NorthernSoul52]

1 minute ago, Hugh Jass II said:

They might be best served splitting the stadium/festival sets into sections - half an hour of old stuff, then a section of Car/TBHC stuff then back to the older stuff.

Or as the casual punters and AM-crowd call it - the bar run.

But that could well work.

[st dan]

1 minute ago, Hugh Jass II said:

They might be best served splitting the stadium/festival sets into sections - half an hour of old stuff, then a section of Car/TBHC stuff then back to the older stuff.

Yeah that would work loads better I think. The ‘laddy’ fans can then go for a pint and a piss to let the others enjoy it. 

[Sparticus]

1 hour ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Or as the casual punters and AM-crowd call it - the bar run.

But that could well work.

This was in a nutshell the TBHC tour, new songs came on, exodus to the bar. Not complaining, I thought it was a great album. Currently listening to the new one, enjoying it...but the thought of this being played in a stadium of smashed lads is.....interesting. 

[MaxPower]

Really like the album, much more than I did TBHC when it was released, although it’s because I was expecting it this time.

Think the opening 5 track run is spectacular, Body Paint the best of the bunch in the context of the other songs.

My only complaint is that it feels very short? It’s maybe a track shorter than most of their previous albums in terms of run time, but feels much shorter than that.

[gfa]

3 hours ago, Dazmandingo96 said:

i think the opposite, the heavy influence of strings lends itself perfectly to a big band feel. they performed Body Paint on jimmy kimmel and the fullness of the sound and enthusiasm of the band works well.

 

one of the big band type string orchestra songs would go down very well on the pyramid.

Shame as you'll probably get about 5 of them!

2 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Good record, will mostly die on its arse in stadiums. Absolutely understand why they've moved into stadiums - but yeah.

1 There'd Better Be a Mirrorball
2 One Point Perspective
3 Snap Out of It
4 Crying Lightning
5 Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
6 Sculptures of Anything Goes
7 The View From the Afternoon
8 Brianstorm
9 Do Me a Favour
10 Teddy Picker
11 Body Paint
12 Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino
13 Do I Wanna Know?
14 Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair
15 Pretty Visitors
16 I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am
17 I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
18 505

19 Cornerstone 
20 Arabella
21 R U Mine?

I think TBHC (12) won't be played anymore now the albums out, doesn't really make sense.

Not enough new album too - only 4 songs no way, too much album1/2 stuff i think realistically

[NorthernSoul52]

1 minute ago, gfa said:

Shame as you'll probably get about 5 of them!

I think TBHC (12) won't be played anymore now the albums out, doesn't really make sense.

Not enough new album too - only 4 songs no way, too much album1/2 stuff i think realistically

I mean, the majority of punters will be fancying When the Sun Goes Down, but the chance of unearthing that number one single seems pretty svelte.

It'll do cracking sales this week, but would be staggered if more than four or five tracks - in a twenty-one song show - end up in there. AM at the centrepiece once more.

[NoBuses]

They should defo do a live at the Roundhouse type thing or a proms thing with BBC, screams of a live album

[EighteenSixty7]

Some stunning moments on here and I’m really starting to enjoy it. SoAG reminds me of Dance Little Liar. 
 

The whole album is like Humbug, EYCTE and TBH&C rolled into one. 
 

The Brooklyn gig from a few weeks back is going on YouTube on Monday. 

[fraybentos1]

based on all the interviews i am seeing, safe to say that whoever on here claimed they heard this is their final album was completely wrong

[charlierc]

4 minutes ago, fraybentos1 said:

based on all the interviews i am seeing, safe to say that whoever on here claimed they heard this is their final album was completely wrong

It sounds like they're happy to still be working with one another tbf. Turner's quotes in NME hints he still likes working the rest of AM more than he does when doing other projects.

Specific bit... 'Turner turns to face us once more. “It’s just… you know, the air totally changes when the rest of the band leave. I don’t quite know what to call it, but I do know that being around them is how to get that magic – and I haven’t ever found it anywhere else,” he says, with a knowing smile.'

[charlierc]

3 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Good record, will mostly die on its arse in stadiums. Absolutely understand why they've moved into stadiums - but yeah.

1 There'd Better Be a Mirrorball
2 One Point Perspective
3 Snap Out of It
4 Crying Lightning
5 Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
6 Sculptures of Anything Goes
7 The View From the Afternoon
8 Brianstorm
9 Do Me a Favour
10 Teddy Picker
11 Body Paint
12 Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino
13 Do I Wanna Know?
14 Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair
15 Pretty Visitors
16 I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am
17 I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
18 505

19 Cornerstone 
20 Arabella
21 R U Mine?

Tbf that's not a million miles away from what they were doing at King's Theatre a few weeks back.

I'd like them to at least top 21 for once and maybe change up some of the older cuts. But it's their setlist and all. Plus I still enjoy the longevity of Pretty Visitors, which is one of my faves of theirs.

[EighteenSixty7]

 

[JoeyT]

"We were going to make a good album but then we decided to make another absolute yawnfest"

 

[kingcrawler]

Sculptures of Anything Goes really reminds me of Nick Cave’s heavier stuff in the last decade or so, sounds a lot like something Warren Ellis would play. I’m very much here for it.