- Record Label: Domino
- Release Date: Feb 21, 2006

- Summary: Not only the most-hyped band of early 2006, Sheffield, England's Arctic Monkeys (led by 19-year-old Alex Turner) managed to accomplish what the likes of Franz Ferdinand and The Libertines couldn't do before them: set the UK record for fastest-selling debut album of all time.
- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Top Track
When The Sun Goes Down | |
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So who's that girl there? I wonder what went wrong So that she had to roam the streets She don't do major credit cards I doubt she does receipts It's... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 27 out of 33
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Mixed: 6 out of 33
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Negative: 0 out of 33
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Even if you've been fortunate enough to live with these tracks over the last year or so, they still sound more vital, more likely to make you form your own band than anything else out there.
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BlenderWhat elevates the Monkeys into a class of their own is Turner. [Apr 2006, p.113]
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Such is the depth and quality of Turner's songwriting, it plays like a best of.
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Their riff-heavy songs are brashly delivered – favouring attitude over technique – but it's Turner's keenly observed vignettes of bored text-messaging teens that really connect.
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At times charming, oddly affecting, and certainly promising but understandably something less than life changing.
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Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not manages to celebrate and mock its cultural milieu simultaneously with genuine affection and sarcasm balanced so well that the scale never tips too far either way.
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One good single does not a great album make, and unfortunately, the rest of the record becomes pretty tedious, pretty quickly.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 226 out of 336
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Mixed: 40 out of 336
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Negative: 70 out of 336
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johnrobertsFeb 22, 2006i have listened to it 7 times through and i bought it yesterday. IT ROCKS!
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AbelDFeb 8, 2007Amazing album. Probably the best debut album in the last decade.
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Nov 24, 2010
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HouseMay 22, 2006
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TedJMar 13, 20067. that's it, that's all, so stop hating them or sucking their dicks because they aren't deserving of either.
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TomBJan 30, 2006
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MartinWJan 29, 2006
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