AM
by Arctic Monkeys

From samistake2ice 11/06/2013 15:13 | #90957 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

I compare Arctic Monkeys to a cute, funny, (maybe a trouble making) kid, who then grew into an ugly, awkward teen. This album is Arctic Monkeys emergence from the awkward phase, and into a good looking adult.

My favorite album of theirs is still "Whatever people..." I like "Favourite..." a little less, and I flat didn't care for the two that followed.

My initial impression of AM was disappointment that they were never again gonna be those catchy, reckless, trouble making kids like in "whatever.." Then I realized that they just grew up.

This is definitely their second best album, but its good in none of the ways that their debut was.

I wouldn't have thought that Arctic Monkeys would be a band who could grow and evolve, but they most certainly have and it's pretty damn good.

When this album first came out, I really loved it, I thought it was such a progression for the band but as time has passed and my music taste has matured, I realised just what absolutely bland lifeless mainstream this is. Whether it's Turner's god awful lyrics about a girl calling him at 3am,or Helders' terrible screeching in the background, to the dreadfully dull No.1 Party Anthem and I Wanna Be Yours, and they CLEARLY rip off Black Sabbath AND The Velvet Underground on Arabella and Mad Sounds, there's nothing wrong with taking inspiration but they don't even try to cover it up. I yearn for Alex Turner to get rid of that awful hair, that awful voice and his awful insistence on churning out gutless rock music before it's too late for me

After a few listens, I noticed that it's their second best album if not their best. Yeah, it's slower than the others, but please, 'Do I wanna know?', 'R U Mine?', 'Nº1 party anthem', 'Arabella'... The songs in this album are prettty good, and the full album is better (in my opinion) than the others because there's not any bad song. Every song is one of their best! This is the album of the year (maybe after Daft Punk's one). Forget about 2006. People change and music changes. They won't be fluorescent adolescents anymore. (Edited)

From meruizh 09/26/2013 14:07 | #86879 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

I think people need to stop judging Arctic Monkeys on wither you like their new albums as much as their first two. I think there are two completely new faces of the band.

The first, with Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not and Favourite Worst Nightmare, which defined a whole youth generation.

The second one, Humbug , Suck It and See and AM, a more mature and a completely new face of the band. Josh Homme as a producer in Humbug gave them a completely new direction, which ended in their best album of their “new” era, AM.

Although I wouldn’t ever say this is a masterpiece, I think It´s truly a solid work. The three lead singles are instant classics, but songs like, "Arabella", "Snap Out of It", "No. 1 Party Anthem" and "Knee Socks" are really good songs that make the album great.

They've become progressively less creative since their debut. Disappointing.