As Phil kay would say "That Lad is on Crack" Sorry but No 1 party Anthem is one of Turner's greatest creations. John Lennon would have be proud of that.
Sure he would. In My Life, Mind Games, Strawberry Fields, I'm Only Sleeping, A Day In The Life and Revolution are alright and everything but pale in comparison to: "Come on, come on, come on Come on, come on, come on Number one party anthem"
yeah and you forgot all about the awesome verses didn't you. Come on you are losing the argument.
Well then... I disagree with what he's saying so that means his opionion suck doesn't it?
No, my opinions don't suck mate cause i'm awesome . No been honest, If Lennon wrote that tune you'd be wanking over it saying how great it is. No one was as good as Lennon, my favourite musician of all time but Turner is a genius and No 1 party Anthem is great. so Let's not argue over great music.
I assure you I wouldn't. Snap Out of It, Arabella, One For the Road, Fireside, Knee Socks and all the singles are great sure, but Party Anthem is really, really average and it kind of drags the album down for me and I know it does for others also. I don't want to argue other great music either but No. 1 Party Anthem - er - isn't that great
"You need to be yourself, you can't be no one else."
No, my opinions don't suck mate cause i'm awesome . No been honest, If Lennon wrote that tune you'd be wanking over it saying how great it is. No one was as good as Lennon, my favourite musician of all time but Turner is a genius and No 1 party Anthem is great. so Let's not argue over great music.
I assure you I wouldn't. Snap Out of It, Arabella, One For the Road, Fireside, Knee Socks and all the singles are great sure, but Party Anthem is really, really average and it kind of drags the album down for me and I know it does for others also. I don't want to argue other great music either but No. 1 Party Anthem - er - isn't that great
Plenty of posters on the arctic monkeys forum i also use rate it as their favourite track on the whole album, not me i must say, i prefer Mad Sounds out the 2, but No.1 Party Anthem is anything but 'average'. Its a good song, a thing of beauty in fact.
I assure you I wouldn't. Snap Out of It, Arabella, One For the Road, Fireside, Knee Socks and all the singles are great sure, but Party Anthem is really, really average and it kind of drags the album down for me and I know it does for others also. I don't want to argue other great music either but No. 1 Party Anthem - er - isn't that great
Plenty of posters on the arctic monkeys forum i also use rate it as their favourite track on the whole album, not me i must say, i prefer Mad Sounds out the 2, but No.1 Party Anthem is anything but 'average'. Its a good song, a thing of beauty in fact.
Post by sternumman on Sept 16, 2013 7:49:26 GMT 9.5
Arctic Monkeys have made Official UK Albums Chart history, as 'AM' enters the chart at Number One. The band's new album, 'AM', released by Domino Records, is the band's fifth consecutive Number One, making them the first indie-released act to achieve such a feat, reports the Official Charts Company. According to the latest sales data, 'AM' has sold more than 157,000 copies in the UK last week. The tally makes 'AM' the second fastest selling album of 2013 so far behind Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories', which sold 165,000 on its release back in May.
I dont get it the biggest team in England cant outsell Daft Punk in their first week?
Arctic Monkeys have made Official UK Albums Chart history, as 'AM' enters the chart at Number One. The band's new album, 'AM', released by Domino Records, is the band's fifth consecutive Number One, making them the first indie-released act to achieve such a feat, reports the Official Charts Company. According to the latest sales data, 'AM' has sold more than 157,000 copies in the UK last week. The tally makes 'AM' the second fastest selling album of 2013 so far behind Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories', which sold 165,000 on its release back in May.
I dont get it the biggest team in England cant outsell Daft Punk in their first week?
Tell me about it mate, fucking travesty it is. Still 5 consecutive Number One albums is nothing to be sniffed at though.
What got me was them selling only 35,000 ish copies in America, now that is pathetic. Its still the best they've done for a while over there, but compared to the UK those numbers are shocking IMO
Plenty of posters on the arctic monkeys forum i also use rate it as their favourite track on the whole album, not me i must say, i prefer Mad Sounds out the 2, but No.1 Party Anthem is anything but 'average'. Its a good song, a thing of beauty in fact.
So tell me mate, do the posters there also think that this is the best thing the Monkeys have ever done, a culmination of their entire career, or are they also disappointed that this is the having all the commercial and critical success that would have been more suited to their more inventive and unique albums?
Check it out for yourself mate if you're interested, i posted the link right there.
Its a mixed bag though really, you still got the Humbug diehards that think it will never be topped. But almost everyone rates it as a good to great album, not seen anyone say its a poor effort. Its still maybe too early to judge it properly though, got to see how it ages i suppose.
I dont get it the biggest team in England cant outsell Daft Punk in their first week?
Tell me about it mate, fucking travesty it is. Still 5 consecutive Number One albums is nothing to be sniffed at though.
What got me was them selling only 35,000 ish copies in America, now that is pathetic. Its still the best they've done for a while over there, but compared to the UK those numbers are shocking IMO
I just noticed I wrote team instead of band.
They can't have the US sales numbers yet because the week starts on Tuesday.
Post by space75gr on Sept 17, 2013 21:22:37 GMT 9.5
some people talk here about AM not so "big" uk sales with AM!!! 157,329 copies in the UK is a huge number for a rock band these days. rock cant sell.sadly.arctic monkes can sell and i m happy.
Five studio albums, five instant number ones - that's the proud record of The Arctic Monkeys, whose latest success, AM, storms to the top of the chart with an impressive first week sale of 157,329. The only artist album to sell more copies in a week this year is Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, which opened 16 weeks ago on sales of 165,091.
Following hot on the heels of hit singles Do I Wanna Know? (number 11) and Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? (number eight), AM sold 69,432 copies digitally last week, a total beaten only by six albums in chart history. It also sold 5,170 copies on vinyl, the fifth highest tally for an album in that format in the 715 weeks that have elapsed thus far in the 21st century.
Previous Arctic Monkeys albums followed a perfect but downward spiral, with each album opening with a lower sale and spending fewer weeks at number one than its predecessors - a pattern now broken by AM.
First album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006) sold 363,735 copies on the first of its four weeks at number one; second album Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007) sold 227,922 copies on the first of its three weeks at number one; Humbug (2009) sold 96,313 copies on the first of its two weeks at number one; and Suck It And See (2011) sold 82,424 copies on its only week at number one. The albums' to-date sales are in the same order too: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (1,475,982 sales), Favourite Worst Nightmare (821,128 sales), Humbug (320.921 sales) and Suck It And See (287,417 sales).
Arctic Moneys are the 24th group to have five number one albums but only the fifth to do so with their first five albums, following The Beatles, Oasis, Coldplay and Keane. The only acts to have had more number one albums in the 21st century are Robbie Williams (eight), Eminem and Westlife (seven apiece) and Madonna (six). Coldplay, Oasis, Bruce Springsteen and Keane have also had five. The only acts to have had more than five number one albums in a row are Abba (eight), Led Zeppelin (eight), The Beatles (seven) and Eminem (six). Of these acts, however, only The Beatles' run started - like Arctic Monkeys' - with their first album. Arctic Monkeys lead singer Alex Turner also topped the album chart with side project Last Shadow Puppets in 2008, when their only album to date, The Age Of The Understatement debuted at the summit on sales of 51,186 copies. It has sold 285,082 copies
To Date Albums Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not 1,475,982 Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare 821,128 Arctic Monkeys - Humbug 320,921 Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See 287,417 Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement 285,082
some people talk here about AM not so "big" uk sales with AM!!! 157,329 copies in the UK is a huge number for a rock band these days. rock cant sell.sadly.arctic monkes can sell and i m happy.
my comment wasn't a slam on the band it was more of shock that the biggest band in England got outsold by Daft Punk
some people talk here about AM not so "big" uk sales with AM!!! 157,329 copies in the UK is a huge number for a rock band these days. rock cant sell.sadly.arctic monkes can sell and i m happy.
my comment wasn't a slam on the band it was more of shock that the biggest band in England got outsold by Daft Punk
i didnt take it as a slam, no problem mate ') arctic monkeys is a big band but not the biggest unfortunately. i mean coldplay, muse or some crap-pop stuff around sell a lot. its good to see AM again in the game with those sales and hit singles.last week they had 2 top 20 songs and another one in the top 75!
some people talk here about AM not so "big" uk sales with AM!!! 157,329 copies in the UK is a huge number for a rock band these days. rock cant sell.sadly.arctic monkes can sell and i m happy.
my comment wasn't a slam on the band it was more of shock that the biggest band in England got outsold by Daft Punk
Get Lucky was the reason it sold so many, that single was huge without the biggest of the year and it's a great song. I love Daft Punk but that album is no where near the greatness of Discovery, which I think is still their crowning glory. After their last two albums sold 60,000 in the first week to go on to sell nearly a 100,000 thousand more isn't nothing to sniff at especially for a group that plays rock/indie. Five number 1 albums on a indie label and loom at how many of the groups that fell to the wayside that were having number 1 albums at the time the Monkey's released their first album shows you how well they've done.