The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project

Joe Mac said:
Which is kinda funny because live the Monkeys have yet to disappoint me but the variability of the strokes on stage is massive. I’ve seen them rip it up. I’ve also seen them come across as so bored on stage that I’ve fancied a little snooze myself.
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This was my experience. Absolute garbage the first time I saw them, great the next. The venue of the first gig (an Ice Hockey stadium) didn't help.
 
Jumping into this thread late. Bit like Joe, I'm struggling with enforced listening at the moment as I'm doing my A-Z, so I'm going to step off from this conveyor belt. Going to enjoy jumping into this thread though.

Love the Arctic Monkeys album. Think part of the appeal was the fact that it was one of the first big internet albums in the UK - you could go and find all the demos and feel like you were in a club (When the Sun Goes Down is always called Scummy in my mind because of the demos). It captured a time and place perfectly. Also, the drumming on it is fantastic.

I'm also with Joe on The Coral. A fantastic band, and underrated in my book. Again, I remember downloading the first album on the MP3 sharing sites. Lots of good albums over their career. Hated the Libertines though, all felt a little contrived (I think I may have been a couple of years too old to appreciate them, though).

It could have been worse, we could have given you some landfill indie to listen to - no one needs to listen to Hard Fi, The View, of the Pigeon Detectives in this day and age.
 
Lee Newman said:
Got about halfway through The Little Flames album on the way home. I love this one.
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They were kind of the next big thing and then just before the album dropped they split, Mike Kane decided he wanted to be solo, and it never came out. It was released by the label 10 years later. I always really liked the only single they released “Put Your Dukes Up John”. It’s the last track on the album. The Arctic Monkeys covered it for a b side early doors.

They’re also scousers signed to Deltasonic and I think Miles is related to some of the Coral band members.
 
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

My listening notes, I do not write good.

This band and album came just a bit too late for me to get into. Sadly, full-time work and the misery of adulthood had hit hard by this point, and I wasn't really listening to music much.

So I've heard "I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor" before, I'm sure every one in the world has. Everything else is new to me so far, decent indie rock and I love the singer's accent.

Frank Spencer!

I like the copper bashing song, "Riot Van".

I thought I might recognise "Mardy Bum" but nope, new to me this one!

Ooh, I know this one!

(When The Sun Goes Down)

Who came first, The Strokes or Arctic Monkeys?! I checked, I think The Strokes were first.

"Just cos he's had a couple of cans, he thinks it's alright to act like a dickhead." Haha, just about everywhere on a Friday / Saturday night in the late 90s / early 00s!!

That was alright, that. Can't give half stars, as I'd give it 2.5 / 5, so I'll go with 2 because it wasn't /that/ good.
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Lee Newman said:
I don't know what your problem with Gilmore is and don't really want to, you guys have killed enough heroes. anyhow... I think Floyd's music is a progression and I think it makes perfect sense to go that route. plus I have a sneaking suspicion that Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother are perfect for you.
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Maybe it will be a CD project for me later on in the year. Don’t really want to invest the money or effort finding good pressings for them on vinyl. The whole conversations about that on the Audiophile thread break my brain.
 
I discovered the Arctic Monkeys in college, which is when I started getting really into indie music/music blogs. This album has some nostalgia attached to it for me but I really like it.

Conversely, I was not really a fan of their more recent stuff... (I couldn't take Tranquility Base seriously after I heard "the moon's sideboob...")

I started one of these projects last year but I got busy and fell behind and never picked it back up, but it was a lot of fun.
 
Lee Newman said:
list 1
1. 1/19/2023 Artic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
RIYL Playlist
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Don't think I've listened to this album front to back since the year it came out. One of my best friends, who at the time walked around looking like Ben Sherman had barfed on him, was going through a douche bag phase and got addicted to this album. I think that was part of the turn off for me, as there was a certain type in America who embraced the Arctic Monkeys and that wasn't my scene. I always moved more with weed and psychedelic types than coke in the bathroom of a dive bar types. So I usually went to the former kind of shows over the latter, and I skipped AM every time they came through. Listening to this now, I like it more than I did at the time. It has an energy that reminds me of the time and all the bad choices everyone I knew (me too) was making. But it's not an album of nostalgia for me, it's one that makes me think of the regret of a morning after and assholes who had no regret the morning after. This really peaks in Riot Van.

I'll probably come back and listen to this again, I do think it's better than some of that scene upon this listen, still not my main cup of tea, just not as grating and obnoxious as it was to me in the 00s.

3 stars leaning to 3.5
 
Lee Newman said:
Jet is another band that I like that everyone seems to hate... lol.

I've never really dug the Hives either.
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Love The Hives, hate Jet. Love The Libertines, Franz Ferdinand and The Coral were both great.

Another great one from around that time that is probably more indebted to The Fall, is Art Brut with Bang Bang Rock & Roll.

Their were also NME hype bands from around that time I probably had a song or two downloaded but never got too into them besides including them on CD mixes.

Kasabian
Razorlight
Kaiser Chiefs
Maximo Park
The Futureheads
The Cribs

There were probably many others but those are the ones I remember off the top of my head. Also I don’t know if any of these bands had whole albums the woulda sounded like AM or where they went after their debut albums style wise.


Then there was also the Aussie band The Hives Vines and The other Swedish band, that TBH sounds more a killer 70s rock band than one of these 00s bands but got lumped into this group because they played Rock music was The Hellacopters.

Edit: the Aussie band was The Vines, it’s early and I haven’t had my coffee.
 
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