Arctic Monkeys | Maddie vs. Pitchfork

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"The Monkeys are the best band to emerge out of the UK, possibly ever. I'm 14, and live in a crap dead-end town with no where to go and nothing to do. My biggest passion is music, and the Monkeys make music that tells the people who live in places like me that YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO FEELS LIKE BASHING YOU HEAD ON A BRICK WALL WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND YOU!" ['Maddie' in the comments]

Head against a wall Move furniture

"...And in the end then this is about teenage life-- and a pretty specific type of teenage life at that. NME editor Conor McNicholas told The Guardian last year that 'there's a big sofa supermarket by Doncaster train station. I always look at it and think someone's got a Saturday job there, they're 17, they're stuck in Doncaster and they fucking hate it-- that's the person we're publishing for.' I'd guess that to a disaffected, chavbaiting 17-year-old from Doncaster (or Rotherham, or Hull...) this is the perfect soundtrack to moving loveseats around a stock room. Fittingly then the NME awarded this album a 10/10. To the rest of us, however, the album is at times charming, oddly affecting, and certainly promising but understandably something less than life changing." [Pitchfork gave Arctic Monkeys a 7.4]

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posted at 5:14 PM on January 25, 2006 in music | Comments (23)

Comments (23)

Arctic Monkeys are so yesterdays hype. Mystery Jets is where it's at! Wonder how quickly those Mercury dates are gonna sell out, Editors-style.

LAME

Posted by Anonymous | January 25, 2006 5:30 PM

OMG TEH ROCTIC MONKEES CHANGED MY LIFE!!111

Posted by Anonymous | January 25, 2006 5:45 PM

as if it's not bad enough Pitchfork quoting Conor McNicolas, you have to go & quote him all over again... for god's sake, what does he know of 17 year olds from Doncaster? That Donnie 17 year old - if such a person exists - was onto the Monkeys months before he was.

& Maddie, I've been there & I'm so glad they mean something to you but... they like Sheffield (& probably hate it a bit too, but hey...), that's why they were playing a huge party there for 900 people last Sunday night. It's not 'a crap dead end town'. It has the best new music scene in the UK right now (Arctics/Milburn/Harrisons/ Bromheads Jacket/Reverend & the Makers (watch out, this guy's bit of a genius)/The Yell/Little Ze/Monkey Swallows the Universe/Litte Man Tate, & that's just a start). As Alex says in the NME (& its editor should try reading his own rag) the whole point of Fake Tales is 'if it's Tuesday night in Sheffield, that's alright'.

Posted by porterbrook | January 25, 2006 7:15 PM

i am vomiting as i type

Posted by dale jenkins | January 25, 2006 8:17 PM

don't believe the hype. The album would make a great 5 track EP.

Posted by mike | January 25, 2006 8:53 PM

"Arctic Monkeys are so yesterdays hype."

Goddamn, the commenters from Stereogum are moving in!

Posted by Brett | January 25, 2006 11:26 PM

gotta love the technorati blurb:

"The Monkeys are the best band to emerge out of the UK, possibly ever ... but understandably something less than life changing."

Posted by marc h. | January 25, 2006 11:54 PM

Get over yourself! Arctic Monkeys are a great band despite the media hype. Don't be a "trendy snob" because you think you are cool to bash a band that has great songs. Any band that becomes popular suddenly becomes crap when everybody knows about them. Get over yourself.

Posted by BRENDAN | January 26, 2006 2:54 AM

Posted by BRENDAN | January 26, 2006 2:55 AM

Get over yourself! Arctic Monkeys are a great band despite the media hype. Don't be a trendy snob because you think you are cool to bash a band that has great songs and is getting credited for it. Any band that becomes popular suddenly becomes crap when everybody knows about them.

Posted by BRENDAN | January 26, 2006 2:58 AM

fuck you, twat.

Posted by trendy snob | January 26, 2006 7:03 AM

Is it really that difficult to post something only one time? Don't press the reload button!

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Posted by Anonymous | January 26, 2006 8:34 AM

Maddie's Alltime Top 5 UK Bands:

1) Arctic Monkeys
2) The Beatles
3) The Rolling Stones
4) Led Zeppelin
5) Pink Floyd

Posted by Anonymous | January 26, 2006 9:45 AM

Ugh, remind me not to read the comments on this site anymore. I'm sure Pitchfork would hire some of you snobs. I love Maddie, and wish I was a trendy little 14 year old girl in his dead-end english town.

Posted by Amanda | January 26, 2006 4:02 PM

Ohhhh baaaaby! I wish I was your trendy little 14 year old boy toy. We would sit around all day and make out to the Arctic Monkeys(you know, the greatest band from the UK)only after we finish playing some GTA(thats Grand Theft Auto for us kids in the know). Hell, maybe you could invite Maddie over and let him flex some of his vast 14years of knowledge on music. He likes to rave on and on about how he had the original Kids Bop album when he was 9 and how its slowly gone down hill after that first release. We'll let him ramble on while our braces brush up against each other ,but we won't let him join in the make out session. No, no. He can only watch. You stop the tongue action only to agree with Maddie on the point he has made about Stellastar's new album being Da Bomb.I interrupt the mindless banter to say I really enjoyed Architecture in Helsinki's album (Maddie stares blankly)You mention how when you grow up you wish you could be an Architect... or an Arctic Monkey.....I tell you I like it better when you don't talk. As I place the paper bag over your head so I can finish up Maddie decides he should leave(as this is something he won't partake in for many years, probably 20-30 to be exact). When I'm done I leave you with your dreams of RocknRoll Unicorns(whatever the fuck that is)and those pesky Arctic Monkeys. The only animals I seem to have stuck in my head.....Jack Asses. Thats right Jack Asses. The only two people I hang out with in this dead-end English town are Jack Asses!

THE END

I know Jackass is one word don't fuck with me.It looks better like that.

Posted by Mute | January 28, 2006 1:51 AM

arctic monkeys are amazing second best behind oasis

Posted by dave | July 29, 2006 3:54 PM

arctic monkeys are amazing second best behind oasis

Posted by dave | July 29, 2006 3:54 PM

Maddie's a guy? I thought 'Maddie' is a girl's nickname.

Posted by you've got this mother in a whirl... | July 29, 2006 4:20 PM

kiddies get a clue the artics are a decent band not great but decent and they aint even in the same league as the beatles and oasis are pants theres only one other band who are even close to the genius that is the beatles and they are called blur so if u wanna hear another decent band besides the beatles get blurs parklife album and then ull hear a decent band also check out the kinks and the smiths :)

Posted by kevin | December 24, 2006 4:12 AM

not too bad

Posted by WOW GOLD | December 2, 2008 10:05 PM