Arctic Monkeys AM Album

There are similarities with the Black Keys.. The Arctic Monkeys (Alex Turner, really) admit freely to being influenced after watching the Keys play arenas when they were the opening act. If you consider the evolution of the Black Keys' sound, the similarities become more and more evident in regards to AM.

HOWEVER, I'd take the Arctic Monkeys on their worst day over the Black Keys

 

Finally picked this up on vinyl today, (US pressing, that has 'CB' in the deadwax (I assume it's C. Bellman)). I'm loving the sound of it, don't understand how people earlier in the thread were saying it sounds flat.
Still a great album! And I enjoy it far more than the last two Black Keys releases..

 

This album has been out for over a year, and it's currently #13 on iTunes, ahead of the new Foo Fighters album, believe it or not, and has been hanging around the upper reaches of the iTunes chart for months and months. It has been a very old-school, slow-burn, word-of-mouth success for this record here in the States.

 

Official RIAA Gold certification since a week or 2. Their first US Gold record for an album. (Their very first US Gold and even Platinum record was for 'Do I Wanna Know?' a few months ago).

 

Good for them, they deserve this success in the U.S.

 

Gold is what? 500k sales ?

 

Yes, I think that's still what it means.

 

i wonder what the vinyl sales are like? it definitely seems difficult for some retailers to keep this one on the shelves. i admit, i didn't pay any attention to it until recently when word of mouth passed it my way. it's a very, very good album.

 

I don't know any US figures, but in the UK, the best sold vinyl record of 2013 (released in September that year) was... 'AM'. In 2014 so far? 'AM'. And vinyl sales over there are at their highest since 1994 or something.

 

awesome!

 

I love this LP and have listened to both U.S. and U.K. pressings, but there is a strange snapping/popping sound that is a cross between static discharge and a pop (due to a scratch, etc.) I kept the U.S. version anyway, but returned the U.K. (because of the cost differential). Great album.

 

Funny I see this thread as I have been playing the crap out of this for the last few weeks. Oddly I picked it as my most disappointing release of 2013.

I would like to kindly revoke that statement. Something clicked in recent weeks. I love this album!

 

Up to #8 on iTunes today. Amazing how this album still seems to be picking up steam over a year after its release.

 

That's awesome. I really like this band.

 

Bah! You "newers" and your new-fangled rock groups. Arctic Monkeys?....who?

 

Ha, I had a similar moment two days ago. Though I liked the album right from the start, I have listened to it only for a brief time after getting it and kinda forgot about it. But seeing this thread pop up here, I listened to it again over the last couple of days and like it much more than I remembered. A pretty consistent album and good fun.

 

That's actually an EP title from 2006: "Who The F**k Are Arctic Monkeys?"

 

Can't tell whether this is a joke or not, but "Number One Party Anthem" is the best John Lennon/David Bowie-esque 70s rock ballad I've heard since the 70s.

 

You can safely assume it was satire.

 

The show at Berlin's Zitadelle in...ooooh....I guess it was June was one of the best gigs I've seen this year. While I didn't REALLY enjoy their concerts in 2006/7 - just a couple of lads jumping around, maybe I was too old - I think right now they are really fantastic as a live act.

 

The follow-up to this album will be interesting. They have set the bar pretty high, both commercially and artistically.

 

One nice thing about this band is that "the follow-up to this album" has been interesting every single time since their first album. And of course some are (for lack of a "better" word) better or more popular than others but right down to the Last Shadow Puppets album and his solo soundtrack I feel Alex Turner has delivered every single time. He is yet to make his first drastic artistic missstep

 

The worst I can say about him is that I didn't like half of Suck It and See, but the half that I did like was up to his usual high standard.