The Arctic Monkey’s second studio album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, released in 2007, is one of my favourite garage-rock albums of all time. It’s the perfect mix of high energy songs and melodic indie songs that are easy to sing along to.
The band’s first album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, is the first indie/garage-rock album I ever listened to and liked. That was my gateway to bands like the Strokes and the Vaccines. I was a big fan of the Arctic Monkey’s AM at the time of its release in 2013, but I have now exhausted the repeat button on that album. I still enjoy the music but I wanted something different, something new (or actually old). That is when I decided to listen to the group’s remaining four albums, of which, Favourite Worst Nightmare is my favourite.
The pace of the record is set from the first track, Brainstorm. You’re launched right into it with fast drums and layers of hard rock guitar. Lead singer Alex Turner keeps the listener on edge throughout the whole project. It is a nonstop frenzy of aggressive rock guitar matched with calculated but powerful vocals. The high tempo songs are divided into a first and second half, sandwiched around the two slower songs, Fluorescent Adolescent and Only Ones Who Know.
My favourite songs from the album are Fluorescent Adolescent, Do Me a Favour, and If You Were There, Beware.
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It has to be ‘old yellow bricks’ for me. What a tune, monkeys old stuff was unrivalled ! I recently wrote an ode to “My propeller”, their music lasts in the memory
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