re: arctic monkeys review
okay, so i love "suck it and see" as an album again after relistening. the titlular track absolutely rips. when i woke up this morning, i misremembered the lyric, in a slept-in-past-noon daze, "be cruel to me, and i'll be cool to you." i tried to remember where the song came from, and alex's distinct baritone character filled in the gaps. i look up what i thought i heard, and the correct lyric pulled up: "be cruel to me, 'cause i'm a fool for you." i think i heard this song for the first time just about 10 years ago1 and this bit always stuck with me. being smitten certainly has its downfalls when unchecked, and he nailed it in under 10 words.
i used to think it was a weak album, being that it immediately followed humbug, but AM has that type of catalog doesn’t have a "bad album." they all shine, but some albums shine brighter. i gotta say, the riffs and alex’s lyricism2 here stand out. the album has a bit of a eulogistic air in the sense that this is the last album that follows the genre/sound they’ve become known for, given that the next albums to come shift away into new territories.
so because of this, i'm amending my ranking of AM's catalog. tranquility base (my beloved) stays on top, of course.
- Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
- Humbug
- Suck It and See
- Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
- Favourite Worst Nightmare
- The Car
- AM
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yeah, this still holds true a year later.↩