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Favourite Worst Nightmare | 
| Artist: Arctic Monkeys
Label: Domino
Category: Music
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Rating:  119 reviews
Sales Rank: 600
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
EAN: 5034202018841
ASIN: B000PMFUP8
Release Date: April 23, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Brianstorm | | • | Teddy Picker | | • | D Is for Dangerous | | • | Balaclava | | • | Fluorescent Adolescent | | • | Only Ones Who Know | | • | Do Me a Favour | | • | This House is a Circus | | • | If You Were There, Beware | | • | Bad Thing | | • | Old Yellow Bricks | | • | 505 |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
What to do if your first record becomes the fastest-selling album in UK chart history? If you're the Arctic Monkeys, you don't sweat it - you just swagger back with a follow-up, IFavourite Worst Nightmare/I, that pulls the same old tricks with a few new twists. But even as "Balaclava" and "Do Me A Favour" bandy along with that familiar mix of provincial Everyman lingo, spat rap cadence, and scuzzy guitars, IFavourite Worst Nightmare/I is shot through with the prevailing feeling this is the sound of consolidation, not retread. So, what's new? Well, there's evidence of a heavier edge here - lead-off single "Brianstorm" veritably tears along, all galloping drums, strafing guitar lines and blistering bons mots: "Can't take my eyes off yer T-shirt and tie combination," spits Alex Turner, "Well see ya later, innovator". Like the White Stripes, though, Arctic Monkeys invest their cranked garage with splashes of melodic invention - see how "If You Were There" veers between jerky riffs and Hall Of Mirrors weirdness. And it doesn't let up from beginning 'til end - or at least 'til the closing "505", a departure lounge lament that's downbeat and tired, like conquering the world finally took its toll. i--Louis Pattison/i
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 Arctic Monkey's - Phase II May 1, 2007
J. Bronze (Northeast, England)
18 out of 21 found this review helpful
Any comparisons made with the preceding album are foolish. This is a successful Arctic Monkeys. No longer are they fighting and getting thrown in a riot van. No longer getting chucked from club queues from bouncers who want it all to kick off. They are no longer Brian.
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br /The change in this album is vast and it would have been disappointing if they'd tried to emulate their first album. They've expressed the fast, intense life of living it at the top which is evident in the pace of Brianstorm. Telling us nothing stays at rest with the changing pace of Balaclava. This House Is A Circus speaks for itself. And Teddy Picker is pure genius.
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br /Yes they haven't moved completely away from the Sheffield boys as in between all the vast differences there is the occasional song that could easily fit into the 1st album. Fluorescent Adolescent is the best song in the album and has all the cheek and lyrical fluency of Mardy Bum and A Certain Romance. I believe Only Ones Who Know is the only major disappointment on the album. Its placement in the album seems to suggest it's an attempt of slowing down the whole album, similar to Riot Van, but unlike Riot Van, just isn't as clever. But this is Phase II.
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br /Arctic Monkeys are showing their true colours with this second album - they are not a stand still band trying to recapture the spark of past success. They are a band that are evolving with the culture of their local surroundings, which is what music is right?
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br /Words over sound to convey an experience experienced by those making the music.
Social Commentary you can dance too. December 28, 2008
Tinkerbell (Yorkshire (obviously))
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I write this as a 18-year-old girl living in Yorkshire. I think once again the Artic Monkeys have captured the essence of life as a teenager in the North, despite living in an affluent North Yorkshire town rather than Sheffield the lyric; 'I live in the city that never wakes up, blinded by nostalgia' speaks out to me as true of Yorkshire. The subject matter of 'Fluorescent Adolescent' speaks volumes as everything I don't what for my future yet the path I know some of the girls I go to school with will take (some have already started) because unless you go to Oxbridge (its that type of town) nobody goes South (or goes near Lancashire).
br /Yorkshire, like many northern counties is still suffering the loss of the industrial sector but unlike places like Northumberland where my mother is from, it is too arrogant to do anything. I have spent the last 9 years being looked down on because I was born in East London and don't have a northern accent despite the fact everyone knows where London is, how many people can point to Leeds, Bradford or York on a map (the people in my town seemed to think our little town is on the international radar yet in our America equivalent they don't even pronounce it properly)? They don't like outsiders and won't fight back. The hatred of the South is phenomenal and far outstrips Southern disdain (which can be nasty and is unfair to be true)of the North. I feel the Artic Monkeys describe the helplessness of the North in the face of fear and prejudice towards new ideas. I loved their first album 'Whatever...' but I sometimes felt that was a little superficial and being throw out of nightclubs, although an important part of teenage life, and boys acting like boys is very real it doesn't have the emotional impact for a girl who loves the North (despite the weather) but wants the bang the heads together of some of the residents.
br /'Do Me a Favour' is in brilliant and heartbreaking for its accurate description of break ups and the parting of ways that some many teenagers feel without the amateur dramatics that some artists produce; its a quiet and melancholy lament for 'tearing apart the ties that bind' without sacrificing the Monkeys' sound.
br /My favourite song of the album is 'Teddy Picker' if not for the crisp and infectious beat and melody, its the wonderful insult at the end 'Who'd what to be men of the people when there are people like you'. Something I have always wanted to say to people who only watch Look North and think going to Blackpool is sacrelidge. Plus its rather funny.
br /I recommend this album as well as its predescessor if you do not already have it, not only for its symbolism and mildy insulting wit but as music that intellectuals can pour over whilst me and my friends go out and dance on tables to it.
br / And also, despite all of the above and not to sound too much like a victim of my generation; the Artic Monkeys and their music are just cool.
Amazing. July 13, 2007
Lauren Shuckburgh (England)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I LOVE this album. Completely different style from the first, but those who say this is amateur or (and I quote) "not music", clearly need a kick up the backside. From the tranquil side of 505, all the way back to the full-of-life D Is For Dangerous, the lyrics show a side to teenagers and young adults everywhere, that seems to be kept hidden from society these days. A daring but brilliant album to be enjoyed by the majority. And whatever "Mr M J Archer" says about the guitar riffs... dear god, I can't see anyone becoming more successful in the year after releasing their first album, which, as you may remember, was the most sucessful album for years.
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br /Who cares if I got any details wrong, I'm just trying to make a point. Once again, an amazing album. I can't wait to see them live.
Truly awesome... April 17, 2007
7shouse7 (UK)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Seriously, I was nearly put off buying this album when reading some of the earlier reviews posted. Many people had the opinion that the "new sound" of this album was awful. Well, please do take my word for it (as well as those of other reviewers below) that such opinion is pure guff. This album and the work it encompasses, whilst a departure from the earlier "Whatever..." album, is still the Arctic Monkeys, but bigger, better and an absolute stomper of a follow up album. I'm ashamed I even doubted them in the first place. Well worth the money, well worth more than a fleeting listen, and well worth at least five minutes of my time reviewing...
D Most Certainly Is For Delightful! April 29, 2007
One Love, One Heart, Lets Get Together... (GREAT Britain)
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Just wow really.
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br /I didn't think that these boys could better 'Whatever people say I am...' but they've done it. 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' is a more mature, heavier, deeper and altogether a more complete work of absolute brilliance than their debut (as much as I love it)
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br /Every single song is beyond superb. From the rousing 'Brianstorm' all the way through to the unquestionably amazing '505', there is no way on earth that any Arctic Monkeys fan could dislike this album.
br / Aside from the almighty Libertines, for me the Arctic Monkeys are the best band of this era. With witty lyric after witty lyric, their formula miraculously never fails.
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br / I find it hard to highlight any "stand-out" tracks because they all are, but I'm going to go for 'D is for Dangerous', the new Mardy Bum - 'Fluorescent Adolescent', 'Do Me A Favour', 'This House Is A Circus (beserk as you know what) and '505'.
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br / A different dimension to this album is that drummer, who is on better form than ever, Matt Helders gets quite a few lines to sing and it definitely brings a fresh diversity to the music.
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br /Honestly words cannot express the true brilliance exlpored on this album. I can only big it up so much, and I guess if you were going to buy it, you would have done already. But just in case you're pondering the idea, definitely go for it if its the last thing you do!
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