History Music / ArcticMonkeys

* LongTitle: Tons. ''Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not'', “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”, “You Probably Couldn’t See For the Lights But You Were Staring Straight At Me”, “Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secure”, “Perhaps Vampires Is a Bit Strong But…”, and “Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair”, among others.

* NonAppearingTitle: "A Certain Romance", "From the Ritz to Rubble" and "The View From The Afternoon".

* NonAppearingTitle: "A Certain Romance", "From the Ritz to Rubble" and "Th View From The Afternoon".

* TheQuietOne: There's a running gag that Jamie never speaks during interviews.

* DeadpanSnaker: They've all shown streaks of this, although Alex is probably the most blatant.

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--> ''Alex:'' (regarding RussellBrand) He'll probably make [[ButtMonkey another joke]] about us being from up north again, 'cause [[SarcasmMode that was funny, wannit?]]

* OopNorth

* PainfulRhyme: Especially in their earlier works, because they relied heavily on Alex Turner's strong Sheffield accent.

* Long Title: Tons. ''Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not'', “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”, “You Probably Couldn’t See For the Lights But You Were Staring Straight At Me”, “Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secure”, “Perhaps Vampires Is a Bit Strong But…”, and “Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair”, among others.

* TitleDrop: “D Is For Dangerous” for ''Favourite Worst Nightmare''.

After a brief hiatus in which Alex Turner embarked on his side project 'The Last Shadow Puppets' with Miles Kane, the band released their third album ''Humbug'' in 2009, showing a depart from their original high-energy style to something more psychedelic. Their fourth album, ''Suck It And See'', returns to a rock-oriented sound, whilst their fifth, ''AM'' is a combination of all of their albums and has a much slower, Dr Dre-like sound.

After a brief hiatus in which Alex Turner embarked on his side project 'The Last Shadow Puppets' with Miles Kane, the band released their third album ''Humbug'' in 2009, showing a depart from their original high-energy style to something more psychedelic. Their most recent release, ''Suck It And See'', returns to a rock-oriented sound.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Matt is sanguine, Jamie is choleric, Alex is melancholy and Nick is phlegmatic.

* Nick O’Malley - bass, backing vocals (2002-present)

* SignatureSong: "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" or “Fluorescent Adolescent”, depending on who you ask.

* LIsForDyslexia: Subverted by the song ''Br'''ia'''nstorm.'' No, it's ''not'' meant to be spelled ''Br'''ai'''nstorm''. It helps to look at the lyrics, which apparantly serve as a TakeThat aimed at a particularly memorable fan named "Brian."

* SignatureSong: "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" or “Flourescent Adolescent”, depending on who you ask.

Arctic Monkeys are a hugely successful indie rock band hailing from Sheffield. The band is comprised of Alex Turner (lead vocals and guitar), Jamie Cook (guitar), Nick O'Malley (bass guitar and backing vocals) and Matt Helders (drums and backing vocals). The band was formed when Turner and Cook got guitars for Christmas while at school and proceeded to begin practicing before recruiting Helders and their original bassist, Andy Nicholson. They were the first band to ever become really successful through the internet, as they handed out free demos of their songs to fans at gigs, who then uploaded them to social networking sites (more specifically, MySpace), leading to the band generating a huge fan following ''without even realising it''. Eschewing various big-name record labels such as EMI, the band instead signed on to indie label Domino Records and recorded their first LP ''Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'' in 2006. The album went straight into the charts at #1 and, more impressively, became the fastest-selling debut album in UK history, replacing Kula Shaker's ''K'' and {{Oasis}}’ ''Definitely Maybe''. This propelled the band into almost instant stardom and put them into media frenzy as they became renowned for their down-to-earth lyrics about teenage life in Sheffield. They followed up with the hard, fast sounds of ''Favourite Worst Nightmare'' in 2007.

--> “Library pictures of the quickening canoe/the first of its kind to get to the moon”[[hottip:*:And that’s only the first line of the song!]]

* {{Bishounen}}: Definitely Alex Turner. Pretty much every video of them on YouTube has some comment along the lines of "Alex is so pretty it hurts!!".

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "This House Is a Circus" into "If You Were There, Beware".

* EpicRiff: To name a few, "Brianstorm", "Still Take You Home" and "Teddy Picker".

* Long Title: Tons. ''Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not'', “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”, “You Probably Couldn’t See The Forest…”, “Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secure”, “Perhaps Vampires Is a Bit Strong But…”, and “Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair”, among others.

* ThePeteBest: Glyn Johns, who left the band long before they had even recorded the material that appears on ''Beneath the Boardwalk''.

* ''Live at the Apollo" (2007) (live album)