"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The video is a live recording of the band playing the song in a studio with a small audience watching with both the video and audio taken live. Alex Turner introduces the band and the song and asks viewers not to ""believe the hype"" of the song. The video was shot using three Ikegami 3-tube colour television cameras from the 1980s to give it a more aged effect. American band The Strokes had previously made a similar music video for their single ""Last Nite""; Arctic Monkeys are known to be fans of The"
"released a cover of the song as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of their album ""Future Primitive"", released 3 June 2011. The song was covered by the group Baby Charles and released as a single in 2009. On 1 July 2007, Tom Jones and Joe Perry of Aerosmith performed their own version of the song at the Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium. In May 2007, ""NME"" magazine placed ""I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"" at number 10 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever. In February 2008, Alan Wilder, the former member"
"dressed as clowns, with Alex Turner dressing with the same make-up and clothing as the main clown in the video. During a performance of the song on the ""Late Show with David Letterman"", Letterman introduced the band by joking that his vinyl copy of ""Favorite Worst Nightmare"" had been stolen due to its popularity. On downloads alone, ""Fluorescent Adolescent"" charted in the UK Singles Chart at number 55 for the week commencing 25 June 2007. The song charted at number five upon release of the single on CD for the week commencing 16 July 2007. On 27 June 2007, ""Fluorescent"
"the UK in mid-2006, and is still played infrequently on BBC Radio 1 and some alternative rock stations such as Sirius XM's Sirius XMU. The track ""A Certain Romance"" was ranked number 90 in Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Tracks of 2006 and cited as the standout track. ""NME"" also placed ""A Certain Romance"" at 10 in their list of 100 Tracks of the Decade. In October 2011, ""NME"" placed it at number 140 on its list ""150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years"". ""I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"" was released as the first single from the"
"""I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"" debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart. In reviewing a sold-out show at the London Astoria, Alexia Loundras of ""The Independent"" noted that the nineteen-year-old Turner had a ""commanding"" stage presence, despite dressing like an ""ordinary bloke"" in ""baggy jeans and T-shirt"". ""Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"", Arctic Monkeys' debut album, was released in January 2006. Turner's lyrics, chronicling teenage nightlife in Sheffield, were widely praised. Kelefa Sanneh of ""The New York Times"" remarked: ""Mr. Turner's lyrics are worth waiting for and often worth memorizing, too"
"and Fluorescent Adolescent were both UK Top Hits. ""Favourite Worst Nightmare""s first day sales of 85,000 outsold the rest of the Top 20 combined, while all twelve tracks from the album entered the top 200 of the UK Singles Chart in their own right. By September 2013 the album has sold 821,128 copies in UK. In the USA, the album debuted at number seven, selling around 44,000 copies in its first week. The album has since gone double platinum in the UK and the album was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Prize. At the 2008 BRIT Awards it won Best"
"""Fluorescent Adolescent"" B-sides ""The Bakery"" and ""Plastic Tramp."" Kane also guested on ""505"" and ""Plastic Tramp"" at several Arctic Monkeys gigs in 2007, including the summer mini-festivals at Lancashire County Cricket Club and Arctic Monkeys' 2007 & 2013 appearances at Glastonbury. The initial recording of the songs that would eventually form their debut album took place in France in late August 2007 with additional material added between August and December of that year. In December Owen Pallett was appointed to arrange the strings, brass and percussion for the album with the 22-piece London Metropolitan Orchestra. During the recording of the"
"in British teen soap ""Hollyoaks"", while the album's title track, ""Bang Bang, Rock & Roll"", was featured on the Xbox 360 video game ""Saints Row"" as well as the 2012 Chevrolet ""Chevy Sonic"" Super Bowl Commercial. It was also covered by the American indie rock band We Are Scientists on their 2006 b-sides album ""Crap Attack"". Bang Bang Rock & Roll Bang Bang Rock & Roll is the debut studio album by British rock band Art Brut. It was re-released in 2006 with bonus CD. ""Bang Bang Rock & Roll"" was released to highly positive reviews from music critics; on"
"UK #1 single with Arctic Monkeys' ""I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"" later that same month. As well as new music, Domino have released produced compilations by British post-punk bands such as Orange Juice, Josef K, Fire Engines and Young Marble Giants. Domino Recording Company Domino Recording Company (or simply as Domino) is a British independent record label based in London. There is also a wing of the label based in Brooklyn, New York that handles releases in the United States, as well as a German division called Domino Deutschland and a French division called Domino France. In"
"the single ""I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"", which debuted at number one in the United Kingdom. A second single, ""When the Sun Goes Down"", was released a week before their full-length debut and also topped the UK chart. The band's debut album was released on 23 January 2006; ""Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"" reached number one in the UK and Australia and became the fastest-selling debut album in British history, selling 363,735 copies in its first week (a record that was broken one year later by Leona Lewis' ""Spirit""). A second EP was"
"the ""Fluorescent Adolescent"" single. The track ""Leave Before the Lights Come On"" was also rumoured for inclusion, though it didn't make it. 6 of the 12 songs were debuted at gigs before they released the album. The album was recorded quickly as the band wanted to get out and play the songs again. ""Favourite Worst Nightmare"" has received universal acclaim since release, with a score of 82 on Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews. In a 5-star review, ""The Daily Express"" described it as ""a shockingly good release that just gets better, faster and stronger"
"the album at number 19 in their poll of the 500 greatest albums of all time. ""Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"" has worldwide album sales of 3,390,000 million copies sold Musically, ""Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"" features indie rock, garage rock revival, post-punk revival, and punk rock. The common thematic content of the album has led to it being considered by some a concept album concerning ""the lives of young Northern England clubbers"". All tracks record first-person narratives of observations made within this context. ""I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"","
"surf/pop rock. Their debut single, ""5 Colours in Her Hair"", released 29 March 2004, entered the UK Singles Chart at number 1 in April 2004 and stayed there the following week. In July 2004 their second single, ""Obviously"", also topped the charts. This was followed by the album ""Room on the 3rd Floor"" debuting at number 1 in the UK Albums Chart. It would go on to be certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. The album broke records, as McFly earned an award from Guinness World Records for being the youngest band to have a debut album enter"
"a vinyl release propelled it to number 42. The single dropped out of the chart four weeks later. It has spent 12 total weeks within the top 100, their longest run since 2007's ""Fluorescent Adolescent"", and more than their previous lead single, ""Crying Lightning"". It is also their highest charting single in Belgium, reaching number 50, as well as their second highest in Denmark and Netherlands peaking at number six and number 55 respectively. In the UK, it sold 81,000 copies in 2011. The music video shows the band performing the song through a 1980s-style video camera with huge amounts"
"Teenage Icon ""Teenage Icon"" is a song from London-based quartet The Vaccines. The track was released in the United Kingdom on 2 September 2012 as the second single from the band's second studio album, ""Come of Age"" (2012). The track was unveiled by the band on 19 July, and has since been introduced to the band's live setlist. A four-track extended play was made available in August, including the B-side ""Panic Attack"". Rolling Stone named the song the 14th best song of 2012. The band performed ""Teenage Icon"" for BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge on 3 September 2012, also performing"
"Kind/By The Shadowline/The Wild Colonial Boy/In The Traps/Flowers For All Occasions/The Lenders Of The Last Resort/Days Of Heaven/Playing Adult Games/The Fightin' 36th/Between Having And Wanting/Playing Cards With Dead Men/Middle-Ground Ruefrex Ruefrex, originally called Roofwrecks, were a punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 1977. The band was formed in 1977 by Paul Burgess and Tom Coulter at the Boys Model School in Belfast, Coulter originally acting as vocalist but sticking to bass when Ivan Kelly joined. Kelly left in 1979 to join London band The Wall, and was replaced by Allan Clarke. By the time of their first"
"Vicious White Kids Vicious White Kids was an English punk rock band from London that formed for one concert on 15 August 1978, staged at the Electric Ballroom in London. The former bassist of Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious, was the lead singer. It was his final concert in England, as he died of a heroin overdose the following February. Recordings of the concert, which included covers of Frank Sinatra's ""My Way"" and The Stooges' ""I Wanna Be Your Dog"", have been released multiple times: in 1991 on DeLorean Records, in 1993 on Receiver Records, in 2002 on Castle Records, and"
"clinching the ""Best British Band"" and ""Best British Album"" at the 2008 BRIT Awards. For the second year in a row, the band was nominated for the annual Mercury Prize, although it failed to match its feat of 2006 after the award went to Klaxons' ""Myths of the Near Future"". On 29 April 2007, the day ""Favourite Worst Nightmare"" charted at No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart, all 12 tracks from the album charted in the Top 200 of the UK Singles Chart. On 27 April 2007 it had a total of 18 tracks in the Top 200. ""Fluorescent"
"band released their first studio album, ""Word Gets Around"" in 1997 which reached number six in the UK Albums Chart. With the release of ""The Bartender and the Thief"" and its album ""Performance and Cocktails"", the band achieved mainstream success within the UK. The album was certified 5× platinum and is one of the band's best-selling albums. In 2001 the group released their best-selling album ""Just Enough Education to Perform"" which was certified 5× platinum in the UK, having sold over 1,750,000 copies, and 2× platinum in Europe. It contains one of the band's signature songs ""Have a Nice Day"""
"Arctic Monkeys' debut single ""I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"", which replaced the group's 2005 single ""Push the Button"" at number one on the UK Singles Chart. Upon the recording of the B-side, the Sugababes said: ""When our bosses asked us to think of covers for the B-side, we knew which song we would all love to do."" Ben Thompson of ""The Observer"" praised Berrabah's ""bluesy rasp"" as a novelty, while Jimmy Draper of ""Time Out"" wrote: ""It transforms the punky rave-up into a disco stomper that could make even the staunchiest pop-hater get up and dance"". Critical"
"their first live album, ""Got Live If You Want It!"", overdubbed with screaming girls (a scream-free version is on the compilation album ""More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)""), The Hollies, The Stellas (CBS Records, 1965), The Who (on the re-release of ""Live at Leeds"", as well as on ""Live at Hull 1970"" and ""Live at the Fillmore East 1968""), The Merseybeats, Tony Jackson, The Downliners Sect, The Iguanas, Strawberry Alarm Clock (recording as Thee Sixpence), and many others, including more recently the October 2007 album ""Raising Sand"", performed by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss and the song was"
"eight on the UK Singles Chart making it their first top 10 single since ""Fluorescent Adolescent"" in 2007. The single's B-side, ""Stop the World I Wanna Get Off with You"", independently reached number seventy-four on the UK Singles Chart on 8 September 2013. Their previous single ""Do I Wanna Know?"" was at number 21 at the time, meaning the band had two singles in the UK Top 40 in the same week. It also reached no. 1 in the UK Indie Chart. In Belgium, the song reached no. 31 in Flanders and no. 22 in Wallonia, respectively. It reached no."
"on their website, dubbing the newspaper ""The Daily Stir"". However, Domino had licensed the Australian and New Zealand publishing rights to EMI and the Japanese rights to independent label Hostess. Their first single with Domino, ""I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"", which was recorded at Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire, was released on 17 October 2005 and went straight to No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, beating Sugababes and Robbie Williams. Two weeks previous to this, it made its first appearance on the cover of ""NME"". Their second single, ""When the Sun Goes Down"" (previously titled ""Scummy""), released"
"Johanna Bennett Johanna Bennett (born 30 September 1984 in Peterborough, England) is an English musician. She was the frontwoman of the band Totalizer, whose demos were produced by Dirty Pretty Things guitarist Anthony Rossomando. The band played a couple of shows and folded in November 2007. Bennett co-wrote the Arctic Monkeys single ""Fluorescent Adolescent"" with her then-boyfriend Alex Turner. The song lyrics were developed during a word game while the couple were on holiday. Bennett earned a psychology degree at Goldsmiths, University of London. Bennett married Kings of Leon lead guitarist Matthew Followill in 2009; they live in Nashville, Tennessee."
"the fastest-selling debut album in British history and is considered by ""Rolling Stone"" to be one of the greatest debut albums of all time. The band's subsequent studio albums, ""Favourite Worst Nightmare"" (2007), ""Humbug"" (2009), ""Suck It and See"" (2011), ""AM"" (2013) and ""Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino"" (2018), have experimented with desert rock, indie pop, R&B, and lounge music. Arctic Monkeys headlined Glastonbury Festival in both 2007 and 2013, and performed during the 2012 London Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Turner and Miles Kane have released two orchestral pop albums – ""The Age Of The Understatement"" (2008) and ""Everything You've"
"age of eighteen, bought them to the attention of Korda Marshall who signed them to Infectious Records in 1996. Debut single ""Drink the Sunshine"" in 1996 was followed by support from ""NME"", who placed them on the ""Bratbus Tour"" (an annual tour of four hotly tipped bands) which would visit universities in the UK. In March 1996, the band's concerts had been noted by Everett True, who put them on the cover of ""Melody Maker"", proclaiming them to be the ""best live band in Britain"". The band released a No. 25 UK hit single, ""Farewell to Twilight"" in March 1997."
"English band of the ""guitar group revival"", the band's first release was the single ""Shadows Fall"" (2001), which was followed by two EPs ""The Oldest Path EP"" (2001) and ""Skeleton Key EP"" (2002). Their eponymous debut album ""The Coral"", released in 2002, reached number five on the UK Albums Chart and was nominated for the Mercury Prize the day after its release. A successful UK tour and festival slots followed along with the singles ""Goodbye"" reaching number twenty-one in the UK Singles Chart and ""Dreaming of You"" reaching number thirteen. The single ""Dreaming of You"" was included in the United"
"joined the band, the band signed to Virgin Records sublabel Hut Records. Their debut single, ""On The Run"" made the Top 50 in the UK Singles Chart in May 2002. Two further singles followed, each reaching the UK chart, before a self-titled album was released in September 2002. Despite working on material for a second album, the band were dropped by Hut and split up in 2003. Whitfield now lives in Norway, and Karl Rowlands fronts Liverpool band In By Ones. The Crescent (band) The Crescent were an English indie rock band, formed in 2000 in Huyton, Merseyside. The band"
"Bang Bang Rock & Roll Bang Bang Rock & Roll is the debut studio album by British rock band Art Brut. It was re-released in 2006 with bonus CD. ""Bang Bang Rock & Roll"" was released to highly positive reviews from music critics; on the review aggregator site Metacritic, the album holds a score of 83, indicating ""universal acclaim"". The music review online magazine ""Pitchfork"" placed ""Bang Bang Rock & Roll"" at number 192 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s. The first track from the album, ""Formed a Band"" was featured on the video game ""FIFA"
"at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart on 12 July 2009 by downloads alone. The music video for the single debuted on Channel 4 in UK on 24 July 2009. The music video, directed by Richard Ayoade (who worked with the band previously on the video for ""Fluorescent Adolescent"", as well as their ""At the Apollo"" live DVD), shows the band performing the song on a boat on a rough sea. During a short instrumental interlude, a large figure rises up from the sea in the form of frontman, Turner. He falls to his knees where the boat passes"
"""Freak like Me"" scored the group their first UK number 1 single. Follow-up single ""Round Round"" also debuted on top of the UK Singles Chart and peaked at number 2 in Ireland, the Netherlands and New Zealand. Both singles were certified silver by the BPI. On the back of the success of the singles, the group's second album, ""Angels with Dirty Faces"", debuted at number 2 on the UK Albums Chart and was later certified triple platinum, selling almost a million copies in the UK alone. It is to date their highest-selling album. In the UK, the third single from"
"Flaunt It (album) Flaunt It is the debut album by British band Sigue Sigue Sputnik. The album featured a remix of their #3 UK hit single ""Love Missile F1-11"", as well as ""21st Century Boy"". ""Flaunt It"" was unique in that the band sold spots between songs for advertisements. Ultimately, ads for L'Oréal, i-D magazine, the short-lived London pirate television station NeTWork 21, and London's Kensington Market clothing shop Pure Sex were complemented by fictitious ads for the Sputnik Corporation and the (unreleased) Sigue Sigue Sputnik Computer Game; a spoken word advertisement (narrated by the Sputnik Corporation voiceover) for EMI"
"Violent Delight Violent Delight were a punk/metal band from St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Violent Delight were signed to Warner Music Group from 2002. The band released their debut album Transmission on 15 September 2003 which reached number 96 on the UK Albums Chart. They are best known for their two UK Singles Chart top 40 hits ""I Wish I Was A Girl"" and ""All You Ever Do"". In 2000, Violent Delight, consisting of Rodney and Tom released ""Hands Up! If You've Got VD"", a 9 track Extended Play demo. They followed this in 2001, by being signed to J Albert"