Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (May 11, 2018) Album • Page 47

yeah miss me with more stuff that sounds like AM lol. I'm good just listening to Knee Socks and repeat and hearing this band evolve

 

AM is not their weakest record. That’s just stupid.

 

it is their worst and it's not remotely close

 

Conversely, it is their best but it is very very close, as any part of the bands whole discography could be classed as their best on any given day.

 

AM is not my favorite record of theirs (FWN and Humbug - battle it out) but I’ll take AM any day of the week over the best tracks on Tranquility.

TBH+C largely bores me.

 

FWN > Humbug > Whatever People Say.. > AM > SIAS > TBH+C

 

I love all their records tbh

 

TBH+C is their second best imo. Humbug will always be my favourite. AM is a good album, but their only abum I like less is Suck it and See.

 

AM is very good. TBH+C is solid and has some undoubtedly excellent moments, but there's some dross in there too.

 

I should say I still like AM quite a bit, I just like all the other stuff they've done on other records more

Whatever People Say > Humbug > Tranquility > FWN > SIAS > AM

 

AM is their only album that is inessential and feels like them chasing the radio. it isn’t bad but it’s the last one of theirs i ever go for.

 

Gonna be a comparison that some immediately disagree with, but I’ve felt recently that AM occupies a space in their discography not too dissimilar to Born in the USA in Springsteen’s.

 

It makes sense to me that TBHC would be left mostly off of their set lists going forward. It was a concept album, and when they toured with it, they leaned into that concept heavily with the set and the visuals. I don't think most of the songs work outside the context of the album. I love it, but if I wanted a setlist from them, or even a playlist, there's not much on that album I'd throw in and have flow with the rest. I'm okay if it just becomes an outlier album that I can listen to from front to back, and the rest be stuff I can mix together separately.

 

I don't think they 'chased' the radio, I think they were all over it. And it's odd to say an album where the majority of songs are in the hundreds of millions of plays is inessential.

 

nah that’s spot on

 

tbhc is their tunnel of love

 

ok. they clearly were going after the black keys sound that had just popped off a few years prior after touring with them in the states. just say you like it. it’s fine.

 

I think it’s fair to say they used the Black Keys sound as a starting point (they had just opened for them), but I also think they took off in a much more interesting/nuanced direction with the final album.

That said, the fact that Do I Wanna Know became this massive crossover hit was a bit surprising, and I never really thought of that as being one of the Black Keys-esque songs (compared to say, R U Mine).

 

it’s literally jack daniels commercial music hahaha

 

Does that mean Lou Reed is PlayStation music?

 

AM tour was one of my all time favorite shows.

 

would love another weird-ass album from this band

 

Hmmmmmm

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chasing the radio and/or chasing the sound of Black Keys on Brothers.

 

pretty sure they used the same sound engineer as black keys did on Brothers or someone in a key position like that when they recorded AM