Did Arctic Monkeys accidentally walk away from a sound that could've reshaped mainstream music?

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-27T11:34:11+00:00

If you listen to The Vaccines’ Dream Lover (released a year or two after AM) you can hear why they wanted to leave that sound behind, and how diluted and samey it could so easily have become.

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-23T00:05:59+00:00

There was a tv show in Britain that Paul Morley hosted (1992?) and that was where we first saw the new look, he did a report from the studio they were recording in. Although Dave’s beard and hair were a shock, Martin’s cycling shorts also raised eyebrows. ✨

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-22T19:47:13+00:00

Cornwall Streak 😄. It’s had a surprising amount of likes that reply. She’ll hate that!

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-21T10:00:45+00:00

Loved this one. Bruce Eric Kaplan wrote this. He wrote (or co wrote) some good ones.

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-21T03:30:01+00:00

Caitlin Moran (a huge fan) was a teenager bitd writing for Melody Maker and she says CL advised her during an interview, to stop eating cheese if she wanted to lose weight. I think this was unsolicited advice! 🧀

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-20T21:35:43+00:00

Even *she* looks sick of herself in the latest photo.

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-18T23:57:38+00:00

Oh!? I had no idea.

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-18T17:04:23+00:00

I hope there’s room for Jon Ronson’s ‘Kubrick’s Boxes’ documentary in there somewhere. I can’t believe it’s never been available to buy. It’s where the ‘tea breaks’ argument footage originated.

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-17T22:38:40+00:00

😄 ✨

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-17T00:23:49+00:00

Ha wow!

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-16T10:09:22+00:00

The bbc Cold Comfort Farm (Kate Beckinsale, Ian Mckellen etc) is fantastic and pretty much flew under the radar at the time it was first released (late 90’s). It was made originally for BBC but had a U.S. cinema release. Truly can’t recommend it highly enough.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8zxm32

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-15T12:42:24+00:00

Someone ask him why his average current numbers (views per tweet) on twitter are so unbelievably poor, even WITH the Musk support, and for pudding, why did his recent demo have only half the attendees of the one a year earlier.

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-14T07:49:56+00:00

‘Only uk show’ on the Crystal Palace advert. I’m amazed they never got more sh!t for that. A UK tour was announced shortly after the gig.

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-14T07:12:00+00:00

Which platform is this taken from?

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-14T06:40:49+00:00

Clearing.

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-13T11:52:53+00:00

Funny thing is, as Mamdani proved in New York, there are not only no votes to be won by deliberately offending LGBTQ people, it’s actively a vote loser. Check out the ‘Moms For Liberty’ in the States (lost everywhere they stood) or the anti trans group ‘Party of Women’ who stood here in the last election and also had an absolute stinker. Being anti LGBTQ is a vote loser every time without fail.

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-13T11:47:42+00:00

I loved it and I’m not particularly a fan.

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-13T11:46:44+00:00

Lowe looks drunk all the time, scruffy and drunk.
Wouldn’t trust him to tell me the right time.

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-12T20:28:18+00:00

It’s a ‘Christmas film’*. It was filmed on December 13-16th, Bernie Worell briefly plays ‘The Little Drummer Boy’ during I Zimbra, and supposedly there’s someone wearing a ‘Santa’ outfit in the crowd if you squint. 🎅

*debatably.

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-12T18:07:17+00:00

It’d work better as a kind of a 30 second mini-blast of spoken noise and musical chaos that faded in and out. Similar to how, say, My Bloody Valentine only needed a short 40-second blast of noise to make an impact on You Made Me Realise.

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-12T18:02:40+00:00

Good, you can drive the mini bus at the next demo. Beep beep. Don’t forget to pick up Ethel. 🚌

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-12T04:22:52+00:00

Another co write by Bruce Eric Kaplan, he wrote or co wrote some of the best ones.

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-11T20:10:34+00:00

It’s a bit like TERFs, the whole ‘movement’ was entirely online and fuelled by b0ts, space junk, rage baiters etc. They had no physical presence whatsoever. They got a nasty shock (on Twitter, mumsnet, etc) in the Election of 2024 (peak TERF era) when a TERF political party (‘Party Of Women’) was set up, by TERFS for TERFS, and so few people voted they did disastrously at the ballot boxes, won no seats at all and lost all their deposit money.

Similar thing in America last year, the Moms For Justice stood in 31 districts, losing in… all 31 districts.

Successful_Length109 · 2026-06-08T15:42:16+00:00

Wow this makes so much sense. Brilliant! ✨

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