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Title: Arctic Monkeys - 505 View count: 11840 Rating: 5.00 (45 ratings) Description: Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? is the second EP by Sheffield indie rock band Arctic Monkeys, first released 24 April 2006 (see 2006 in British music). The EP features "The View from the Afternoon", the opening track of their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, along with four new songs. "The View from the Afternoon" was originally expected to be the band's third single following UK Number Ones "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" and "When the Sun Goes Down", but the band announced in March 2006 that their next record would in fact be a 5-track EP [1], thereby disqualifying it from the UK singles and albums charts [2] due to the EP being too long to be a single and being too cheap to be an album. With "The View from the Afternoon" as the A-side, the remainder of the EP is made up of new material, although "Cigarette Smoker Fiona" is a reworking of "Cigarette Smoke" - one of the band's earlier songs that formed part of the "Beneath the Boardwalk" collection of demo CDs. "Despair in the Departure Lounge" was premièred at a gig in the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, although it was played by Alex Turner alone due to Andy Nicholson blowing his bass amp. [citation needed] Although the language content of the EP resulted in less radio airplay than their earlier releases, the nature of the band's rise to fame and its lack of reliance on radio meant that this was not a concern for the band. [3] As with previous releases, the contents of the EP leaked onto the internet and peer-to-peer file-sharing programmes several weeks before its release.The themes of "The View from the Afternoon" are based around observations of behaviour on an excursion into local nightlife. In a repeated verse, the singer comments on the expectation that an evening being enjoyable will likely lead to disappointment. The singer describes various scenes; a group of meretricious females who have rented a limousine for a fancy dress party; a gambler who has won and then lost the jackpot on a fruit machine; text messaging through the lock/unlock function on a Nokia mobile phone; "two for the price of one" drinks promotions, which the singer explicitly blames for the drunkenness of the sender and his predicament.Alex Turner: " "This is one of the last songs written for the album. There's nothing clever, it's just about anticipating the evening, finding comfort in familiarity and the fact that you know you're bound to send a daft message or something before the sun comes up. I think I've stopped doing that now."[1] Tags: 505, arctic, live, monkeys, Author: Fjolleskandalen |
