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Dance Little Liar is my favorite on Humbug but all the tracks you mention are great too. For me there isn't a weak track on that album though.
 
It's one thing to shit on this album, but another to take a swipe at the lyrical content of Zooropa. That site can kiss my balls.
 
The title track and Star Treatment are captivating me at the moment. And the segue from One Point Perspective into American Sports.

So pleased that they released this album under the AM banner, even though it is being pitched by some as a Turner solo album.

I must say, I'm still warming to the final third of the album, but the front third is absolutely stacked with gold.
 
I listened back to AM today. Hated it. Might actually be my least favourite album by them. Not any songs I want to go back to unlike TBHC. Still loving it. Never got that with AM
 
After a couple of weeks of listening, I just can't get into this album. It's inoffensive background music, but I am just not feeling it and definitely not something I'd go out of my way to listen to. Right now I put this at the bottom of their discography, with AM and Humbug as favorites. This could have been a great Alex Turner solo project that I could have ignored.
 
It's crazy how divisive the fanbase is, there doesn't seem to be much consistency on whether fans of one certain album will like another certain one.

The only one I've played regularly is Suck It and See, but I plan on delving deeper into the whole discography once I get back home from Europe.
 
The set lists for this tour seem like a huge missed opportunity to me. They could have made a whole stage embracing the idea of a 70s lounge on the moon, played eight or so songs from this record a night, explored their back catalogue too... and they’re playing four max and it’s mostly AM songs.

Makes me think that the rest of the band really does hate that this is an AM album and the only way they’d agree to releasing it as such was if they Alex Turner didn’t get to control the tour too. Shame.
 
So I saw Arctic Monkeys last night. My first time seeing them. As I've said many times before, I am the weirdest fan on the planet: I've not heard their first three albums, the first time I listened to them was Suck it and See, which I fell deeply in love with and would be in my top 10 albums of the decade. I gave AM a go but found it just full of what is, to my ears, pretty generic tight-jeaned cock rock. That album elevated them to the stratosphere, it had what like six hit singles. My view is that Alex Turner has one of the best voices and minds and in rock, and I find it wasted when they're just doing their more abrasive style that everyone loves. That was further drilled home when Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino came out, and most fans hated it, because they're dumb idiots who wanted AM 2, and missed all the gold that was on offer. Anyway.

Show was fucking amazing. Turner had them eating out of the palm of his hand. There were circle pits going for most of the night. Opened with Star Treatment, which went immediately onto my Rushmore from the moment I heard it, and was just stellar live last night. It was a bit odd then to switch from that into their more harder-edged style, although Snap Out of It has a pretty great chorus. Only two songs from Suck it and See which was disappointing, played back-to-back, and probably my two least favourites on the album, although Library Pictures has enough of Alex Turner's sheer idiosyncrasies that it's still really awesome, and it has a lovely breakdown in the middle.

One Point Perspective and American Sports were fucking fantastic back-to-back, I love those songs dearly and it's fun watching Alex play piano and treated piano and wandering around with a swivel chair. Sadly a lot of people took this time to piss/get drinks, which was frustrating, but eh. But from One Point Perspective onwards it was about flawless for my tastes. From the Ritz to the Rubble was amazing, and Cornerstone and 505, two other songs I also didn't know, were brilliant.

Tranquillity Base title track was the highlight of the night I reckon, it had these heavy, funky, spacey intro that went on for probably two or three minutes before they finally launched into the track. Four Out of Five closed the main set and it was so so so great, I was singing along at the top of my lungs, such an incredible song. No 1 Party Anthem I recall was about the only song from AM that I really loved so I was pleased to get that in the encore. R U Mine? And Do I Wanna Know? pretty much sound exactly the same, but both got huge responses and were better live.
 
They blew me away, actually exceeded expectations, my first time checking them live. I loved how the “70s lounge” concept or whatever it is of TBH&C played out as part of the live show, especially the hazy grainy footage playing on the screen.

I’m a bit like you Cobbler in that I consider myself really into them but am quite casual in the some respects.

I adore the debut and Suck it and See - both truly stellar in my option. Revisiting the debut lately has been super rewarding. I like AM and Tranquility, but can’t really get engrossed in Humbug and Fav Worst Nightmare (try as I might, bar a few songs).

Great gig though. Ritz, Snap and Brianstorm some of my highlights - and thankfully the Tranquility songs were all from Side A, which absolutely blows Side B out of the water, in my opinion
 
I’ve been listening to Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino a lot lately and I think this album is even better than I originally credited it. It’s not quite on Favorite Worst Nightmare level for me, but it’s firmly second for me. That opening one-two punch knocks me right out every time. I want another album like this (since I doubt we’ll ever get another like Favorite Worst Nightmare).
 
I'm actually fucking obsessed with There'd Better Be A Mirrorball. It is phenomenal and might take the mantle of my fav AM song which That's Where You're Wrong has held for a decade. The sad synths, the slow piano, his melancholy vocals, the lyrics are hitting the spot. Magic
 
Yeah I was obsessed with it for the first three weeks or so it was out. Played it multiple times a day.

Then they released Body Paint and I did the same thing. It's just as good a track if not even a bit more fun. The songs (at least those first two) just seem to crawl inside my mind and I can't escape them. It's like they're the first things I want to hear in the morning. So fucking good.

And I'm liking the new track, I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am so far. After a couple listens. There are like five or six different hooks in the track.
 
Yeah it's good. I hate to be that guy but it's got a bit of an Achtung, let's go funk and dance and fun kinda vibe to it. Some mid-70s, post-glam, pre-Berlin Bowie to it as well.
 
I’ve been listening to the album non stop since 4am (3 hours). It is fucking sublime.

It’s understated, slick, lush in parts, hauntingly sparse in others. It succeeds where TBHC (an album I adore) failed - it is everything that album is re ambition, integrity to a vision, originality, rejection of easy etc, but it is also incredibly enjoyable to listen to right through. TBHC had some parts that were a bit of a slog to get through, even if you appreciated and valued what they were trying - or rather that they were trying. This album is the realisation of the sonic vision, if not the conceptual one. It’s very much it’s own thing.

It’s rainy here and I cannot wait to get home, open a bottle of Nebbiolo and get lost in it.
 
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