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Got this today. Not a bad listen but not sure if it's as good as the first album. I'll probably listen to it a few more times before i decide which one is better  8)

I still haven't downloaded it.  :?

Tighter musically than the first album, singings improved as well. Loses something in that though.

they were good until they releasesed there first single and everyone jumped on the bandwagon. Somehow destroyed something that felt so fresh... shame.

Lamest approach to music ever that is. I don't like you any more 'cos everyone else does. Gaaaaay.  8)

Yeah maybe so... but hearing  a song every five minutes on the radio that you onced loved can soon make you despise it after a thousand times... bottom line though, theres far more to music than the artic monkeys... they dont even scratch the surface

Actually scrap that, i'm entitled to my opinion. I once liked them, saw them three times. They released their first single, the recording and production wasn't as good as their early demos. I was dissapointed with this, and that was that. bothered. who cares.

Got it today. 505 is a top tune with Balaclava.

yes it can do so dont listen to the radio every day. it's why people download things and buy CDs. there is far more to music than them because music isn't one band or artist. i dont care if loads of people like them either. it wont change my opinion of them

Downloaded it




I think its shit

Good, mine neither. I just don't get off on their music anymore

I prefer a bit of Billy Bragg.

The Torygraph readers love him.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=BLOGDETAIL&grid=F11&blog=yourview&xml=/news/2007/04/19/ublview19b.xml

I quite liked the Arctic Monkeys. Got a bit sick of them though, but then I never thought they were amazing.

Might give the new album a listen sometime and see if they change my mind a bit.

To be honest I made up my little mini-review having not listened to the second album ever and not listened to the first album for a year-ish. I was just wondering if I could blag someone to agree with me. To far gone up a thread which seems to have lost direction now.

Never been that bothered about the arctic monkeys myself. First album was good and I listened to it a fair bit for a few months but to be honest it wasn't worth all the bumery which went with it.

You jester, Ben. I believe every post I read on here. You've prayed on my gullibility.

amen to that. social commentaries from people my age get a little tedious after a while. there's plenty of stuff i'd rather listen to

to please the one-eyed people here, eg. ben, apparently the lost prohets are going back to their roots with their next album. sounds good, their first album was the best british album i've heard in the last decade, the previous two are a disgrace to their talent mind

I ain't rising to that lame attempt of  :fishing:

name a better british album since 1997 since the fake sound of progress?

electric soft parade - no need to be downhearted.

lost prophets you dont half speak some bollocks.

downloading it now. this is what they have to say about it:



1 – No Need To Be Downhearted (Part 1): We just figured that every band out there at the moment was rocking out on the first track of their album; it’s kind of a cliché these days to kick off an album with the most boisterous, loud piece you have, so we just thought, ‘fuck that!’. It sets a completely different tone, and immediately sets the record apart from pretty much every other rock band operating today.

2 – Life In The Backseat: A song about the long, slow death of a relationship. And the Blair-Bush axis, of course. The first ‘proper’ track on the album, and the first single, too. Not a bad Strokes impression, either.

3 – Woken By A Kiss: Self-destruction and shoegazing. Watching someone destroy themselves and being helpless. And getting a really fucking lush guitar sound. Krautrock outro, just for a laugh.

4 – If That’s The Case, Then I Don’t Know: An indie disco monster! Squelchy synth bass and guitar hooks, keyboard flitters and omni-chord swoops. If anything, the most instantly recognisable ESP track on the album.

5 – Shore Song: As with all of our records, the songs evolve, then a track listing evolves around that. It was always important to us to break up the first half of the record with something sweet alongside the heavier stuff, and this does its job perfectly.

6 – Misunderstanding: Probably the oldest song on the album. We’ve recorded it in different guises for three different labels, i think, and they always say, ‘That’s the single!’. Funny, that…

7 – Secrets: A revolving, unfurling mantra suddenly overwhelmed by somber brass. A requiem to a fucked world and the doomed plans of our sorry governments.

8 – Cold World: A piece of pure pop, and the only track taken from last year’s ‘The Human Body’ EP. Pianos, harmonies and a melody Burt Bacharach would do well to imitate. The most fully realised cut on the album, surely?

9 – Have You Ever Felt Like It’s Too Late?: Verse: why the fuck d’you have to leave me, I was having fun there, don’t leave me. Chorus: there’s a world out there, bye!

10 – Come Back Inside: Alex’s sole lead vocal provides the album’s most ethereal moment, invoking the American rattle of Calexico or The Dandy Warhols at their melancholy, hushed best. Also contains the best outro on the album.

11 – Appropriate Ending: This could be an appropriate ending. But it’s not.

12 – No Need to Be Downhearted (Part 2): What Matt Eaton of Actress Hands calls a ‘Chord Orchard’. Echoing the outro of ‘The Wrongest Thing In Town’ from ‘The American Adventure’, we wanted to end the record with a long instrumental crescendo, a final burst of colour. And this it it.

I could name the Scissor Sisters. You don't see them trying to put on a welsh accent.

which means you can't or you won't?

I can name loads. Infact in my opinion anyone from the last 10 years. Chikinki, The Go Team, Franz Ferdinand, The Sugar Babes, The Coral, The Zuotons, Any of the recent stuff from Ocean Colour Scene, Oasis( and that's been poo), Gorillaz, The Beta Band, Maximo Park, The Arctic Monkeys, The Pippetes, Bloc Party, British Sea Power, Dirty Pretty Things, Babyshambles, Explosions in the Sky, I am Kloot, Ian Brown, Lilly Allen, The Streets, Richard Ashcroft, The future heads, The Rakes, The Magic Numbers, I can keep going if you want.

where as i've got every one of those band's albums (except a couple) and think FSOP was much more progressive in music terms and more worth listening to

I'm not sure it's possible to underestimate my dislike for the lostprophets, They just sound like a wannabe blink182 and I don't like them either. Anyway I'm off to bed.

don't confuse lp's shit second and third albums with their first one, imo

I did actually download a bit last time the whole lostprophets thing came up and wasn't really impresed. Shinobi Vs Dragon Ninja spings to mind. It's not great is it?

but anyway I'm really going to bed. To drink and watch star trek. Happy days.

pretty much everything that's been released since then.

Why has Boeta turned into such a jumped up little cunt?

i like the Fake Sound of Progress to be fair. It has that experimental/metal element to it that makes it unique. But to say it's the best British album since 1997 is taking things a little too far!

actually Ben that song kicks arse. It's probably their best one. The last 2 albums are pretty shite though it has to be said

Now or 2 years ago? It's nothing new...

Favourite Worst Nightmare - Thought i was going to be disappointed and i'm not. It's actually really quite good.  :D

lost prophets are proper poprock gash, what a load of shit.
i could name 20 albums 20 times better since 97.

Back to the point, I listened to the Artic Monkeys new album and wasn't really impressed. Will have another listen but it didn't seem great

for example...

supergrass - in it for the money (1997)
belle & sebastian - the boy with the arab strap (1998)
idlewild - captain (1998)
massive attack - mezzanine (1998)
seafood - messenger in the camp (1998)
therapy? - semi-detached (1998)
blur - 13 (1999)
phi life cypher - millennium metaphors (2000)
supergrass - supergrass (2000)
wilt - no worries (2000)
aphex twin - drukqs (2001)
braintax - biro funk (2001)
roots manuva - run come save me (2001)
super furry animals - rings around the world (2001)
doves - the last broadcast (2002)
ikara colt - chat & business (2002)
jehst - return of the drifter (2002)
seafood - when do we start fighting? (2002)
sworn in - sworn in (2002)
the electric soft parade - holes in the wall (2002)
belle & sebastian - dear catastrophe waitress (2003)
dj format - music for the mature b-boy (2003)
jehst - falling down (2003)
the thrills - so much for the city (2003)
bloc party - ep (2004)
graham coxon - happiness in magazines (2004)
the go! team - thunder,lightning, strike (2004)
high contrast - high society (2004)
seth lakeman - kitty jay (2004)
mc pitman - pit closure (2004)
skinnyman - council estate of mind (2004)
bloc party - silent alarm (2005)
brakes - give blood (2005)
the crimea - tragedy rocks (2005)
doves - some cities (2005)
gorillaz - dmeon days (2005)
the rakes - capture/release (2005)
the wedding present - take fountain (2005)
arctic monkeys - whatever people say i am, that's what i'm not (2006)
brakes - beatific visions (2006)
seth lakeman - freedom fields (2006)
the long blondes - someone to drive you home (2006)
the electric soft parade - no need to be down hearted (2007)
actress hands - show madelaine (2007)

explosions in the sky are from texas, but yes, very good band.

i can only imagine that the person claiming the first lost prophets album to be a high water mark for british music is, in fact, taking the piss.

Sonic's list isn't entirely British bands. I think Boeta must win

who did i include that isn't british?

The Thrills