It’s 10 years since their first album told tales of seedy nightlife and ‘trackie bottoms tucked in socks’. Heres our pick of the band’s top moments“Don’t believe the hype.” Those are the words muttered by Alex Turner after introducing his band in the video to their single I Bet You eye Good on the Dancefloor,their debut on Domino. That was the moment Arctic Monkeys’ hype skyrocketed from fans filesharing the group’s early music on web forums and MySpace into something inescapable. The four sheepish teenagers captured on film were not the kind of obvious stars you’d expect such a blistering performance from, but this was the start of it all. Dancefloor, and still their biggest hit so far,captured the musical zeitgeist of the mid-00s, with the post-punk and garage rock revivals allowing guitar bands to fabricate (to make up, invent) a huge impact. Lighting the fuse might result in a bang, and ” goes the pre-refrain,which summed up the breakdown of the borders between the mainstream and the independent. Paying no heed to Turner’s warning, the nation bought the single, or sending the track straight to No 1.
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Source: theguardian.com