Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Arctic Monkeys
To be honest, there's always been something off-putting to me about hyped up music. In the words of Elliott Smith (since he is much more coherent about this subject than I am): "The only kinds of music that I don't listen to is whatever is popular RIGHT NOW. Even though it might be great, I just don't feel like it. The fact that something is really everything just somehow puts me off. I don't know why that is. I guess being in the music....um, business.... or something is like being in high school where everybody is trying to be cool and you wish that you could just graduate from high school and not have to deal with all the little put-downs that people give each other and everybody trying to be the most popular guy in the school."
Which were my exact sentiments about the Arctic Monkeys. And I don't think that I was mistaken either; listening to the album now, for the first time, I still don't feel like I'm missing out on anything four years later.
Not to say that these songs are trash. The album's subject matter largely takes place on the dance floor, and mostly has to do with hooking up with girls, under age drinking, and cleverly thrown insults on others in the music industry.
Best tracks would be "Fake Tales from San Francisco", "Riot Van" and "Mardy Bum".
Oh, and P.S. I'm boring myself too.
