Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

★打破全英排行史上当日当週排行销售冠军纪录、英国当日大卖近12万张、首週销售勇破36万张、空降蝉联英国金榜4週冠军、雄霸独立专辑榜6週冠军专辑

★勇夺本届NME AWARDS‘年度英国最佳乐团’、‘年度最佳新进乐团’与‘年度最佳单曲I Bet You Look On The Dancefloor’三项大奖。 全英音乐奖‘年度最佳新进艺人’

★NME 10分、英国卫报Guardian、纽约时报New York Times、musicOMH.com网站 一致满分 ★★★★★ 五星、英国BBC电台、Dot Music、全美公告牌Billboard ★★★★☆四星半推荐、2006年最闪耀的年度新团。

★北极泼猴 全球官方网站：www.arcticmonkeys.com

Breathless, hyperbolic praise was piled upon the Arctic Monkeys and their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, an instant phenomenon without peer. Within the course of a year, the band rose from the ranks of an Internet phenomenon to the biggest band in the U.K., all on the strength of early demos circulated on the Web as MP3s. Those demos built the band a rabid fan base before the Monkeys had released a record, even before they played more than a handful of gigs. In effect, the group performed a complete run around the industry, avoiding conventional routes toward stardom, which paid off in spades. When Whatever People Say I Am hit the streets in January 2006, it sold a gob-smacking 118,501 copies within its first week of release, which not only made it the fastest-selling debut ever, but it sold more than the rest of the Top 20 combined — a remarkable achievement by any measure.

Last time such excitement surrounded a new British guitar band it was a decade earlier, as Britpop hit overdrive with the release of Oasis' 1994 debut, Definitely Maybe. All four members of the Arctic Monkeys were a little bit shy of their tenth birthday at the time, a bit young to be sure, but old enough to have Oasis be their first favorite band. So, it's little surprise that the Gallaghers' laddism — celebrating nights out fueled by lager and loud guitars — is the bedrock foundation of the Arctic Monkeys, just the way as it has been for most British rock bands since the mid-'90s, but the Monkeys' true musical ground zero is 2001, the year the Strokes stormed British consciousness with their debut, Is This It. The Arctic Monkeys borrow heavily from the Strokes' stylized ennui, adding an equal element of the Libertines' shambolic neo-classicist punk, undercut by a hint of dance-punk learned from Franz Ferdinand. But where the Strokes, the Libertines, and Franz all knowingly reference the past, this Sheffield quartet is only concerned with the now, piecing together elements of their favorite bands as lead singer/songwriter Alex Turner tells stories from their lives — mainly hookups on the dancefloor and underage drinking, balanced by the occasional imagined tragic tales of prostitution and the music industry.

Whatever People Say I Am captures the band mashing up the Strokes and the Libertines at will, jamming in too many angular riffs into too short of a space, tearing through the songs as quickly as possible. But where the Strokes camouflaged their songwriting skills with a laconic, take-it-or-leave-it sexiness and where the Libertines mythologized England with a junkie poeticism, the Arctic Monkeys at their heart are simple, everyday lads, lacking any sense of sex appeal or romanticism, or even the desire for either. Nor do they harbor much menace, either in their tightly wound music or in how Turner spits out his words. Also, the dry production, sounding for all the world like an homage to Is This It — all clanking guitars and clattering drums, with most of the energy coming from the group's sloppy call-and-response backing vocals — keeps things rather earthbound, too; the band doesn't soar with youthful abandon, it merely raises a bit of noise in the background.

In a way, Whatever People Say I Am is an ideal album for the Information Overload Age — nearly every track here is overloaded with riffs and words, and just when it's about to sort itself out, it stops short. But even if it's an album of and for its time, Whatever People Say I Am doesn't sound particularly fresh. After all, the Arctic Monkeys are reworking the sounds of a revival without any knowledge — or even much interest — in the past, so they wind up with a patchwork of common sounds, stitched together in ways that may have odd juxtapositions, but usually feel familiar, because they're so green, they repeat the same patterns without realizing they're treading a well-worn path.

This, of course, doesn't make them or their debut bad, just surprisingly predictable: they're competent, lacking enough imagination or restlessness to do anything other than the expected, which for anybody who hears them after reading the reviews, is quite underwhelming. The one thing that sets them apart, and does give them promise, is Alex Turner's writerly ambitions. While he may fall far short of fellow Sheffield lyricist Jarvis Cocker, or such past teenage renegades as Paul Weller, Turner does illustrate ample ambition here. While his words can be overcooked — allusions to Romeo & Juliet do not necessarily count as depth — he does tell stories, which does distinguish him from his first-person peers. But it's a double-edged sword, his gift: the very thing that sets him apart — his fondness for detail, his sense of place — may be the quality that makes his work resonate for thousands of young Britons, but they also tie him completely to a particular time and place that makes it harder to relate to for listeners who aren't in his demographic or country (and perhaps time). If his band had either a stronger musical viewpoint or more kinetic energy, or if their songs didn't play like a heap of riffs, such provincial shortcomings would be transcended by the sheer force of the music. But the music, while good, is not great, and that's what makes Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not a curiosity that defines a time when niches are so specialized and targeted, they turn into a phenomenon overnight and last just about as long.

这砖巡演的名字叫Whatever People Say I Am Tour[大哭]看到直接笑出声

[钻石]放维基简介——《就是屌》的唱片封面是他們的好友Chris McClure正在抽雪茄的相片，被蘇格蘭的國家衛生署長官批評為「強化抽菸是OK的想法」。CD上的圖是一個充滿雪茄的菸灰缸。樂團的經紀人否認這項指控，並認為相反：「你可以在圖中看見，抽菸不是給他一個好的世界」。[钻石]

2006年第一张录音室专辑 专辑时长:40:56 销量:1,860,000[BPI] AllMusic:5/5 The Guardian:5/5 NME:10/10 Pitchfork:7.4/10 Q:4/5 Rolling Stone:4/5 Robert Christgau:A- Rolling Stone史上最伟大的500张唱片:371/500 Pitchfork评选2000年代最佳200张专辑:183/200 NME史上最佳500张专辑:19/500

一晃十年，Alex已到而立，然而我总以为他还是那个二十岁的小猴子

PS:《就是屌》赢得了2006年水星音乐奖与2007年全英音乐奖“最佳英国专辑”。

PS. 英国音乐史上销量最快的乐团处女专

12年啦 隆隆也变身好几次了 青涩猴真迷人啊

我的天哪 这张riff都屌到没朋友 屌到我跪着听

十一年了，我天，感觉我还是十一年那样中二

首专诞生于英国独立摇滚重新聚焦公共视野的阶段，也改变了当时新人乐队与听众之间的传播方式。乐队在签约前通过现场演出向观众免费发放Demo，歌曲随后被乐迷自发上传并广泛流传，其中多首作品在2004年底已于网络上形成稳定认知，并以《Beneath the Boardwalk》这一非官方合辑形式集中传播。 发行前，“I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”与“When the Sun Goes Down”相继登顶英国单曲榜。专辑发行当周在英国售出逾36万张，成为英国唱片史上销量最快的首专，并长期保持该纪录。此后在英国获得多白金认证，在美国亦成为独立厂牌最快售出的新人专辑之一。 音乐层面，以紧凑直接的吉他结构为核心，融合indie rock、garage rock revival、post-punk revival与punk取向，强调节奏推进与即时反应。鼓组持续提供动能，吉他以短促重复的riff构建框架，整体音色干脆、制作克制，保留明显的现场感。这也是乐队唯一一张由Andy Nicholson担任贝斯手的专辑。 歌词构成了专辑最鲜明的识别点。Alex Turner以第一人称书写，集中描绘英国北部青年在夜店、酒吧与街头的日常经验：舞池中的试探、保安的失当、夜归途中的出租车纠纷、Police Car带来的短暂刺激，以及熟悉而封闭的小城环境。多首歌曲围绕同一时间段与相似人物展开，使专辑呈现出近似“周末叙事”的连续性。 情感主题并未被抽象化处理，而是始终停留在具体处境中。亲密关系的摩擦在“Mardy Bum”中被平实呈现；对地方青年文化的观察与反思，则在“A Certain Romance”中形成总结式位置，在批评与理解之间保持距离。 专辑标题取自Alan Sillitoe的小说《Saturday Night and Sunday Morning》，直接对应其内容结构。封面影像记录夜生活后的状态，进一步强化现实质感。发行后，专辑获得英国及国际评论界高度评价，被认为准确捕捉了千禧年前后英国青年文化的语言与节奏，并推动英国独立摇滚重新进入主流讨论。

2024年2月，“北极猴”第三次获得最佳乐队和最佳专辑奖，他们是全英音乐奖历史上唯一一支连续三年同时获得这两个奖项的乐队，厉害！

nme其实有点偏爱英摇，其实每个媒体有自己的倾向很正常

算了淡定，我觉得吧，如果说北极猴变了，不是他们的追求变了，而是他们心态变了，二十岁和三十岁想的事情怎么着也不一样了，你说是吧？

曲序正确，原专为13首歌 年份：2006 风格：独立摇滚(Indie Rock)/车库摇滚复兴(Garage Rock Revival)/后朋克复兴(Post-Punk Revival)/舞曲朋克(Dance-Punk) 时长：40:58 RYM评分：3.69/5.0——评分人数30524

每次想到他们做这张的曲子的时候只有十八十九岁，以及隆隆作的词，就会觉得艾力特纳真是天纵奇才

2006年1月29日，北极猴子乐队Arctic Monkeys凭借首张专辑《Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not》登上英国专辑榜第一名。这张专辑在发行的第一周就卖出了36万张，成为排行榜历史上销量最快的首张专辑。这张专辑的标题取自艾伦·西利托（Alan Sillitoe）所著的小说《星期六晚上和星期日早上》

rc不是对英国摇滚有偏见，是对英伦摇滚（britpop）有偏见😂

作为一群小孩的首专真的无比厉害，，

梦幻联动！！高中很喜欢的电影《超市夜未眠》就很喜欢女主角，后来看了《it狂人》，很喜欢moss！！！觉得他俩气质相投！再后来接触了北极猴子乐队！今天才知道！北极猴主唱跟moss演员理查德好朋友，《超市夜未眠》女主角跟moss早就结婚了！啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊！！！！

喜欢封面还有专辑名字，无论人们说我是什么，我都不是。

他只给过Cornershop(2张)和The Libertines, Black Box Recorder(1张)A。个人感觉他对整个英国摇滚都有偏见，要看英国的还是P4K, NME, 滚石这些靠谱