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Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
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The breakout and first single by Arctic Monkeys, from their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.
It’s about seeing a girl in a mundane, everyday situation
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Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Stop making the eyes at me / I'll stop making the eyes at you / What it is that surprises me / Is that I don't really want you to / [Pre-Chorus] / And your shoulders
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Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor (Live in Texas)
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[Spoken Intro] / This song is, um, that we're gonna play now is "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" / I believe you may be familiar / [Verse 1] / Stop makin' the eyes at me / I
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Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor (Live)
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[Spoken Intro] / We're Arctic Monkeys / This is "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" / Don't believe the hype / [Verse 1] / Stop making the eyes at me / I'll stop making the
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Baby Charles – I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
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Stop making the eyes at me, I'll stop making the eyes at you / What it is that surprises me is that I don't really want you to / Now your shoulders are frozen / You're an explosion
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NME (Ft. Alex Turner & Arctic Monkeys) – Arctic Monkeys - How We Wrote 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor'
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Alex Turner: / I did find like the lyrics for it like not long ago like scribbled on like a piece of paper, it was quite funny / Like find like the - / (Was there any different
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Arctic Monkeys – When the Sun Goes Down
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The second single from Arctic Monkeys' debut album is about prostitution around the studio they were recording in in Sheffield. It was a considerable commercial success, scoring
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Arctic Monkeys – Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts
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The B Side to “I Bet That You Look Good On the Dancefloor”, this is a very English song about fickle teenage relationships and how it’s inevitable someone will try to steal your
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Arctic Monkeys – Riot Van (Live in Texas)
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[Intro] / Up rolls a riot van and sparks excitement in the boys / But the policemen look annoyed / Perhaps these are ones they should avoid / [Verse 1] / Got a chase last night
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Arctic Monkeys – When The Sun Goes Down (Live in Texas)
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[Intro] / Said, who's that girl there? / I wonder what went wrong so that she had to roam the streets / She don't do major credit cards, I doubt she does receipts / It's all not
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Arctic Monkeys – From the Ritz to the Rubble
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“From the Ritz to the Rubble” is the 12th song on Arctic Monkey’s first album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.
Like many of the songs on the album, it follows a
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Arctic Monkeys – A Certain Romance
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“A Certain Romance” is the last song on Arctic Monkeys first album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, released in 2006. NME described it as “a strangely even-handed
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Arctic Monkeys – Riot Van
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The ideas behind many of the Arctic Monkeys' songs are laid out there pretty bluntly, but they always show an underlying idea or feeling behind the apparent storyline. In this it
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Arctic Monkeys – You Probably Couldn't See For The Lights But You Were Staring Straight At Me (Live in Texas)
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[Verse 1] / One look sends it coursin' through the veins, oh, how the feelin' races / Back up to their brains to form expressions on their stupid faces / They don't want to say
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Arctic Monkeys – Dancing Shoes
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A song about going out on the town, seeing a girl you like the look of, and then bottling out of making the move on her.
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Arctic Monkeys – Dancing Shoes (Live in Texas)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Get on your dancing shoes / There's one thing on your mind / Hopin' they're lookin' for you / Sure you'll be rummagin' through / Oh and the shit
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Arctic Monkeys – Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / There's always somebody taller / With more of a wit / And he's equipped to enthrall her / And her friends think he's fit / And you just can't measure up no / You don't
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Arctic Monkeys – Mardy Bum
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A song from Arctic Monkeys' 2006 album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. It remains a fan favourite and helped popularise the Yorkshire word ‘mardy’, meaning sulky or
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Arctic Monkeys – The View From The Afternoon (Live in Texas)
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[Verse 1] / Anticipation has a habit to set you up / For disappointment in evening entertainment, but / Tonight there'll be some love / Tonight there'll be a ruckus, yeah
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Arctic Monkeys – Perhaps Vampires Is a Bit Strong But... (Live in Texas)
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[Verse 1] / Well, I've seen your eyes as they fix on me / "What is he doin'? What on earth's the plan, has he got one?" / You better give me some pointers / Since you are the big
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Arctic Monkeys – Don’t Sit Down ’Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair (Live at iTunes Festival 2011)
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[Verse 1] / Break a mirror, roll the dice / Run with scissors through a chip pan fire fight / Go into business with a grizzly bear / But just don't sit down 'cause I've moved your
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Arctic Monkeys – You Probably Couldn't See for the Lights But You Were Staring Straight at Me
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Alex says this song is about the lead singer of a favourite band of his “The Little Flames” who he took a liking to. In the crowd he had the feeling that she was staring straight
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Arctic Monkeys – Cigarette Smoker Fiona (Live in Texas)
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[Spoken Intro] / This is called "Cigarette Smoker Fiona" / [Verse 1] / Sat at the side of the pool at one of your houses / With wet white trousers on / And worlds collide as the
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Arctic Monkeys – Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured
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[Verse 1] / We'll ask if we can have six in / If not we'll have to have two / Well, you're comin' up at our end, aren't ya? / So I'll get one with you / Won't he let us have six in
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Arctic Monkeys – Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured (Live in Texas)
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[Spoken intro] / This is, this next song, every band's got a song called "Red Lights something," so, so do we / [Verse 1] / We'll ask if we can have six in / If not we'll have to
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Arctic Monkeys – Brianstorm
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Sometimes mistakenly referred to as “Brainstorm.”
When asked to say a little about the song’s protagonist, Alex Turner replied,
I can’t remember Brian now… I don’t know if he
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Arctic Monkeys – Brianstorm (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Brian, top marks for not trying / So kind of you to bless us with your effortlessness / We're grateful and so strangely comforted / And I wonder, are you putting us
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Arctic Monkeys – Still Take You Home (Live in Texas)
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[Verse 1] / Said "It's ever so funny" / 'Cause I don't think you're special, I don't think you're cool / You're just probably alright / But under these lights you look beautiful
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Arctic Monkeys – Stop the World I Wanna Get Off With You
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The B-Side (wont appear on the album) to the single “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?”
A romantic song about a man who wants to stop the drudgery of every-day life in
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