Genius Meanings
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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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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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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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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 – 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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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Chun Li’s Spinning Bird Kick
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[Spoken Word] / Show us your special move / [Instrumental]
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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 – She Looks Like Fun (Live)
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[Chorus: Cameron Avery] / (She looks like fun) / (She looks like fun) / (She looks like fun) / (She looks like) / [Verse 1: Alex Turner] / Smile like you've got a straw in
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Arctic Monkeys – Fake Tales of San Francisco
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After being featured on the band’s debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, the song was released as a radio-only single in the United States instead of “Leave
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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 – Star Treatment (Live)
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[Verse 1] / I just wanted to be one of The Strokes / Now look at the mess you made me make / Hitchhiking with a monogrammed suitcase / Miles away from any half-useful imaginary
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Arctic Monkeys – Scummy
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[Intro] / So 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 quite
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Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent
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“Fluorescent Adolescent” is a track about getting older and finding out that life isn’t as fun as it used to be. It describes a woman who dreams of her youth while her current life
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Arctic Monkeys – Dancing Shoes (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Get on your dancing shoes / There's one thing on your mind / Hoping they’re looking for you / Sure you'll be rummaging through / Oh and the shit, shock, horror / You've
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Duran Duran – Rio
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On an episode of the VH1 show True Spin the band explained that “Rio” was a metaphor for their desire to succeed in America.
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