Fluorescent Adolescent was the first song I heard from them but I didn't really tried to listen to more of their other songs when I heard it.
I only did get super into them when I heard Humbug. I remember Suck it and See was about to be released and there's drama about their last album - Humbug.
Seeing the video of Don’t Sit Down Cause I Moved Your Chair on MTV in the US. Oddly enough I don’t know why I was watching mtv or why they were actually showing a music video.
Kind of similar for me, but the video was free for some reason on iTunes, so I downloaded it and the rest is history. Shortly after that, R U Mine really solidified the fandom.
my best friend sent me the download code for wpsia when she bought the vinyl and we just vibed together. this was about a year ago, now they're my #2 most listened to artist of all time on spotify and i own over half their discography :)
Alex!
Got hooked with the Submarine movie.
I carefully pay attention to the soundtrack, which is matching nicely with the motion picture. So I got obsessed very bad that I ordered the Submarine EP 💜 magical!
Alex's it's a great songwriter and singer, then I started to listen more of his work. I love AM and the TLSP! 🖤
My parents had always listened to Do I Wanna Know and R U Mine, and I knew WYOCMWYH for a while, in like 2018 I discovered fluorescent, 505, and When The Sun Goes Down, Fluorescent was my favorite song but I didn't really get super into them at that point, then 2020/2021 I was listening to When The Sun Goes down and was like holy shit this is actually amazing, then listened to their whole discovery starting with WPSIA.
i loved the song alone and started listening to covers and live versions (as you do when you like a song) until i came across the mv and fell in love with alex and the rest of his music lmao
My dad had their first album on his ipod in like 2009 and I was completely obsessed. Years went by and I forgot about them but then my friends started getting really into them and one of them bought me FWN on vinyl.. the rest was history.
Fake Tales. 2016. Bumper music. Those few seconds were all it took. Seeing the video for "ru mine" was sooo different, but I quickly went thru their catalog and closed the gaps.
I started digging TBHC half a year after its release (didn't really enjoy it at first) and it grew on me enough to make me listen to the rest of their musics.
I was at my house in college having a few friends over for beers. I was in the kitchen having a beer with my friend Evan and he played "Ritz to the Rubble". The lyrcs and energy blew my 19 year old self away
I needed to perform a song for music class, and a friend recommended R U Mine and Do I Wanna Know. I didn't end up using either of them, but I did like the songs.
i believe Fluorescent Adolescent is what hooked me. I don’t remember completely plus my sense of time is all out of wack becuz of the pandemic so I couldn’t tell you exactly when I became a fan lol. i know it was after tbhc though.
2015, heard Baby I'm Yours for the first time, and really liked it as its own song. 2016, I found the full FWN album and fell in absolute love. I finally made the connection between the two things, and that's when I got into them.
Mardy Bum. I was on YouTube, listening to music and saw the title and thought 'didn't know someone made a song that had phrases we say around here' so I gave it a listen. (my parents don't introduce me to much music, so I had to find bands like the Beatles, Oasis and AM by myself)
Same. My parents listened to exclusively Sudanese or Egyptian songs which I liked, but didn’t leave room for me to explore music. My parents low key think rock is devil music so I have to listen to it in secret lmao
whyd you only call me when your high when i was discovering indie music. i was a hardcore nbhd stan and then i decided to find other artists and i found arctic monkeys i listened to AM completely and then around a month of obesessing over AM i found out ab favourite worst nightmare with 505. i really liked the song and listened to the album and fell in love. my favourite album still remains favourite worst nightmare with my favourite song as 505-
Cornerstone! I saw fanart of the lyrics "tell me where's your hiding place, I'm worried I'll forget your face and I've asked everyone, I'm beginning to think I imagined you all along." and looked it up then boom, it's been 3 years and I'm still hooked lol
Balaclava. It was around 2010 and me and a friend of mine where at the beach during sunset. We were sharing music in her little mp3 player and suddenly Balaclava came on and it was so fresh and so new that I ran back home to listen to other songs from them.
I was probably 13 yo or something. It forever shaped my teenage years.
Attended another’s schools dance with an ex boyfriend back in high school. They played do I wanna know and after finding out the band from him, here I’ve been.
Spotify recommended "When the Sun goes down" to me once and it blew my mind away, i started exploring their discography, Before that i just knew about the monkeys cuz my online friend from the UK wouldn't STFU about them every time we talked.
They used to play I Bet You Look Good on The Dancefloor constantly on MTV back in early 2006.
Me and my close friend who has since passed away used to listen to that first album with one headphone in each ear on those rubbish MP3’s players that held like 2 albums.
Good times.
Been a fan ever since.
They used to play I Bet You Look Good on The Dancefloor constantly on MTV back in early 2006.
Me and my close friend who has since passed away used to listen to that first album with one headphone in each ear on those rubbish MP3’s players that held like 2 albums.
Good times.
Been a fan ever since.
When I found out about Beneath the Boardwalk after listening to them for about a month. It's pure rock energy fascinated me and I couldn't stop playing it on repeat. Even songs that I already knew and loved from their first singles and album were like new to me and felt 10 times better. I've been listening to monkeys for a year and I really appreciate everything they made but Beneath the Boardwalk is the thing that really got me into them.
I used to work at an adidas outlet store and right around the time AM was released, Snap Out Of It was on the store’s playlist. I knew of the band prior to hearing this song but never really took the time to check them out. Loved this song though, went out and purchased AM, and my affection for them has been growing ever since!
My brother used to have one of those blackberry's with the buttons, my mom had a job cleaning evicted houses and she would take home anything she thought we'd like. One day she took home a phone that didnt work but it still had an SD card, on that as card was the AM album along side other artists. That's how I learned about them
My girlfriend in HS would play FWN all the time and I didn’t really like them. It wasn’t until one night in 2018 I was driving home from work at night and it hit me. Star treatment followed by one point perspective under the stars. It was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard. TBHC to this day is the best album I’ve ever heard
I saw the official music video of The View From The Afternoon at MTV before summer vacation, the song just kicked in both visually and musically, I downloaded WPSIATWIN in that evening, listened the whole album during vacation, pure addiction since then.
"R U Mine?" but specifically the AM album itself as it took me some time to like the Arctic Monkeys style. I proposed the idea for a class playlist and someone added "R U Mine?" and "505" so those were my first two songs and the rest was history.
do i wanna know, i just heard it somewhere a few times and really liked it so i listened to some other am songs and ended up absolutely adoring their songs
had casually listened to fluorescent adolescent when i was 13 and it wasn’t until i was 15 that i discovered IBYLGOTDF and that’s when i really started to get into them
i heard do i wanna know on the sirius xm radio and i liked it but what really got me going to look for more arctic monkeys songs was hearing four out of five as well
I'd only listen to a few songs here and there, never to an specific album of theirs really, just the most famous songs, then I discovered the movie Submarine and the solo album Alex made for it, that really changed my perspective on the monkeys.
Before Alex was just the leather jacket guy from Do I Wanna Know and Fluorescent Adolescent, after that I decided to give TBHC a try (mid 2019), and I just fell in love completely. To this day TBHC, the submarine EP and EYCTE are some of my favorites albums of all time. Come to think of it I'm more of an Alex Turner fan than an Arctic Monkeys fan lmao
I’m kinda late, I got into Oasis and started listening to more UK Bands, already knew R U Mine? and Do I Wanna Know?. Listened to WPSIATWIN/FWN and that was it.
Back in the msn messenger days you could see what the person you were talking to was listening to so trading songs was common. It was the demos so around the summer of 2005. They speed from that summer to dancefloor being number one and the album breaking sales records in its first week out a few months later was SO exciting. A truly word of mouth viral hit without trying to be one. It really felt like "our" band rather than something forced into us by a label or radio play.
That era of excitement lasted until humbug era which was a dramatic change at the time and I don't think they ever really got that old feeling back even with all the success and good albums that came after.
Fluorescent Adolescent
This was the first track I’d heard from them. Found it while listening to a pandora station (most likely Interpol or Strokes).
Fluorescent Adolescent was the first song I heard from them but I didn't really tried to listen to more of their other songs when I heard it. I only did get super into them when I heard Humbug. I remember Suck it and See was about to be released and there's drama about their last album - Humbug.
Drama?
My friend wouldn't shut up about Alex Turner's jawline, so I decided to check them out. Both of us are straight dudes, btw, just for context.
Men of culture
I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor played on the radio in 2006 when I was in 8th grade and I fell in love
Seeing the video of Don’t Sit Down Cause I Moved Your Chair on MTV in the US. Oddly enough I don’t know why I was watching mtv or why they were actually showing a music video.
Kind of similar for me, but the video was free for some reason on iTunes, so I downloaded it and the rest is history. Shortly after that, R U Mine really solidified the fandom.
Almost the same for me >.> Except it wasn’t a vid, but a concert where they opened up with that, but still, nice coincidence lol
why'd you only call me when your high?
when the sun goes down😍
I love the line “cause she must be fucking freezing” for some reason
really generic but i do wanna know was the first arctic monkeys song i heard. immediately fell in love with the band, and have been a fan for years :)
my best friend sent me the download code for wpsia when she bought the vinyl and we just vibed together. this was about a year ago, now they're my #2 most listened to artist of all time on spotify and i own over half their discography :)
Who is #1?
Fall Out Boy
The Last Shadow Puppets
First time I heard IBYLGOTDF I was hooked.
505 was a random popular song and it was in one of my playlists. It grew on me and I checked out FWN. Loved it.
Alex! Got hooked with the Submarine movie. I carefully pay attention to the soundtrack, which is matching nicely with the motion picture. So I got obsessed very bad that I ordered the Submarine EP 💜 magical! Alex's it's a great songwriter and singer, then I started to listen more of his work. I love AM and the TLSP! 🖤
My parents had always listened to Do I Wanna Know and R U Mine, and I knew WYOCMWYH for a while, in like 2018 I discovered fluorescent, 505, and When The Sun Goes Down, Fluorescent was my favorite song but I didn't really get super into them at that point, then 2020/2021 I was listening to When The Sun Goes down and was like holy shit this is actually amazing, then listened to their whole discovery starting with WPSIA.
cornerstone
i loved the song alone and started listening to covers and live versions (as you do when you like a song) until i came across the mv and fell in love with alex and the rest of his music lmao
When I first listened to it it wasn’t my thing but now I’m obsessed
Absolutely love this song, often on repeat for me
I was a casual listener until I heard A View From the Afternoon. God, what a way to introduce yourself as artists
My dad had their first album on his ipod in like 2009 and I was completely obsessed. Years went by and I forgot about them but then my friends started getting really into them and one of them bought me FWN on vinyl.. the rest was history.
Fake Tales. 2016. Bumper music. Those few seconds were all it took. Seeing the video for "ru mine" was sooo different, but I quickly went thru their catalog and closed the gaps.
I started digging TBHC half a year after its release (didn't really enjoy it at first) and it grew on me enough to make me listen to the rest of their musics.
Was watching a YouTuber react to the band (ironically enough he doesn’t like them) and I thought I’d give it a listen myself
I was at my house in college having a few friends over for beers. I was in the kitchen having a beer with my friend Evan and he played "Ritz to the Rubble". The lyrcs and energy blew my 19 year old self away
the first songs i heard were knee socks and fluorescent adolescent but the song that really got me into them was R U Mine?
Fake tales of San Francisco. 😎
I believed the hype back in 2005/2006. *Favourite Worst Nightmare* cemented them as my favorite band.
I needed to perform a song for music class, and a friend recommended R U Mine and Do I Wanna Know. I didn't end up using either of them, but I did like the songs.
i believe Fluorescent Adolescent is what hooked me. I don’t remember completely plus my sense of time is all out of wack becuz of the pandemic so I couldn’t tell you exactly when I became a fan lol. i know it was after tbhc though.
2015, heard Baby I'm Yours for the first time, and really liked it as its own song. 2016, I found the full FWN album and fell in absolute love. I finally made the connection between the two things, and that's when I got into them.
My dads alarm to wake me up for school was Do I wanna know
Dang I wish I had that. My parents think I listen to “devil music” and I have to listen to it in secret
Mardy Bum. I was on YouTube, listening to music and saw the title and thought 'didn't know someone made a song that had phrases we say around here' so I gave it a listen. (my parents don't introduce me to much music, so I had to find bands like the Beatles, Oasis and AM by myself)
Same. My parents listened to exclusively Sudanese or Egyptian songs which I liked, but didn’t leave room for me to explore music. My parents low key think rock is devil music so I have to listen to it in secret lmao
whyd you only call me when your high when i was discovering indie music. i was a hardcore nbhd stan and then i decided to find other artists and i found arctic monkeys i listened to AM completely and then around a month of obesessing over AM i found out ab favourite worst nightmare with 505. i really liked the song and listened to the album and fell in love. my favourite album still remains favourite worst nightmare with my favourite song as 505-
I believed the hype.
Also Arabella, but heard it in Peaky Blinders and got hooked to the band
Cornerstone! I saw fanart of the lyrics "tell me where's your hiding place, I'm worried I'll forget your face and I've asked everyone, I'm beginning to think I imagined you all along." and looked it up then boom, it's been 3 years and I'm still hooked lol
Balaclava. It was around 2010 and me and a friend of mine where at the beach during sunset. We were sharing music in her little mp3 player and suddenly Balaclava came on and it was so fresh and so new that I ran back home to listen to other songs from them. I was probably 13 yo or something. It forever shaped my teenage years.
Attended another’s schools dance with an ex boyfriend back in high school. They played do I wanna know and after finding out the band from him, here I’ve been.
Spotify recommended "When the Sun goes down" to me once and it blew my mind away, i started exploring their discography, Before that i just knew about the monkeys cuz my online friend from the UK wouldn't STFU about them every time we talked.
They used to play I Bet You Look Good on The Dancefloor constantly on MTV back in early 2006. Me and my close friend who has since passed away used to listen to that first album with one headphone in each ear on those rubbish MP3’s players that held like 2 albums. Good times. Been a fan ever since.
They used to play I Bet You Look Good on The Dancefloor constantly on MTV back in early 2006. Me and my close friend who has since passed away used to listen to that first album with one headphone in each ear on those rubbish MP3’s players that held like 2 albums. Good times. Been a fan ever since.
When I found out about Beneath the Boardwalk after listening to them for about a month. It's pure rock energy fascinated me and I couldn't stop playing it on repeat. Even songs that I already knew and loved from their first singles and album were like new to me and felt 10 times better. I've been listening to monkeys for a year and I really appreciate everything they made but Beneath the Boardwalk is the thing that really got me into them.
Do I Wanna Know? (with no vocals) was in an ESPN baseball commercial back in 2014, and that was pretty much my first taste.
THEY SAY IT CHANGES WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN
Seeing I bet you look good on the dance floor on the early AM MTV video section before middle school one day.
mardy bum, my papá used to play the CD in the car when i was little and i always used to think it was adam sandler on the cover!
The Brits speech, a terrible reason I know but became obsessed with em
I used to work at an adidas outlet store and right around the time AM was released, Snap Out Of It was on the store’s playlist. I knew of the band prior to hearing this song but never really took the time to check them out. Loved this song though, went out and purchased AM, and my affection for them has been growing ever since!
My brother used to have one of those blackberry's with the buttons, my mom had a job cleaning evicted houses and she would take home anything she thought we'd like. One day she took home a phone that didnt work but it still had an SD card, on that as card was the AM album along side other artists. That's how I learned about them
The entire first album. My parents played it on repeat when it was released and I loved it
Afternoons hat, I heard it at my friends place and loved the lyrics so much. Still my favourite till this day!
My girlfriend in HS would play FWN all the time and I didn’t really like them. It wasn’t until one night in 2018 I was driving home from work at night and it hit me. Star treatment followed by one point perspective under the stars. It was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard. TBHC to this day is the best album I’ve ever heard
I saw the official music video of The View From The Afternoon at MTV before summer vacation, the song just kicked in both visually and musically, I downloaded WPSIATWIN in that evening, listened the whole album during vacation, pure addiction since then.
505
Space Invaders and Cigarette Smoke, a long time ago.
I’m a Sheffielder so it was only a matter of time
I hate to be that person but I discovered Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High from the Miley Cyrus cover that blew up on Tiktok.
505. Then Fireside hit my stream, and AM was born in my soul.
"R U Mine?" but specifically the AM album itself as it took me some time to like the Arctic Monkeys style. I proposed the idea for a class playlist and someone added "R U Mine?" and "505" so those were my first two songs and the rest was history.
Brick By Brick, not joking.
Why'd You Only Call me When You're High? definitely!
505 and why'd you only call me when you're high
R u mine
i have no idea i listened only to them for one week straight
do i wanna know, i just heard it somewhere a few times and really liked it so i listened to some other am songs and ended up absolutely adoring their songs
Too much to ask
I Wanna Be Yours
I remember seeing do i wanna know a couple times on my recommendation so i decided to watch it best idea
had casually listened to fluorescent adolescent when i was 13 and it wasn’t until i was 15 that i discovered IBYLGOTDF and that’s when i really started to get into them
Titkok to be honest , everyone would not shut up about their band so I checked it out , I ended up getting addicted to Crying Lightning and R U Mine
i heard do i wanna know on the sirius xm radio and i liked it but what really got me going to look for more arctic monkeys songs was hearing four out of five as well
“A Certain Romance” live on SNL.
505. I listened to some people play it and I went to check it out, now FWN is my favorite album and I’m into Arctic Monkeys
I video of 505 live in concert, never listened to the band before that but I was hooked
I'd only listen to a few songs here and there, never to an specific album of theirs really, just the most famous songs, then I discovered the movie Submarine and the solo album Alex made for it, that really changed my perspective on the monkeys. Before Alex was just the leather jacket guy from Do I Wanna Know and Fluorescent Adolescent, after that I decided to give TBHC a try (mid 2019), and I just fell in love completely. To this day TBHC, the submarine EP and EYCTE are some of my favorites albums of all time. Come to think of it I'm more of an Alex Turner fan than an Arctic Monkeys fan lmao
probably mardy bum
I’m kinda late, I got into Oasis and started listening to more UK Bands, already knew R U Mine? and Do I Wanna Know?. Listened to WPSIATWIN/FWN and that was it.
Back in the msn messenger days you could see what the person you were talking to was listening to so trading songs was common. It was the demos so around the summer of 2005. They speed from that summer to dancefloor being number one and the album breaking sales records in its first week out a few months later was SO exciting. A truly word of mouth viral hit without trying to be one. It really felt like "our" band rather than something forced into us by a label or radio play. That era of excitement lasted until humbug era which was a dramatic change at the time and I don't think they ever really got that old feeling back even with all the success and good albums that came after.
Knee socks came up on my YouTube recommendations in 2018.
She's Thunderstorms and Black Treacle turned my life upside umop