Best Of The Worst 1993-1997, The - Oblivians

Advantages: An awesome follow-up album
Disadvantages: Disadvantages?!

...The Arctic Monkeys…the phenomenon that is. When they released “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”, the music world took to them like a duck to water, breaking all sorts of records for debut selling albums etc. etc…now comes, of course, the difficult second album. “Favourite Worst Nightmare” was released in April this year on Domino Records, and the whole world were waiting on it… The first sounds we heard from it was a month earlier with the release of the single “Brianstorm” that was first debuted on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show…I was listening at the time at he ‘bigged’ it up as if it was the saviour of world hunger and global warming. Was he right? Well, from a musical point of view, he couldn’t have been far off. A 3-minute piece of music, face-paced, clever lyrics, just how rock music should be. It was certainly... Read review

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Advantages: More MTX, great vocals, some great songs.
Disadvantages: No-one knows them!

...of unreleased songs and eps, from between 1993 and 1997. Why some of these songs never made any of the other albums I will never understand, some of these are more than worthy of the past albums. The first 8 songs were originally released as an Ep with the same title as this album, they have been remastered for this album, hence the Special addition in the title. The album comes with a nice inlay sheet, with all of the lyrics and a little written piece about the collection, written by Dr Frank. As this album is 25 songs long i wont do a track by track as i would probably bore you all to tears and loose my CoT, so ill just pick some of the best and worse on offer. ---TAPIN UP MY HEART--- This track opens the album, with a much louder sounding guitar track than on other albums. The riff is quite simple with some stop and start sections... Read review

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Advantages: Second great album from the Arctic Monkeys
Disadvantages: Might need to listen a few times

...It's second album time Arctic Monkeys, arguably the most eagerly awaited album of the year. This famous foursome from Sheffield set out to prove that they're not just a flash in the pan. It sounds like they have done things right too. There are no unlistenable to songs and they haven't lost their edge. Sensibly, they have decided to stick to what they are best at. Their wonderful 'pop' songs with loads of depth and maturity. Tracks such as Brianstorm on the opening single are perfect. While the sound is more of an evolution from Whatever People Say I Am, there are times when the musicianship is simply fantastic. Matt Helders is on top form, being compared to the likes of Dave Grohl, on Brianstorm. It sounds almost as if the band have cloned him, so massive is the drum sound on the opening track. The amount of depth... Read review

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