![]() Nick Cave has been a massive influence on Alex’s song writing most obviously circa Humbug, so it made sense at this point to tribute the post-punk poet with a cover of his tune. A joke again, no doubt, but still dreadful). (It’s not even the bands worst cover either: that award goes to their live lounge take on Girls Aloud’s “Love Machine”. I’ve also learnt that it’s a favourite for first dances at weddings. But just like the sickest of jokes, it’s quite unforgivable. Yes, it’s clearly a tongue-in-cheek joke. Besides the short lived magic on the acoustic middle 8, it’s just shit, really. Alex’s reference to Sky+ physically hurts, whilst the riff is everything that is bad about the post-White Stripes blues renaissance. This vapid blues rock number is a dull, cringey dud. It’s Arctic Monkeys sounding like bad, Arctic Monkeys wannabes. “7” just sounds like a shit, teenage, working class band, playing their first ever gig in a flat roofed pub and trying far too hard to sound like the Arctic Monkeys. Obviously, they didn’t get the trophy with this ditty. It’s a tune that reaches for funkiness yet falls short of being even remotely interesting. Albeit for the best rock instrumental performance (Obv). Thankfully, they redeemed this awful collaboration 4 years later.įeaturing Miles Kane on the axe, this instrumental track trudges along like a damp take on Sonic Youth, reaching for menace but landing on tedium, before Helders throws down unenthusiastically and the band vert into a few boring riffs. Unfortunately, Richard’s vocal is dry as a Belvita here, whilst the production is pure GarageBand. When the song you’re covering is already terrible, (originally written by Pat Farrell & The Believers), it’s an uphill battle from there on out. This ones the earliest of the two B Sides featuring fellow resident of the Steel City, Richard Hawley. And if you think that we have pulled a “Joe”, then feel free to write a piece on how shitty you think our rankings are. You can listen to our whole list through the Spotify playlist at the bottom of this post. But for the most part, we’re here to celebrate the brilliant B Sides from the best British band of the noughties. And unlike the A Sides, a few of these B Sides are most definitely stinkers. Like Ciara, we haven’t held back if we believe a track is a stinker. To leave them out felt sacrilege, so to put our own ten pence in, we at Fudgel have decided to make a list of our own, ranking Arctic Monkey’s B Sides from worst to best. Ciara Knight was the writer behind the list, and whilst she insisted that the Monkeys were her “favourite band”, she ended up panning a third of their tunes, (which is SACRILEGE as they’ve never had a bad album track), before labelling their psych-rock gem of a record, Humbug, “a flop”.īut most unforgivably, where are all the B Sides?! Arctic Monkeys have an unrivalled legacy of knocking together B Sides that shit all over your favourite bands A Sides. ![]()
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