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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelDomino
EAN5034202016212
eBay Product ID (ePID)13052233077
Product Key Features
LanguageEnglish
Era2000s
Release Year2006
FormatRecord
FeaturesStudio Recording
GenrePop, Alternative, Rock
TypeAlbum
ArtistArctic Monkeys
Release TitleWhatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Additional Product Features
DistributionIntegral/Cinram Novum
Number of Tracks13
Country/Region of ManufactureEngland
Additional InformationThis instant classic propelled the young rock band to the top of the charts as the fastest-selling U.K. debut to date.
Reviews"Guitars and drums ricochet off each other; riffs are bounced around like soccer balls. With their kicky hooks, the songs owe more to Warped Tour thrashers than to stoic post-punk inspirations..." -- Grade: A-, 5 stars out of 5 -- "Alex Turner's breathless delivery is faultless, a foaming cocktail of lust and longing, occasionally brimming over into Costello-esque rage.", Ranked #1 in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums of 2006" -- "Bristling with energy and plugged into the era's social conditions and colloquialisms.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "The unassuming foursome of nineteen- and twenty-year-olds specializes in propulsion, momentum and repetition -- in succinct riffs and snarly, wordy lyrics...", Ranked #82 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "Arctic Monkeys delivered a debut bristling with Modish urgency and teenage angst.", "There really was no doubt that in this modern punk and hip-hop inspired vignette of reality bites, and Northern colloquialisms, the Monkeys had defined the zeitgeist...", Ranked #17 in Rolling Stone's "The Top 50 Albums Of 2006" -- "Garage-punk nuggets built in the grim steel town of Sheffield.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "Fashion and hype be damned -- this is thrilling, incontrovertible evidence of a major new talent in our midst.", Ranked #03 in Spin's "The 40 Best Albums of 2006" -- "Beneath the scenester cool and post-Pavement guitar fuzz. WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM is exuberant teenage garage pop..."