ARCTIC MONKEYS - A Certain Romance | REACTION
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TODAY'S VIDEO: Into the Music Reaction - "A Certain Romance", by Arctic Monkeys
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Can you believe they were all 17-19 yrs old when they recorded this album?? So incredible. And I really do think Matt Helders is one of the top drummers alive today.
Your lyrical analysis is absolutely spot on. That's the "certain" romance Alex talks about - not between people, but for the place itself, for his neighbourhood. "You won't get me to go, not anywhere, not anywhere".
High Green is a pretty rough working class area of Sheffield, which was a city built up around the steel industry. While some areas of the city have since evolved and gentrified, others have been left behind to squat on a very typical North-England post-industrial poverty line. Kids his age didn't have much to do but scrap, cause mischief, chase girls and play music, and you'll hear that in all the songs off their first two albums. That kind of culture and outlook is not at all unique to Sheffield, but the pride and local specificity with which he references his hometown resonates with people all over the UK, because we all feel that way about where we come from.
I believe it also refers to the music itself, they're not making music for "new ringtones" but because there's a certain romance for the music.
This song should have been called, 'An anthem for doomed youth" it captures growing up working class in England so well.
Fake Tales of San Francisco is a great song off this album that does an excellent job at providing snarky commentary on the amateur music scene and nightlife during their early years.
My favorite song by them
I love that Alex sings with Sheffield slang.. Their early vids were shot in our local areas they were 'claimed' as our lads! 😂
It's so great that people love them. They're still the same lads. 💗
I'd say the lyrics talk about british youth culture at the time, whether it's at a bar or just in general.
Alex (the singer) just kind of sarcastically comments on all the little stupid or shallow things people do/did, observes it and kind of makes fun of it (the first album is basically full of these witty, sarcastic, observational lyrics about this topic). The last verse then acknowledges that he might scoff at the behavior in other people, but he 'gives it a pass' when it comes to his friends. - 'you cannot get angry in the same way'.
What's notable is also the fact that this song concludes their debut so the last verse can also kind of apply not only to this song, but also to the other ones.
I love the debut album, it's got amazing energy, fun tunes and witty lyrics - but their other albums are just as good and sound very different - it's one of the main strenghts of the band - you never know what's coming on the next record - As someone else mentioned here, it would be cool if you did a song from each album first so you could get a taste of their progression. (Seeing the abbey road poster I think you might like some of their later stuff too :P )
pro tip: you can watch movies on InstaFlixxer. I've been using them for watching all kinds of movies recently.
@Talon Alec yea, I have been watching on instaflixxer for months myself =)
Also, you are right. Turner is romanticizing, vis-a-vis nostalgia or familiarity, a locale and its natural ambiance that really aren't romantic in the slightest, yet hold a certain level of charm to those who are "of" it.
When the sun goes down next please
Of all the videos in all the world we had to both watch this one.
Tom Ellis that’s fantastic🤣
Love your discussions about Arctic Monkeys! Try a song from each album so you can talk about the transition from one album to the next!!
Love that idea! Thank you. - G.
Do so guys, is a great discography
“When the sun goes down” you guys won’t regret it (great reaction)
High praise coming from you. :)
Their best song and one of my favourites of all time.
Just found you guys and enjoying your reactions. The whole of the first Arctic Monkey's album is chronicling one night out, so the first track starts off with the anticipation of getting ready to go out and then onto pubs, clubs, meeting girls, run ins with bouncers, taxis home, the seedy late night etc, all seen from a very (Northern) British viewpoint
Welcome!
Y favorite modern band. Found them in my early twenties, and their sound matured right along with me. Great reaction fellas,please keep AM coming!
Loved the reaction to this song!
My interpretation of the lyrics is more about brotherhood within a circle of friends.
The first few verses they're stereotyping people they don't know and judging them harshly when they're not quite so innocent themselves, but that's ok because they have each other.
"Well, over there, there's friends of mine
What can I say? I've known 'em for a long long time
And, yeah, they might overstep the line
But you just cannot get angry in the same way"
Such a good debut album
I'm a bit late catching up on this one but thanks, great track. I bought the first album when it first came out so it's fun to be reminded how good it is. I must be demented, I've started watching videos of yours I missed a month ago. But then again if you're reading my reaction to your reaction then I guess we're all demented....! Strange times ;)
Kindred spirits.
Hi from New Zealand 🇳🇿🤪watching u two talk about the song is like watching 2 kids talking about there Christmas presents ....I love 2 see it .people appreciating music is always a joy to watch 👍👍👍another request from me is
Dlow vs b art 2019 beat box battle u guys would be amazed at what these guys do with just there mouths 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😮
Time to kick it up a gear - May I suggest "DC Fontaines - Boys in the better land (Darklands version)". If you like the Arctic Monkeys then you should really dig this band. Its the next shelf above the Artic Monkeys.
The opening bit of the song is a sped up version of Riverboat Song by Ocean Colour Scene
fluorescent adolescent, do me a favor, and 505. Also, they have some of the best live performances EVER. AHHH I could just keep going and going.
Alex Turner's social commentary of growing up on a Council Estate here in the UK where, as a product of their environment, gangs of youths aka CHAVS (Council House & Violent) wore their "Tracky bottoms tucked in socks", He refers to the violence, drink & drugs & says "y can see it's a little different around here" & "it's clear there aint no romance around here". He does backtrack a little though by as he's grown up with most of these people & considers them friends, so doesn't judge them a severely as others might
Keep it up!!
You just heard a freaking masterpiece and of course it's deep...a certain romance is THE MUSIC. Their making music because they love it, it's real, it's not for new ringtones. The whole album is an homage to being young, going to bars, making music, describing all that, but this, the last song ends it all perfectly, they love their hometown, and all the shenanigans but at the end of the day, its all about their romance with the music. A sly admittance brilliantly done. Arctic Monkey fans study them like you studied Shakespeare in college. I'd give you a D.
At least not failing. ;)
Alex and his band come from Sheffield which is seen as the 'rough part' of England, kind of like Detroit I guess? Although there are rougher parts in England than Sheffield. The singer is saying there's nothing 'romantic' about the place like say London but he still loves his hometown and his friends. The song is nostalgic of Alex's childhood.
being from the uk, and growing up in this kind of environment, the lyrics really resonate with me, maybe out of more some weird nostalgia for this then anything else, but to me, the lyrics are about Alex and his friends judging what we call chavs in the pub, for acting like knobs, before then acknowledging that the group he is currently with are actually similar in a lot of ways. it ends with Alex saying that he cant get as angry as he would with strangers for acting in this way, as the people in the pub are mostly people he grew up with at school and as a kid or teenager. nothing incredibly deep, but im sure any brit who grew up in this "chav culture" find a lot of nostalgia from this song
Thanks for your perspective.
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Great reactions. Different from what I’ve seen before.
No one is going to say they love this town, but don't you dare say anything bad about it. These mugs will squabble about you. This is their home. It's a rough town. It's a non-glamourous town. But it is very homely.
Live in Barcelona is by far the best version of this tune
Just discovered your channel! Could you please do something from their AM album or Fluorescent Adolescent from FWN album please! Great video.
They were just kids when they recorded this first album. Only about 16 I think. Think Alex Turner was a few years younger than that when he wrote most of the songs too.
Wow! That young!? So freaking impressive.
Is it ironic that the word phonetic start with a ph? Great review!
Please react to Arctic monkeys - red light indicates doors are secured .
Arctic monkeys - when the sun goes down .
I'm wondering what you'd say about Alex Turner's side project. The Last Shadow Puppets. Maybe you could react to The age of the understatement?
Please react to if you were there beware or the jewellers hands same by arctic monkeys
Can you do Interpol's "Obstacle 1"?
505 soon pleaseeeeee
Will do our best. Definitely loving the Arctic Monkey journey.
Florescent adolescent next please 🙏
Hi Hannah - We reacted to that song a few days ago. Please check it out and let us know what you think. Thanks!
505
505 ( if you haven't already)
This song hits me so hard in so many ways, emotionally in high school when this came out, and physically recently when I played it on my car's sound system with a 15 inch subwoofer. 👂🎶
I can relate to that experience you just shared. Whatever the song, music can sound so good cranked up when on the road! - Greg
You have to do some of their later stuff! It's more interesting.
Nah the debut is the top tier of their discography.
@@bentownsend4017 first album is great, there was nothing like it at the time. Gets boring quickly tho, not much substance to it. Gets boring quite quickly. It's rock music for teenagers
@@taz454 gotta disagree with you. To say the older stuff gets boring quite quick is purely your opinion. I’d imagine that most of the fan base would probably disagree with you too. I love Tranquility Base, but I’d argue A Certain Romance is the most complete song Arctic Monkeys have released so far
@@lukehodgkinson5062 yeah mate, totally my opinion. Personal preference I guess. Their first album is much more basic musically and lyrically, that's not opinion, that's fact. To be honest I've never even heard tranquility album, it's the only album I haven't bought. I'll give it a go at some point. I still love humbug. The fact most fans don't agree with me doesn't make them right 😉
I think tranquility base and casino is the only album that was more "interesting" than the first one.
Honestly, from humbug to AM there wasn't anything standing out in an interesting way, they were still good tho.
can you react to the strokes?
Recommend something, and we'll give it our best try.
Either “the adults are talking” or “ode to the Mets” by the strokes :)
Thanks. Will do our best.
@@intothemusic908 Not saying those are bad songs, but you may want to go chronological with the Strokes as well (who kind started hot on their first two albums and really spurred the early-2000s "garage rock revival" that Arctic Monkeys started out as a part of. In fact, the first line of the newest Arctic Monkeys album is, "I just wanted to be one of The Strokes/Now look at the mess you made me make." The subsequent Strokes albums have been sort of a mixed bag, with their newest being considered one of the better of the bunch.)
The most famous song off the first Strokes album is Last Nite -- it's basically their "Creep," the one song that keeps getting radio play 20 years later, even though they have many other songs that are just as good if not better. "Someday" is a song I'd recommend off their first album. "Reptilia" is the most famous song off their second album, although both first and second have a lot of songs worth recommending. Third album, I like "Razorblade," other people might prefer others. "Taken for a Fool" is a good song off their 4th. The fifth album was kind of not too well-received, and the newest album the two songs @Steven Huynh recommended are both good.
A couple other great garage rock revival bands were Bloc Party (who are still active, although never reached the heights they started at; some songs I recommend off their first album are Banquet, Helicopter, Like Eating Glass, Pioneers, Congratulations) and Franz Ferdinand (also still active; their most famous is Take Me Out; many other great songs on their first two albums, and some good ones on their third.)
It’s about chavs
Really liked the dance floor song....seemed like me...then the greedy tax thing...now gone for me.
Brit music are just better than the rest.
Lmao no it's not American music is the best
@@TYler-dn2pm hello from 2 years after....wooot.
Think it's more about growing up in a working class area, where nobody as a lot of money, and it's a shit place to live.