Description
The reference points for the Arctic Monkeys are wide and varied. Musically, there's musical bits of The Stone Roses, Oasis and Nirvana. As catchy as those reference points are, it's the lyrics that have won this band a fiercely dedicated crowd very quickly. The songwriting delivers a mix of the observational storytelling of Davies and Weller crossed with the harsher documentary eye of Mike Skinner of The Streets and "Ghost Town"-era Specials.
Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not is the debut studio album by English rock band Arctic Monkeys, released on 23 January 2006 in the United Kingdom and on 21 February 2006 in the United States by Domino Recording Company. Preceded by the chart-topping singles “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor” and “When the Sun Goes Down“, the album also contains re-recorded versions of both tracks from the band’s debut EP, Five Minutes with Arctic Monkeys (2005). It is the only Arctic Monkeys album to feature bassist Andy Nicholson, as he left the band shortly after the album’s release
