BOTB - Poll 6 - Arctic Monkeys vs. The Cure
 

I know this is going to crush my dreams...because I adore The Cure sfm but I know they'll lose this. But please listen to the vids I post if you're unaware of them ;)

Arctic Monkeys:


Brianstorm


Mardy Bum

The Cure:


Close To Me


Friday I'm In Love

The Cure, of course. Grew up listening to them. :)

Arctic Monkeys are shite.

Cure of course.

The Cure.

They actually make albums that actually ... how do I put this ... sound different? Beautiful, lucid, visual songs. Not boring, straight up rawk and rawl for the lager generation.

Arctic Monkeys.

If Artic Monkeys win people have a series problem

I know Arctic Monkeys get alot of hate on the forum
but their ****ing amazing

The Cure - Amazing and influential band
Arctic Monkeys - Everyday indie overhyped to hell.

The Cure for sure.

Nice! That should be the genre section they are placed inside in record stores!

I'm not going to vote in this one. I love both bands.

christ this is such a ****ing joke.

Level! Woah, surprised.

C'mon the Cure!

Imo, Arctic monkeys kinda revolutionised Indie music in this era..then loads of bands followed suit.

They are fcking epic.

How so? They are just really, really popular. They didn't 'revolutionize' anything. Not that all bands have to, of course, but when people over hype them by saying that I just don't get it.

What are they doing new?

The Strokes, The Hives, The Libertines were all doing what the Arctic Monkeys were before them, and much better too.

Let's not forget The Arctic Monkey's are some of the biggest culprits on the planet of using dynamic range compression techniques in the studio as a cheap way of blending all the sounds into one unimaginative, noisy, cluttered mess so it get's noticed more on the radio in the VOLUME WARS.

The result, take for instance 'I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor', is a bombardment of the most unsubtle, one-dimensional noise known to man.

I guess, but its just what I think!


I love how dirty rock they sound, if you get what I mean? And brilliant riffs

They would be better if they had done more albums like the first, as the 3rd album was generally ****

I quite like Alex Turners lyrics, especially of the first album. Anything after that is hit and miss

two totally different bands

but the Arctic monkeys move me more
and too much of the cure stuff is miserable and too gothy

I hate when people say that, it's such a stereotype. The really melogoth Cure stuff was only in the early part of the bands career. In fact, the vast majority of the material has a positive spin to it. Just look at the the most commercial singles : Just A Day, Lovecats, Friday I'm In Love, Close To Me, Just Like Heaven, Pictures Of You ... hardly miserable!

I agree though it's a strange poll. Two completely different bands. Popularity contest I suppose.

*considers discounting courtney123's vote*

i have the greatest hits which if you want the new order type of pop they did then yep they have done sunny pop stuff but a vast majority of their sound is really downbeat.

i would have put New order or D. Mode up agaisn't them

I agree the music sounds downbeat but then the Cure did always have a fetish for low brow plodding baselines :hugesmile:. The lyrical content is a different story though.

i love the Cure's pop stuff you can't knock it and probably would have been even bigger if they stuck to that sound but i admire them for not taking it easy on their fans :joker:

Smith is a great lyric writer

True stuff man they could have been huge had they gone with the mainstream but they do what they want and the hardcore fans stick by it! :blush: