[Shaun]

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:

Youtube video

Brianstorm

Youtube video

Mardy Bum

The Cure:

Youtube video

Close To Me

Youtube video

Friday I'm In Love

[Enid]

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

Arctic Monkeys are shite.

[setanta]

Cure of course.

[Stu]

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.

[King Gizzard]

Arctic Monkeys.

[Damaris]

If Artic Monkeys win people have a series problem

[Ramsay]

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

[LemonJam]

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

The Cure for sure.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by LemonJam

Everyday indie

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

[Rory]

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

[Shaun]

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

[Stu]

Level! Woah, surprised.

C'mon the Cure!

[King Gizzard]

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

They are fcking epic.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Nate

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?

[Shaun]

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

[Stu]

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.

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by Stu

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.

Stu please!

Did you not think I havent read that quote before??

If your gonna say soemthing at least say who said it man.....

[InOne]

Originally Posted by Schumacher

Stu please!

Did you not think I havent read that quote before??

If your gonna say soemthing at least say who said it man.....

Who said it?

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Schumacher

Stu please!

Did you not think I havent read that quote before??

If your gonna say soemthing at least say who said it man.....

Alan Wilder, Depeche Mode? He did an article awhile back. I find it to be a great phrase. So I used it. I don't see the big deal. It's hardly as if I robbed a bank. I know where I got it from. And it wasn't Wikipedia.

Also ArsenalForever I know AM's were big before NME jumped onto them but they did help propel them.

Christ, I'm sorry I ever went against the almighty Monkeys.

[King Gizzard]

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 ****

[InOne]

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

[arsenalforever]

two totally different bands

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

[Stu]

Originally Posted by arsenalforever

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.

[arsenalforever]

Originally Posted by Stu

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.

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

[Stu]

Originally Posted by arsenalforever

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 . The lyrical content is a different story though.