Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'M Not

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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 by Domino Recording Company and on 21 February 2006 in the United States. Even now the young Alex Turner's lyrics are genuinely impressive in how vivid a vision of the People's Republic of South Yorkshire they can create. In effect, the group performed a complete run around the industry, avoiding conventional routes toward stardom, which paid off in spades.

Working with a band that is looser and grittier than the Mondays, Shaun Ryder sounds reinvigorated, creating.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 by Domino Recording Company. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. So, it’s little surprise that the Gallaghers’ laddism celebrating nights out fueled by lager and loud guitars is the bedrock foundation of the Arctic Monkeys. The album surpassed Elastica‘s self-titled album to become the fastest selling debut album in British music history, shifting over 360,000 copies in its first week, and remains the fastest selling debut album by a band.

Released in 2006, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not is the debut album by English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys. The album includes their first two singles "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" and "When the Sun Goes Down", as well as re-recorded versions of both tracks from the band's debut EP, Five Minutes with Arctic Monkeys.

What I like the most is that you can train your ear to listen to any of the parts of this band - the drumming is solid (far more so than say, Franz Ferdinand), each song is driven by terrific guitars and bass that will stay in your head as long as the lyrics will.