The bands fifth album “AM” featured three main singles “R U Mine”, “Do I Wanna Know” and “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High”. The Fender Precision Bass was the world’s first electric bass guitar that produces one of the most iconic bass guitar tones to date. The bass player, Nick O’Malley used a Fender Precision Bass and a Rickenbacker 300 in his early career. Whilst touring their first album, the Arctic Monkeys used a pretty plain pedalboard including ProCo RAT2 distortion pedal and BOSS TU-2 tuner. There are two channels, one that produces a crunchy and clean sound and the second that produces a higher gain. It’s a UK built amp with a very specific tone. The Arctic Monkeys’ mainly used Orange brand amps in their early career, more specifically the Orange AD30. They generally have similar electronics and are made of similar materials, although they have a different feel and sound. Of course, the Strat is one of the most iconic guitars of all time, the Telecaster is less known but still hugely popular. He doesn’t usually write lyrics with other people, though I think he enjoyed it.The lead guitarist of the Arctic Monkeys’, James Cook, had a pretty simple setup and used a Fender Telecaster whilst the singer and rhythm guitarist Alex Turner played a Fender Stratocaster. It’ll always be a good memory for Alex and I.
It’s great to think that it came from something we did for fun on holiday. We were in a really quiet hotel and didn’t watch TV or listen to that much music… So as not to drive each other mad we started messing around with these words like game, singing them to each other. We were on holiday and had cut ourselves off from everything.
It’s just right, really.Īs documented by NME magazine, Johanna herself said during an interview for The Observer that: Then it were like, “Here’s another verse.” We were having a laugh. The song’s roots lie in a Mediterranean holiday Turner and Bennett took during which they were reminiscing about characters they knew at school, as he recalled in The Times magazine in 2007 (documented by NME magazine): The writing of this is co-credited to Johanna Bennett, Alex Turner’s ex-girlfriend. The song is one of the band’s most popular and a concert staple. It describes a woman who dreams of her youth while her current life is unsatisfying and boring, with emphasis on her sex life.
“Fluorescent Adolescent” is a ballad about getting older and finding out that life isn’t as fun anymore.
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