My thoughts got rude as you talked and chewed on the last of your pick and mix

OK, first things first.. Alex Turner is wearing the exact headphones I have on right now in the music video for "Cornerstone" - coincidence? I THINK NOT. All I need now is to jump on someone's shoulders at Benicassim festival when I see them live this summer, give him a quick wink and the romance will surely begin.

A very slight contribution to the forthcoming posts of the Sheffield Monkeys! Arctic Monkeys are full on favourites of mine and that is one of the many reasons I will be attending Benicassim Music Festival in Spain this summer, besides the buzzing crowds, late night partying, brilliant bands and artists performing.. and oh let’s not forget the half naked indie boys! This post is quite album specific though, I LOVE every other album but the friends in close proximity to me always underestimate the album HUMBUG. Why though? OK so it was a little dark, mysterious and sexy... we find those qualities attractive in each other so why not in an album?

Cornerstone

Songs like Cornerstone where the story plays out that he spends weeks going round town trying to find a girl just like his ex girlfriend and ending up getting with her sister sounds very true to life. NOTE: For any guy I might have had a little kiss with that is reading this - I've never got with your brother don't worry! The music video makes me laugh, Alex oddly walking up to the screen, eyes wide humorously demonstrating little bits of the story.. altogether a brilliant song to that makes you feel like you are the one in that day dreamy gaze trying to forget about a lost romance.

Secret Door 

"I'm completely occupied by the fools on parade, cavort and carry on for waiting eyes...

She's never been the kind to be hollowed by the stares"

The album has such an eery feel to it all the way through that you feel compelled to put yourself in the same mood as the melody... Secret Door, for me, likens to a bar scene looking through the eyes of a drunk girls boyfriend - reluctant to get involved with all the drunken madness. Maybe I'm on my own with that thought, its usually the case that I think oppositely to normal minds.. but I've been that guy, embarrassing stares just don't seem to sink in for some people. But maybe thats the way to be! 

Crying Lightening

"And I hate that little game you had called crying lightening"... 

The single they released to introduce the album. The Pirates of the Caribbean-esque music video, sultry faces and the storm picking up as the song does. I like it. But what I like about this song is that it has that Arctic Monkeys feel to it, you have to sing along, you have to know the lyrics - I must refer to From Ritz To The Rubble - as a teen me and my friend got it into our heads that we would learn the song inside out in ONE day - its doable... With Crying Lightening you get that buzz and I thought it was a great choice for the single release

Fire and the thud... Dance little liar... The Jewelers hands

I could go on. Any of you skeptical so and sos.. wack the album on again, dim those lights and get involved in the songs. Or... just enjoy it.

FiftysAtHeart signing out for a great weekend ahead

xx