Track Listing

1. View From The Afternoon
2. Cigarette Smoker Fiona
3. Despair In The Departure Lounge
4. No Buses
5. Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7593 in Music
• Released on: 2006-04-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Explicit Lyrics, EP, Maxi
• Dimensions: .12 pounds

Customer Reviews

Sticking to their guns
"Bring on the backlash!" demands front Monkey Alex Turner in the comeback single from a band that never went away in the first place. Their recent world-conquering success would cause most other young bands to vanish in a cloud of tantrums and intoxicants, but these whippersnappers seem determined to prove they've got staying power.
Smack bang in the middle of their U.S. tour Arctic Monkeys drop their most chest-thumping EP yet, featuring the raucous opener from their LP, a thorough reworking of an old song and three new slabs of simian succulence.
The View From The Afternoon is getting all the radioplay, and though it's always been a bit confused it's still the best thing on the airwaves at the moment. Cigarette Smoker Fiona drops all the strippers and lyrics from its earlier version and focuses on yet another night of debauchery. If anything it's a slight improvement on the unreleased original - and not just because it rhymes ghetto with stilettoes.
Two of the remaining tracks are slower and more sober: Despair In The Departure Lounge sees a sad soul watching sitcoms on a plane to keep his mind off his lonely heart, while the chirpier No Buses investigates infidelity and the lunacy of chasing what you can't have. "And just 'cos everybody's doing it / Does that mean that I can too?" asks Alex wistfully, before the song shrugs its shoulders and turns into a George Formby cover (almost).
And then to finish, there's the obscene, self-referencing title track. Taking a snarling stand against the short-lived nature of success and celebrity - as well as the willingness of their contemporaries to conform - the Arctic Monkeys don't just throw down the gauntlet with this track, they nail it to the floor. "Just 'cos we're having our say-so / Not lining up to be Playdough / Oh in five years time will it be / Who the ****'s Arctic Monkeys?" wonders Alex. On the strength of this, I doubt it.

6 Stars !!!!!
I agree with an earlier reviewer, the album is the best debut since Oasis. This EP follows up with a punch to the rest of the music industry - it's as if the Monkeys have really challenged everything and taken music into a completely new direction. Sure they have their influences but these guys stand alone in their use of lyrics, guitar and sheer passion.

This EP just whets the appetite for the next album. Its one of those CD's that you play, play and then play again. And then you get on the Mardy Bum's nerves for humming it around the house.

Tops. Buy it.

worth it for 'dispair' alone
excellent ep.got the 10" vinyl(just to be different) and oh my god its an excellent ep. without any question my favourite song is 'despair in the departure lounge', 'cos well it's a classic and on of the best things they have done since 'a certain romance' or 'bigger boys and stolen sweethearts'.
the biggest suprises in the ep where
1.this is not the original 'cigarette smoker'(not as good asoriginal still ok)
2.why is this ep named after the worse songs in the ep.

the only thing that confuses me is why didn't the release this as a 'view for the afternoon' single and b-sides which would get them a 3rd no.1? but i quess we'll never know.....