Track Listing

1. Well Well Well
2. Showroom
3. Send in the Boys
4. What About Next Time?
5. Lipstick Licking
6. Cheshire Cat Smile
7. Stockholm Syndrome
8. Storm In A Teacup
9. Last Bus
10. Brewster
11. What You Could've Won
12. Roll Out The Barrel

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10905 in Music
• Released on: 2006-10-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Running time: 37 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
It's a very straightforward science. Sheffield is the Petri dish you see, the Arctic Monkeys the original bacterial spore of this latest cell culture. It's an accepted inevitability in these kinds of conditions that there will be imminent and accelerated asexual reproduction of said cells, it's just what happens. And lo, a matter of months later nature has taken its course. Milburn are four lads from the city of steel cutlery and Jarvis Cocker with a line in post-Libertines earnestness, pounding rhythms and overflowing colloquial accounts of the life that unfolds immediately around them. Things should be sounding familiar by now.

They're by no means the only ones, but by largely following through on their threat and not mucking about too much with the template they've made themselves into a fairly resilient proposition. This isn't a Northern Uproar/Oasis mismatch, though naturally they're missing the extent of their recent forefathers' edge, especially where the Monkeys' bungled eloquence is concerned. But by also ratcheting up the discipline of the Ordinary Boys and the added tunefulness of Maximo Park, especially on "Cheshire Cat Smile" and "Storm In A Teacup", they prove their worth. Everyone likes a game of spot the difference. And it seems things have happened in Sheffield that the Arctic Monkeys haven't had the chance to cover yet. --James Berry

CD Description
'Well Well Well' is the debut album from northern indie rock hopefuls Milburn. Inhabiting the same musical landscape asfellow northerners The Arctic Monkeys, the band mix upbeat Britpop-esque pop with biting, gritty lyrics to good effect,giving their music a universal appeal. Includes the single 'Send In The Boys' and 'What You Could've Won'.

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Customer Reviews

Antarctic Monkeys
When I first played a friend of mine "Send In The Boys", he said that it was a "bit early for an Arctic Monkey's tribute band". I thought the comparisons were a touch unfair and were mainly based on their accent and the fact that they sing about modern life through keen observation. (Should they have put on cockney accents and sung about the unhappiness of the upper classes, just to be different?)

This album sees Milburn set themselves apart from their younger, more famous city-folk, and whilst they haven't broken particularly new ground here, they have still crafted a catchy, exciting sound. I just hope the record-buying public gets a chance to hear it. The lack of coverage this band get in mainstream media is shocking and even the hype-machine (NME) have largely ignored them, probably in favour of some terrible band of drug-addicted art-students in pointy shoes and Russell Brand hair styles.

But I don't want to moan about image and media... Well Well Well is all about music. It really reminds me of a 'northern version', if you'll excuse the tag, of The Rifles album from earlier this year. Its unpretentious, working class rock and roll that has a sense of humour and a heart, and importantly, a melody. There are some really catchy tunes on this album, and my current favourites are "What About Next Time?", "Last Bus" and the rawkus "Lipstick Licking". The songs here are suitable energetic and punky, but there has been criticism, particularly from those who have seen their early live performances, that their sound has been polished and has softened a touch. Maybe I'm getting old, but it still sounds pretty raw to me!

Q: What came first the Milburn or the Monkeys?
Q: What came first the Milburn or the Monkeys?
A: Doesn't matter.
10 points if you answered correctly.

For a bonus 10pts.
Q: Who's better, who's best?
A: Get over it!

Lose a gazillion points and any cool you might have had left if you think either question matters.

Truth is both are excellent. Milburn are more strident, straight forward and in your face. The Arctic Monkeys have the arty songwriting, grittyness and quirks. Both have the Sheffield twang and are obviously bred like good beer from the same hops.

Who came first? Doesn't matter. Who's best? Honestly, get over it. Milburn are another great band to be filed alongside Maximo Park and Bloc Party at the punkier end of the new wave of Brit Pop spectrum.

So enjoy both, it's double the fun :o)

Magical Milburn
This album is just amazing.....love it, love it, love it!!!

I haven't been this excited about a band since I was a teenager and I'm 33 now.

Anyway, they just shade it over the arctic monkeys for me, but as other reviewers have already said, that isn't important. Definitely a band in their own right.

I can't wait to check them out live.