Product Description

'The State Of Things' is the debut album from Arctic Monkeys associate Jon 'The Reverend' McClure. Wry and observational lyrics about everyday life are equally matched with indie guitar pop and a touch of Madchester-esque funk. Includes the singles 'Heavyweight Champion Of The World' and 'He Said He Loved Me'.

Track Listing

1. State Of Things
2. Machine
3. Heavyweight Champion Of The World
4. Bandits
5. Open Your Window
6. Sex With The Ex
7. 18-30
8. He Said He Loved Me
9. What The Milkman Saw
10. Sundown On The Empire
11. Miss Brown
12. Armchair Detective

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1597 in Music
• Released on: 2007-09-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Customer Reviews

rev and the makers
most original and best album i've heard in years, provocative, thought provoking and real life. always makes me smile.

Not quite loving it but getting there
Without making any comparison to the Artic monkeys or any other bands and just listening to this album as what it is its pretty good. The songs that are good on it are really good and the rest just fail below the mark.It starts of great with fast beats and memorable hard tunes for the first five songs then it seriousily lulls till track 8 He said he loved me- (a chavs anthemn to unrequeinted love ). Heavyweight champion is the outstanding song and the other first 5 songs are in a similar vein.However the rest seriousily lull and this is where the album falls down- however in honesty its a failing of many albums nowadays.
There are no great suprises on this album and all the released track songs are the best ones on the albm the others are indeed forgetable. However if you like these tracks its worth buying this as you know what you are getting- and I personally love Open your window, Heavyweight champion and state of things as they beat a lot of songs out there for orginalioty and cunning beats.
Hopefully there next album will be stronger and they will start to expand more as they are in danger of just replicating the same great song over and over again. In my eyes the reverend has some great songs and talent hopefully his next album will show more diversity and more consistancy. Saying that I do love this for what good songs it has on it but just feel they have sold themselves a bit short.

Pleasant surprise
I bought this cd after hearing "heavyweight champion of the world" while shopping in HMV, never heard of them before and not really my type of music either. After listening to it a few times i am pleasantly surprised!! The first 3 tracks are really great but then it seems to go down hill a bit but they are all great tracks. Reminds me of Preston from the ordinary boys but better!! Well can't be worse can it?? I've got heavyweight champ as my ringtone now which has people asking" who's that mate" when my phone rings in pubs etc so I'm spreading the word folks.