Arctic Monkeys: the ten best songs according to Radio X's chart

Alex Turner's Arctic Monkeys remain one of the (few) contemporary bands able to win over both underground pop-rock listeners and the mainstream audience. The online magazine Radio X paid tribute to them with its top ten of what it considers their all-time best songs.

Here are the ten best Arctic Monkeys songs according to Radio X (full feature here).

10. “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor” (17 ottobre 2005)

9. “Arabella” (September 9, 2013)

8. “Snap Out Of It” (9 giugno 2014)

7. “No. 1 Party Anthem” (September 6, 2013)

6. “Fluorescent Adolescent” (July 9, 2007)

5. “R U Mine?” (February 27, 2012)

4. “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?” (August 11, 2013)

3. “505” (April 23, 2007)

2. “I Wanna Be Yours” (September 9, 2013)

1. “Do I Wanna Know?” (June 19, 2013)

The British magazine Mojo also paid them tribute, publishing a ranking of their albums (and those of their frontman Alex Turner) released to date. "Very few bands have had to face the enormous expectation that greeted the Arctic Monkeys at the start of their career," recalls Chris Catchpole in the introduction. "Fresh out of school in the early 2000s, they were already being hailed as the greatest band of their generation, largely thanks to a handful of demos they'd uploaded to their MySpace page. Arctic Monkeys not only fully lived up to the hype with their 2006 debut album, 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not', but quickly grew, reinventing themselves time and again. Whether as the rockers of 'Humbug' or the surreal crooners of 'Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino', it all testifies to the extraordinary talent of the band and their creative leader, Alex Turner, who," Mojo adds, "has also proven his worth outside Arctic Monkeys, as one half of Last Shadow Puppets alongside Miles Kane, as a producer, and with his only solo record to date, the soundtrack to Richard Ayoade's 2010 film 'Submarine'."

So here's a journey through the output of one of the most talented songwriters of his generation, via Mojo's ranking (full feature here).

11. Alexandra Saviour – Belladonna Of Sadness (Columbia, 2017)

10. Alex Turner – Submarine (Domino, 2011)

9. Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You've Come To Expect (Domino, 2016)

8. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug (Domino, 2009)

7. Arctic Monkeys – Suck It And See (Domino, 2011)

6. Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worse Nightmare (Domino, 2007)

5. Last Shadow Puppets – The Age Of the Understatement (Domino, 2008)

4. Arctic Monkeys – The Car (Domino, 2022)

3. Arctic Monkeys – AM (Domino, 2013)

2. Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (Domino, 2018)

1. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (Domino, 2006)

Meanwhile, Arctic Monkeys have registered a new company and relaunched their official website, fuelling rumours of a possible return to the studio for the follow-up to "The Car". Alex Turner, Matt Helders, Jamie Cook and Nick O'Malley have registered a new limited liability partnership, Bang Bang Recordings LLP, with the UK's Companies House. The move follows the dissolution, on April 1st, of their previous company, Bang Bang Tour Services LLP, suggesting there are no plans for now to return to touring.

The British band hasn't performed since December 2023, when they wrapped up the touring cycle for their seventh album, "The Car", with a show in Dublin. Since then, none of the members has released solo material and all have kept a fairly low profile. The one exception was bassist Nick O'Malley, who took the stage in June with guitarist Tom Rowley – the band's regular touring member – for his first-ever solo show, in Sheffield.

Alex Turner, meanwhile, made a public appearance last May at the Music Week Awards in London, where he paid tribute to the band’s longtime manager, Ian McAndrew.

On "The Car", which arrived after the lounge-pop turn of "Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino" that had thrown longtime fans of records like "AM" and "Whatever People Say I Am…" for a loop, the quartet moved beyond the psychedelia-steeped science fiction of the previous record, returning to Earth with clearer, more defined sounds, accompanied by their trademark wordplay full of double and triple meanings, though occasionally lapsing into excessive self-referentiality, amid love stories and nods to musical inspiration and the music biz.

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