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The 10 Greatest Arctic Monkeys Songs!

Just three albums old (well, nearly) but Sheffield’s Arctic Monkeys already have an oeuvre. But what are their finest slices of chip-shop surrealism and 21st Century satire set to a metallic gonk-beat? With their third full album on the verge, MOJO expounds on their best so far…

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10. Crying Lightning
(single, 2009)

First taste of Humbug and it’s a throaty, tumescent artefact. Josh Homme evilness hovers, sinister guitars abound, and Alex Turner’s mind is once again set to “dirty”: “My thoughts got rude as you talked and chewed on the last of your pick’n’mix”. But what exactly is “that magic trick you had called Crying Lightning”? Is it a sex thing? Everything about this song says, Yes, it is. DE

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