from Pitchfork:

"On November 14, Hip-O Records/Universal Music Enterprises will release Rhythms del Mundo, a collaborative record that unites members of the Buena Vista Social Club with their pasty white musical brethren. After obtaining permission from the various bands to modify their material, the Cuban collective (under the guidance of arranger Demitrio Muniz) created brand new backing tracks for the original vocals of songs like "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and "She Will Be Loved".

Even Arctic Monkeys, who are known for not loaning their music to anybody, gladly submitted "Dancing Shoes" to the Club."

 

 

And this is the tracklist:

 

01 Coldplay - "Clocks"

02 Jack Johnson - "Better Together"

03 Arctic Monkeys - "Dancing Shoes"

04 Dido & Faithless - "One Step Too Far"

05 Ibrahim Ferrer - "As Time Goes By"

06 U2 and Coco Freeman - "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"

07 Maroon 5 - "She Will Be Loved"

08 Kaiser Chiefs - "Modern Way"

09 Omara Portuondo - "Killing Me Softly"

10 Vanya Borges feat. Quincy Jones - "Ai No Corrida" *

11 Sting - "Fragilidad"

12 Vanya Borges - "Don't Know Why" *

13 Aquila Rose & Idana Valdez - "Hotel Buena Vista"

14 Coco Freeman & Franz Ferdinand - "The Dark of the Matinee"

15 El Lele de Los Van Van and Radiohead - "High and Dry"

16 Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo - "Casablanca" [bonus track]

 

you can listen to clips from here

 

Personally, I think it's sounding VERY cool :laugh3:

Oooh, I like a lot of those songs! I'll actually give this a listen, cheers! :D

And I abso-fucking-LUTELY love your sig, by the way!!! :laugh4:

 

 

 

Strokes butt. Gotta love 'em. LMFAOO

Thanks, same to yours! they look very confused yet highly intriguing :wacko:

 

Strokes butt all the way! :laugh3:

I think that's pretty much how Stan and Didz look all the time :laugh4: :P

 

 

 

 

Rock on Strokes butt!!! :laugh4: :uhoh:

Further evidence to Stan and Didz behaviour: your avatar :laugh3:

 

They look completely adorable though, they pull off the innocent look very well!! :lol:

Oh yes, they do. Haha. Anything but! :uhoh: :laugh4:

:laugh3:

oh man, did you hear about the lastest AM related news?

Pink wants to collaborate with our monkeys... +_+

she said, they've got an attitude she likes and she really enjoyed "IBYLGOTD".

c'mon... just... don't ...

LMFAO.

 

 

 

OMG.

 

 

 

 

LMFAO.

 

 

That's hysterical. Pink can suck it. hahahaha. What a fake "punk" pop princess. Bitch.

 

:laugh4: I'd laugh my ass off if they did, though. I'd kind of love that....

Oh yeah, and my friend was just asking, do you have like... a quote or something? I dunno, she'd love to read it apparently :laugh4: :laugh4: Doens't believe it, apparently!

http://www.mtv.de/news/news.php?id=24228

it's german though.

doubt it will help you... :confused:

haha, well I'll just be like LOOK AT THIS LINK. She won't even care. :laugh4:

 

thanks anyways ;)

I know awards an all that stuff really don't matter but

 

07.12.06

 

Grammy Awards Nominations

 

Arctic Monkeys have today been nominated for 2 Grammy Awards in the US. The Awards take place next year on February 11th.

 

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

Chun Li's Flying Bird Kick

 

Best Alternative Music Album

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

I dunno, but I just can't imagine the guys being at the awards.

 

Imagine these 20-year-olds surrounded by people in suits and gowns and reporters asking, "I love your outift, it's very sharp. Who are you wearing tonight?" and all those other questions :uneasy:

 

 

I hope I'm not sounding greedy.

This made me laugh :laugh4:

 

I wonder what they would answer :thinking: :laugh3:

Yeah.Love this band too.Actually my band is covering Fake Tales of SF. I love that song! I bet you look good on the dance floor is great!

AM at the Grammys?

lol.

imagine them winning the award. i suppose they'd be all drunk again ... hehe. Mercury/NME Awards anyone?

MONKEYS BAN CHARITY VIDEO

 

 

WHEN it comes to saving the planet, most bands are jumping on the charity bandwagon.

 

But not the Arctic Monkeys. The band have been accused of putting their "ethics" ahead of beating global warming in a furious bust-up with a leading charity.

 

Climate-change group APE (Artists' Project Earth) had signed up the Monkeys alongside U2, Radiohead, Coldplay, Dido, Kaiser Chiefs and Sting for its Rhythms Del Mundo charity album compilation.

 

The Arctics agreed to allow their song Dancing Shoes to be given a Buena Vista Social Club-style re-mix for the album. But have now been branded "super-precious" after they scuppered the video accompanying their song - after they'd seen it on GMTV.

 

Despite the charity splashing out £10,000 on the Club Havanastyle video, the stroppy Sheffield lads, led by bratty frontman Alex Turner, right, said that they "don't do advertising" and don't want it to be appear on TV again.

 

They also don't want their name appearing on advertising for the CD.

 

And things reached a head this week when one of the Monkey's management team rang the charity and allegedly shouted: "F**k global warming."

 

Our source tells us: "The Monkeys were initially very excited about the project as it's for such a good cause. The charity sent them a copy of the video for approval and presumed everything was OK. But once it was shown briefly on GMTV, all hell broke loose as the Monkeys' people consider it 'advertising'."

 

Now the charity is furious and says the band's actions are not only harming the album, but hurting the fight against global warming.

 

"The song can't be played on the music channels because now there's no video to go with it," says our nark. "So sales are seriously hit. The other much bigger acts such as Coldplay and U2 have been true professionals - unlike the Monkeys."

 

A spokesman for the band failed to respond - but you can see the video on You Tube where it's been getting rave reviews.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/tm_headline=frosty-arctics&method=full&objectid=18242717&siteid=94762-name_page.html

LMFAO the Mirror. No one is safe from their poisonous grip. :laugh4: "source" "nark", wow, what trust worthy journalism they offer. :rolleyes: I believe bits and pieces, but until it comes from another source...

 

 

If they win a Grammy I'd basically shit myself. Then die from the laughter.

 

Here's who they're up against, from grammy.com:

 

Best Alternative Music Album

(Vocal or Instrumental.)

 

* Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

[Domino Recording]

 

* At War With The Mystics

The Flaming Lips

[Warner Bros.]

 

* St. Elsewhere

Gnarls Barkley

[Downtown/Atlantic]

 

* Show Your Bones

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

[interscope Records]

 

* The Eraser

Thom Yorke

[XL Recordings]

 

 

Ohhh I want the Flaming Lips or Yorke to win. Because the Arctics won't even want it anyways. :laugh4:

dude, you know gnarls barkley's going to win that. anybody on that list would be awesome to win it anyway. the yeah yeah yeahs album rules.

Totally. On both counts.

 

 

Personally I think We Are Scientists should crash the party and come flying on the stage mounted on ostriches and steal the awards for themselves.

 

 

Just a fantasy, though.

i completely fucking agree with that.

oh my, oh my...

http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=10b55108c9ea6760bac1b4bG06121604

oh. my. god.

 

 

LMFAO.

Ooooh I was reading about the new album in NME today, it sounds like it's gonna be a corker. Alex said that this album so far has a lot of 'From the Ritz to the Rubble' and 'The View from the Afternoon' sound to it. :dance:

Which sounds fucking excellent to me as those are two of my faves from the first album (lmfao, or just the ones that make me air-drum the most :laugh4:)

 

Although i'd still really like to hear some 'Riot Van' type of stuff too. I think they're much better at slow tracks than they think they are. 'Despair in the Departure Lounge' is one of my fave Arctics tracks, it's brilliant. :heart: