Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare Demos

By Will | May 17, 2009

I just stumbled upon a few rare Artic Monkey demos. They are from the Favourite Worst Nightmare sessions. I got the demo’s for Brianstorm, Do Me A Favour, Balaclava, Teddy Picker, The Bad Thing, and Fluorescent Adolescent. They are pretty similar to their finished products, just more raw and stripped down. You can actually hear certain instruments a lot more clearly in these songs than you do on the final versions.

The only song that sounds very different is “The Bad Thing”. The Bad Thing may actually be my least favorite Arctic track out of their entire catalog! It isn’t “bad” but it just feels like it doesn’t quite belong on the album. Well, this old demo version works a lot more for me. Their is a lot more…..kick to it!

These are hard to find so enjoy them!!!

[mp3] : Arctic Monkeys – Brianstorm (Demo)

[mp3] : Arctic Monkeys – The Bad Thing (Demo)

[mp3] : Arctic Monkeys – Do Me A Favour (Demo)

[mp3] : Arctic Monkeys – Balaclava (Demo)

[mp3] : Arctic Monkeys – Teddy Picker (Demo)

[mp3] : Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent (Demo)

10 Comments

jen

Posted May 17, 2009 at 12:28 pm | Permalink

hi. it seems like you didn’t put up ‘the bad thing’. instead ‘balaclava’ is up twice. can you fix it? thank youu! these are great.
Will

Posted May 17, 2009 at 1:14 pm | Permalink

Ah man I didn’t realize I did that. It’s all fixed, thanks jen!
Hanan

Posted May 17, 2009 at 4:38 pm | Permalink

thanks so much for these
jen

Posted May 19, 2009 at 5:38 pm | Permalink

thank youuu! just got ‘the bad thing.’
Carl

Posted May 28, 2009 at 2:22 pm | Permalink

Thanks very much for posting these
Adam

Posted May 28, 2009 at 3:24 pm | Permalink

I’m sure these are just live tracks apart from The Bad Thing. The way he dunt swear n stuff, and the way Al is slightly out of tune and they mess up on solos ha.
Louie

Posted May 30, 2009 at 9:50 pm | Permalink

@ Adam

No man, these are not live recordings. These are raw demos. You can pretty easily hear the swearing has just been censured. Thanks a lot Will for the tracks!
Will

Posted May 30, 2009 at 10:55 pm | Permalink

No problem Adam. Makes me happy to see people glad to have these rarities!
Andrew

Posted August 18, 2009 at 1:39 pm | Permalink

Ah man these are great, they sound INSANE. Thanks for posting ‘em up. Where exactly did you find them?!
Will

Posted August 18, 2009 at 1:42 pm | Permalink

found them floating around on a messageboard i think