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)
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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.
Ah man I didn’t realize I did that. It’s all fixed, thanks jen!
thanks so much for these
thank youuu! just got ‘the bad thing.’
Thanks very much for posting these
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.
@ 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!
No problem Adam. Makes me happy to see people glad to have these rarities!
Ah man these are great, they sound INSANE. Thanks for posting ‘em up. Where exactly did you find them?!
found them floating around on a messageboard i think