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Fluorescent Adolescent. " Fluorescent Adolescent " is a song by English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys. It was released as the second single from their second studio album Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007). [5] It was released on 9 July 2007 in the United Kingdom. The lyrics were written by Alex Turner and Johanna Bennett, Turner's girlfriend at ...
Favourite Worst Nightmare is the second studio album by English rock band Arctic Monkeys, first released in Japan on 18 April 2007 and released in their home country of United Kingdom on 23 April 2007 by Domino Recording Company. Recorded in East London's Miloco Studios with producers James Ford and Mike Crossey, the album was preceded by the ...
Mike Crossey. " 505 " is a song by English rock band Arctic Monkeys. Written by lead singer and frontman Alex Turner and produced by James Ford and Mike Crossey, it is the closing track on the band's second studio album, Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007). The song was a sleeper hit, initially peaking at number 73 on the UK Singles Chart.
The band later released "Fluorescent Adolescent" as a single, and it charted at No. 5, after debuting the song live on The Jonathan Ross Show dressed as clowns. [62] [63] The third single from Favourite Worst Nightmare, "Teddy Picker", was released on 3 December 2007. [64]
On 18 August 2013, the song debuted at number eight on the UK Singles Chart, making it their first top 10 single since "Fluorescent Adolescent" in 2007. The single's B-side, "Stop the World I Wanna Get Off with You", independently reached number seventy-four on the UK Singles Chart on 8 September 2013.
It spent six weeks within the top 100 before a vinyl release propelled it to number 42. The single dropped out of the chart four weeks later. It has spent 12 total weeks within the top 100, their longest run since 2007's "Fluorescent Adolescent", and more than their previous lead single, "Crying Lightning". [8]
The music video for the single debuted on Channel 4 in the UK on 15 October 2009.. The music video, directed by Richard Ayoade, who worked on the videos of "Fluorescent Adolescent", "Crying Lightning" and their At the Apollo DVD, shows frontman Alex Turner singing the song alone in a white room holding a cassette recorder and microphone during the whole video. [8]
The poetic spoken lyrics recount the love of one person for another, using metaphors around various domestic equipment: I wanna be your vacuum cleaner. Breathing in your dust. I wanna be your Ford Cortina. I will never rust. [1] The poem was included in a GCSE English anthology. [2] Clarke re-used the title of the poem for his autobiography ...