Arctic Monkeys: 10 Underrated B-Sides (That Deserved To Be Album Tracks)

3. Red Right Hand (Crying Lightning, 2009)

Admittedly less likely than all the other songs on this list to have ever even been discussed for inclusion on a record, Red Right Hand is actually a cover of a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds song. Not that you'd be able to tell if you didn't know.

Musically and lyrically, the song fits right in with the tracks laid down for brilliant third album Humbug that it's a surprise to find out it wasn't written by the boys themselves.

What's more, Arctic Monkeys' version is far superior to the original, speeding up the tempo and replacing the bare instrumentation of the Bad Seeds' version with thick bass lines that are aplenty throughout Humbug.

Turner's voice is perfect for carrying the black poetry of Nick Cave, snarling about "tracks / Where the viaduct looms / Like a bird of doom" with conviction. The upped tempo of Arctic Monkeys' version emphasises the word play and knack for rhyme which is almost lost in the original, and the added guitar parts introduce a sense of dread Cave's track sorely lacks.

Arctic Monkeys' Red Right Hand is so brilliant and fully realised that the only reason we can think of for it being left out from Humbug is because it's a cover. But for a band that ended AM with an instrumental take on a poem, surely its inclusion wouldn't have been too much to ask?