Arctic Monkeys' Humbug - 10 Years On: Ranking The Tracks From Worst To Best

10. My Propeller

As the group grew, so did Alex Turner's burgeoning hard-on for the ins and outs of male sexuality. Previous tracks such as "Still Take You Home" and "Fluorescent Adolescent" had already ensured that such seedy topics were already high up on the frontman's lyrical agenda, but "My Propeller" was perhaps the most on-the-nose of Turner's carnal calls to date.

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Beginning with a guitar-and-drum combination with an uncanny resemblance to The Clash's "The Magnificent Seven", Humbug's opening track turns propellers and plane travel into the most unlikely of sexual metaphors and really sets the raunchy tone for album.

Gone is the group who celebrated the awkwardness of teenage lust, replaced by a randy quartet with eyes set on unleashing all the seediness of the id.

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