Every Arctic Monkeys Album Ranked Worst To Best

6. Humbug

Even Arctic Monkeys' weakest album cannot be described as bad but just fairly middle of the road. Not rocky enough to rival their earlier work but not different enough to mark a change in direction for the band.

The biggest insult you can give this album is that it does not feel distinctive to this trailblazing band. Songs like 'My Propeller,' by far the worst opening track of any of their albums, feels like a watered-down pop song which any second rate band could have penned. This is not to say that the album does not have any gems in it. 'Cornerstone' alone is a beautifully told story with a music video, directed by Richard Ayoade who would use Turner's solo work in Submarine, which matches the simplicity of this powerful ode.

It also contains underrated classics such as 'Secret Door' and 'Pretty Visitors', the latter containing perhaps the band's most baffling lyric "what came first the chicken or the !*$%head?" Still a decent album, this third release from the band just feels a distant cousin of their other work.