10 Greatest Arctic Monkeys Songs

An accurate and detailed analysis of Northern youth culture, A Certain Romance has remained a fan favourite ever since it debuted. This is essentially an epilogue to the story of the album.

The main crux of this song is the superficial nature of different subcultures and how frustrated the narrator has become with them. Only instead of critiquing these cultures and peer pressures and lack of romance, the narrator, rather tragically, accepts his fate. 'Over there there's friends of mine, What can I say I've known 'em for a long long time'. This is the narrator feeding back into the cyclical nature of the song. He will eventually be peer pressured once again into doing the typical lad type things on nights out.

This is a nuanced and complex dissection of youth culture. It both critiques and embraces aspects of it and leaves it up to the audience to ponder on further. The song doesn't tell you one way or another to think, and that's why it is such a fan favourite and still appears regularly on Arctic Monkeys' set lists.