Every Arctic Monkeys Single Ranked Worst To Best
15. Do I Wanna Know?
There’s a reason why Do I Wanna Know? is the 'Monkeys’ best selling single ever. It’s absolutely enormous. The song, which features on their 2013 album AM, has over double the amount of streams as their next most popular tune R U Mine? on Spotify. It’s become overplayed, has people obsessing over it and has been almost constant since it’s release, but it still sounds just as fresh as it did all those seven years ago.
Do I Wanna Know? is the uber sexy, retro second single from the album which fuses both simplicity with clever complexities. The band use an unorthodox song structure to provide familiarity with catchiness but still manage to be engaging and new. Turner’s lyricism makes you feel like you’re walking away from an exploding bomb, cigarette in hand. His way of words simply conjures up so much coolness.
Most bands will spend a lifetime trying to capture this much swagger, let alone turn it into one of the best selling indie songs of a decade.