Every Arctic Monkeys Single Ranked Worst To Best

6. Teddy Picker

This song is so Northern.

Recorded live in the studio, Teddy Picker took inspiration from the likes of The Strokes and channelled their energy into this rager of a tune all about the effects of the entertainment industry.

Lyrically, Teddy Picker is flawless; lines like “They've sped up to the point where they provoke. The punchline before they have told the joke” are catchy, weighty and uber cool to equal amount. The song dissects ideas of fame and the commodification of artists and their music, it lashes back at the industry that catapulted them into fame and focusses itself on highlighting hypocrisy and vanity.

The bass line is fat on Teddy Picker as it storms through a song for the British working class. It sits right at the start of Favourite Worst Nightmare, an album that saw the band on the verge of world domination sticking to what they know rather than cynically try to capture it. As a result they ended up able to have their cake and eat it too.

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