Advantages: Makes you feel good about yourself
Disadvantages: Makes you feel sick

...Arctic roll is a creation that should never have happened! Surely it came from the twisted mind of an off-duty geneticist, tired of grafting human ears to the back of mice! For anyone unsure of what Arctic Roll actually is, I shall elaborate: Imagine a small "log" of ice cream enshrouded in sponge cake, separated by the merest layer of strawberry jam. Now I know what you're thinking "I really like ice cream/sponge cake/strawberry jam, What could be the problem with that?" and I agree, ice cream/sponge cake/strawberry jam are all excellent foods ON THEIR OWN!!!! The main problem comes the fact that due to the nature of it's main ingredient, ice cream, it needs to be kept and served frozen and who likes frozen sponge? Also ice cream has a very smooth texture, sponge cake blatantly doesn't, making them sit very strangely on the palatte... Read review

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Advantages: staggering early sales, quality of the band at such an age...
Disadvantages: ...in over their heads maybe?

...Four Sheffield lads with guitars eh…. Who'd have thought it. The Arctic Monkeys tale is an intriguing one indeed. Having shifted over 100,000 copies of their debut album "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" on it's first day of sale alone, the album went on to sell a further 250,000 copies in the following 6 days - making it the quickest selling debut rock release in British recording history, eclipsing all the greats of the past in the process. It's a remarkable achievement for a band that were only getting their name out-and-about a mere 3 months ago, but thanks to much bigging up on the part of the NME (and other publications besides), Sheffield's newest rock quartet are set to become the band to be in 2006 - Stateside included. The bands tale is one of internet sites and demo releases; having passed about short demo... Read review

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Advantages: Everyday tales of pub/club/cub culture we can all relate to.
Disadvantages: We had heard most of the tracks already on the net!

...Anthemic indie tricksters The Arctic Monkeys, a cheeky bunch of Yorkshire lads, seem to 'ape' Mike Skinner as much as they do Hard-Fi, with their brand of Sheffield steel. How ironic for a city forged in a furnace of industrial heritage that the Arctics, who claim to be technophobes, owe so much to the 'burning' of files on the internet. If Pete Doherty is the Byron of the music industry, this band is part Alan Bennett, kitchen sink drama and part Pam Ayres - telling it how it is with tongues still in their cheeks. So was 'You Look Good on the Dance Floor' - an honest-engine bona-fida naughty Northern nattering - a fluke on an album solely based on a couple of singles, or, as many dewy-eyed critics suggest, are they are the new Streets/Smiths/Verve/Wedding Present? Indeed whatever happened to Menswear - the last band... Read review

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Advantages: Alex is a fantastic lyricist writing about real down to earth experiences
Disadvantages: There are a couple of weak tracks.

...When somebody’s beat The Beatles in the charts with the debut album, the expectations from the second record are as high as the anticipation before it's release. Will they do it or will they not? -- is all that bothered fans the day before Arctic Monkeys’ sophomore album Favourite Worst Nightmare was out (I should admit, the same question has been haunting music critics). They did it -- the new record is a worthy follow-up to Whatever People Say I am That's What I'm Not. It doesn’t grab you by the balls like the previous record did. Instead, you would need a few listens to get into. The titles became shorter, the guys are saying less words a second than they used to and are more straight in expressing themselves, avoiding any flourishing details. What you would expect from a sophomore album is most of it's songs sounding like... Read review

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Advantages: An awesome follow-up album
Disadvantages: Disadvantages?!

...The Arctic Monkeys…the phenomenon that is. When they released “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”, the music world took to them like a duck to water, breaking all sorts of records for debut selling albums etc. etc…now comes, of course, the difficult second album. “Favourite Worst Nightmare” was released in April this year on Domino Records, and the whole world were waiting on it… The first sounds we heard from it was a month earlier with the release of the single “Brianstorm” that was first debuted on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show…I was listening at the time at he ‘bigged’ it up as if it was the saviour of world hunger and global warming. Was he right? Well, from a musical point of view, he couldn’t have been far off. A 3-minute piece of music, face-paced, clever lyrics, just how rock music should be. It was certainly... Read review

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Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: none

...If you are looking for an ultra quiet, stable and very efficient processor cooling system that's the one for you. Installation At first have to admit that I have good computers knowledge but it was first time ever in my life to install cooler. Thus instruction was extremely helpful for me. Everything in there has been clearly marked and shown. When switched on computer, did not want to work. Forgot to connect it  Newer mind. Silly mistake but when have done it and started my computer up was not sure if it is working. Simply could not hear anything. When checked - was on and doing great job. I was impressed. Silence Arctic Ultra Silent fan is moving on high quality Ceramic bearing. Trust me or not, had many computers in my life and in my hands but this cooler is seriously well made and designed. Thanks... Read review

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