Favourite Worst Nightmare

The media hype that proceeded the Arctic Monkeys' first record was one of the most annoying things ever, and rendered all the more annoying by the fact that I liked-but-didn't-love the album. About the second album, however, I heard no hype whatsoever before listening to it for the first time today, and on one listen I like it, but don't love it, except this time in a completely non-annoying way.

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