Mardy Bum
A domestic row set to music, and an album track that got radio play without being a single.
Arctic Monkeys, from Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
- Written by
- Alex Turner
- Released
- 2006
- Album
- Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Mardy Bum was among the demos that circulated online in late 2004. It was never released as a single, but it appeared on UK radio playlists in mid-2006 and is still played now and then on BBC Radio 1. Alan Smyth produced it, and Jim Abbiss mixed it.
Alexis Petridis wrote that Britain's male population may grimace as one at the simmering domestic row it depicts, quoting the line "You're all argumentative, and you've got the face on". NME summed it up as the guy whose girl has got the hump.
More songs by Arctic Monkeys
I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, When the Sun Goes Down, A Certain Romance, Fluorescent Adolescent, Do I Wanna Know?
Sources
- Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, Wikipedia
- Arctic Monkeys, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, The Guardian (2006-01-13)
- Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not review, NME (2006-01-12)