Love for Sale: No. 9

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'When the Sun Goes Down' (2006)
--Arctic Monkeys

This tune name checks 'Roxanne,' and there's a similar Travis Bickle-ish savior complex going on here. But like a monkey, the narrator doesn't do much more than fling poop, verbally calling out a "scumbag" pimp for treating his girls poorly. Very poorly, in fact. For the love of Jodie, do something! Arctic Wussies is more like it.

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Kool Kidat 3-14-2008

Artic Monkeys.... why have I not heard of them? Are they a garage band?

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Paul Wat 4-15-2008

How can they include this song and leave out Gordon Lightfoot's #1 hit Sundown?

I can see her lyin back in her satin dress
In a room where ya do what ya dont confess
Sundown ya better take care
If I find you been creepin round my back stairs

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some oneat 3-16-2008

Dude, "Jackie Big Tits" by The Kooks. Totally deserves to be on this list. Monkeys are complete shite next to anything they do.

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Griffinat 3-18-2008

Rockin song, the arctic monkeys are an actual punk band from England. Kind of under the radar here but they are big across the pond. They don't really describe the song well, and the person they refer to as a scumbag is just that, not a pimp. There's also no reference to the working girls getting abused, other than the fact that "they must be F$%#ing freezing, scantly clad beneath the clear night sky"

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cambria284at 3-18-2008

in response to KoolKid-
the Arctic Monkeys are hardly a garage band. they sell hundreds of thousands of CD's and are pirated even more than that, but only in europe. Im one of about 3 americans that i know who likes them. Check them out, theyre awesome.

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bellatoberat 3-18-2008

HA. i love that song. although flourescent adolescent can be a hooker song as well. fuck the author. dont ever call them wussies.

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Carolinaat 3-19-2008

I hardly believe only 3 americans like them they have an overwhelming following state side. This is a great song and I think Fluorescent Adolescent is more about a girl that grew up and her life became tame, not about a hooker.

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gerald burnsteenat 3-27-2008

i feel like whoever wrote about this song is a high school student that had to hurry up and complete an assignment before it was due. just completely bull shited it. they have a movie inspired by this song entitled 'scummy man'. amazon has it. im american and enjoy arctic monkeys. 4 now. spinner staff? fuck you.

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Kareat 3-26-2008

You know, Sundown does sound like it's about prostitution but it also sounds like someone who is into cheating on her man.I think it's more that one, and I could relate to the chick at the time.

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