I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor

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"I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"
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Single by Arctic Monkeys
from the album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Released17 October 2005 (2005-10-17)
Recorded2005
StudioChapel (Lincolnshire)
Genre
Length2:54
LabelDomino
Songwriter(s)Alex Turner
Producer(s)Jim Abbiss
Arctic Monkeys singles chronology
"I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"
(2005) 		"When the Sun Goes Down"
(2006)
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"I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" is a song by English rock band Arctic Monkeys. The song was released through Domino Recording Company as the band's first single from their debut studio album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006). It debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart on 23 October 2005, and remains one of the band's best-known songs.

Arctic Monkeys performed the track at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics. The song was ranked at number 7 on NME's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Music video[]

The video is a live recording of the band playing the song in a studio with a small audience watching with both the video and audio taken live. Alex Turner introduces the band and the song and asks viewers not to "believe the hype" of the song.[5] The video was shot using three Ikegami 3-tube colour television cameras from the 1980s[6] to give it a more aged effect.

Awards[]

On 23 February 2006, the track won Best Track at the 2006 NME Awards—one of three awards won by Arctic Monkeys.[7]

One of the B-sides, "Chun-Li's Spinning Bird Kick", was nominated for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in the 2007 Grammy Awards.

In October 2011, NME placed it at number 11 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".[8] It was later ranked seventh on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time," with NME noting that the song is "the perfect encapsulation of what it is to be young, pissed, lusty, angry and skint in modern day Britain."[9]

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by Alex Turner, except where noted.

CD, 10-inch
No.TitleLength
1."I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"2:54
2."Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts"2:59
3."Chun-Li's Spinning Bird Kick" (Instrumental, Arctic Monkeys)4:40
7-inch
No.TitleLength
1."I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"2:54
2."Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts"2:59

Personnel[]

Charts[]

Certifications[]

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[27] 2× Platinum 1,200,000double-dagger

double-dagger Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history[]

Country Date
United Kingdom 17 October 2005
Europe 21 October 2005
Australia[28] 24 October 2005
United States 14 March 2006

Covers and other references[]

The song was covered by Sugababes as a B-side to their single "Red Dress".

The Vines released a cover of the song as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of their album Future Primitive, released 3 June 2011.

The song was covered by the group Baby Charles and released as a single in 2009.[29]

On 1 July 2007, Tom Jones and Joe Perry of Aerosmith performed their own version of the song at the Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium.[citation needed]

In May 2007, NME magazine placed "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" at number 10 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.[30]

In February 2008, Alan Wilder, the former member of Depeche Mode, criticised the mastering of the song in an open letter on the Magazine website.[31] He described its sound as "a bombardment of the most unsubtle, one-dimensional noise."

The line "Your name isn't Rio, but I don't care for sand" is a reference to Duran Duran's song "Rio". This is the first of two references to Duran Duran in the band's lyrics, the second one appearing in the song "Teddy Picker" from their second album Favourite Worst Nightmare.

On 27 July 2012, the band played the song at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.[citation needed]

References[]

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  31. ^ "Recoil / Alan Wilder - 'Music for the Masses - I think not' - interview at SIDE-LINE". Side-line.com. 29 February 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2014.

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