Arctic Monkeys - Top Marks For Not Trying

I had a bit of Arctic Monkeys stuff knocking about that wasn't really worth posting by itself as there was only 5 or so tracks in each collection, so I cobbled them together to form this compilation, similar to the Proud Mary album I made a while back. This and Beneath The Boardwalk cover all the material never officially released up until 2008, although I'm not sure any other songs have surfaced since then anyway. This is made up of the Favourite Worst Nightmare Demos, the songs on the Covers Mixtape that were not officially released, and three other unreleased tracks that have never really been compiled anywhere: Wagon On The Way To The Stripey Tent, Put Me In A Terrorpocket and Sandtrap. All the tracks here are from around the Favourite Worst Nightmare era, hence the band logo used in the artwork I made. Basically, think of this as Beneath the Boardwalk part 2. This is exclusive to the blog, and in my humble opinion very much worth a download to help complete your Arctic Monkeys collection. Link is my own.

Tracks 1,5 and 11 ripped from various Youtube videos.
Tracks 2,4,6,7,8 and 12 from Favourite Worst Nightmare Demos.
Tracks 3,9,10 and 13 from the Covers Mixtape.

Wagon On The Way To The Stripey Tent
Teddy Picker (Demo)
Love Machine (Girls Aloud Cover)
The Bad Thing (Demo)
Put Me In A Terror Pocket (Live)
Balaclava (Demo)
Fluorescent Adolescent (Demo)
Brianstorm (Demo)
You Know I'm No Good (Amy Winehouse Cover)
Take It Or Leave It (The Strokes Cover)
Sandtrap
Do Me A Favour (Demo)
Diamonds Are Forever

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The Sums - Division

The Sums are a band from Liverpool, who have been knocking about for a few years now. The singer and frontman, Digsy, was a friend of Liam and Noel Gallagher, and is referenced in the Oasis songs Digsy's Dinner and Be Here Now. In the 1990s he was in another band called Smaller, would post their album but it's on iTunes so not really rare. Check it out though, the album is called Badly Badly. Anyway, as I said the Sums have been around for a few years now but only officially released a single EP, so I decided to take it upon myself to compile an album of all the songs and demos that have been posted on Myspace or Youtube in the past few years; the result is this 12-song album, which I decided to name Division. As a result this album is exclusive to this blog. The band's sound is similar to Smaller's, but slightly more experimental in parts. Highlights include the cover of Paperback Writer, Ringin' In The Rain, Vegetable and Who Cares. Feedback would be very much appreciated on this one, as I designed the cover and compiled it myself. Reommended to curious Oasis fans and fans of Smaller, Cast and the Real People.
Comeback Scumbag
I Go Down
I Won't
Kiss Yourself Goodbye
Let's Get Special
Paperback Writer
Ride To Nowhere
Ringin' In The Rain
Rise
Scared Of Missing Out
Vegetable
Who Cares

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