Arctic Monkeys / Whatever People Say I Am, That (1LP)

In early 2006, four working-class lads from Sheffield dropped the fastest-selling debut album in British chart history (362,000 copies in its first week) and changed British guitar music overnight. Whatever People Say I Am, That�s What I�m Not is a 41-minute lightning bolt: 13 razor-sharp snapshots of northern nightlife, taxi-rank fights, bouncers, fake ID scams, underage clubbing, and the desperate, hilarious pursuit of sex and status when you�re 19 and skint.