Album · Art Brut
Bang Bang Rock & Roll by Art Brut
Bang Bang Rock & Roll is an album by Art Brut, released in 2005. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 6 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Formed A Band”, on 4 lists with a best position of #31.
Bang Bang Rock & Roll, Art Brut's debut, came out on 30 May 2005, and it's a record about being in a band that doubles as the best argument for starting one. The South London crew named themselves after Jean Dubuffet's term for outsider art, and NME filed them under its "Art Wave" with Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party and the Rakes, though Art Brut were always the scruffier, funnier cousins.
The guitars are blunt and unfussy, and over them Eddie Argos doesn't so much sing as talk, rant and crow, a gleeful sprechgesang full of jokes about music, romance and his own obsessions, with Ian Catskilkin, Freddy Feedback and Mikey B hammering away behind him. "Formed A Band" says it all in the title. Critics went for it in a big way: its Metacritic score sits at 83, and Pitchfork later placed it at number 192 among the top 200 albums of the 2000s. A reissue with a bonus CD followed in 2006.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Bang Bang Rock & Roll on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Formed A Band | 4 | #31 | – | 2004–2025 | |
| 2 | Good Weekend | 1 | #56 | – | 2006 | |
| 3 | Emily Kane | 1 | #494 | – | 2019 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.