“Brianstorm” by Arctic Monkeys

"Brianstorm" kicked off Favourite Worst Nightmare, Arctic Monkeys' second album, landing as a download on 2 April 2007 and in the shops two weeks later on Domino. It announced a bigger, rowdier band: louder and heavier than anything they'd done, with pounding drums and surf-rock tremolo guitars. That frantic, tricky drum part later landed at number ten in a MusicRadar poll of the millennium's greatest drum tracks.

Alex Turner wrote the words and sings, Jamie Cook, Matt Helders and Nick O'Malley are credited with the music, James Ellis Ford and Mike Crossey produced it, and Alan Moulder mixed it. Downloads alone got it to number 21 in the UK; once the physical single arrived it rose to number two, kept off the top only by Beyoncé and Shakira's "Beautiful Liar". In Scotland it became their fourth straight number one.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.