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" &amp;quot;That rock and roll. It seems like it&amp;#039;s fading away sometimes, but it will never die,&amp;quot; Alex Turner said in that Brit Awards speech earlier this year. He had a point. Arctic Monkeys&amp;#039; first number one single was sandwiched between Sugababes &amp;#039;Push The Button&amp;#039; and Westlife&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;You Raise Me Up&amp;#039;, while the first single from 2013&amp;#039;s AM flittered around a singles chart that saw Robin Thicke&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Blurred Lines&amp;#039; reign supreme. From knackered Converse to Elvis-coiffed hair, Arctic Monkeys have been a permanent fixture for almost a decade, reminding us that rock and roll still has its place. However, lurking in the cracks between their big breaks and now classic albums there&amp;#039;s a cluster of B-sides and demos that fill in the gaps in the Sheffield band&amp;#039;s story. Ahead of their headline set at Reading &amp;amp; Leeds Festival we take a look at the tracks most people won&amp;#039;t have heard. &amp;#039;Bigger Boys And Stolen Sweethearts&amp;#039; - 2005 Forget 18th century painters, the verbal meanderings in Arctic Monkey&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor&amp;#039; B-side proves that Alex is the true testament to the artistic genius of the Turner name. Nuanced observations about the woes and ego-bashing of losing a love interest to a bigger bloke sees Arctic Monkeys&amp;#039; 19-year-old frontman begrudgingly concede: &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s pinched my bird and he&amp;#039;d probably kick my head in.&amp;quot;      &amp;#039;The Blond-O-Sonic Shimmer Trap&amp;#039; - 2011 Featuring as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of the Monkey&amp;#039;s fourth album Suck It And See, &amp;#039;The Blond-O-Sonic Shimmer Trap&amp;#039; teases glimmers of the career-spanning fusion of heavier Humbug guitar riffs with slick, offhand melodies that would come into full force on AM. The band also claimed to throw around the idea of calling their fourth album The Blondo-Sonic Rape Alarm...       &amp;#039;No Buses&amp;#039; - 2006 Arctic Monkeys embraced the hype machine, over-excitedly vomiting their name across every avenue in 2006 with their tongue-in-cheek EP &amp;#039;Who the F**k Are Arctic Monkeys&amp;#039;. Rather than launching a clattering assault, &amp;#039;No Buses&amp;#039; sees Turner imbuing his wisdom that, &amp;quot;An ache in your soul is everybody&amp;#039;s goal&amp;quot; over subtle guitar twangs and notably reserved drumming from a now notably unreserved Matt Helders.      &amp;#039;Electricity&amp;#039; - 2012 It&amp;#039;s 2012 and Alex Turner has sent alarm bells ringing among the most devout Arctic Monkeys fans with a nonchalant comment about being inspired by rappers including Drake and Lil Wayne. What followed was less &amp;#039;Hold On, We&amp;#039;re Going Home&amp;#039; but rather storming AM opener &amp;#039;R U Mine&amp;#039;. B-side track &amp;#039;Electricity&amp;#039; lurks aloofly in its shadows, fringing between falsetto vocals and careless snarls.      &amp;#039;Cigarette Smoke&amp;#039; - 2004 Before Whatever People Say I Am, That&amp;#039;s What I&amp;#039;m Not projected them to indie-rock messiah status, Arctic Monkeys had already created a cluster of demos under the title &amp;#039;Beneath The Boardwalk&amp;#039; to dish out at their shows. A polished-up version of the collection&amp;#039;s track &amp;#039;Cigarette Smoke&amp;#039;, rebranded as &amp;#039;Cigarette Smoker Fiona&amp;#039; later appeared on &amp;#039;Who The F**k Are Arctic Monkeys&amp;#039;, most notably without the reference to &amp;quot;snorting some coke&amp;quot; off a stripper&amp;#039;s thighs.       &amp;#039;What If You Were Right The First Time?&amp;#039; - 2007 The B-Side to &amp;#039;Brianstorm&amp;#039;, the anticipated first track from the Monkeys&amp;#039; second album Favourite Worst Nightmare is another prime example of the high calibre of their offcuts. Turner&amp;#039;s carefully honed deadpan vocals and Nick O&amp;#039;Malley&amp;#039;s tyrannical bass drive the track forward, with &amp;#039;What If You Were Right The First Time?&amp;#039; also vaguely tracing the gradual toning down of Turner&amp;#039;s Sheffield accent.      &amp;#039;Despair In The Departure Lounge&amp;#039; - 2006 Another &amp;#039;Who The F**k Are Arctic Monkeys&amp;#039; gem brimming with colloquialisms and subtle nods to Only Fools and Horses&amp;#039; cockney duo Rodney and Del, and another solid reason why you should believe the hype. &amp;#039;Despair In The Departure Lounge&amp;#039; transforms the sad situation of pining for someone in a people carrier into one of the great epic romances of the 21st century.      &amp;#039;Wavin&amp;#039; Bye to the Train or the Bus&amp;#039; - 2004 Continuing along the raucous sexual badinage of &amp;#039;Beneath the Boardwalk&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Wavin&amp;#039; Bye to the Train or the Bus&amp;#039; has Turner squawking: &amp;quot;I can see you want to be attended to/ Just count to twenty-nine and I&amp;#039;ll attend to you.&amp;quot; Who would have thought nine years on they&amp;#039;d still be at, albeit with slicker, punk poet John Cooper Clarke-lended lines like, &amp;quot;I wanna be your vacuum cleaner/ Breathing in your dust&amp;quot;.       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