505 by Arctic Monkeys

Album: Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)

Charted: 73

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Singer Alex Turner wrote this about going to meet his girlfriend in room 505 at the hotel where she's staying. Turner has admitted that this was the first proper love song the Arctic's have done.
Alex Turner's friend Miles Kane of The Rascals played additional guitars on this track. In 2008 Turner and Kane released an album together as The Last Shadow Puppets.
This includes a sample of an organ taken from Ennio Morricone's soundtrack for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
The song returned to the UK singles chart in October 2022 after enjoying viral success on TikTok. It beat its 2007 peak of#74 on the tally.

Comments: 10

Luc from Aint No WayI thougt it would have been part of a story much like Green Day’s American idiot
Ray from Hey Why Do You Need To Know?I love this song, sets such a good vibe.
Nos--t from Woah Woah Dont Ask Me My Location!My dad played this on his radio every morning, I would rock with him along the song. The music is so underrated I swear!
Jaylee from Canton, GaThe meaning of the song is that he is saying no matter how long it takes he will go back to her. He imagines her lying there with her hands between her thighs as laying there naked touching herself waiting for him. “I probably still will adore you with your hands around my neck” is saying he will still love her even if she was trying to kill him but then he adds in “or I did last time I checked” as in turning it into a sexual thing with last time her hands were around his neck. “The knife twists at the thought I should fall short of the mark” he’s talking about it would kill him knowing if he fell short at pleasing her. “But I fall completely when you cry” since followed by “it seems like once again you’ve had to greet me with goodbye” means he’s saying that it hurts him to see her cry cuz he has to go basically as fast as he got there.
Dean from RotherhamWhy are you all calling them The Monkeys? Don't think Daydream Believer is on their set list
Rodento from A Place :flushed:uHm- so, 505 is a hotel room in NYC and she was supposed to be waiting on him there- the song is actually sexual :flushed:
ArielBest arctic monkey song?
Geoff from UsaThe Monkey's have many great tunes. A lot of good stuff. But something about 505 is genius. A very cool / moving song. By far my favorite.
Matthew from Leduc County AlbertaA beautiful telling of thought. How we treasure the love held for another. Regardless of situational circumstances, we, at least I, choose to continue to love. Even at a distance when necessary.
Natu from Addis Ababa, EthiopiaNo one ever comment on this song...i think this is why this song is the most underated song of The Monkees, but in my opinion I think it's one of their best. I like the way the tempo progress: slow...mid....and rocking fast. A good song.

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