Blog: Stereogum

When Arctic Monkeys hit Fallon they did so with the swaggering " Crying Lightning ." Things got a bit more balladic for Craig Ferguson. When we weighed in Humbug , we mentioned some of Alex Turner's best lines appear on "Cornerstone": [We get] "I thought I saw you in the battleship / but it was only a lookalike... / ... She was close, close enough to be your ghost / But my chances turned to toast when I asked her if I could call her your name." By the song's end, because this is [...]