The video is a live recording of the band playing the song in a studio with a small audience watching with both the video and audio taken live. Alex Turner introduces the band and the song and asks viewers not to "believe the hype" of the song. The video was shot using three Ikegami 3-tube colour television cameras from the 1980s to give it a more aged effect. American band The Strokes had previously made a similar music video for their single "Last Nite"; Arctic Monkeys are known to be fans of The Strokes.
Awards
On 23 February 2006, the track won Best Track at the 2006 NME Awards—one of three awards won by Arctic Monkeys. One of the B-sides, "Chun-Li's Spinning Bird Kick", was nominated for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in the 2007 Grammy Awards. In October 2011, NME placed it at number 11 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". It was later ranked the 7th greatest song of all time on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."
Track listing
Covers and other references
The song was covered by Sugababes as a B-side to their single "Red Dress". The Vines released a cover of the song as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of their album "Future Primitive", released 3 June 2011. The song was covered by the group Baby Charles and released as a single in 2009. On 1 July 2007, Tom Jones and Joe Perry of Aerosmith performed their own version of the song at the Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium. In May 2007, NME magazine placed "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" at number 10 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever. In February 2008, Alan Wilder, the former member of Depeche Mode, criticised the mastering of the song in an open letter on the Side-Line Magazine website. He described its sound as "a bombardment of the most unsubtle, one-dimensional noise." The line "Your name isn't Rio, but I don't care for sand" is a reference to Duran Duran's song "Rio". This is the first of two references to Duran Duran in the band's lyrics, the second one appearing in the song "Teddy Picker" from their second albumFavourite Worst Nightmare. On 27 July 2012, the band played the song at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.
