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The first single from Arctic Monkey’s fourth album, Suck It and See. Essentially, it’s a list of all the crazy, idiotic things you can do—as long as you take care not to sit down, ‘cause your chair has been moved.

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What did Arctic Monkeys say about "Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair"?
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Alex Turner described the song’s origin in an April 2011 interview with NME:

That’s something someone said. In fact, I said it to somebody whose chair I moved and I didn’t want them to hurt themselves. This was while we were in the studio doing the Submarine recording and James [Ford, producer] said, ‘Oh, that sounds like it could be like a ’60s garage ‘Nuggets’ tune and be called that. So then we thought, ‘Well, OK if that’s what you can’t do, then what sort of ridiculous things can you do that are probably more dangerous than if you just sat down?

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