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Dog 3000 4611 posts |
Feb 04, 2004, 18:08
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Listened to: "NYC", "PDA", "Obstacle #1", "The New" and "Specialist" by Interpol -- annointed as "the Next Big Thing" in the current issue of SPIN. These songs were chosen because they were the most popular on WinMX. Interpol is a four-piece band: 2 guitars-bass-drums + one of the guitarists sings. Let's start with the music: indie neopunk, echoes of Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Television, Neil Young maybe, and similar more contemporary bands (Yo La Tengo, Wedding Present, The Strokers, The Verve?) Maybe even a hint of Gary Numan and The Cars. The singer: is pretty good actually. I can see the Ian Curtis comparison, but you wouldn't mistake one for the other. These don't sound much like Joy Division songs anyway. The songs: I thought "PDA" was the best tune ("we have two hundred couches where you can sleep tight.") "NYC" is OK, but a bit too much of a lighters-in-the-air number for my taste (good guitar squall at the end though.) The rest of them started to sound samey. The cover: I am predisposed not to like these guys cuz I hate rock bands that wear suits. They seem like they are being hyped as "the Next Big Strokes" and I don't care for the Strokes in the first place. But I would rather listen to Interpol than the Strokes, and I would probably enjoy seeing Interpol live. And the biggest compliment of all: of the 3 bands reviewed so far, this is the only one who has anything like their own identifiable sound. The Unsung Competition: well geez, all those other bands from the 70's and 80's they're copping their licks from! Next: The Darkness!
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keith a 9573 posts |
Feb 04, 2004, 18:38
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why do you care what interpol wear? i hate what the darkness wear but that's not the reason I hate their music. and to prove that it's not all down to image, i thought julian looked a bit of a dick with his LA Woman beard at the recent Liverpool gig, but it was a great gig! and anyway, i think interpol look more like kraftwerk than the strokes.
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Dog 3000 4611 posts |
Feb 04, 2004, 18:55
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Interpol has that New Yawk thang going on, plus those bands both share a sort of 70's fetish. I have to mention the fashion angle, since we're talking magazine covers here! And it's not all bands in suits I am predisposed to dislike, just "rock" bands in suits, especially if they're "punk rock." It's probably just because I don't like suits, period!
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Moon Cat 9577 posts |
Feb 04, 2004, 18:57
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Lots of people like 'em Lots of people hate 'em. The End. Can we go home now please?
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Dog 3000 4611 posts |
Feb 04, 2004, 19:07
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Well yeah, actually I've said my piece on the Darkness before. They're funny, the singer has a great voice, but no matter how they spin it they're doing retro-nostalgia rock. In the SPIN article he even describes his band as "80's pastiche rock" -- props for honesty! You know 'em -- you love 'em or hate 'em.
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Moon Cat 9577 posts |
Feb 04, 2004, 19:10
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They give good quote. I liked Justin Hawkins' one "Actually I think we're a distinct improvement on sliced bread" hehe
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Glam Descendant 1539 posts |
Feb 04, 2004, 19:27
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>The cover: I am predisposed not to like these guys cuz I hate rock bands that wear suits. They seem like they are being hyped as "the Next Big Strokes" and I don't care for the Strokes in the first place. I've never seen the Strokes wear suits.
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Dog 3000 4611 posts |
Feb 04, 2004, 20:13
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OK, one more time: the Strokes and Interpol are both neo-"new wave" New Yawk hipster bands with a 70's fixation. The point is not what kind of trousers they wear. "Neo-new-wave!" -- can you see the problem here?
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Stevo 6664 posts |
Feb 04, 2004, 21:05
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Yeah I remember that about Spin. I think it came out, was great, had interesting features like Henry Rollins & Iggy Pop talking about their fav music. It stopped publishiing for a while then came back, wasn't anywhere near asgood as before but was still readable. Am I imagining reading the revirew of the Velvets outtakes lps in the back of a car in NYC which'd make it '86. At which point it was still pretty tasty. I know I was reading it in around '88 too and was still finding ity ok. I look at it occasionally on the racks of Easons these days and think gorlumme wot 'appened? Stevo Np Linda Perhacs Parallelograms Moons and Catails
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keith a 9573 posts |
Feb 04, 2004, 23:44
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the walker bros looked good in them.
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