telephono stuff sounds kinda great now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rEGx9Aou_0
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 December 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
appear more likely*
― Evan, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
there's basically a two year window where i could understand preferring the strokes to spoon, and that's just due to my challop that Kill The Moonlight is their most inessential album
― da croupier, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
tried to listen to series of sneaks but just switched over to kill the moonlight which is what happens when i try to listen to spoon, love this album
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
Is This It is like the best rock record of the 2000s (the decade, not the century).
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 December 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
But probably also the century.
But at least of 2001.
I think I have negative associations form when it came out cause I tried and could not get into it.
― Evan, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
the best rock album of the 2000s pound for pound is royal trux pound for pound
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
Is This It is a solid album of tight guitar hooks over pulsebeats with a dude groaning vaguely about his sex life over it. spoon has like five of those.
― da croupier, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
xpost Only because the rest of Trux's discography was released in the '90s. If they had waited, their entire output could've been the best rock album of the 2000s.
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 December 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
i might rank every hot snakes album over is this it, julian casablancas' Iggy Pop Eating Peanut Butter voice has not grown more poignant with time
― da croupier, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
There are probably better rock records from the 2000s but I haven't heard them so I don't think they count.
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 December 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
meanwhile britt is like the paul rudd of indie rock
― da croupier, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
stokes first album is fine, idgaf about them after that. big spoon fan tho, folks professing to love spoon's more avant/minimal qualities really need to listen to transference.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
every hot snakes album is better than is this it
― call all destroyer, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link
julian casablancas' Iggy Pop Eating Peanut Butter voice has not grown more poignant with time
― da croupier, Friday, December 12, 2014 2:49 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
like rudd, britt first caught some people's attention in the mid-'90s, profile kept gradually raising through reliable, amiable work and HAS HE EVEN AGED AT ALL
― da croupier, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
Love Spoon but their best record isn't even an album, it's that single they put out where both songs are dis tracks about their former A&R guy ("The Agony of Lafitte"/"Lafitte Don't Fail Me Now"). A Series of Sneaks, Kill The Moonlight, Gimme Fiction and this latest one are all time.
I like all three of the first Strokes records a lot better than most here, and even like the third better than the second, which I know puts me in challops territory.
If I had to choose, probably Spoon, although a Strokes best-of might beat them.
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Friday, 12 December 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
Oh the Laffitte single's really great.
― cpl593H, Friday, 12 December 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
LaFitte is great. Love Ways is another EP that poses a serious challenge to their proper albums.
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
Even though it almost sounds like I'm stumping for the Strokes ITT, I have a lot more affection for Spoon. They feel like a warmer bunch to me. Guys you could go bowling with. You know the Strokes don't bowl.
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
i voted spoon bc they have more good albums, ultimately, but the first strokes album is better than most spoon albums except ga ga ga ga ga & kill the moonlight
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
I really liked the Julian Casablancas song in the movie Somewhere, "I'll try anything once". Just sleepy vocals and electric piano.
― brimstead, Friday, 12 December 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
You know the Strokes don't bowl.
yeah this is almost definitely true
i think this thread could be improved with some images
http://wallpaperscraft.com/image/2584/2560x1440.jpghttp://www.therooster.com/sites/default/files/The_Strokes_7.jpg
― marcos, Friday, 12 December 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
the casablancas song on the daft punk album ended up being one of my faves off that
― goole, Friday, 12 December 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
The Strokes did that single with Regina Spektor that ruled and that I always forget about.
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
http://jonesandb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/spoon-band.jpghttp://www.mxdwn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/spoon2.jpghttp://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2013/03/spoon.jpg
― marcos, Friday, 12 December 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
i.e. all these guys are dorks
― marcos, Friday, 12 December 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
dork game v strong altho spoon's tongue in cheek awareness of it gives them the edge imo
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
I hate their fucking names. What the hell kind of a name is 'Nikolai Fraiture'? Worse than that, guys with stupid names like that always get pussy!
― dave q, Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:00 PM (13 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― goole, Friday, 12 December 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
I think "Kill The Moonlight" is my favorite album from any of these two and "The Agony of Laffitte" is the best song in any of these catalogs.
I didn't care about Ga ga ga back in the day and my enthusiasm for them never recovered after that. On the other hand, I never cared about The Strokes. Also, I had never realized "Room on fire" was held in such high esteem. I thought it was a total New Jersey, or at least that's how I perceived it back then.
― cpl593H, Friday, 12 December 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
oh come on, i'm sure the strokes bowl. perhaps only at the chic-est bowling lane/nightclubs in NYC, but they bowl.
― da croupier, Friday, 12 December 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
lol first thing that comes up for "julian casablancas bowling"
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/09/listen-to-julian-casablancas-and-dev-hynes-talk-ab.html
― da croupier, Friday, 12 December 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
http://tellusastory.tumblr.com/post/5491606633
― da croupier, Friday, 12 December 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
Spoon seemed like genuine goofballs live. I appreciate that.
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
That ball's going straight into the gutter.
― cpl593H, Friday, 12 December 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
ROF is really good. It would've been a different band's best album. It only really suffered in comparison to its predecessor. The third album (which I can't even remember the name of) didn't do anything at all for me.
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
first impressions of earth
it is super long and full of the hottest, stinkiest trash
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
"If First Impressions of Earth were truly my first impression of earth, I'd leave the planet never to return." - some witty reviewer out there, ca. 2006
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
on the last one where was a fun song with "what kind of asshole drives a Lotus?" in the chorus
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
I love that line.
― Mailkhimp (Johnny Fever), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
But at least of 2001.― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, December 12, 2014
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, December 12, 2014
or at least for a few months during the year 2001.
spoon, easily, over the stokes.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 12 December 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
I would've had a hard time choosing between Is This It and Girls Can Tell back in '01.
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 December 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
"Last Night" vs. "Take The Fifth"? No idea, man.
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 December 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
Girls Can Tell was a bit indistinct. I always wondering what the big fuss was about that record in particular.
― Evan, Friday, 12 December 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
wondered*
Neither.
― Welcome To (Turrican), Friday, 12 December 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
c.) none of the above― Mailkhimp (Johnny Fever), Friday, December 12, 2014 6:58 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Mailkhimp (Johnny Fever), Friday, December 12, 2014 6:58 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I see JF got there before me! Good man! :D
― Welcome To (Turrican), Friday, 12 December 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link