STROKES v SPOON

Strokes.

same

voted Spewn

feel like its an interesting comparison cause they are extremely similar bands sitting on either side of the hipster/indie divide

Facts and figures to help in your decision making: The first Strokes album is better than the entire Spoon discography. The second Strokes album is roughly as good as the entire Spoon discography. The entire Spoon discography is better than the Strokes' third album. Spoon was the backing band on the first Sally Crewe album, which is a pretty good album. Spoon is a terrible band name.

strokes bro is a much better songwriter than spoon dude is prob the thing that puts them over the top imo, like spoons phrasing particularly is often very awkward

both are very over produced bands but strokes musicianship shines through more where spoon particularly their recent work sounds more like a beat than a band which is unfortunate imho cause they are excellent musicians

c.) none of the above

both these bands are terrible and boring but i suppose that is not the fun answer this thread is looking for

wld prob rate their albums like

1 is this it
2 kill the moonlight
3 room on fire
4 idk who care lol

both these bands are terrible and boring but i suppose that is not the fun answer this thread is looking for

― marcos, Friday, December 12, 2014 1:58 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i mean they are both good if you want to listen to something very carefully crafted thats not particularly exceptionally stylish or inventive, they r good tho

most noteworthy thing abt either is prob the strokes influence on fashion

strokes made some good music for approx 2 years the spoon have made good music for almost 20 years

def something to weigh in yr calculations

Strokes never resonated for me and I don't know why.

tho spoons early work doesnt do much for me

(when i listened to it a long time ago)

I wouldn't say Spoon hasn't been particularly inventive...

Spoon being somewhat inventive (Kill the Moonlight): fun
Spoon being pretty straightforward (Girls Can't Tell): kinda boring

ya spoons minimalism is def their most avant aspect

spoon started with 3 really great lively sharp rock albums and then a lot of repetitive coasting

strokes same but 1

this is gonna be tough.

spoon have been more consistently interesting but the strokes' best songs shine really, really brightly.

Spoon by a country mile.

both singers employ affected rock guy voices

i was gonna start a new york dolls vs aerosmith poll, this just reminded me.

lol

Spoon's early work is the only thing that resonates with me, so they have that in their favor. Also, I truly believe the Strokes have the worst-recorded snare drum in all of popular music, so away with them!

it's not funny, i hate starting threads, this is a big deal for me

Singing through a telephone vs. singing with an affected speech impediment

The variety of spin-offs the Strokes engendered only makes for a stronger case for Spoon.

have the worst-recorded snare drum in all of popular music

you're forgetting something: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FQJpgPekoJE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAg/Ej4PeuAKm5M/photo.jpg

every (midwestern) city has like 9 spooner bands

That's an easy one to forget.

theres that one band who had a hit a few years back that sounds exactly like the strokes theyre called like colorful balloon or something

I suppose with a duo you get less side projects which is a plus here.

Facts and figures to help in your decision making: The first Strokes album is better than the entire Spoon discography. The second Strokes album is roughly as good as the entire Spoon discography. The entire Spoon discography is better than the Strokes' third album.

this about sums it up, except the second Strokes album might even be better than the entire Spoon discography.

The first Strokes album is better than the entire Spoon discography.

I don't even remotely know the entire Spoon discography, and I'm not much on The Strokes either, yet I am entirely sure this is true.

^^^
yes

the Strokes have the worst-recorded snare drum in all of popular music

This really only applies to the first album, really, but it's still not superb on anything else.

the song 'metal detektor' is better than the whole strokes discography

^^^ SOMEONE had to say it

& I don't even hate Is This It?, I just think this thread is giving short shrift to Spoon's immense body of quality indie rock snoozers

snoozecore poll. CAN >>> both

i've never heard the strokes

Spoon's best album is their first, The Strokes' best album is their latest.

first two strokes albums are classic

i don't "get" spoon, their songs aren't catchy or anything

haven't heard the last two strokes albums :(

foh, j!

really?

Spoon wins this easily for me. The Strokes never seemed to accomplish much of anything beyond reinvigorate a Johnny Thunders aesthetic.

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first two strokes albums are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any spoon album

hilariously clearly spoon

this is quite easily Spoon. the Strokes peaked really early and was never able to better their second album. Spoons run from Kill the Moonlight to Transference is pretty remarkable.

"Is This It?" vs. "I Get Wet" poll seems slightly more worthwhile

Please don't mistake this as me stanning for The Strokes by any means, but all the talk about them peaking early and people saying they haven't listened to the later albums need to hear Comedown Machine asap. It's the "Rhapsody in Blue" to Is This It?'s "Chopsticks".

comedown machine is my favorite strokes album at this point

Spoon up through Kill The Moonlight are super-catchy fun indie-pop; everything after is boring as hell and sounds the same, like they're the indie Foo Fighters.

Strokes first album makes me want to shove a needle into my eardrum now - so monochromatic and lazy. I can only barely remember the second and never heard anything after.

Spoon wins by several laps, but at least the Strokes aren't Interpol.

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100 votes

important quesh

both bands are narcs, probably

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take it you're a big [whatever one didn't win] fan

xxp nah, strokes are rich kids, spoon are homeowners

had a feeling the silent spoonjority wld carry this

I would rather spoon than have a stroke.

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― A cat having an apron (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, December 17, 2014 2:22 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually, more surprised that the strokes didn't win, given the ILX trend towards "down-with-the-corny-indie-fuxx"

both bands are (or at least once were) pretty cool/good at what they do (or did) imo

then again it's also fun to h8 corny indie fuxx, conundrum

(xp irl lols at that)

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― A cat having an apron (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, December 16, 2014 11:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

take it you're a big [whatever one didn't win] fan

― tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Tuesday, December 16, 2014 11:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No, I think he's upset that someone polled two bands with white guys playing guitars or something.

nah just inexplicable support for Spoon

i polled them because theyre so similar *sniff*

Inexplicable support for the most acclaimed band of the 00s?

http://www.ebbemunk.dk/alice/48mirror.jpg

Strokes had a great debut and diminishing returns. Spoon has been consistent and far more interesting.

I think the only Strokes related album I like other than Is This It? is that Little Joy album, although it's too low key to be truly memorable.

Individual albums polled against each other might have given the Strokes the win, but we were polling bands in here and Spoon is really the better band. + not obnoxious like the strokes.

what interested me about this poll tbh was really the moral dimension, feel like theres something so perfect abt the very similar cultures of these two bands and how it relates to their very similar music, the contrast, the narcissism of small differences going, like the strokes are douchey and relevant (at one point), the spoon are boring but good guys

+ not obnoxious like the strokes.

― Moka, Wednesday, December 17, 2014 12:39 PM (46 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel like its an interesting comparison cause they are extremely similar bands sitting on either side of the hipster/indie divide

― lag∞n, Friday, December 12, 2014 1:51 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh yeah, Comedown Machine is probably their best album. Had no faith they would manage to do anything worthwhile with a more tight production but it works.

I always thought the divide would come from a band like Vampire Weekend. Seems to me like the oppositte band a Strokes fan would enjoy.

Spoon's entire premise seems to be being middlegrounded.

vampy weeknd def fits in there somewhere but these two bands their music is so similar felt like it was the perfect template

the main difference between the two bands for me how Spoon creates alterations in standard rock rhythms without compromising accessibility. The Strokes p much play 16th notes 24/7.

for Noodle Vague and to back Scik Mouthy: http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-music-of-the-decade

Our top overall artist of the decade: Spoon

Before we get to the top albums of the past ten years, let's take a look at the best artists of the decade. First, we decided to highlight the top overall artists of the past 10 years by picking the artists who met the following three criteria: (a) released at least 3 albums from 2000-09; (b) at least two of those albums must be "great" (with a Metascore of 81 or higher); and (c) the average (mean) Metascore for all of their releases from the decade must also be 81 or higher.

The top 35 artists meeting all three criteria are displayed below (sorted by number of great albums, then by Metascore average), and the band topping the list was a surprise to us as well, albeit a pleasant one. The Austin, Texas indie-rock band Spoon may not be the most prolific band of the decade, but they were the most consistently great. From 2001's stellar Girls Can Tell to 2007's, well, stellar Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, the Britt Daniel-led group received accolades from the music press and music fans for their impeccable songwriting and addictive songs.

haha perfect

Spoon never put across an image as successfully as The Strokes c.Is This It but I have found them consistently sonically rewarding+they probably paved the way for a lot of the bands being discussed in Hip™ for Basics

and like, Kill The Moonlight is just such a... good-sounding album!
I don't know how to explain it, I put it on when I have a headache & the headache magically goes away. because the sounds are so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5FH3o6icWY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbXcthY4124

imo these are two of the best strokes songs ever

one good thing about this poll is i made me go back through the strokes stuff on spotify and man did I underrated Comedown Machine! feel like maybe we all just weren't in a place to care about a new strokes album at the time. guitar work on that is bonkers, hammond is running so many efx to made his guitar sound like the synths on "take on me" by a-ha

actually angles is better/weirder than i remember it too

great strokes album could be made out of combining first impressions and angles

make a spotify playlist imho

listening to comedown machine now, the vocals are very different

bah, refuted by science *shakes fist*

i never checked out comedown machine until last week thanks to that ghastly "take on me" rip they'd released, but some of it was surprisingly pretty. also surprisingly/ironically similar to phoenix. would have thought they'd be too self-conscious to jock the steez of their steez-jockers

great strokes album could be made out of combining first impressions and angles

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, December 19, 2014 12:13 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

make a spotify playlist imho

― lag∞n, Friday, December 19, 2014 12:14 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do it!

wow first impressions is worse than it was in my memory

horribly brickwalled, too

You Only Live Once, Juicebox, Heart in a Cage, Razorblade, Ask Me Anything, Electricityscape, Fear of Sleep, 15 Minutes and Ize of the World are the keepers on First Impressions. Throw in Juicebox's B-Side Hawaii and that's a solid album.

I really liked Angles when it came out but looking at the track listing now I only really remember the first two songs.

Agree that Comedown Machine is pretty underrated. I really didn't think they had a song like Call It Fate Call It Karma in them.

hoo boy do i hate "15 minutes"

Always found his Shane MacGowan really entertaining.