STROKES v SPOON

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.

is anyone going to be able to top johnny fever in the challops-race

lol prob not

tho i have also not heard the strokes most recent effort

That's not a nuisance challop btw, I honestly feel that way (I'd guess 95% of the talk about Telephono on ilm is from me).

i cldnt even tell u with 100% certainty how many albums the strokes have but im going with 4

the Spoon singer should sing with the Strokes drummer drumming, I think I would like that more than anything either of these two crews of messy haired ne'er-do-wells have brought into the world thus far

Regarding all the "snoozecore" type comments- it's funny that ilx's default position for mainstream indie is negative and for radio pop it's default position is positive and I am cynically suspicious that both of those are just the result of contrarianism.

(xp ^^^ challops)

racoon tanuki has been found!

voted strokes
though i really like the older girls can tell spoon stuff that was off-brand archers of loaf type stuff

these bands shd merge

the third song on the fifth strokes record is better than the fourth song on the second spoon record

THERE I SAID IT

nonononononono I admit it's a "cynical suspicion"

t Evan I only called it snoozecore because I was afraid of getting ridiculed if I expressed my true feelings *blushes deeply*

realistically though, "Dragostea din tei" mops the floor with all USA male vocal pop music of the 21st century

i like Is This It, half of the follow-up and "YOLO" but spoon would have that beat if they broke up before Is This It came out

heh, nah I'm not saying it's to that degree. Just people are more likely to make fun of "indie" when it has mainstream appeal

xps

telephono stuff sounds kinda great now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rEGx9Aou_0

appear more likely*

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

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

Is This It is like the best rock record of the 2000s (the decade, not the century).

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.

the best rock album of the 2000s pound for pound is royal trux pound for pound

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.

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.

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

There are probably better rock records from the 2000s but I haven't heard them so I don't think they count.

meanwhile britt is like the paul rudd of indie rock

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.

every hot snakes album is better than is this it

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

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

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.

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.