STROKES v SPOON

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.

Oh the Laffitte single's really great.

LaFitte is great. Love Ways is another EP that poses a serious challenge to their proper albums.

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.

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

I really liked the Julian Casablancas song in the movie Somewhere, "I'll try anything once". Just sleepy vocals and electric piano.

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.jpg
http://www.therooster.com/sites/default/files/The_Strokes_7.jpg

the casablancas song on the daft punk album ended up being one of my faves off that

The Strokes did that single with Regina Spektor that ruled and that I always forget about.

http://jonesandb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/spoon-band.jpg
http://www.mxdwn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/spoon2.jpg
http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2013/03/spoon.jpg

i.e. all these guys are dorks

dork game v strong altho spoon's tongue in cheek awareness of it gives them the edge imo

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

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.

oh come on, i'm sure the strokes bowl. perhaps only at the chic-est bowling lane/nightclubs in NYC, but they bowl.