i cldnt even tell u with 100% certainty how many albums the strokes have but im going with 4
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
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
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Friday, 12 December 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
(xp ^^^ challops)
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Friday, 12 December 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
racoon tanuki has been found!
― goole, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
voted strokesthough i really like the older girls can tell spoon stuff that was off-brand archers of loaf type stuff
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 December 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
these bands shd merge
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
the third song on the fifth strokes record is better than the fourth song on the second spoon record
THERE I SAID IT
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 12 December 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
nonononononono I admit it's a "cynical suspicion"
― Evan, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
t Evan I only called it snoozecore because I was afraid of getting ridiculed if I expressed my true feelings *blushes deeply*
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Friday, 12 December 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
realistically though, "Dragostea din tei" mops the floor with all USA male vocal pop music of the 21st century
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Friday, 12 December 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
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
― Evan, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
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*
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