STROKES v SPOON

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.

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

http://tellusastory.tumblr.com/post/5491606633

Spoon seemed like genuine goofballs live. I appreciate that.

That ball's going straight into the gutter.

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.

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.

first impressions of earth

it is super long and full of the hottest, stinkiest trash

"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

on the last one where was a fun song with "what kind of asshole drives a Lotus?" in the chorus

I love that line.

But at least of 2001.

― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, December 12, 2014

or at least for a few months during the year 2001.

spoon, easily, over the stokes.

I would've had a hard time choosing between Is This It and Girls Can Tell back in '01.

"Last Night" vs. "Take The Fifth"? No idea, man.

Girls Can Tell was a bit indistinct. I always wondering what the big fuss was about that record in particular.

wondered*

Neither.

c.) none of the above

― 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

i mean in a perfect world we would just remember that come home with me by cam'ron came out around the time of the strokes debut and kill the moonlight and be like "wow damn why were we even caring about a rock revival man, smh, let's just put 'losing weight' and 'welcome to NYC' on repeat"

Spoon, so easily. I can't imagine ever listening to the Strokes apart from 3 or 4 songs, Spoon have got 3 or 4 albums I listen to regularly.

I could never understand why The Strokes were getting singled out for praise in the early 00's when there was so much more interesting music being made by others at the time. Not even giving their albums a listen in hindsight made me warm to them, or indeed give me any indication of what the whole fuss was about.

i mean in a perfect world we would just remember that come home with me by cam'ron came out around the time of the strokes debut and kill the moonlight and be like "wow damn why were we even caring about a rock revival man, smh, let's just put 'losing weight' and 'welcome to NYC' on repeat"

this is why i never heard the strokes, i wasn't listening to much rock music or indie rock when they broke and once they were seen as having fizzled i never felt like going back to check out their 15-minutes moment

whereas spoon kept making good records and getting even better acclaim so eventually when i felt like i could do it on my own time i did check them out

I could never understand why The Strokes were getting singled out for praise in the early 00's when there was so much more interesting music being made by others at the time.

Well, yeah. I love the album, but 'interesting' isn't a word I'd use to describe it. It's fun and it's stupid and it rocks.

My Strokes appreciation is probably aided greatly by the fact that I first heard (and quickly bought) the album in a record store. If I'd waited for the hype, I probably wouldn't have given them a chance.

i mean in a perfect world we would just remember that come home with me by cam'ron came out around the time of the strokes debut and kill the moonlight and be like "wow damn why were we even caring about a rock revival man, smh, let's just put 'losing weight' and 'welcome to NYC' on repeat"

― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Friday, December 12, 2014 4:48 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...interesting choice

haha

strokes are boring spoon is chill there's a difference

lafitte > strokes anything

best rock album of 2000s is Rated R

released the same day as pound for pound!

all downhill from June 2000

Y'know, I was going to vote for the Strokes under the opinion that as tedious as their music was, I spent a lot of 2001/2 wrestling with how physically attractive I found them.

But now I look at photos of them, and I just think... jeez, what kind of heavy drugs was I taking in that period to make that band look even remotely sexy?

(Don't answer that.)