STROKES v SPOON

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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.)

More like Overrated R, amirite?

(Pound for Pound is way cool tho)

BEST ROCK ALBUM OF THE 2000s

i've never knowingly heard anything by either of these bands. should i bother?

no

i did see and enjoy the movie "mysterymen". julian casablancas was the main bad guy in that movie, right?

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.

otm except ROF > debut.

I heard a commercial or something the other day where "Reptilia" was the background music and was like, damn that was a good song.

I will rep for at least half the tracks on First Impressions of Earth, esp. You Only Live Once, Razorblade, Vision of Division and Heart In A Cage.

Under Control is the best song on ROF, fuiud.

How can this not be Spoon? This is not even a contest.

p sure i have told this story on this message bord before but its funny so one time i was playing basketball at chelsea piers, it was an off time like mid afternoon so it was just me and a friend shooting around when the court next to us stared filling up with chelsea piers employees shooting around, me and my friend were all whats up u guy gonna play or what can we get in, they were just kinda non comital and weird about it like nah were just shooting, then like ten minutes later julian casablancas shows up and plays a 3 on 3 game with the staff, lol dude hires out his pick up basketball

was he any good?

he was alright, pretty slow but very tall, they played a pretty mellow game made it kinda hard to tell, the staff was maybe taking it easy on him

was he wearing a headband?

is this thread an homage to the placebo vs pixies thread?