That ball's going straight into the gutter.
― cpl593H, Friday, 12 December 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
first impressions of earth
it is super long and full of the hottest, stinkiest trash
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
"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
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
on the last one where was a fun song with "what kind of asshole drives a Lotus?" in the chorus
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
I love that line.
― Mailkhimp (Johnny Fever), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
But at least of 2001.― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, December 12, 2014
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, December 12, 2014
or at least for a few months during the year 2001.
spoon, easily, over the stokes.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 12 December 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
I would've had a hard time choosing between Is This It and Girls Can Tell back in '01.
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 December 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
"Last Night" vs. "Take The Fifth"? No idea, man.
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 December 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
Girls Can Tell was a bit indistinct. I always wondering what the big fuss was about that record in particular.
― Evan, Friday, 12 December 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
wondered*
Neither.
― Welcome To (Turrican), Friday, 12 December 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
c.) none of the above― Mailkhimp (Johnny Fever), Friday, December 12, 2014 6:58 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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
― Welcome To (Turrican), Friday, 12 December 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
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, 12 December 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
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.
― nate woolls, Friday, 12 December 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Welcome To (Turrican), Friday, 12 December 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
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
― j., Friday, 12 December 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 December 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Mr. Bojangus (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 December 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Friday, December 12, 2014 4:48 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
...interesting choice
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 December 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
haha
― Evan, Friday, 12 December 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
strokes are boring spoon is chill there's a difference
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 13 December 2014 04:23 (nine years ago) link
lafitte > strokes anything
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 13 December 2014 04:24 (nine years ago) link
best rock album of 2000s is Rated R
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 13 December 2014 04:26 (nine years ago) link
released the same day as pound for pound!
― lag∞n, Saturday, 13 December 2014 04:30 (nine years ago) link
all downhill from June 2000
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 13 December 2014 05:17 (nine years ago) link
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.)
― Branwell with an N, Saturday, 13 December 2014 07:36 (nine years ago) link
More like Overrated R, amirite?
― wonderful about a proletariat-Vorticist version of James Brown (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 13 December 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
(Pound for Pound is way cool tho)
― wonderful about a proletariat-Vorticist version of James Brown (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 13 December 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
BEST ROCK ALBUM OF THE 2000s
― lag∞n, Saturday, 13 December 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
i've never knowingly heard anything by either of these bands. should i bother?
― rushomancy, Saturday, 13 December 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
no
― lag∞n, Saturday, 13 December 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
i did see and enjoy the movie "mysterymen". julian casablancas was the main bad guy in that movie, right?
― rushomancy, Sunday, 14 December 2014 13:19 (nine years ago) link
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.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 December 2014 13:25 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Sunday, 14 December 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
How can this not be Spoon? This is not even a contest.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Sunday, 14 December 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Sunday, 14 December 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
was he any good?
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 14 December 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Sunday, 14 December 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
was he wearing a headband?
― brimstead, Sunday, 14 December 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
is this thread an homage to the placebo vs pixies thread?
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 14 December 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
i think maybe xp really shdve taken a picture
― lag∞n, Sunday, 14 December 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
CASABLANCAS v OBAMA at hoops
― mookieproof, Sunday, 14 December 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
I had a major cross on Britt Daniel until I saw him in the Chipotle line at Pitchfork Festival '08 wearing high tops and jorts.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 December 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
CASABLANCAS v OBAMA
on the Supreme Court docket iirc
stokes
― adam, Sunday, 14 December 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
"last nite" is the only strokes song I like. I like their sound on a few others and how their guitars go ching ching ching. I think I like about 5-6 Spoon songs, so Spoon.
― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 14 December 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
― mookieproof, Sunday, December 14, 2014 3:42 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
obama, not even close
― lag∞n, Sunday, 14 December 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
first two strokes albums are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any spoon album
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 16 December 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link