STROKES v SPOON

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?

i think maybe xp really shdve taken a picture

CASABLANCAS v OBAMA at hoops

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.

CASABLANCAS v OBAMA

on the Supreme Court docket iirc

stokes

"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.

CASABLANCAS v OBAMA at hoops

― mookieproof, Sunday, December 14, 2014 3:42 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

obama, not even close

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

first two strokes albums are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any spoon album

hilariously clearly spoon

this is quite easily Spoon. the Strokes peaked really early and was never able to better their second album. Spoons run from Kill the Moonlight to Transference is pretty remarkable.

"Is This It?" vs. "I Get Wet" poll seems slightly more worthwhile

Please don't mistake this as me stanning for The Strokes by any means, but all the talk about them peaking early and people saying they haven't listened to the later albums need to hear Comedown Machine asap. It's the "Rhapsody in Blue" to Is This It?'s "Chopsticks".

comedown machine is my favorite strokes album at this point

Spoon up through Kill The Moonlight are super-catchy fun indie-pop; everything after is boring as hell and sounds the same, like they're the indie Foo Fighters.

Strokes first album makes me want to shove a needle into my eardrum now - so monochromatic and lazy. I can only barely remember the second and never heard anything after.

Spoon wins by several laps, but at least the Strokes aren't Interpol.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

100 votes

important quesh

both bands are narcs, probably

everything fucked about ILM in one simple poll

take it you're a big [whatever one didn't win] fan

xxp nah, strokes are rich kids, spoon are homeowners

had a feeling the silent spoonjority wld carry this

I would rather spoon than have a stroke.

everything fucked about ILM in one simple poll

― A cat having an apron (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, December 17, 2014 2:22 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually, more surprised that the strokes didn't win, given the ILX trend towards "down-with-the-corny-indie-fuxx"

both bands are (or at least once were) pretty cool/good at what they do (or did) imo

then again it's also fun to h8 corny indie fuxx, conundrum

(xp irl lols at that)

everything fucked about ILM in one simple poll

― A cat having an apron (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, December 16, 2014 11:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

take it you're a big [whatever one didn't win] fan

― tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Tuesday, December 16, 2014 11:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No, I think he's upset that someone polled two bands with white guys playing guitars or something.

nah just inexplicable support for Spoon

i polled them because theyre so similar *sniff*

Inexplicable support for the most acclaimed band of the 00s?

http://www.ebbemunk.dk/alice/48mirror.jpg

Strokes had a great debut and diminishing returns. Spoon has been consistent and far more interesting.

I think the only Strokes related album I like other than Is This It? is that Little Joy album, although it's too low key to be truly memorable.

Individual albums polled against each other might have given the Strokes the win, but we were polling bands in here and Spoon is really the better band. + not obnoxious like the strokes.

what interested me about this poll tbh was really the moral dimension, feel like theres something so perfect abt the very similar cultures of these two bands and how it relates to their very similar music, the contrast, the narcissism of small differences going, like the strokes are douchey and relevant (at one point), the spoon are boring but good guys

+ not obnoxious like the strokes.

― Moka, Wednesday, December 17, 2014 12:39 PM (46 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel like its an interesting comparison cause they are extremely similar bands sitting on either side of the hipster/indie divide

― lag∞n, Friday, December 12, 2014 1:51 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh yeah, Comedown Machine is probably their best album. Had no faith they would manage to do anything worthwhile with a more tight production but it works.

I always thought the divide would come from a band like Vampire Weekend. Seems to me like the oppositte band a Strokes fan would enjoy.

Spoon's entire premise seems to be being middlegrounded.

vampy weeknd def fits in there somewhere but these two bands their music is so similar felt like it was the perfect template

the main difference between the two bands for me how Spoon creates alterations in standard rock rhythms without compromising accessibility. The Strokes p much play 16th notes 24/7.

for Noodle Vague and to back Scik Mouthy: http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-music-of-the-decade

Our top overall artist of the decade: Spoon

Before we get to the top albums of the past ten years, let's take a look at the best artists of the decade. First, we decided to highlight the top overall artists of the past 10 years by picking the artists who met the following three criteria: (a) released at least 3 albums from 2000-09; (b) at least two of those albums must be "great" (with a Metascore of 81 or higher); and (c) the average (mean) Metascore for all of their releases from the decade must also be 81 or higher.

The top 35 artists meeting all three criteria are displayed below (sorted by number of great albums, then by Metascore average), and the band topping the list was a surprise to us as well, albeit a pleasant one. The Austin, Texas indie-rock band Spoon may not be the most prolific band of the decade, but they were the most consistently great. From 2001's stellar Girls Can Tell to 2007's, well, stellar Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, the Britt Daniel-led group received accolades from the music press and music fans for their impeccable songwriting and addictive songs.

haha perfect

Spoon never put across an image as successfully as The Strokes c.Is This It but I have found them consistently sonically rewarding+they probably paved the way for a lot of the bands being discussed in Hip™ for Basics

and like, Kill The Moonlight is just such a... good-sounding album!
I don't know how to explain it, I put it on when I have a headache & the headache magically goes away. because the sounds are so good