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is there more in it than joy division, talking heads, the smiths?

― erik, Sunday, 20 October 2002 10:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah - there are also some woefully typical indie 'bakesale' style guitars that go 'gunga dunga dunga dunga" through a couple of the songs that made my heart sink a bit during the first listen. Luckily I kept listening. It's not the most original album I've ever heard - so I'd say you're on the money with those comparisons, but sounding like those three (and then adding a bit of flourish) isn't exactly a crime in my book.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 20 October 2002 13:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

I posted here because I haven't commented on them before, but there are a lot of other threads on them, so I suspect you won't get too many new responses here. Try the search at the bottom of the page to find out what other people have said.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 20 October 2002 14:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

eh...sorry, should have done me 'omework, lads

― erik, Sunday, 20 October 2002 14:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

I disagree. Every time people mention Interpol, the very first thing they say afterwards is Joy Division.

I listened to the entire album, and at most I can tell they enjoy the music of joy division. I think this is much more punky, and it lacks the vintage synth's.

― David Allen, Monday, 21 October 2002 18:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

MY DAD IS DEAD!

― hstencil, Monday, 21 October 2002 18:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well he shouldn't've gotten drunk and mooned that freight train then.

― Nate Patrin, Monday, 21 October 2002 18:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Naw, my real dad's just got corn problems on his feet. What I meant was Interpol sound like My Dad Is Dead to me (as I'm sure I've posited elsewhere).

― hstencil, Monday, 21 October 2002 18:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Can you say, "Chameleons"?

TMFTML
http://intonation.blogspot.com

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Monday, 21 October 2002 18:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

five years pass...

Obstacle 1 is a great song

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah

great video too

― The Brainwasher, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Are the versions of PDA and NYC on the debut EP different than the ones on Turn On The Bright Lights?

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 7 October 2009 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link

no they are not

however the respective versions on precipitate and the fukd id ep are different

― sculpture of marmalade (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 01:38 (fourteen years ago) link

some might say better, in the case of PDA (and Roland)

― sculpture of marmalade (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link

six months pass...

http://pitchfork.com/news/38645-hear-new-interpol-song-lights/

― ksh, Thursday, 29 April 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm on my second listen, and so far I'm digging it.

― theskysgoneout (Jason Pitzl-Waters), Thursday, 29 April 2010 04:15 (thirteen years ago) link

the production's a bit thin, which worries me

― ksh, Thursday, 29 April 2010 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link

is this sounded a little more like their last record than their first two records to anyone else? (at least production-wise?)

― ksh, Thursday, 29 April 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link

*sounding

― ksh, Thursday, 29 April 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link

If you mean "sounds like unmemorable garbage," then yes. This band lost the plot so quickly after album #1 that it should serve as a lesson to bands everywhere.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 April 2010 08:18 (thirteen years ago) link

I found myself absolutely loving 3 songs on each of the last two records, while not playing the rest of the songs more than twice.

― Sam Weller, Thursday, 29 April 2010 09:31 (thirteen years ago) link

lawls at the overblown band logo

― wilter, Thursday, 29 April 2010 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link

lawls at the overblown band logo

seen the 3d animation that 'creates' it?

totally ott.

especially for an 'unsigned' act (as per the detail on their myspace).

― mark e, Thursday, 29 April 2010 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link

three years pass...

missin these guys

― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 9 May 2013 04:13 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

cautiously optimistic...

― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link

The new album's great, but ridiculously back-loaded. Gibbered all over the other thread already, so not going to repeat myself too much.

― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

She was my catatonic sex toy love-drunk diver

― calstars, Thursday, 27 August 2015 23:17 (eight years ago) link

two years pass...

New album Marauder out 08/24, produced by Dave Fridmann. Single's nice and propulsive but not too distinctive to me yet.

― Simon H., Thursday, 7 June 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link

Thx for the heads up

― calstars, Thursday, 7 June 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link

six months pass...

new 3 hour interview with Carlos: http://www.mürmur.com/listen

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link

non-ironic use of "we live in a society" @ 16 min.

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link

two years pass...

New York cares

― calstars, Sunday, 25 July 2021 01:09 (two years ago) link

always thought it was “New York is”

― brimstead, Sunday, 25 July 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

“I had 7-11 faces”

― calstars, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link

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