Anyway, is the idea that Interpol might be this season's Modest Mouse? Can you see it? And how big's the backlash on ilm? Am I going to get a good quota of *yawns* and *mehs*?
― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)
2004 = !!!2003 = i dunno2002 = Interpol2001 = Teh Strokes
― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)
This so called "ascension" I call PR.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)
Are we pronouncing "Ocean Breathes Salty" D.O.A. already?
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― unbeliever, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― nader (nader), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― chuck, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― chuck, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)
Smells like Float on, anyone?
― Jackson, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)
I don't think that was a pop hit (I'll check allmusic's billboard chart later) but the whole AM/FM thing makes it hard to judge success based on charts. Lou Reed only had one top 40 hit but Rock'n'Roll Animal was a big FM smash and Sally Can't Dance went top ten albumwise.
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)
And tha guy's lyrics are still really, um. (I laughed when I heard him use the word "erection" in the final song.)
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)
I now merely judge Interpol lyrics against themselves. They have a criteria separate from all other artists. It's all about whether his cryptic art-school baiting amuses and/or affects me.
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― jackson, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)
Yup, sounds about right.
― righteousmaelstrom, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― duke teutonic, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)
you figure that a band that tours as much as they do would be able to have a somewhat respectable live show, but you'd be wrong..
― still bevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)
OTM
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dave M. (rotten03), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)
Evil is a gas in its entirety.
so is Narc
from "Take You A Cruise":Time is like a broken watchAnd make money like Fred Astaire
All I know is that when I sing "Slow Hands" the line becomes: "look what you've done to my heart...asshole!"
from "Public Pervert: So swoon baby starry nightsMay our bodies remainAs weak we move, I'll feed you light, babyMay our bodies remainOh yeah in history, I'll treat you right, babyI'm honest that way, hey
The chorus of "Length Of Love" is complex salacious removal
My burnt copy didn't have a track listing so I had no idea the "it should be me!" song was called "C'Mere."
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)
You're invoking that last meme more than we are these days, Mr. Miccio. But since you went there, I'll also note that back in 1987 Echo coheadlined the big-outdoor-venue tour with New Order as opposed to being a supporting member of a festival tour, say.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)
All their colours turn to shit.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)
Sorry - it's so annoying when people pan something sans explanation.
From Bright Lights til now, I find them drearily reminiscent of the usual suspects and to me it can only come across as shells of '79/80's faves of mine. ie JD, Cure, as you've mentioned. All great influences of course but somehow no tracks I've heard sound fresh. It is "pretty straightforward" which doesn't have to be a criticism but here I would say yes, too predictable.
Truthfully, I feel so weary when I hear them on the radio I have never reached for the full albums and spent more time with them.
― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)
So many Interpolites have probably never heard of Ian, though once the movie comes out that will change.
― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― tricky disco (disco stu), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)
There's a tonal similarity in their voices but I can't imagine anybody mistaking a Joy Division song for an Interpol song or vica versa. Interpol's production is pretty far from Martin Hannett-land (the sounds ring out rather than cut) and Curtis sounds genuinely troubled and nerve-wracked as opposed to a dude on the make trying to look sexy behind his shades. The only time they've isolated Banks' voice all haunting-like the way they would with JD is the last song on Bright Lights.
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)
yeah, I think Interpol has been decidedly under-recognized as one of the most influential rock bands of this half-decade. But I actually like all the bands whose success they've made possible as much as if not more than Interpol themselves.
"Slow Hands" is a weak first single with a meh music video. I think MTV really wants to give Interpol a push (they put the vid on the website, they've been doing news stories on 'em all the time) but the band isn't giving 'em much to work with with "Slow Hands". It's too bad.
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)
I still for the life of me can't figure out why "Danger! High Voltage" didn't take. It had all the right elements.
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― tricky disco (disco stu), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)
Plus, which one of these is not like the other?
http://www.labels-japan.com/artists/photo/interpol.jpg
http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/Lookup/killers3x03x03x04/$file/killers3x03x03x04.jpg
http://www.corriere.it/vivimilano/hermes_foto/2004/03_Marzo/07/franz%20ferdinand--240x180.jpg
http://www.carlinglive.com/img/reviews/img_big_electricsix2.jpg
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)
oh, "bitching - comma - thea", right.
it got pushed in la, hotbed of foetal musical meteors, anyway
― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― tricky disco (disco stu), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)
"you spin me right round baby right round" etc
― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)
No, I don't think they got that kind of push but I thought it could be a word of mouth sort of success--I mean, was there anyone under the age of 25 or so who heard that song and didn't think "wow, that's fucking great"? Plus I'd think the Jack White rumor would be enough of a mainstream connection to get its foot in the door. Maybe not.
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 30 September 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)
Thea, have you heard the whole album? Fire is really consistent and LOADED with potential novelty hits!
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 30 September 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 30 September 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)
i don't know why, maybe it's the delivery?
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 30 September 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)
manthony - I will listen to Fire; I'm interested to hear to taste the full-length novelty menu.
― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)
I've never really got this...Interpol are still probably more obscure now than Joy Division were at their peak. It's not like Joy Division (or the Furs, or Echo & Bunnymen, or New Order) were unknown. I would actually wager that nearly all people who like Interpol would know of Ian Curtis.
For some reason, that whole "today's kids have never heard of the originators" argument is really pointless. Cos it's like: 1. maybe they have, and 2. if they haven't so what? did you need to know the byrds back catalog to like the stone roses?
― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 30 September 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)
That's all, really. Was it Aristotle who's quoted as complaining of the "youth of today"? Aristotle's always bored me.
― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 30 September 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 30 September 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― splooge (thesplooge), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― duke topten, Monday, 4 October 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 4 October 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 4 October 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)
"Pubic Disply of Affectation"
OH NO HE DIDN'T!
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 4 October 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)
haha me too! maybe as a job lot with the chemikal underground ep
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 4 October 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)
That's a good way of putting it, actually
― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)
I know I'm not the first person to say that Antics is the Reckoning to Turn On The Bright Lights' Murmur.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― willem (willem), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)