Ultimate Battles: The Strokes Vs. The Bravery

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They seam to be very similar. If anyone says The Killers then I'm personally not liking you.

― Voodoo Child, Monday, 22 August 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

'similar'

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Apart from being from NYC, how exactly are the Strokes and the Bravery alike???

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

the 'the'

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

The Crooning Vocalists, The Leather Jackets, The NYC Attitudes.

That's how I compared them.

― Voodoo Child, Monday, 22 August 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

actually julian casablancas went to a bravery show and met with the lead singer afterwards. i think he wanted them to open for the strokes. he is a very relaxed and good-hearted person.

― RB, Monday, 22 August 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

They don't sound similar at all.... not to my ear. Anyway, The Strokes all the way. I wouldn't chose The Bravery over anything.

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

The Strokes aspire to be a poor man's Television. The Bravery aspire to be a poor man's New Order, but sound more like a destitute man's Orgy.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

and that bravery singer used to be in sublime wannabe ska band.
(old news)

"I wouldn't chose The Bravery over anything."
over death by dysentery.

― JD from CDepot, Monday, 22 August 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

I like the Strokes much more than Television.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Very little about either of these bands smacks of "ultimate".

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

The Bravery aspire to be a poor man's New Order, but sound more like a destitute man's Orgy.

With a touch of a homeless man's U2 (which makes it all oh so much worse).

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

I like the Strokes much more than Television.

-- Spencer Chow (spencercho...), August 22nd, 2005.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

The Bravery are great -- the Strokes, not so great. In fact not great at all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

if the strokes second album sounded more like the bravery's first album, then the second strokes album would of been better (rather than just being a crappier version of their first one)

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

The Bravery are terrible. One goodish track and a disastrous live show (also, skabba the hut). The Strokes write great pop tunes. I'm not sure if they've even written a bad song. There only problem seems to be that people are still turned off by the hype.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

the bravery have a terrible live show indeed, their stage presence consists mainly of acting as though they hate the audience
strokes definitely win this one

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

I like the Strokes much more than Television.
-- Spencer Chow (spencercho...), August 22nd, 2005 6:27 AM. (link) (userip

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

.. only if neither of those are the band.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

, their stage presence consists mainly of acting as though they hate the audience

That is not necessarily a bad thing. It's just that their music sounds worse at a higher volume.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Somewhere I have a Bravery demo. It is very bad. Before they went the synth route, they were very methodically aping the Strokes. Distorted crooning vocals, guitar tone. Very Strokes by numbers. You can still hear it to some extent, but the eighties became the new touchstone and textures had to change I guess

― dan. (dan.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

That is not necessarily a bad thing.

true, i suppose...
mainly i just don't like any songs of theirs apart from 'honest mistake' whereas i like a quite large number of strokes songs

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

I agree.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

"I like the Strokes much more than Television."

Wouldn't a Strokes vs Television battle be funner? or wait how about a Strokes vs Sleeper, now that would be good...

― jive session (elwisty), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

I like the Strokes' second album much more than Television's second album. I also fail to hear the similarities unless there's some leak of a song from the new album where Albert Hammond Jr. plays a 5-minute solo in a 10-minute song and Julian's voice is pitched up four octaves and the lyrics get 100 times more Beatnik/Rimbaud.

― disco violence (disco violence), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

OTM!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

seriously, the strokes = television wannabes line is a) really tired but b) even less accurate now than it was when it surfaced in the first place

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah and the strokes obliterate the bravery. the thread title is somewhat misleading in that this is neither "ultimate" nor a "battle."

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

I love The Strokes. I've never heard The Bravery but based the comments here, I'm not missing much.

Also, I don't get the Strokes/Television comparisons. They really don't sound anything alike.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

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