The Walkmen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, French Kicks....

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Which one is really going to make it....

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Over here - YYY's. Getting name-dropped every-freaking-where, plus which the lack of wimmin in the whole "new wave of new wave" thing leaves a gap for a representative like Karen O...

Walkmen have barely registered, I think, and French Kicks too.

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

The Walkmen are dire.

Never mind the YeahYeahYeahs.....my money's on the Liars.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I love the French Kicks, and am learning to like the Walkmen (it was the vocals that took a while.)... and the Yeah Yeah Yeah's are superlative. All good bands... Will they "make" it? I doubt it.. seems like Interpol and the Liars are the only ones who are garnering real attention (i.e. sales) right now. But cities come and go... is anybody talking about the next big Minneapolis band? Who is Athens, GA's great hope? No. NYC will collapse under the weight of skinny electroclash girls wrapped in electricians tape, spouting nasty, catty non-rhymes. Mark my word.

― andy, Thursday, 26 September 2002 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

EC = OBL, then?

― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 26 September 2002 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

The next big Minneapolis band was Tulip Sweet and Her Trail of Tears, but they went to New York to try and make it big (I am assuming that so far their success has been limited).

Also, they're cloying and dumb.

― Nate Patrin, Thursday, 26 September 2002 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd be surprised if any of 'em "made it," but if any of 'em do, it'll probably be the YYY's.

The Walkmen are pretty tired-sounding to me, 'though I know lots of folks dig 'em... Anyway, they're made up of dregs of a band that couldn't keep it going, so history will probably repeat itself.

And the Kicks have been around for a few years and are already losing steam, at least musically. Serious EP-better-than-the-full-length syndrome, and two years separating them.

― wl (wl), Thursday, 26 September 2002 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

The Rapture have a fair shot of making it. There's a bidding war going on right now for them, as there is for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. One label in particular has been wining and dining Karen O for a year now, and they keep stringing them along.

But, honestly, I think the Strokes will be the one band from the scene that hits it big. Other bands (like Star Spangles) are getting gobbled up, but I doubt any of them will stick.

Walkmen should be able to get a minor hit (especially since RCA wants them hot and heavy). I fully expect that. YYYs, even with the fem frontman advantage, probably will not, even though they are the most accessible. The Liars? No way in hell. I like them, but no way.

If the Secret Machines' debut LP does what I think it can, they could be looking at some fame, especially considering that modern rock is slowly moving in a space-rock/Pink Floyd "Meddle" direction.

From a commercial standpoint, the scene is dead. From a good music standpoint, it's fucking great.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Thursday, 26 September 2002 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

the liars are too ugly to make it

the rapture are too hot not too. those cheek bones scream Prada model

― Brock K. (Brock K.), Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

suggesting that the strokes and the yyy/french kicks/walkmen are in the same scene is near-criminally irresponsible

― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 26 September 2002 18:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not too sure what "make it" means, but if you mean "achieve a Strokes-like level of mainstream exposure", I don't really think any of the bands mentioned so far are going to "make it". In the past couple of weeks I've seen videos for the Walkmen, Liars, and French Kicks on MTV's 120 Minutes, which is pretty cool, but the only one of them I could see making an impression on non-indie types would be the French Kicks. And then, only if they release "When You Heard You" as a single (the video I saw was for "Close To Modern", which is an okay song but certainly not the best song on One Time Bells).

So I guess my answer would be "Spoon".

― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 26 September 2002 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

We have a winna!

― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Thursday, 26 September 2002 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

wrong

― peter stillman (dovlandau), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 07:22 (twenty years ago)

haha tulip sweet! they were the next big thing??

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Never mind the YeahYeahYeahs.....my money's on the Liars.
I guess no-one expected the Liars to turn into Can and the YYYs to turn into the Pretenders.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

I think it's pretty fair to say that the answer to the question is "Yeah Yeah Yeahs"

― Mickey (modestmickey), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

good to know the prize was smig satisfaction.

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:45 (twenty years ago)

smig = smug

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Maps aside, the YYYs output has gotten progressively less interesting since that first EP. I guess it's not that popular now (or maybe the backlash has receded?) but they still did the skronky post-punk/dance thing better than most.

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

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