NYC sounds too boring, doesn't really do much for me
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
The New is HEART
BREAKING
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
c'mon--"i know you've supported me for a long time / somehow i'm not impressed" !!!
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
eh. maybe it'll grow on me.
might vote for Obstacle 1, it really gets the adrenaline going.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Stella was a diver!
― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
also, what kind of filter is this guy singing through?
― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
The end of "Leif Erikson" is one of the greatest endings to ANY indie rock song of the 2000s. Seriously, I cannot think of many moments I love more than the part when Banks sings, "You come here to me, we'll collect those lonely parts and set them down, you come here to me," and then the controlled "solo" comes in right before he finishes those lines and Banks just keeps singing.
― Reading his posts is like watching The Ring (kshighway), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
We have 200 couches! Where you can sleep toniiiiight!
― jaymc, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 16:18 (21 minutes ago) Bookmark
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
my best friend's from poland and um he has a beard
― mark cl, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't know how many plays i'll ever give this album again tho. the lyrics are really terrible.
― mark cl, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
her love's a pony
― Reading his posts is like watching The Ring (kshighway), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Wakeboarding legend Steve Shasta OTM.
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
the lyrics are really terrible.
Yeah, but in a camp sort of way.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
NYC
second the opinion that for the most part the lyrics are really terrible
― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
would you care about the lyrics if they weren't delivered so ponderously?
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I love NYC because interpol are kinda that band that you've decided you've basically already heard after you see the press shots, but NYC was lusher and more beautiful than that. And yeah, um, stately. It wasn't really Joy Division with better haircuts, it makes me think a little of hearing an INXS covering the Shangri Las, this mossed over nostalgia, wind-tunnel 80's ambience. It basically portrayed a world-weary metropolitanism I was sure I would cultivate when I finally got out of this two bit town, and a quick glance at my CD collection around that time was like a dash snow photo shoot, all these glamorously (I thought) vacant run down pretty boys with hollow eyes, so yeah this song is a bit of a monument to that time for me.
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I dunno, I'm a lyrics guy, I generally pay attention to how they're constructed and what they're trying to convey.
― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I tried to convince myself at some point that Banks was trying to be funny with his lyrics. I did not convince myself.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
You're wasting time, Shakey.
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Wasting time paying attention to lyrics...? does not compute
I enjoy Interpol (I don't even really get the hate for the last album, which I like as much as everything else of theirs), I just sorta ignore their lyrics when I hear them now.
― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
On Interpolyrics.
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah don't worry its not like I puzzled over them or anything. The lines that stand out are bad enough, they didn't make me wanna dig in any deeper or anything
― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Top Ten Worst Lines on Interpol's First Album
― jaymc, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I smell a poll
― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i knew there was a bad smell
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
The poll is in the kitchen with a culinary eye.
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i think one of the great assets of untitled is that the relative lack of lyrics make it difficult for him to fuck them up with silliness. i think the sentiment of the song is lovely and he almost sounds like he means it.
also the guitar intro is one of my favourite opening bits to a record of all time
― you! me! posting! (electricsound), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I only ever really heard this one album by them, and I liked it a lot at the time, and of course I've read and heard all the comparisons to '80s post-punk bands, etc, ad nauseum, but I listened to "Leif Erikson" again just now, as I thought I'd forgotten it, and for the first time, really, I heard the Chameleons* influence so loud and fucking clear that I couldn't help my mouse finger voting for it in a fit of nostalgic love. Nostalgia for 2002 or 1983 I have no idea?
*Also not just the Chameleons, but Script of the Bridge specifically.
― Lostandfound, Thursday, 20 August 2009 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
(Lol, jumbled run-on sentence!)
― Lostandfound, Thursday, 20 August 2009 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
2nd album still much, much better than this one
― Man Is Nairf! (J0hn D.), Thursday, 20 August 2009 02:20 (fourteen years ago) link
the way I've rationalized Paul Banks as a lyricist is that his lyrics are so strange and weird and awful that they help contribute to the overall feeling of unreality and "world-weary metropolitanism" that IKR mentioned upthread
also, it beats thinking about who Stella was and why was she always going down on Paul Banks
― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Thursday, 20 August 2009 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't know, John. This one's got a lot more testosterone about it than the 2nd one imo.
xp
― wilter, Thursday, 20 August 2009 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
As much as I still love "PDA," I honestly couldn't tell you the last time I played this album.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 20 August 2009 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i always thought that the lyrics sounded like they were in one language first and then put thru some internet translating machine and put into english. or that there was some random indie rock lyric generator out there that you could set for post-punk.
not a problem either way for me.
― scott seward, Thursday, 20 August 2009 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
"subway she is a porno" really is a great pixies song line that never was.
― scott seward, Thursday, 20 August 2009 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link
^up there with "the snot has caked against my pants" as one of the most overrated lyrics ever IMO
― you! me! posting! (electricsound), Thursday, 20 August 2009 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
the pavements really are a mess, tho
― mookieproof, Thursday, 20 August 2009 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno if its overrated, but it's memorable anyway. i still remember it! and i haven't listened to the album since it came out.
― scott seward, Thursday, 20 August 2009 02:46 (fourteen years ago) link
^willing to bet you're not alone in your experience
― you! me! posting! (electricsound), Thursday, 20 August 2009 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i walk around the house sometimes singing "i got a broken hip, uh huh, uh huh" and i haven't heard that song in over a decade. which is why i don't remember that it's actually broken face and not broken hip. i like lou reed!
― scott seward, Thursday, 20 August 2009 02:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Antics is such a different record, and just as good. With the exception of "Length of Love," there are no bad songs on it.
It's lighter, which isn't saying much, and the songs are more . . . muscular?
― Reading his posts is like watching The Ring (kshighway), Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i actually have been playing this album a lot for the past 2-3 weeks... i originally just wanted to listen to "Stella" but i dig the entire album. that being said, "Stella" is still my favorite and "Leif" is number 2.
― t0dd swiss, Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:35 (fourteen years ago) link
actually I think "friends don't waste wine when there's words to sell" is a solid line.
― Simon H., Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link
This is a good record. They're kind of a fun band to tool on, but they'll have a killer greatest hits record by the time they're done.
Obstacle 1
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:43 (fourteen years ago) link
wait, what. was just gonna say "Evil" craps over everything here, shame about the rest of the album.
― ledge, Thursday, 20 August 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
"I know you've supported me for a long time, somehow I'm not impressed" would be a classic Malkmus line.
― ledge, Thursday, 20 August 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
it's a good line.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Thursday, 20 August 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know if it's right but I suspected from the start that Banks wrote the lyrics really quickly as placeholders and then the producer was like "fuck it, 9/11" and they just put it out as is.
― afternoon "delight" (Euler), Thursday, 20 August 2009 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Antics is such a different record, and just as good.
j0hn D and kshighway tag teamin the challops
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 20 August 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i really like the cover, and I read a thing with peter saville once where he said he liked it and it reminded him of something he would do and that he liked that it was sortof gallery catalogue literate and jokey in that way even as it was kinda pretentious, all of which I agree with. Also a pretty good representation of the album's sound somehow.
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Thursday, 20 August 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
this album holds up perfectly of course. my vote today might be stella.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 03:33 (two years ago) link
NYC would be my vote
― calstars, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 03:43 (two years ago) link
Anyone ever snag an original first pressing 150 gram vinyl copy? It’s only one piece of vinyl but sounds better than I’ve ever heard it. Only ever heard it on cd previously. I don’t go in too much for the old cd vs vinyl wars but there’s no denying it in this particular case.
I think the upcoming 20th anniversary might provoke more reissues and deluxe editions and such, they do tend to go in for that stuff.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-6321NWxOE
what a dope drum part
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 19:53 (two years ago) link
one of the best. it's just clever enough without ever being tryhard
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 20:03 (two years ago) link
This is interesting, i don't think i appreciated just how involved Carlos was in the songwriting
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/interpols-turn-on-the-bright-lights-at-10-an-oral/
― piscesx, Thursday, 3 February 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, February 2, 2022 12:53 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 17 March 2023 18:58 (one year ago) link
Dat hi hat
― calstars, Friday, 17 March 2023 20:12 (one year ago) link
He plays my favorite part wrong (no shame, it's an incredibly difficult section).
This guy plays it pretty all right imho:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6AN1LQBpx8
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 March 2023 20:25 (one year ago) link
whoops wrong vid, this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4yIuBpqE-Y
iirc Sam said that he copped that move from his predecessor who left Interpol for Saetia lol
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 March 2023 20:27 (one year ago) link
I've never made it through this album. They sounded too much like a carbon copy of Joy Division. It made me angry.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 17 March 2023 23:44 (one year ago) link
it barely sounds like jd, go listen to it again
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Friday, 17 March 2023 23:47 (one year ago) link
Strokes and Interpol sound vaguely like VU/Television and Joy Division but with all the charisma sucked out of the original bands.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 17 March 2023 23:52 (one year ago) link
"Obstacle 1" sounds like a JD outtake, albeit with the vocals in a slightly higher register.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 17 March 2023 23:53 (one year ago) link
Haven't listened to this since I was probably 16. Pleasantly suprised to find it still holds up (though with a touch more melodrama than I can enjoy)
― hrep (H.P), Saturday, 18 March 2023 00:00 (one year ago) link
For the hundredth time, they sound like the chameleons not joy division.
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Saturday, 18 March 2023 00:36 (one year ago) link