pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

rem wanted to be the best band in the world, interpol just wanted to fuck models and not have day jobs

― da croupier, Tuesday, December 4, 2012 2:49 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the second sounds like a better goal than the first to me

oh i respect it, i'm just explaining why in 1993 rem wasn't still pimping murmur

sure it is but Interpol forgot that writing songs was part of the day job

alfred - subway she is a porno should have been number 1!!

interpol as great-iconic-rock-band sucks but interpol as callow-new-wavers-with-nice-clothes-and-catchy-tunes rules

never forget: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2007/may/22/whyionlylistentoclassical

really should be an onion article

interpol as great-iconic-rock-band sucks but interpol as callow-new-wavers-with-nice-clothes-and-catchy-tunes rules

yeah i really got my hopes up for the class of '01-'03 but it's not like flock of seagulls had more than two decent albums in them either

After the Antics run, I felt that it was time to hang up my headphones. I regrouped and gave myself plenty of "alone time".

oh man, i did almost forget xxxp

Kessler was the bands only cutie. I don't know how that syphilitic pseudo-catamite bassist landed all the poon.

John Taylor was sensitive you know.

buddyhead claimed carlos d was a chubby chaser

but hey mike mills was allegedly the biggest womanizer in rem, so synergy strikes again

It is a crushingly real place, rendered in such vivid emotional detail that it rings true even to those who have never set foot in the city.

lemme take a quick stroll through the lyrics so i can remember all the references to the real 2002 NYC

first song is all about surprising someone and coming around
second is about a girl and she can read and he's stabbing himself in the neck
third song NYC should have some good ones. subway is a porno and pavements they are a mess. sure are, that's pretty true! +1
fourth song, sleep tight grim right, and he has two hundred couches. NYC has at least that many so +1
fifth says "i'm sick of this town", just like someone might have been sick of the real nyc in 2002, +1
sixth: "will you put my hands away? / will you be my man? / serve it up, don't wait / let's see about this ham"
Obstacle 2 mentions Route 7, i'm just going to assume that is the main street in NYC, it probably goes right by times sq. +1
eighth mentions a manhole +1
the ninth song is called Roland and has this repeating line: "My best friend's from Poland and, um, he has a beard." nothing about a city either. -0.7
tenth song, nothing about NYC
last song is leif erikson and it has nothing to do with NYC but since it's probably the best interpol song +1

i give this album a rating of 5.3

i give that post a 10.0

sixth: "will you put my hands away? / will you be my man? / serve it up, don't wait / let's see about this ham"

I don't want to verify.

i give it an 9.3, if your friend is a bearded Polish fellow named Roland you may well be in NYC

You know the summaries themselves read like most She Wants Revenge lyrics.

re: "will you put my hands away? / will you be my man? / serve it up, don't wait / let's see about this ham"

it's by no means authoritative but the first five lyrics sites i tried all have this same transcription.

so this is where u cunts are talking about this

... I did not know that She Wants Revenge was still a going concern but apparently they released an album last year

http://open.spotify.com/album/3EmsOhisvuNYqXIztqK3l0

i don't really have any opinions about interpol

you didn't live in NYC in 2002 and listen to music for the first time -- I mean, really listen, like, listening as if you were dying of syphilis.

so basically this is "Rent" for goths

as with a lot of bands, i like interpol more when i don't think about what they're singing

I love you
You give me clap

hahaha okay brilliant

obstacle 1 must be set in Iran or something if she's bad just for reading

no, it's set in 2002 NYC

oh, my bad

Curtains draw back. NYC, 2002. A lone, flickering light. A nearly deserted street. PAUL BANKS, a 2002 NYC citizen is slowly pacing outside a condemned building. He pulls his collar closer to his neck; it is unusually cold, even for November in 2002 NYC. A stranger enters from the right. The stranger is in a hurry, head down, probably on the way to the subway. PAUL BANKS can't help but be drawn to this ephemeral presence. In this unforgiving NYC, this post 9/11, this broken down remnant of a human being might be all that's really left anymore. PAUL BANKS approaches the startled stranger. After so much turning away, maybe for a moment it's time to open up and really connect with someone, even if it's a-

http://i46.tinypic.com/4pz5ns.jpg
PAUL BANKS: SLEEP TIGHT! GRIM RIGHT! WE HAVE TWO HUNDRED COUCHES WHERE YOU CAN SLEEP TIGHT! GRIM RIGHT! WE HAVE TWO HUNDRED COUCHES WHERE YOU CAN SLEEP TIGHT! GRIM RIGHT! WE HAVE TWO HUNDRED COUCHES WHERE YOU CAN SLEEEEEEEP TONIGHT! SLEEEEEEEP TONIGHT! SLEEEEEEP TONIGHT! SLEEEEP TONIGHT!!!

http://i50.tinypic.com/24gvtbd.jpg
YOURS IS THE ONLY VERSION OF MY DESERTION THAT I COULD EVER SUBSCRIBE TO!! THAT IS ALL THAT I CAN DO!!

(true stories of NYC: the captcha for that image was ShinglesInfo.com)

"Yes, Arcade Fire Are Working With James Murphy"

^i was excited for a second, when i thought James Murphy was producing a Yes album.

James Murphy produces Squakeman

or whatever the fuck that c squire thing is called

(true stories of NYC: the captcha for that image was ShinglesInfo.com)

dying

squackett > arcade fire

I like Arcade Fire, but there is plenty of room for a Hackett cameo. No room for Squire, but Arcade Fire should totally guest in his next album.

Arcade Squire

What's up with the Blueberry Boat/teeth interface for their year-end stuff? It's pretty, I'll grant it.

Haha you guys

I remember trying really hard to like the first Interpol record and being annoyed

They had some good singles later tho

The "year in quotes":

I hear a lot of music that's just lazy-- you know, people in their bedrooms singing some shit into the microphone. It's just bad. But they're like, "This is art." It's so annoying. When people do that and then get immediately famous, they're like, "Whoa, what do I do now? I've never performed before." That's a huge problem. I love performing. It's about putting your soul into it, not just being hip.
-- Julia Holter

Is this quote included because it is ironic?

I noticed that, like "this girl is not OTM at all times, check out this quote"

lana del rey shade?

i'm not a fan but holter is technically very accomplished, right? it's not like she's laurel halo out there

Well she's got a kind of music-school-done-good thing about her, so yes. Who knows who she's thinking about? The short sentences and non sequitur suggest she wasn't that into the interview

"It's a character sketch that puts Miguel in league with writers like Frank Ocean, but also with people like Chris Owens, formerly of Girls, whose disaffected subjects often take a lot more than they've learned to give."

It's just that Holter sounds to me like someone lazily singing shit into a microphone in a bedroom. Her stuff sounds so limp to me.