pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

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.

And she doesn't sound like she's "putting her soul into it," she sounds shy at least on record.

I haven't listened so I don't know, but i know you can be shy and put your soul into it.

it's not like she's laurel halo out there

― lex pretend, Monday, December 17, 2012 5:57 PM (1 hour ago)

I'm guessing that you are referring to the vocals on her album, the point of which was to sound exactly like that. Not saying you have to like it, but if you listen to her other records (King Felix EP and her vocals on that Games' EP), she obviously can sing well.

i like julia holter and saw her live and she's obviously a skilled musician and she's got singing chops. however that quote is soooooooooo stupid. man i hate this new band pavement they're not even trying, it's not art

yeah, stupid quote and weird that they'd cite it as being anything other than the flotsam of a new interviewee

i like that quote, ymmv but there have been a lot of p bad bands that are pretty well-described by "singing some shit into the microphone" the past few years and it is kind of bullshit. try to imagine how you would have reacted if that were a scott seward post and not a jh quote: you probably would have been like "OTM" and then went and listened to a sick chops prog album with renewed zeal. obv it's reductive and some bands have been good but in general as a trend i think people are a big too enabled right now

including it is not necessarily condoning it

flopson your post is so bad

try to imagine how you would have reacted if that were a scott seward post and not a jh quote: you probably would have been like "OTM" and then went and listened to a sick chops prog album with renewed zeal.

lol flopson

i don't think holter's statement holds up as, like, an unbreakable rule that's true across the board or anything, but it needed to be said and i'm basically all for the general sentiment behind it. lots of lazy, incompetent shit out there that needs to stop.

why