Interpol - Antics Poll

Haha, nobody listened to this album more than once.

― Come and get it with King (G'Day) Boy (G'Day) Pato (King Boy Pato), zaterdag 10 september 2011 10:29 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

Wrong. TOTBL is by far my favourite, but I still enjoy this one a lot, at times. Their last album was shit, and they will probably stay shit forever now, but the first three albums are still great.

If I have to pick now, I will go with 'Take You On A Cruise'. If only for: Time is like a broken watch, I make money like Fred Astaire which for some reason pops up in my mind at random occassions and is brilliant.

These guys are horrible but "Evil" comes close to achieving Rio-level pulp.

there's one bassline that sounds straight outta Kim Deal, maybe it's "Evil" but I don't want to listen to this band ever again so I won't check

that's the one. It also boasts the lyric, "I can take you places/Yeah, maybe to the beach" or at least I hope it does.

Yeah, "Evil" is the only Interpol I can get behind. "Slow Hands" always put me in mind of "In A Big Country" for some reason.

Narc

narc

def better than bright lights

Interpoll

lol @ 33 ilxors

haha interpol, those were the days when we thought we were on to something cool, wtf.

Haven't listened to this in years, but only "Not Even Jail" stands out now.

"I promise to commit no acts of violence / neither physical or otherwise" always gave me inexplicable chills whenever I heard it.

i didn't like "not even jail" when i first started listening to the record, but i definitely like it now

length of love

this is "Narc" iirc.

Not Even Jail

These titles are endlessly recombinant!

C'mere Pervert
Narc Even Jail
Slow Curise

*Cruise

songs I always dug:
"Evil" (voted for this one), "Narc", "Slow Hands"

songs I only gradually grew to like:
"Not Even Jail", "C'mere", and whatever the last one is called

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Not Even Jail was as cathartic as these guys ever got, so that one.

this band blows

I wouldn't use that verb around Carlos Dengler.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Other Take You On A Cruise voter, let me Take You On A Cruise

solitary "C'mere" voter, etc etc

my wife likes this record, so i've heard it a bit.
this is more for a misheard lyrics thread, but there's a part where the dude sings --"can't you see what you've done to my heart -- and soul!"
and i thought for a while he was singing "can't you see what you've done to my heart -- asshole!"
which i kind of liked.

Le Bateau Ivre, let's go. (▰˘◡˘▰)

:D

damn, missed this one, would have voted for "C'mere"

Turangalila! <3

i actually like this record more than turn on the bright lights. i realize what that says of me.

― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Saturday, September 10, 2011 4:33 AM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

with you here man. his singing was never better. it's still stunning. and yes his lyrics are incredible. "When the cadaverous mob saves its doors for the dead man, you cannot leave." what a way to end an album.

pleasantly surprised that 'Not Even Jail' won this by a hair. but i love every song on here, it's a perfect record

"Not Even Jail" never really clicked with me, and includes some of the album's worst lyrical clunkers ("Feel the warmth of my sincerity", "You're making people's lives feel less private", "scaaaar tiss-SHUE"), while "Public Pervert" has gradually revealed itself to be one of my favs, so this result is a bit of a head-scratcher for me.

also: I liked "A Time to Be So Small" better when I misheard the line "Rehearsing interaction, he wasn't even there" as "Nursing an erection..."

I should also clarify that my elevation of "Public Pervert" is on purely musical grounds, and was contingent on training myself not to wince at the metaphor of the opening lines.

lol I have always thought "nursing an erection" *was* the line

One last thought before I stop posting and go do some work in my parents' yard: I dunno if it's just the "Not Even Jail"/"What Jail Is Like" association suggesting itself to my brain, but this album has always seemed somehow of a piece with The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen, at least thematically: substance abuse, gender and relationship power dynamics. The difference is that the Whigs have a theatrical side which I find wholly lacking in Interpol's music. Whether consciously or not, Paul Banks always seems to be writing/singing in 'his own voice' & never inhabits a character the way Greg Dulli does on "Fountain and Fairfax". I find the latter way more engaging and immediate: Let me drink! Let me taaaaallk!! is cathartic in a way no Interpol song has ever managed to be.

Not Even Jail also has one of my favorite bizarre metaphors by PB: "I'm subtle like a lion's cage." it's bordering on English as a second language. Another example: "You let the face slap around the self."

is that really what he's singing in "Slow Hands"? christ, man

yeah. it's great!!

I think a "is paul banks a good lyricist y/n" poll might be fun, have we done that before

The poll'll take us places, maybe to the beach

I watch the poll dance of the stars

The answer is obviously no.

not a poll but..

why is paul banks so loathed a a lyricist

I feel this thread missed a golden opportunity to title it "InterPoll - Antics"

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