So I saw the Walkmen and Kaito tonight

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― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 26 September 2003 05:26 (twenty years ago) link

The Walkmen suck, they're like JFE with all of the things that made JFE interesting slowly sucked out and replaced with stupid lower east side garage rock cliche after cliche. Ugh.

Kaito/Kenickie comparison? Are you freaking stupid? They are girls. They have guitars. Therefore they must sound alike! That's like saying Fugazi sound like Travis because they are both boys and they both play guitars.

That said, I like Kaito and I like Kenickie, too, but they sound nothing alike. Kaito are freaky, spikey, teeth-chattering and wonderful.

― kate (kate), Friday, 26 September 2003 11:01 (twenty years ago) link

kaito uk is pretty great... "band red" is a good album... they remind me of where deerhoof has been moving towards... but different.

― msp, Friday, 26 September 2003 12:08 (twenty years ago) link

I really like the Walkmen album. I haven't seem them live. I think I like them more not knowing that they look like typical indie dudes. But the album was on my top 10 for last year.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 26 September 2003 12:13 (twenty years ago) link

walkmen album was prolly my fav of last year, it took me a while to like it though and it isnt for everyone i suppose.

― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 26 September 2003 13:56 (twenty years ago) link

check out the new pleased album if yr looking for a walkmen fix before their new record drops in january

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:04 (twenty years ago) link

I like the Walkmen album, I love the drum sounds and playing on there. The vocal phrasing gets annoying, but I hear what you're saying, at least he's actually singing. I saw them live a while ago and enjoyed it a lot.

Although -- my band Vowels wanted to rent their studio and they wouldn't call us back, and finally after about five messages when they did they were probably the most unenthusiastic people I've ever come across. It's not like they had even heard our band, yet, either (which I could maybe understand). I mean, I wanted to give them a lot of money. I haven't listened much to their record since.

― scott m (mcd), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:19 (twenty years ago) link

I thought the Walkmen were excellent when I saw them at the Henry Fonda a couple of weeks ago. Their new songs sounded incredible: catchy, timeless, anthemic. As far as I'm concerned, that's my most anticipated new album. I personally like them the best out of all the bands to blow up out of NYC in the last few years.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:14 (twenty years ago) link

also caught the henry fonda show. I think they would have benefitted by playing a smaller venue like the el rey. There wasn't enough energy coming from the band and it was already being diluted. That being said, I really liked a solid majority of their new stuff. There was a epic kinda shoegazy song that they played toward the end that had me floored. Looking forward to their new record, but I wonder if it'll be as well received as their last...

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 26 September 2003 18:36 (twenty years ago) link

I guess I mean mainly really early Kenickie when they were chirpier and rawer. I'm not taling about freakin "I Would Fix You" or anything.

No I'm not stupid, and please don't paint me as a mysogynist or whatever when I said nothing of the sort.

― justin, Friday, 26 September 2003 23:50 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

the el rey is terrible, bill, how dare you? i thought we were friends. their shows at the echo and the troubadour were much more spirited and enjoyable. their new record is ho-hum also. can't people just listen to the strokes some more, instead?

― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 05:51 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...

what d'you make of the kaitO album, WBS?

the new bearsuit is out too, I see.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

bearsuit = the new bis

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 11 April 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

that is very lazy keith. bearsuit aren't really the new anything. and that has really struck me as the point. they don't make much sense.

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Sunday, 11 April 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

"US Kaito"? "Microhouse Band"?

Kaito of Japan is Hiroshi Watanabe who makes microhouse/trance.

― djdee2005, Sunday, 11 April 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

Walkmen are probably the best band I've heard in ten years. Maybe fifteen.

― Chris Wolf, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link

me too with the possible exception of Aqua

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Hell yes. Screaming brilliant.

― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Aqua edge out The Walkmen, but only barely. I liked The Walkmen more before I met them. Not that they weren't awesome guys, but I'd secretly hoped the cover of their first album was a shot of the band. SADLY NOT.

Anyways, I can see how The Walkmen would not appeal to many, but I still get all amped everytime iTunes decides I've been good and plays 'Everyone Who Pretended..." or "Rue The Day".

― minolta (minolta), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link

five years pass...

Whatever happened to the folks from Kaito UK anyway? They were so brilliant at times and then...poof, gone. Hard to believe that that's it.

― dlp9001, Sunday, 18 April 2010 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

Whatever happened to the folks from Kaito UK anyway? They were so brilliant at times and then...poof, gone. Hard to believe that that's it.

I've lost track of them too, and apparently the singer's been busy with Factory Floor (never heard of them) and solo as Nik Void.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L9jsQQVgXM

Sadly, nothing like kaitO but still good.

― Meme Imfurst (Leee), Thursday, 5 April 2018 00:32 (six years ago) link

my sisters are married
TO ALL MY FRIENDS

― thots and players (rip van wanko), Thursday, 5 April 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link

four years pass...

I miss kaito[uk] / kaitO! Can anyone recommend other stuff similar to Band Red?

― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Thursday, 19 January 2023 19:35 (one year ago) link

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