Also on a brief note, people have been notoriously stupid when it comes to comparisons. On the subject of The Strokes, how maybe times did I read The Rolling Stones or The Kinks while flipping through various publications? People are absolutely rancid when it comes to these things.
― mallory bourgeois (painter man), Friday, 10 January 2003 02:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Stephen Stockwell (Stephen Stockwell), Monday, 10 January 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stephen Stockwell (Stephen Stockwell), Monday, 10 January 2005 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link
new one's nice
― StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:43 (sixteen years ago) link
new Editors is better though :(
― StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:52 (sixteen years ago) link
new National is best
― baaderonixx, Friday, 22 June 2007 10:12 (sixteen years ago) link
lol Interpol still exists
― marmotwolof, Friday, 22 June 2007 10:16 (sixteen years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/06/21/arts/21.interpol.span.jpg
lol @ yesterday's ny times.
― hstencil, Friday, 22 June 2007 10:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Far left: Bob "Hardcore" Holly, far right: Ornaldo "Orlando" Bloomps
― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Friday, 22 June 2007 10:21 (sixteen years ago) link
so like when did they replace the singer guy with Jodie Foster
― marmotwolof, Friday, 22 June 2007 10:22 (sixteen years ago) link
second one's like a young David Eugene Edwards
― StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link
er... with, like, a different head and face and hair. (ok, I was wrong)
― StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 10:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Second from right is ER's Noah Wyle with a beard...
― Iain Macdonald, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:34 (sixteen years ago) link
The new album is really growing on me - I saw them at the Rock Werchter festival this weekend, wasn't going to stay for their whole show, but I did in the end, so I guess I liked them.
― StanM, Friday, 6 July 2007 09:14 (sixteen years ago) link
the new album is sitting on 92 on metacritic after 5 reviews
bloody hell
(they obviously weight Playlouder reviews much higher than OMM, which is a surprise, and Amazon.com, which is not)
― bakerstreetsaxsolo, Friday, 6 July 2007 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
"Lighthouse" is such a pathetic example of "atmosphere."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 6 July 2007 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
In NYMag, Paul Banks described the late night PATH train as "amateur hour for alcoholics," which is a nice, succinct, accurate description, so I give him some credit.
― Hurting 2, Friday, 6 July 2007 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
getting raves - mojo, nme etc. 'best album yet' type talk.
― pisces, Friday, 6 July 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
This is the first album on which they're unable even to make their meaninglessness signify on any level.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 6 July 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
CLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC I love this band more than life. Well I exaggerate but I really love their entire sound, every album is more epic than the last, gorgeous lyrics, its atmospheric and moody and I love the darkly romantic sensuality of it all, their music is... http://static.px.yelp.com/bphoto/AnCkEbNFOa7Q8Igzo5mPNA/l I can only gush. Hate all you want, but its a beautiful thing they've done with music..*sigh* Oh and since when has Interpol been attractive? ALWAYS.
― VeronaInTheClub, Thursday, 26 June 2008 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^AWFULLY worded review there but its accurate
― VeronaInTheClub, Thursday, 26 June 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
HUH?
― stephen, Saturday, 28 June 2008 02:53 (fifteen years ago) link
They should have stopped at 5 reviews. For Interpol's sake.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 28 June 2008 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Metacritic needs to adjust the scale of their rating system. Seems like every album falls between 60 and 80 points, which means "generally favorable reviews," and anything hip enough to appear on ILM is almost always in that range.
― stephen, Saturday, 28 June 2008 06:19 (fifteen years ago) link
It's been a year since that awful record, no?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 28 June 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Lord Sotosyn, Hater of Ye Olde Interpol Greats. We meet again.
― brightscreamer, Saturday, 28 June 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, except Alfred's right. That Interpol disc was between totally unnecessary and downright bad.
First disc was great, tho. Deserves the praise it got.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 28 June 2008 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
hip enough to appear on ILM
Can somebody run me a meme-ometer check on this one please?
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 28 June 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Interpol's music has been on a steady downward trajectory since the debut EP. apparently so has their cocaine use; here's hoping they get fuckin' loaded for this next album, and put out something great again.
― stephen, Sunday, 29 June 2008 00:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Interpol: Better music via seedier vices.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 29 June 2008 01:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I am pro-Interpol, feel like hateration is insider baseball bullshit
― J0hn D., Sunday, 29 June 2008 01:58 (fifteen years ago) link
^^John D....
http://kreations-by-katie.com/store/images/Ygafim_KAHweb.jpg
― VeronaInTheClub, Sunday, 29 June 2008 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Can anyone explain the difference between Interpol and The Editors?
― chap, Sunday, 29 June 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Well this is a review from the illustrious fuckwankers at NME and its such unmitigated bullshit that I really don't know whether to laugh, cry or commit arson at the NME offices but thats how I feel if I ever happen to read an NME article anyways...
"They're the worst band on the planet, a tuneless, talentless shower of Joy Division copyist fuckwits. Their whining, dreary, two-note-monotone singer sounds like a cancerous baboon having his tonsils amputated and they should, by act of law, be dragged cock-first into the nearest ditch, shot in the head with a bolt gun and have their entrails fed to diseased rats. And their new album is unmitigated dogshit. They're called Interpol and may they never be mentioned in the same breath as the mighty, immaculate Editors ever again.
Watching Editors make their comeback tonight is like being in the sun screening room from Sunshine at 100 per cent exposure; awesome in the true sense of the word. Most comeback gigs swing between familiarity (of the old songs) and endurance (of the new ones), this one races from familiarity to nailed-to-the-back-wall-by-a-hail-of-razorfire-guitar-scree wonder. As a final, 'Fingers In The Factories' pounds us out of our elated senses, Mad Tom mimes tearing the roof off the Parr Hall. Warrington duly obliges. Wake up Interpol, you're dead: Editors just turned up the bright lights.
Mark Beaumont"
Not too long ago they levelled this same criticsm albeit with different wording at the Editors who truly, truly are a lower rent version of Interpol and in fact more of a Joy Divison rip off than Interpol.
― VeronaInTheClub, Sunday, 29 June 2008 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
"the mighty, immaculate Editors"
"Wake up Interpol, you're dead: Editors just turned up the bright lights."
This is too fucking funny.
― circa1916, Sunday, 29 June 2008 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Interpol rip off Joy Division subtly and are sometimes great. Editors rip off Joy Division shamelessly and are always awful.
― stephen, Sunday, 29 June 2008 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
What you have to understand is that Mark Beaumont is a complete and utter cunt, and talentless, and a cunt, and an IPC yes-man at that. And a cunt.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 30 June 2008 09:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't remember if John D's "things to compare Interpol to besides Joy Division" list mentioned Kitchens of Distinction, but it probably should have.
― nabisco, Monday, 30 June 2008 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
nabisco, please remember that there's no "I" in threesome.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 30 June 2008 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
It's been heartening to read them getting so much respect in all of the end of decade polls. Nice timing too as i think alot of people got a bit bored of them after the last album. This gives us all a nice bit of perspective. I keep hearing Daniel Kessler's guitar sound all over albums this year; Wild Beasts, The XX, White Lies etc.
God bless them!
― piscesx, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
God damn it :(
http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/05/09/carlos-d-leaves-interpol/
― piscesx, Monday, 10 May 2010 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Off to give herpes to some other well-meaning band, I am sure.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 May 2010 01:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Interpol’s star has risen steadily over the years,
it has?
― chillwave of mutilation (electricsound), Monday, 10 May 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
It SO has not. They signed to a major label and then essentially disappeared.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 May 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
woah
― ksh, Monday, 10 May 2010 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway, yeah, they peaked in 2002 in many's eyes, even though Antics is so great
eh i think they're actually more popular than y'all think -- they're just not that "cool" anymore. more like kings of leon fans are into them.
― tylerw, Monday, 10 May 2010 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a match made in hell.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 May 2010 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link
YEAAAAAAH THIS THREAD IS ON FIRE
― ksh, Monday, 10 May 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
something something boat something out to see something babyyyyyyy