LSF was so good
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:48 (seven years ago) link
EMERGE alfred do you not remember?? that song built an entire (and almost entirely illusory) "scene"! their shows were outrageous/hideous/amazing. nobody did spectacle like that at a show that i can think of until like, fever ray? i'm sure i'm forgetting someone amazing. but still.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:52 (seven years ago) link
I will always rep for the YYYs and the Rapture
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:55 (seven years ago) link
rapture were a really fun live band imo
― marcos, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:55 (seven years ago) link
The Rapture's follow-up to Echoes (the post-DFA one with "Woo Alright Yeah Uh-Huh" on it) is mad underrated.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:58 (seven years ago) link
we played a super tiny show w them (before they moved to NY) and they absolutely tore the place up, opened w a Gang of Four cover. Will always be sort of forgiving of their excesses/stumbles because of that show.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:59 (seven years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, May 16, 2017 2:59 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I saw them right before the Sub Pop ep came out and they completely blow me away, played to like 20 people or something, one of the best bands I saw in that era. 6 months later when they came back and I had been talking to them up to everyone who would listen they were a totally different band & the charms were lost on me.
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link
Echoes is a fantastic album.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 20:22 (seven years ago) link
The Rapture's first and third albums are their best.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
J Escobedo elsewhere:
http://jezebel.com/early-2000s-rock-dudefight-ends-in-a-surprisingly-sick-1795264939
The origin of this fight is an oral history about the end of the band The Strokes published in Vulture (excerpted from Lizzy Goodman’s forthcoming book Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011) which, if you can get past the notion that The Strokes were some kind of rock saviors and not just a kinda decent band in a scene surrounded by way cooler and more interesting other bands, has a couple fun nuggets to mine.
Embedded links going to the YYYs and Ex Models in particular.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 20:33 (seven years ago) link
I would happy erase their master tapes.― Ned Raggett, Monday, May 15, 2017 7:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Monday, May 15, 2017 7:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^ OTM.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 20:36 (seven years ago) link
was Enon part of the "scene"? They were great. Though I guess a lot older.
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 20:37 (seven years ago) link
lol who
The Ratpure
― goole, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 20:40 (seven years ago) link
Franz Ferdinand's debut pisses all over anything The Strokes ever did.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 20:40 (seven years ago) link
The only hyped band of the time I can think of that I liked less than The Strokes was Interpol.
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 20:41 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I thought Interpol were garbage also.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 20:44 (seven years ago) link
Hear hear
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 20:46 (seven years ago) link
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, May 16, 2017 3:37 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah Brainiac, rip :( they prefigure a lot of this in a way but sound a lot more 90s, when you go back to them. and Six Finger Satellite!
― goole, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 20:48 (seven years ago) link
Interpol's albums have their moments, but I saw them live and wanted to tear my own head off out of boredom.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 20:49 (seven years ago) link
Interpol are the only classic band of this era. Antics is better than Bright Lights. I dig the first Strokes record and "12:51."
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 20:52 (seven years ago) link
Interpol are aural Ambien and were one-upped by fucking Editors
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 20:54 (seven years ago) link
LOL flappy bird.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 21:00 (seven years ago) link
honestly, what NYC rock scene stuff do ppl feel they sound a lot like? early Blondie maybe musically a bit? The Ramones I guess in a way but they are so influential it's almost like saying a rock band is influenced by Chuck Berry.... Like they def don't remind me of Television, Dead Boys, Patti Smith, Heartbreakers, Dictators, NY Dolls, Voidoids, Talking Heads
They just sound like a super-generic garage rock act to me - the Sonics if the Sonics had been bored rich wannabe-junkies.
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link
they dressed up like NYC 70s rock scene but sonically were closer to the Cars and Tom Petty
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 21:28 (seven years ago) link
individual singles from the first album still sound all right but the monotone that pervades everything (same rhythm, same vocal affect, etc.) is painful in album form
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 21:30 (seven years ago) link
did someone quote the NYT detail that three (3) WH officials "conceding," by way of defending trump, that he's too stupid to know enough to disclose anything dangerous
― goole, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 21:41 (seven years ago) link
lmao wrong thread
idk, it's a paul banks lyric, there's a joke there somewhere
― goole, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
it's weird to me that the strokes get this type of invective. they've always just been good band with an amazing debut to me...maybe cause I was too young to experience the hype train?
― meekseeks mill (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 21:45 (seven years ago) link
*just been a good-ish band
― meekseeks mill (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 21:46 (seven years ago) link
I like the debut okay, but I really haven't listened to it since it was new. At that time I liked most bands in that post-Velvet Undergroundy continuum: Modern Lovers, Feelies, Dream Syndicate, Yo La Tengo...
― I don't really like any of these albums (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 21:50 (seven years ago) link
I like the strokes, interpol, AND the ratpure, what do I win
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 21:52 (seven years ago) link
a shameful memory of something you did at don hill's
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 21:56 (seven years ago) link
I love Duran Duran, I tolerate their doggerel, but Interpol was a bag of mayo on fire: ugly, self-serious, terrible fashion sense.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 21:57 (seven years ago) link
― goole
he was ahead of his time
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 22:05 (seven years ago) link
it's probably not their best front-to-back but Comedown Machine is the Strokes album I return to the most these days by far
― ufo, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link
haven't rly kept up with them but early YYYs were really really good imo -- i saw them at a small club in 2002 and they blew everyone else off the stage. i remember liking the first two strokes albums ok, pleasant enough, but not something i've ever gone back to.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 22:26 (seven years ago) link
I couldn't bring myself to listen to that last YYYs album but they had a very good run and were great live as well
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 22:33 (seven years ago) link
the last Strokes and Interpol records were both among their best tbh
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 22:42 (seven years ago) link
top challop
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 22:44 (seven years ago) link
i didn't see any of these bands live but the YYYs were my favorite working band that decade, from audiogalaxying the "master" ep as an easily/pleasantly shocked hs freshman to buying fever to tell in A Record Store! not Borders! the first time i visited NYC to pazzing it's blitz in college. gr8 band, love them in all phases tbh. never seen david letterman crush on anyone that hard either.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 23:01 (seven years ago) link
― ufo, Tuesday, May 16, 2017 3:23 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no it's totally their best front-to-back
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 23:02 (seven years ago) link
sorry i heard the comedown machine siren
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 23:03 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Comedown Machine is a fantastic record. The only weak moments are where they try and sound like old Strokes. Overall, Room On Fire is easily my favourite.
Interpol's debut stands up and Antics is pretty enjoyable. Delete everything after that, especially the self titled album which was a disaster.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs were getting better with each album until Mosquito which was almost as bad as the artwork. It's Blitz is the one I go back the most.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 23:24 (seven years ago) link
the s/t Interpol record was at least properly produced - the third one (Our Love to Admire) has that really high-end, nasally cocaine sound. Also the first half is better than anything on OLTA or the dud dud dud El Pintor album. "Summer Well," "Barricade," "Memory Serves," and "Success" are all Antics/Bright Lights caliber, especially "Summer Well."
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 23:39 (seven years ago) link
I will also defend the s/t - they got unfairly slated for how depressing and bleak it was...for some reason?
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 23:51 (seven years ago) link
The closing two tracks are among their most evocative
that record is bleak and depressing?
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 23:54 (seven years ago) link
is this it?.. i was really really resistant when it first came out, seemed like such a tacky and dumb band to get so much hype and the music was annoying as shit. but i got into after a few months. that smooth velvety(fabric not band) sound is so sumptuous. their music had a nice warm energy. good tunes, good vocalist. totally classic.
room on fire is almost as good, the highs might be higher. "under control" is a massive song.
haven't listened to their later albums for some reason
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 00:22 (seven years ago) link
loved is this it, hated room on fire with a passion, never bothered with any of the rest.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 00:24 (seven years ago) link