(that apology is to the world for how i was when i was 16)
― Carisis LaVerted (m bison), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
great alb
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 August 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
i think this is the first album i listened to bc of a pitchfork review and bc i liked it so much ended up being an annoying pitchfork kid in hs, sorry
― circa1916, Thursday, 22 August 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
wow, i have loved this album MOST OF MY LIFE
― Carisis LaVerted (m bison), Thursday, 22 August 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
Super drunk performance of The New from 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I5oPoF3CfQ
― flappy bird, Friday, 23 August 2019 03:34 (four years ago) link
Great clip! Weird they were already pretty big before the album. I’d forgotten that. I really can’t recommend the Lizzy Goodman book (Meet Me In The Bathroom) enough. I’m assuming anyone who loves TOTBL has read it but y’all need to if not. It’s really funny too.
― piscesx, Friday, 23 August 2019 04:15 (four years ago) link
They weren't, it was a coincidental one-off, somebody dropped out of the festival last minute and they booked Interpol like a week before. Did they play any UK gigs in 2001? the Peel session came out in April, I think they got signed off Chris Lombardi hearing that
― flappy bird, Friday, 23 August 2019 04:34 (four years ago) link
ugh this album is so great
it’s a hard life, the atmosphere here is superior and the songcraft on antics is tighter
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 27 December 2021 06:35 (two years ago) link
fave song on this is stella followed rapidly by hands away
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 27 December 2021 06:37 (two years ago) link
my favorite things about this album are the drums and the laser guitars
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 27 December 2021 06:41 (two years ago) link
otm
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 27 December 2021 06:42 (two years ago) link
the latter half of pda
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
^ My favorite thing this band has ever done is that outro jammer. It's very pretty!
― Evan, Monday, 27 December 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
this album holds up perfectly of course. my vote today might be stella.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 03:33 (two years ago) link
NYC would be my vote
― calstars, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 03:43 (two years ago) link
Anyone ever snag an original first pressing 150 gram vinyl copy? It’s only one piece of vinyl but sounds better than I’ve ever heard it. Only ever heard it on cd previously. I don’t go in too much for the old cd vs vinyl wars but there’s no denying it in this particular case.
I think the upcoming 20th anniversary might provoke more reissues and deluxe editions and such, they do tend to go in for that stuff.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-6321NWxOE
what a dope drum part
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 19:53 (two years ago) link
one of the best. it's just clever enough without ever being tryhard
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 20:03 (two years ago) link
This is interesting, i don't think i appreciated just how involved Carlos was in the songwriting
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/interpols-turn-on-the-bright-lights-at-10-an-oral/
― piscesx, Thursday, 3 February 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, February 2, 2022 12:53 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 17 March 2023 18:58 (one year ago) link
Dat hi hat
― calstars, Friday, 17 March 2023 20:12 (one year ago) link
He plays my favorite part wrong (no shame, it's an incredibly difficult section).
This guy plays it pretty all right imho:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6AN1LQBpx8
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 March 2023 20:25 (one year ago) link
whoops wrong vid, this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4yIuBpqE-Y
iirc Sam said that he copped that move from his predecessor who left Interpol for Saetia lol
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 March 2023 20:27 (one year ago) link
I've never made it through this album. They sounded too much like a carbon copy of Joy Division. It made me angry.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 17 March 2023 23:44 (one year ago) link
it barely sounds like jd, go listen to it again
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Friday, 17 March 2023 23:47 (one year ago) link
Strokes and Interpol sound vaguely like VU/Television and Joy Division but with all the charisma sucked out of the original bands.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 17 March 2023 23:52 (one year ago) link
"Obstacle 1" sounds like a JD outtake, albeit with the vocals in a slightly higher register.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 17 March 2023 23:53 (one year ago) link
Haven't listened to this since I was probably 16. Pleasantly suprised to find it still holds up (though with a touch more melodrama than I can enjoy)
― hrep (H.P), Saturday, 18 March 2023 00:00 (one year ago) link
For the hundredth time, they sound like the chameleons not joy division.
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Saturday, 18 March 2023 00:36 (one year ago) link