Interpol: Turn On the Bright Lights poll

wow, i have loved this album MOST OF MY LIFE

Super drunk performance of The New from 2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I5oPoF3CfQ

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.

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

ugh this album is so great

it’s a hard life, the atmosphere here is superior and the songcraft on antics is tighter

fave song on this is stella followed rapidly by hands away

my favorite things about this album are the drums and the laser guitars

otm

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!

this album holds up perfectly of course. my vote today might be stella.

NYC would be my vote

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-6321NWxOE

what a dope drum part

one of the best. it's just clever enough without ever being tryhard

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/

what a dope drum part

― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, February 2, 2022 12:53 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Dat hi hat

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

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

I've never made it through this album. They sounded too much like a carbon copy of Joy Division. It made me angry.

it barely sounds like jd, go listen to it again

Strokes and Interpol sound vaguely like VU/Television and Joy Division but with all the charisma sucked out of the original bands.

"Obstacle 1" sounds like a JD outtake, albeit with the vocals in a slightly higher register.

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)

For the hundredth time, they sound like the chameleons not joy division.