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| kotvana |
Posted - 10/28/2004 : 16:24:15
NY indie darlings like to steal..
After Strokes did it in "Is This It", Interpol also do it in "Public Pervert", and I guess if they know more songs by the Pixies they would have zero original material..
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| Vacuum Boots |
Posted - 07/09/2007 : 02:11:08
I'm sure the Pixies weren't the first to use that chord progression, I think Jarvis Cocker and End of Fashion use it on their latest releases off the top of my head, who cares, everyone borrows shit whether they mean to or not.
I really dig Interpol, they aren't as dark as Joy Division, they're less punk rock, anyone who hadn't heard either band could instantly tell them apart. Everyones influenced by something, let it go.
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| rivum |
Posted - 05/25/2007 : 11:44:04
quote:
Originally posted by mr.biscuitdoughhead
Me too, but I don't hear any connection to Pixies in Dead Disco or Monster Hospital.
Maybe I'm just stupid.
Still hooked on cellophane...
i agree - i don't get that impression from either tune.
in fact, dead disco couldn't be less like tame.
rivum |
| debaserrr |
Posted - 05/24/2007 : 18:59:45
i see a lot of similarity for the riff in "is this it" but i dont think its a rip off...the strokes songs are all like that (cept for their new horrible album) it doesnt really mean its a rip off its, its very different- similar key and tempo but different- joey still makes me tingle with that lead every time i hear it, its got way more power.
boom chicka boom
"The arc of triumph!" |
| DivisionPelagic |
Posted - 05/21/2007 : 18:29:25
Interpol sounds pretty good to me. They sound like a crisper Joy Division. Don't get me wrong. I love Joy Division. however, I can see why Interpol sells records. They sound like Joy Division cleaned up and more modern. I don't think they rip people off any more than than the next artist. After all, how easy is it to make something new in 2007?
I've heard a lot of noise, so I'm going to the stereo store, to get a white noise maker and turn it up to ten. |
| Skatealex1 |
Posted - 05/05/2007 : 13:07:49
New interpol soon very exciting
The Truth Is Out There |
| mr.biscuitdoughhead |
Posted - 05/04/2007 : 09:03:25
Me too, but I don't hear any connection to Pixies in Dead Disco or Monster Hospital.
Maybe I'm just stupid.
Still hooked on cellophane... |
| kotvana |
Posted - 05/04/2007 : 07:59:50
I love Metric. |
| jaylst |
Posted - 08/07/2006 : 11:58:26
Yeah I listened to the song. Definitely Pixies influenced, and I wouldn't call it a ripoff. Songs not bad, kinda catchy. |
| milo |
Posted - 08/06/2006 : 12:45:31
Another blatantly Pixies influnced band here;
http://www.bornruffians.com/ruffians.mp3
On Warp recrads I think. Decent as well. Tell a friend! |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 06/23/2006 : 12:13:55
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Emily has some Pixies influence. If you manage to get a hold of their debut, which they've all but disowned, and listen to Dead Disco, it's pretty much Tame.
Their first album is still my favourite, though the new one isn't too bad... Old World Underground is kinda' so-so.
 "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." |
| milo |
Posted - 06/23/2006 : 11:07:29
Couldn't find the "bands that siund like pixies" thread. So this one will do.
Just heard the new track from Metric - Monster Hospital - Jesus that track could have been from Surfer Rosa. Just everything about it is so early Pixies. The chord progression, Joey-style guitar licks, metronome drumming, tempo, Vamos-style middle-section. Good track too! |
| RussT |
Posted - 12/15/2004 : 12:12:25
Interpol are simply the best band out there right now. Period. |
| MismatchedSasquach |
Posted - 12/15/2004 : 01:06:38
I like the two Interpol Discs quite a bit. I'll take a second generation Joy Division any day over the fourth, fifth, and sixth-generation Knacks and Clashes and Pearl Jams that have driven me away from music radio... I this is the the difference between a "ripoff" and the genuine article: Interpol has caused me to dig out my Joy Division CDs again, while most of what I hear on the radio makes me want to take the one Pearl Jam disc I do own and use it as a beer coaster. I think many of us have just experienced the fruits of a band doing right by their influences... Would there be enough Pixies fans to mount such a massive and successful tour 13 years after "Trompe Le Monde" if Kurt Cobain didn't basically teach himself how to write songs by listening to "Surfer Rosa" and then telling the whole world to go listen to the Pixies after his band went huge? I'd like to think so, but I'm not so sure... |
| kevins |
Posted - 12/12/2004 : 16:30:10
biff, the majority of alternative bands out there today are pixies influenced, specially the weez. strange bickering like this would occur in a pixies forum, seeing as the pixies kinda retaught the world that overworrying about complexity and patterns gets in the way of making soulful music |
| usedtobenavajo |
Posted - 12/01/2004 : 14:26:58
I think its really hard to define "stealing" and "ripping-off" in the music world. A person who has never heard any song using E-C#m-G#-A could very well pick up a guitar and "write" that progression. In my 3rd month of playing, I "wrote" a progression- Dm-A-G-C, and it took me like a month to realize that this was actually the progression to Bone Machine. It was just a natural, basic progression that I found. Where is my Mind is a little less basic, but if you mess with barchords randomly for a couple weeks, you'll get that riff.
So Im headed for the stereo store, to get a white noise maker, and turn it up to ten. |
| n/a |
Posted - 11/29/2004 : 00:27:56
quote:
Originally posted by just_another_number
thats shit
the libertines, are the most over hiped, tunless band ive ever heard, ohhh and they are so great, because they take drugs and have band
problems, and don't brush thier teeth before they go to bed.
Badger...badger...badger
Hurrah, I was starting to think I was the only one who was BORED by the libertines, I fucking hate them I want to punch Doherty and I'm sick of hearing he hasn't turned up to a gig, he's arrested. he's gone into rehab, he's a waster idiot smackhead, the band have dropped him the band love him, they won't tour with him, they're all friends again, it's as boring as Nicholls being nuts. Rock and Roll should turn in its fucking grave.
Haven't heard interpol yet to be honest with you, I'm finding a lot of new music a trial.
hangovers make me moody.
Frank Black ate my hamster |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 11/27/2004 : 08:38:59
I know what you mean Richard. I didn't expect to like them but I was happily proved wrong. I just got the new album, and its pretty decent. Most of it as actually clearer and more defined than the moodier tracks from 'Turn On The Bright Lights' (NYC etc.) There's still a Joy Division thing going on, and I kind of see what you mean about the Pixies, but I wouldn't go so far as to say its a rip-off.
"You ever seen a man say goodbye to a shoe?"
"Yes, once..." |
| bedrock_barney |
Posted - 11/27/2004 : 07:25:35
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Originally posted by Smoke
interpol straight jacks the whole guitar sound of the chameleons, on their first album anyway. i haven't heard antics yet.
Absolutely agree. The Joy Division comparison is pretty much down to the Ian Curtis like singing style. Musically I would say that they much closer to the dense swirling guitar sound of the Chameleons.
Excellent combination though! I love the first Interpol album and have just ordered the new one. They're one of the few 'new' bands that I actually like. Libertines, Strokes, Hives = dull.
 "I've rejoined the Cult of Ming / Star of favourite childhood movie of 1980" |
| Smoke |
Posted - 11/18/2004 : 12:40:25
interpol straight jacks the whole guitar sound of the chameleons, on their first album anyway. i haven't heard antics yet. |
| hWolsky |
Posted - 11/17/2004 : 12:14:49
Donnie Darko! Make me laugh... Gimme some Zoolander...
HW |
| TarTar |
Posted - 11/16/2004 : 10:18:01
Yeah, this whole 80's New Wave retro thing is pissing me off. Not only the look but the songs, even if some of them are catchy. Everyone is trying to sound like music from Donnie Darko.
Signature's are kind of like bumper stickers, only less sticky. |
| rocknrolldan |
Posted - 11/11/2004 : 21:51:31
hehehe The Hives. So very Swedish
"I like Lou Reed" she said... |
| mosleyk |
Posted - 11/11/2004 : 13:34:23
You know I think I remember in some interview FB stating something like, the trouble he has with most of the new bands these days is that they aren't being themselves. They are trying to hard for an image or persona. They aren't themselves. I must agree, or at least that is the why many of them come off. Although one could argue that in many ways it is the state of things. It seems so much of it is about the package and the show.
That is why I love the Pixies so much. Look at them! They are so...for lack of a better word...average. They were about the music and that was it, and they didn't give a shit. Imagine what they would have been like if they were all dolled up in matching V-neck sweaters, and walking onto the stage like the Hives. |
| SpudBoy |
Posted - 11/11/2004 : 09:31:01
I just get annoyed when these old great bands who were largely original in their style get repackaged by some nitwits too proud to call themselves a cover band and resold as "new" to the unaware masses. I think it's dirty filthy nasty lazy shit. And I hate it.
*festoon* |
| offerw |
Posted - 11/11/2004 : 06:35:27
quote:
Originally posted by Stuart
I was listening to Sugar - Copper Blue for the first time yesterday, and there is one song which is without a shadow of a doubt nicks the riff from Debaser.... Don't know what the song is called but will listen to it again and find out its name.
This is a high class bureau de change, not some Punch & Judy show on the seafront at Margate!
The song is probably A Good Idea. Bob Mould says it's a thank you to the Pixies.
wilhelm |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 11/11/2004 : 06:02:41
I was thinking good and bad, but OK.
"You ever seen a man say goodbye to a shoe?"
"Yes, once..." |
| VoVat |
Posted - 11/10/2004 : 17:40:38
quote:
There's only two types of music in the world remember...
The kind of music that groups all music into two types, and the kind that doesn't?
"Signature quotes are so lame." --Nathan |
| Stuart |
Posted - 11/08/2004 : 17:31:41
I was listening to Sugar - Copper Blue for the first time yesterday, and there is one song which is without a shadow of a doubt nicks the riff from Debaser.... Don't know what the song is called but will listen to it again and find out its name.
This is a high class bureau de change, not some Punch & Judy show on the seafront at Margate! |
| hWolsky |
Posted - 11/08/2004 : 17:28:00
They will go straigh to the budget section for 3.99£
30 seconds and no place to hide...
HW |
| Wade |
Posted - 11/08/2004 : 16:03:04
I too felt some of Interpol's sounds were a bit "unoriginal" but what they've done as a whole shows promise, and rekindles some sounds that other bands had all but abandoned. I am eager to see if it can go anywhere else, though I still enjoy what they've made to date.
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| hWolsky |
Posted - 11/08/2004 : 15:02:38
Yes dear, just like people, those who are charming and those who are not... (O. Wilde). Let us take each other's hand and dance and hug, I'm a moody guy but I feel better now...
I'll dance myself into the tomb...
HW |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 11/08/2004 : 14:52:55
Um, OK.
I like these bands not because they sound like other bands, but because they're good.
There's only two types of music in the world remember...
"You ever seen a man say goodbye to a shoe?"
"Yes, once..." |
| hWolsky |
Posted - 11/08/2004 : 14:49:03
Yes but my... It is so obviously obvious... It is a "foutage de gueule" (en français dans le texte). And we are in 2004, "we have the technology (not available before..." hope someone would get it...)culture is supposed to be accessible to everyone (so accessible that it becomes less and less valuable...) we have perspectives in matter of anticipation and this is what we get: the strokes... Isn't it nonsense my dear fellow? Those bands I denounce belong to my generation, are fond of the bands I love and they pay tribute to them, Okay! (the devil says) but this is not rock'n roll...This is Saturday Night Party!!! I play music, I want it to be my whole life, but as far as I am only able to ripp-off the Stooges, I will not go on stage, I will not publish albums, I won't let it call Rock Music. No, what is happening now is Saturday Night Party and the kids are told this is rock'n roll and that it is 'cool'. I'll tell U what!! (I'm angry) If rock has died, it was fourteen, ugly and lost in a "game over" world of no-future whatever (Punks suck!!)and everlasting easy-phantasy dreams...
Gimme my T-Rex back!
Vote for me.
Who Cares (but my banker)
Wouaaaa!
HW |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 11/08/2004 : 12:11:49
I bought the first Interpol album recently on a whim, and I actually really liked it. Yeah, there's a lot of Joy Division in there, but then lots of good bands have strong influences. I imagine we wouldn't be discussing the point if every band in the sixties hadn't ripped off Chuck Berry.
There was a period where every new band that came out was lame, modish and overhyped - The Rapture/!!! scene springs to mind - but at the moment there's a few pretty high-quality new bands around. The Libertines rip off the Clash, but they also write good songs and have a discernable character, at the very least. Franz Ferdinand take off Talking Heads and many others, and do it with aplomb.
I even like the Killers - catchy songs, its a bit of fun.
"You ever seen a man say goodbye to a shoe?"
"Yes, once..." |
| hWolsky |
Posted - 11/08/2004 : 11:52:08
I saw the Libertnes, live in Paris. Big expectation from the public (very young). This is clean punk-rock with flegmatic bass-player and black drummer. A mix between Joe Strummer and something else. I will forget it in a couple of days... The only thing I enjoyed and found really fun was all those male teenagers getting on stage to kiss the singer and get almost undressed for him... Strange appeal those new bands...
HW |
