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matto
= Cult of Ray =
USA
954 Posts |
 Posted - 10/08/2002 : 15:43:57
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Regardless of what hype there may be - this band Interpol is amazing. I unconditionally reccomend it for anyone who like Pixies, Talking Heads, Radiohead... they sound like the best parts of all these bands. No joke! Beats the Strokes any day!
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mdisanto
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1140 Posts |
Posted - 10/08/2002 : 18:29:58
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that seems too good to be true really hah but ill check them out
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JamesM
= Cult of Ray =
308 Posts |
Posted - 10/08/2002 : 19:47:23
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I've only heard that PDA song, but it was excellent. I want to buy the album now.
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matto
= Cult of Ray =
USA
954 Posts |
Posted - 10/09/2002 : 09:49:18
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DO YERSELVES a favor:
(and I don't work for this band)
get both the album, Turn On the Bright Lights,
and the ep, Interpol (it has an incredible non-album track, Specialist)
both are worth the low price - at least, they're low in L.A. at Aaron's or even Amoeba, you can find them used, or new for like $9 and $4, respectively. best investment I've made all year, having listened to them both day in/day out, till the fb+c-s...
Did anyone see Interpol live, by chance? I was even more blown away - best new live sounding band this year, half a notch above the shins! (due to charisma)
spem in alium |
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matto
= Cult of Ray =
USA
954 Posts |
Posted - 10/09/2002 : 09:50:43
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Lest I forget -
go to
http://matadorrecords.com
they have (a) mp3s of Interpol.
hmm... as well as preston school of industry!
whalebones!
quel haircuts!
spem in alium |
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matto
= Cult of Ray =
USA
954 Posts |
Posted - 10/09/2002 : 10:07:35
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ACTUALLY - if anyone here has any Interpol songs other than the TOTBL lp and the recent ep, and would be interested in trading or anything - please contact me. I really would love to obtain their other songs, but don't want to bid on ebay and suffer, suffer. Someone's got to have their music... does anyone have one of them napster things (I don't)?
mattorefice@smurfs.com
graces!
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Dave Noisy
Minister of Chaos
Canada
4496 Posts |
Posted - 10/09/2002 : 17:24:27
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On an interesting note, Interpol played in Toronto on the 28th, and a band called Hotel opened for them.
What's significant is the kind fellow who owns the machine this site is on, and pays for the bandwidth is the drummer of Hotel.
If you're interested, their site is www.FreeTinySoap.com - they've got MP3's for your listening pleasure. You can send my buddy Pete a note through there if you'd like to thank him for his generosity. =)
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theonecontender
= Cult of Ray =
Canada
565 Posts |
Posted - 10/15/2002 : 21:17:09
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I like Interpol and listening to them now. good tip Matto. I often play the same kind of delay guitar stuff when I'm feeling..... ummm, yeah.
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theonecontender
= Cult of Ray =
Canada
565 Posts |
Posted - 10/15/2002 : 23:17:37
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Hey seem to like where is my mind? on that track "stella ...". May as well cover a different song, like men in black or something. Thanks for the adds as well.
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
3988 Posts |
Posted - 10/18/2002 : 12:02:12
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Does anyone else do it like me and tend to stay away from the "popular" stuff? It is sort of cynical, but I end up with this attitude of "if the masses like it, it can't be that good". I guess it is very jaded, and sometimes I am pleased to discover the good stuff DOES actually get popular...but it's sad when GREAT stuff like FB just remains relatively unnoticed.
Okay, done my rant on this... |
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matto
= Cult of Ray =
USA
954 Posts |
Posted - 10/22/2002 : 14:45:01
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YES! It's called being a "music 'SNOB'".
S - Specifically
N - Negligent towards the
O - Opiates of the
B - Masses (it's a Greek B) (a lesser known Greek)
SNOBS tend to 'live' more, but for fewer years, and know less, but better.
Being a 2nd generation SNOB, I find a lot of apathy towards my situation in the general populace. Whenever I try and complain about any particular "popular" act, with extremely clever wittcisms (see NME for easy plagarisms) mind you, the replies are usually no better than shrugs or "whatever"s.
BUT seriously (it's hard to write incincerely for too long) -
you're at least 80% justified in your tastes. Most popular radio/mtv selections contain vogue features in production and content, i.e. compression, seattle entreating, bootiliciousness, pedephilia. Or, that could be the music I like - ? -
But hey - McDonald's are everywhere, and there's only one Spago - so... it's cheap, easy to make and not good for you. But it tastes good at the moment, and has colorful arches and jazzy shit.
Also, most people can't handle deep, deep things. Especially short people. I dislike to admit it, but some Pearl Jam and Nirvana songs actually pushed the envelope, content-wise. Can you dance to Frank Black? ... hmm.. maybe... but, can you dance to Frank Black and get laid? Ah so! "Give me that big booming bass, in your face, that booming bass.."
"Cry me a river"!
Just be glad you can like what you like, and don't have to sit content 9-5 with light jazz in a copy room. Unless, you do like that. If so, DON'T PANIC YOU'RE PEFECTLY NORMAL!
In the end, most pop is knockoff of good stuff. It's a trickle-down theory of music - PLUS - whatever acceptable risk the conglamorate music industry executive-bot is willing to take for its shareholders.
Equate:
T + R = S
(T: Tested new musical idea; R: Risk ventrurable to capitalists; S: Saves the Day)
"Amazing how potent cheap music is" - some composer! like Irving Berlin or other..
.. and now.. out of high school!!
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theonecontender
= Cult of Ray =
Canada
565 Posts |
Posted - 10/22/2002 : 21:14:50
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
3988 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 10:50:06
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just found out my drummer boy loves them, so I have been checking them out more. Still a music snob - but they are pretty cool.  |
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Thomas
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1615 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 14:25:08
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quote:
Originally posted by matto
Regardless of what hype there may be - this band Interpol is amazing. I unconditionally reccomend it for anyone who like Pixies, Talking Heads, Radiohead... they sound like the best parts of all these bands. No joke! Beats the Strokes any day!
spem in alium
I think the band your were searching for to compare them to is Joy Division. And yes I do recommend Interpol.
Thomas
"It's the Nexus of the Crisis"
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Itchload
= Cult of Ray =
USA
891 Posts |
Posted - 01/04/2003 : 10:26:28
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| Yes, Interpol resembles Joy Division and Mission of Burma. It's a solid album for sure, but I don't think its nearly as good as its influences, and lyrically it's a bit weak. To me it sounds like an emo band disguising themselves as a early '80s post-punk band. But since I absolutely love all those post punk bands from way back when, I think Interpol picked a great (neglected) type of music as their main influence. |
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
3988 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2003 : 07:36:21
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| I gave the Turn on the Bright Lights to one of my snobby music friends last night, so I hope he likes it! |
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Atheist4Catholics
= Cult of Ray =
USA
925 Posts |
Posted - 01/08/2003 : 22:22:32
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I'm listening to Bright Lights for the first time right now. Pretty cool, though my first impression is that I wish most of the songs were instrumentals. Nice textures, bad lyrics.
It reminds me of the "Faith" era Cure.
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Broken Face
-= Forum Pistolero =-
USA
5155 Posts |
Posted - 01/08/2003 : 22:26:45
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overrated
as breathing flows my mind secedes... |
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El Barto
= Song DB Master =
USA
4020 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2003 : 15:22:22
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| I listened to their song "PDA" downloaded from the website and I must say I'm extremely unimpressed. The band has no quality that would cause me to like their music...they just seem like one in a million. I can't stand the singer. |
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
3988 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2003 : 06:35:04
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El Barto
= Song DB Master =
USA
4020 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2003 : 13:47:03
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Pretty soon you'll be referring to him as your "ex-friend" if you got him the Interpol CD.
Actually, I don't know...I just think that they don't have anything special to them. |
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steveplymouthuk
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
639 Posts |
Posted - 01/14/2003 : 19:16:13
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PDA would be good if it lost the first 4 minutes
These cows are very small. Those ones are far away |
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davey
- FB Fan -
Russia
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Posted - 02/10/2003 : 10:15:22
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Album of the year, bar none. As with most things recommended by strangers or even friends, the true snob looks for influences they can pick out and thus feel superior. Example: the lead singer of Interpol has a similar vocal range as that Joy division guy. Joy division came first, therefore I win. Case dismissed. Now I can throw in my lost Johnny Cash EP, and drift away on a boat of my own snobbery.
Quite frankly, dismissing Interpol as a bad cover band does them great injustice. Joy Division are emotionally exhausting, mainly because I feel like the lead singer has no reason to live (which turned out to be true), but for those of us who find solace in something, we don't like completely nihilistic atmospheres. That's where Interpol comes in. Their lyrics aren't self-pitying, nor are they frustratingly one-sided. They are ambiguous in parts, in that they aren't straight-forward, but they are reaffirming nonetheless. Also, where Joy Division relied on an almost mechanistic song structure, Interpol throws in jangly guitars ala Johnny Marr, etc. and they're not afraid to even be popish at points.
TOTBL is an introverts dream band in that they create the atmosphere to get lost in. Their lyrics lend to this escapism, by being both ambiguous and immediately recognizable. So, if you want to dismiss them as a knock-off band, you'd be doing them, and yourself, a great injustice.
"you are the only person who’s completely certain there’s nothing here to be into" |
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Stuart
- The Clopser -
China
2291 Posts |
Posted - 02/10/2003 : 17:15:52
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I agree with Ramona.... I generally don't go for stuff that the masses like because to me that means that it is easy listening. For example bands like Oasis, Stereophonics, Manics (although they used to be good until they whored themselves out) are not even worth a listen as they are just mainstream crap.....
Mainstream is evil!
2002 World Air Guitar Champion |
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Atheist4Catholics
= Cult of Ray =
USA
925 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2003 : 07:56:07
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After listening to this album for a few weeks I'd have to say that I like it. It's definitely worth $10 and it scratches an itch. There are some songs that are really annoying, but most of it is good. If they can put more thought into the lyrics next time around, I'll be much more interested.
"I feel like love is in the kitchen with a culinary eye
I think he's making something special
And I'm smart enough to try
If you don't trust yourself for at least one minute each day,
Well you should trust in this, girl, cuz loving is coming our way."
Phew - that's bad 
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jo
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
516 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2003 : 08:15:52
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I love Interpol, I got into them quite late on, well as late as this can be anyway - finally saw them live at the Astoria in London last weekend and they were fantastic, and about a billion times better than the dreadful Polyphonic Spree
as far as musical snobbery goes, I'm as bad as the next person, but god, have I discovered some decent bands way too late after realising they're actually quite good - see The Coral and other NME darlings that I've avoided like the plague for classic examples of this.
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jdillinger
- FB Fan -
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Posted - 02/21/2003 : 12:29:58
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quote:
Originally posted by matto
YES! It's called being a "music 'SNOB'".
S - Specifically
N - Negligent towards the
O - Opiates of the
B - Masses (it's a Greek B) (a lesser known Greek)
SNOBS tend to 'live' more, but for fewer years, and know less, but better.
Being a 2nd generation SNOB, I find a lot of apathy towards my situation in the general populace. Whenever I try and complain about any particular "popular" act, with extremely clever wittcisms (see NME for easy plagarisms) mind you, the replies are usually no better than shrugs or "whatever"s.
BUT seriously (it's hard to write incincerely for too long) -
you're at least 80% justified in your tastes. Most popular radio/mtv selections contain vogue features in production and content, i.e. compression, seattle entreating, bootiliciousness, pedephilia. Or, that could be the music I like - ? -
But hey - McDonald's are everywhere, and there's only one Spago - so... it's cheap, easy to make and not good for you. But it tastes good at the moment, and has colorful arches and jazzy shit.
Also, most people can't handle deep, deep things. Especially short people. I dislike to admit it, but some Pearl Jam and Nirvana songs actually pushed the envelope, content-wise. Can you dance to Frank Black? ... hmm.. maybe... but, can you dance to Frank Black and get laid? Ah so! "Give me that big booming bass, in your face, that booming bass.."
"Cry me a river"!
Just be glad you can like what you like, and don't have to sit content 9-5 with light jazz in a copy room. Unless, you do like that. If so, DON'T PANIC YOU'RE PEFECTLY NORMAL!
In the end, most pop is knockoff of good stuff. It's a trickle-down theory of music - PLUS - whatever acceptable risk the conglamorate music industry executive-bot is willing to take for its shareholders.
Equate:
T + R = S
(T: Tested new musical idea; R: Risk ventrurable to capitalists; S: Saves the Day)
"Amazing how potent cheap music is" - some composer! like Irving Berlin or other..
.. and now.. out of high school!!
spem in alium
i must say i diagree with this theory that anything popular or "listened to by the masses" is bad music. i used to be like that, but they i graduated from high school. to chose your music based on who else listens to it is pretty shallow. why are people so concerned with who listens to the music, then what it actually has to offer.
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