Have you forgotton how they changed the face of pop with their three albums? There has been loads of great moments, bands, songs and what have you but ITERPOL's two thousand something output has them in the lead with two years to go.
contenders:
Liars
No Age
Wolfmother
Radiohead (I guess)
Queens Of The Stone Age
boris
Deerhunter
anyone else better get crankin- time's runnin short.
Radiohead (I guess?!?!?!?!?!?)'
Interpol kind of just rehashed magazine, television and joy division. and they can be AWFUL live.
Interpol isn't rehashed anything
they are INTERPOL.
Magazine? LOL!
pish
I love Magazine tho,
I got mileage on them in the eighties but fail to hear the Interpol connection. Interpol reminds me of none of the band commonly compared to them. If I hear anything it's The Smiths and R.E.M..
how about the sound?
it constantly amazes me why people find a need for interpol when 'from the lions mouth' is available for everyone to enjoy
Actually I haven't heard Magazine for twenty years
I can't wait to see if this is the band that "sounds like Interpol" or that Interpol set out to rip off and make records using their musical blueprints.
please
But I do remember loving Magazine and I should have some anyway- so what the hey.
The Sound?
forgot about that one
but they've only got one 'amazing' album
one good album and one average album.
wolfmother??!!!!
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE??!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!
and to think i respected you.
i think the Decemberists have had an astoundingly consistent and brilliant output.
^ heck yes
i wouldn't even say their best album was 'amazing'. it's pretty good though.
definitely with you on liars though. fantastic stuff. especially drum's not dead.
^ me too.
I think TV on the radio could be the best band of the decade if the new albums as good as the last two.
Also, Bright Eyes & Sufjan. <3
Oh yes on Bright Eyes and Sufjan
The Blood Brothers owned this decade for heavy indie music.
TVOTR
I'm counting the days till the new album...:-)
Sorry to dissapoint you : (
Wolfmother's debut is hugely overlooked- it's killer a classic rock album.
Yeah, queens might be a stretch.
But INTERPOL; every song (except one) on all three albums are classic pop songs- that is tough to beat by my score.
wolfmother
are SHIT
Wolfmother are shit
SHITTT
.
Wolfmother
Are good fun, I agree that their debut is overlooked but I really don't rate it as high as you seem to.
I don't think QOTSA
Is as big a push as Wolfmother for band of the decade.
Rated R and Songs for the Deaf are 2 of my all time favourite albums.
great albums
didn't really get the two after that.
Yeah, Lullabies to Paralyze
Didn't really do much for me. Era Vulgaris was better but still nothing on those two.
Few points.
I LOVE Interpol, can totally see where you're coming from.
Wolfmother? Seriously?! I like them but explain to me what's so amazing about their one album that allows them to be considered for 'band of the decade'.
Radiohead (I guess?!)
Sorry, I can't really say about Radiohead (don't tell anyone) cause
I have heard none of their stuff since OK Computer (which was brilliant). Wolfmother though is some of the most honest, instantly classic rock I have heard since Deep Purple's Machine Head- you have to get it. Wolfmother is so NOT SHIT! They go straight to it and never let up. Each song on the album has a classic rock orgasm in it. I don't know why they haven't devasted your country like they have mine- maybe you've been vaccinated or something. I guarantee that if you listen to the record once a day for a week you'll be hooked. I can't praise Wolfmother enough. Don't listen to Mike Patton (I love him too) but he made the classic hasty judgement error with Wolfmother.
sorry ross, I just saw you HAVE wolfmother
nvr mnd
Yeah, I really like Wolfmother
Bought it on day of release and played it constantly for a week. Saw them live, really good. I was just saying that after one album, I really don't think they can even be considered for 'Band of the Decade'.
Also, go buy Kid A, it's my #1 album of all time ever!
^ totally
Kid A is possibly the last GREAT album.
Kid A, Erm, I sense something kind of, oh I don't know
HIP HOP! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Yeah ok, on your say so, I'll get it and I bet I'll like it- if it's D-Snail's fav of all time.
I listed INTERPOL as band of decade and Wolfmother as a contender depending how the last two and a half years go- who knows.
I saw Wolfmother too in Salt Lake City- great show, great audience- everybody pogo'd in the rockin, thumpy bits and sang all the punch lines- Loved It!
Good for you!
And if somehow you don't like it, I could always use a back-up copy!
Alright. "the DangerousSnails Guarantee
how can I lose?
No but seriously, if you don't like it at first, persevere!
Idioteque is probably #1 song of all time ever.
If you don't like that, I may have to start ignoring you... :D
10-4
: )
I said to girl
"I'm going to see Wolf Parade tonight."
*blank look*
girl: "I like Wolfmother."
Me: *blank look*
And that's how quickly my potential romances can fall apart.
^ha ha
in my case, i'd be lucky if the girl knows wolfmother.
A bit like my
Rich Hall, Richard Hawley and Richie Hawtin story when i tried to instigate a threesome.
Sorry oceanRain that girl was a keeper
You probably NEED a keeper too. Wolfmother is the best wolf-centric band. I can say that cause my cousin produced the first Wolf Parade album and he shamelessly made it into a Issac Brock record - I do love Wolf Parade though- I am counting on "Zoomer" to make me an official fan. Speaking of wolf-centric; has anyone heard "Flesh and Fears" by Wolftron? It is terminally sweet but my Wife plays it constantly and it is growing on me.
Your Cousin
Produced the first Wolf Parade album, I would feel PRETTY famous >_>......
I've never met him. We are 3rd cousins.
He is also the Modest Mouse guy (Issac Brock).
*Isaac
: )
The White Stripes,
In my opinion, are one of the best things to happen to rock 'n roll this decade. especially when compared to wolfmother. i would say the white stripes have stronger songs, performance, concept, everything.
(also i love interpol, i won't argue on that)
Bright Eyes
Deserve a mention here. They've put out a string of great albums where Interpol have released one great album and two quite good ones. So Bright Eyes = more prolific, and more consistent. Even if they are a bit of a coin toss live.
Yeah, Bright Eyes
Actually I have to stay out of that one cause I have only heard two of the like twenty albums he's put out so theoretically I shouldn't say.
White Stripes deserve consideration
but I think they will be one of the most significant.
TVOTR
perhaps?
what is TVOTR?
?
Tv on the Radio?
*snoooooooore*
oh, sorry, what was that?!? I fell asleep listening to an Interpol album and missed what you were saying
Interpol
were boring as fuck at latitude.
no way!
granted they took a few songs to get going, but from The Lighthouse onwards, they were fucking awesome!
*awesome as fuck
I saw Interpol on a bad night
Paul was stiff as a board and you could tell he was feeling sheepish about his vocals but it was still utter brilliance.
The second time I saw them Paul was loose, cool as a cucumber and ultra suave. They did "Lighthouse" in their soundcheck and "The Specialist" in the encore. Liars and Shout Out Louds supported- BIG NITE! Liars were Brilliant too- in fact they were introduced that way- "And now, The Brilliant Liars!"
i was there^^
was a great show, i was worried interpol would be a bit off, but they exceeded my expectations.
why do I keep getting you and "douchebg" mixed up?
Cause you're both acerbic dipwadds? Who would be more offended by that comparison? You or Herr. Douchebag? Ha Ha!
Wake up! Interpole rules!
aaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhh!
oh, sorry, what was that? i got trapped in one of omar's extended fretwanks and missed what you were saying
Wolfmother
are no decade rulers.
They will conquer the world
Just an observation
why has nobody said Wilco
their live cd was fantastically great!
or Modest Mouse
oh shit, there it goes.
Yes I have forgotten how they changed the face of pop?
please can you furnish me how they did this. Unless you mean previously a band who where to rule the decade would need 3 good to great albums. After Interpol it a band needs one ok album and 2 mediocre albums to rule the decade.
If this is what you mean then, hats of to Interpol
Okay, "Changed the face of pop" was a pretty ill claim.
But for anyone who cared to notice Interpol re-established the top 40 hit parade song format of the days of old- unfortunately, people don't want songs like that anymore- except me. If Interpol had happened in the seventies they would have been huge pop stars- Just reach into their catalog and pull out a song- bing, ding, zing you got a radio hit.
As far as your second argument goes I feel it is incumbent upon you to show me how "Turn On The Bright Lights" (assuming that is your pick for "OK") is merely "OK" and "Antics" and "our love to admire" following behind with "Mediocre" lables.
Go
Come on, Go
ok i over did it on TOTBL
I can accept that as very good
Antics - songwriting is less focused, promising start with 'Next Exit' but then all downhill, the band at this time undertook a cooler than thou attitude whilst producing mediocre music and have since ploughed a route of attitude over content. The music is cold, linear and formulaic.
Oh well im sure they will get it together for their next album...
OLTA - Oh dear, where to start? even less focused, most dull production ever? the band attempt to recreate TOTBL but are unable to recapture their former presence and any beauty and emotion has been stripped away. It's just boring at the end of the day.
We have a difference of opinion here and an obvious wiring failure (on your part)
Antics- All downhill from "next exit"? Have you even heard "Antics" all the way through? "Evil" is the best HIGH POP since "Lay Lady Lay" (pioneer to falls continues that march) "Narc" is an odd and wonderful "disco song". "Take You On A Cruise" I don't know how linear it is but it is Gorgeous!. "Slow Hands", "Not Even Jail", "Public Pervert", "C'MERE", "Length Of Love", "A Time To Be So Small"- what are you kidding? You wrote this album off and sat on your hands hoping they would "get it together for their next album"? If ANTICS didn't get through to you; fat chance "Our Love To Admire" was going to break through your protective shell of Journo platitudinal insulation. When did "cold, linear and formulaic" become a formula for failure in music especially pop music? Imagine the band meeting: "Hey guys, I know what we've been doing has really worked for us but let's try something different.". now there is an album you might have a chance at skewering with you pat little lables.
Our Love To Admire: Oh dear, where to start spanking you on this? What the hell is "focus"? How about THAT band meeting? "Hey guys, I really feel we are suffering from a lack of focus here, I know all the material we have appears to be tight, cohesive pop gems, but could we just sharpen things up a bit?. Major lol! How can you call songs like "Pioneer To The Falls", "Pace Is The Trick" and "Lighthouse" anything BUT beautiful and full of emotion. Come on, try listening to the material before attempting to perform unlicsensed jounalistic surgery on it.
next
Off
Wow. This synopsis makes me WANT to dislike Interpol.
I don't dislike the but I do agree they've never touched Turn Off The Bright Lights.
_
Er... what?
Each album has been progressively worse.
Man, this bunch is a classic fickled mob
When I first started posting here there was Big Love and Admiration for Interpol. Heated debates about their catalog. Yes, a notable consensus about Turn On The Bright Lights" being the obvious stand out but still lots of users where championing the latter albums. I guess I just wrote this thread on an off pulse Interpol rhythm down surge on the "fickle meter".
er,
why am I fickle? I've always loved the debut, always been indifferent toward antics and never cared for OLTBA. I'm not part of any 'bunch', thanks.
sorry
that post was meant for the "bunch" -not kanefultun.
HADOUKEN!?!?!?!
Sorry, I haven't heard "Hadouken"
what have I missed?
nothing much
Just the biggest bandwagon jumpers in the history of music (it was the nu-rave bandwagon, by the way)
oh, you were being sarcastic with HODOUKEN!?!?!?!?
Sorry
Animal
Collective?
good but too Anti-Musician
and it shows
'anti-musician'
what does this mean
doesnae make music properly
i.e. makes shite music
a well known fact that Animal Collective
are "musicians" by shear force of will, not by study, practice or natural abilities. Not a bad thing, I am a total force of will musician.
i dont really understand this
does this mean they just hold their instruments and concentrate really hard until something happens, like telekinesis or something
ha ha! No, they aren't musicians per se
Haven't you ever heard people in bands describe certain band mates as a "true musician" or "the only real musician" in the band? Well supposedly ALL members of Animal Collective are just people who hadn't actually played music before they formed the band. They just bought gear and started playing- actually pretty impressive feat. I guess anti- musician was a lame term, perhaps Non-musicians would have been better.
oh right
cool i get it now
...
Where did you hear this?
They didn't even form their band.
Avey tare played piano since he was 5 years old.
But they didn't even rule Latitude
So how they can rule the whole decade so far confuses me.
Not a bad band. Rubbish live. Some great tracks on some decent albums.
If that's ruling the decade, I'll be fucked.
some other folks at the latitude show disagree
somewhere on this thread
occasionally
i love them, but while watching them at latitude i found them the audio equivalent of sepia. they've got such a distinctive sound and writing style that i tend to get tired of the formula. also i found them pretty insincere and thankless, but perhaps they always come off like that live?
incidentally i have the same problem listening to lots of sigur ros too, but live they were utterly astonishing. perhaps interpol need to get a brass band, a string quartet and a shitload of confetti?
I bet horns are coming to the Interpol mix
Yeah, they are not the most obsequious band I have ever seen. I haven't been thanked for coming to see them yet and I have logged around thirty-five hundred miles in the doing. But I didn't go away feeling deflated about it or minusing points from the show over that. The shows were stunning. There is lot's of mileage left in the Interpo "formula". I don't get why everyone wants them to be something other than Interpol- what's the deal? Maybe their next album should sound like Cheap Trick mabey?
i don't really
expect them to change, i guess i just find a lot of their songs quite boring in parts. i think they've limited themselves with how their songs work, it's all very mid-paced, the melodies can be very drone-like and rely on the rhythms of the words to provide the hook. This has become more prevalent on their last two albums, it's like their singing into their own rut.
i love their first record, but i've struggled to be inspired by much they've done since then. i love the strange vibe of 'pioneer' but a lot of the time they sound like they're chasing their tails.
basically i just don't think their new songs are as interesting. :(
you have got to be kidding me.....
while i admit, you can hear an interpol song and know that it's interpol, still, all the songs have almost the exact same bassline and beat and stupid lyrics, and they do nothing for me. and i fucking love joy division and magazine and all that stuff. to me interpol come off as a classic example of style over substance. i might actually like them if they weren't trying so hard to be cool. changed the face of pop??? are you fucking serious??? and no, turn on the bright lights is not their best album, antics is. man, rue_the_day, i usually agree with most of your posts, but this is ridiculous.....
Bright Eyes
Animal Collective
Joanna Newsom
Sufjan Stevens
Liars
Beirut
The National
The Arcade Fire
TV on the Radio
Radiohead
are all good bets since they've all released more than one great album and all have a sound thats distinctly their own (kinda)
sorry...
what the fuck. You think wolfmother are potentially the band of the decade?!?!? I hate you.
that goes for all you indie snob cunts ;)
please reply in the right place
if you're gonna get vitriolic..
I am going to have to agree
Though I can't find much substance behind each album preceding a seismic shift in music each time, TOTBL has had more of a noted effect on music this decade than almost every other album; it will remain on top of my best albums of all time for a while.
I think they are absolutely terrific, easily one of my favourite bands ever ever ever, and they were so on point at Latitude it defies belief.
Really?
When I watched them at Latitude they just sorta played really, really good versions of the album.
No banter, no stage show, videos/lights that looked like the thing from Windows Media Player, no different to spending the ticket money on a really good set of speakers and turning it up loud.
I really like Interpol, but I juat don't see how people could come away from that show saying it was amazing (which, incidentally, I did hear a few people saying). I don't geddit at all.
That backstage production was rubbish, wasn't it?
But I would say that from The Lighthouse onwards, they were amazing. But, admittedly that comes from the brilliance of the songs that comprised the second half of the setlist and the encore. However, I think they became more confident and swaggering and this was reciprocated in the crowd reaction - at least down the front whereI was.
But Interpol are never going to pull a Sigur Ros, or come out of a giant lemon, and you're never going to see Paul Banks hopping down a steel walkway on one leg screaming about "stabbing yourself in the neck". It's just not Interpol!! Take it or leave it.
On topic, I'm not sure I'd agree that Interpol "rules the decade", but its nice to see the emergence and sustainability of a genuinely talented band who look to be able to forge a lasting career and not just disappear off the face of the earth. For the record, I think they have two great albums and one good album, which is a damn sight better than many of their contemporaries.
backstage projection*
sorry
Hear Hear!
Interpols should get credit for being themselves instead of lashings for refusing to break ranks and try to be something they are not or ridiculed for copying Joy Division- of all things.
I quite loved the back screens, esspecially when a silhouetted Paul Bank blew big clouds of ciggy smoke up into the spot lights in front of them.
They're not a band that relies on that
I mean, the sheer fact that they "just sorta played really, really good versions of the album" justifies the superlatives heaped upon that show.
They can be so hit-and-miss, so bland and disinterested and it seemed that for their set, they were enjoying it far more, they had more presence than before and it just appeared that they were really comfortable in that headliner slot.
But for me
If I see ANY band, pretty much big or small, I expect nothing less than to see them play good versions of their album! Christ, it's THEIR album!
I think a live show has to have something more than just playing the songs as they are on the album.
Whether that means having slightly different/extended live versions, a bit of banter between songs (a la Elbow, although strangely not at Latitude), having a great live show or whatever - surely you've got to offer someone something more at a live show?
Maybe that's just me, though....?
On "Interpol Live" Paul says
"Hey thanks everybody"
"That's a new one called "Rest My Chemistry"
" Thanks everybody s'Great to be back in LONDON"
What do you want? "Yeah a funny thing happened to us on the way to the club tonight" stories?
I like it too when band do versions of their songs(SWANS did versions that I couldn't even recognize, that was great too) but I also like to see them do the songs pretty much verbatim. In the case of Interpol; I had listened to the songs so many times prior to seeing them that it was cool to actually "SEE" how they do them. After having seen Interpol live twice now, I have come to recognize one thing about their songs that really impresses me: Interpol NEVER puts one thing one tape that can't be done on stage- not one note, not a trombone sound or a synth squeak. At the last show when the performed the amazing "Pace Is The Trick" they even did the "fade out" with Carlos' bass feedback rising out of it- it was sweet. Yeah they obviously make a concerted effort to record with a wheather eye toward performance- why do you think they always start every show with the first song off the most current album? It's put on the album first cause they are already thinking "show opener". And you lot are running them down cause they neglect to share whiticisms about the sandwich they ate today or talk of the wheather or whatever. Gee, all they can be bothered to do is write loads of great tunes and come to you sorry ass town and play them.
Not at all
If you'd read my post, you'd see that I listed a whole bunch of things that I believe can or do constitute a live show.
I don't want them to tell jokes. I want them to give me an experience I couldn't get by putting on their album at home and shutting my eyes.
With their stage show and lights at Latitude I could've got four action men, sat them in front of my monitor and played their album through Windows Media Player.
I don't doubt that they're a great band and I love their albums, but live they're tosh.
"can be hit-and-miss"
and "bland and disinterested" are not phrases i would expect to find as reasons why their set was great. "they're normally so bad that it was SO refreshing that they were okay" is hardly making me want to see them on tour :)
i just think after the spectacle of sigur ros, interpol were always going to come off quite flat. playing faithful versions of albums songs is all well and good, but at a headline slot i think they should be offering a bit more than that - even if it's just an amazing light show and pyrotechnics.
if they were any other position on the bill it would've been fine, but they should have been capable of delivering more than just a competent, professional rendition of their music. For the record I didn't think they were bad at all, I just wasn't blown away by them.
^^
What he said.
Interpol are good.
And that kind of sums up their achievements. Good. Fine. But 'changed the face of pop' - wtf? Grow up! They really, really haven't.
they would be in my top 10
Radiohead, Animal Collective, Ryan Adams, Rufus Wainwright, Animal Collective, !!!, Arcade Fire, Beirut, Sufjan would be some of the others in there.
too late to grow up now but
for anyone who cared to notice; Interpol re-established the top 40 hit parade song format of the days of old- unfortunately, people don't want songs like that anymore- except me. If Interpol had happened in the seventies they would have been huge pop stars- Just reach into their catalog and pull out a song- bing, ding, zing you got a radio h
*you got a radio HIT!
.
But
didn't video already kill the radio star..?
that's what they say but i think
RADIO killed the radio star
nah
none of those bands are THAT great. no age are good but not the best. interpol went downhill after antics.
slavedriver!
besides what was so "DOWNHILL" about OLTA? I am still waiting for someone to prove songs like:
Pioneer To The Falls
Pace Is The Trick
Rest My Chemistry
Hienrich Manuvuer
No I In Threesome
Scale
Lighthouse
Mammoth
All Fired Up
Are: anything but honest, solid, well crafted, brilliant pop tunes.
every one of those songs ^ are wunderbar!
but they used to be so much more than a pop band!
I don't know, I use the word 'pop' pretty loosely
I just feel like Interpol and many other bands really could be big on the radio if only they got the chance. To me "pop" is radio music- songs for the masses.
As far as Interpol having sunk to a lower level and become less than than their former selves- no.
Didn't we do this a couple of days ago?
and agree it was Radiohead?
This isn't another excuse for one of your daft rants, like all that Doors stuff the other day.
id go with Radiohead
sounds fair
I love interpol
but no way do they rule the decade.
I thought, since this is DiS, this reply would've already gone. But as it hasn't...
InterpLOL!
Our LOL To Admire?
Turn on the bright LOLs
Ha Ha ^
By Interprole right?
I was patronizing you
Horrible puns those
Yeah and not one mention of INTERPOL: not one!
thus this
Daft rant.
I'll take that as a compliment coming from you.
back to this then?
yup
On "Interpol Live" Paul says:
"Hey thanks everybody"
"That's a new one called "Rest My Chemistry"
" Thanks everybody s'Great to be back in LONDON"
What do you want? "Yeah a funny thing happened to us on the way to the club tonight" stories?
I like it too when band do versions of their songs(SWANS did versions that I couldn't even recognize, that was great too) but I also like to see them do the songs pretty much verbatim. In the case of Interpol; I had listened to the songs so many times prior to seeing them that it was cool to actually "SEE" how they do them. After having seen Interpol live twice now, I have come to recognize one thing about their songs that really impresses me: Interpol NEVER puts one thing one tape that can't be done on stage- not one note, not a trombone sound or a synth squeak. At the last show when the performed the amazing "Pace Is The Trick" they even did the "fade out" with Carlos' bass feedback rising out of it- it was sweet. Yeah they obviously make a concerted effort to record with a wheather eye toward performance- why do you think they always start every show with the first song off the most current album? It's put on the album first cause they are already thinking "show opener". And you lot are running them down cause they neglect to share whiticisms about the sandwich they ate today or talk of the wheather or whatever. Gee, all they can be bothered to do is write loads of great tunes and come to you sorry ass town and play them.
????
Everyone keeps mentioning Radiohead, EVERYONE, how can you really have an honest opinion about whose the band of the decade when you haven't listened past OK Computer. Is this thread here to defend Interpol and how great you think they're or here thread to crown them band of the decade?...which is actually almost the same thing..nvm
Not defend, rather to generate interest and awareness
The responses to dinodonkey's thread was pretty weird I thought. Not one mention of Interpol. Interpol is not just fantastic- they are important. I will begin my quest to catch up with Radiohead tomorrow with Kid A. It's possible that I may join the Radiohead chorus- I did say OK Computer is BRILLIANT. But man, there is a big Interpol failure in this forum. I am arware also that the decade isn't over yet -I didn't ask the question, I just answered it the best I could.
Well
I'm curious what you come to think about Radiohead, keep us informed, since you feel so strongly about Interpol I'll relisten to turn on the bright lights just for you, which really I've gone through twice and has failed to generate any interest.
Just bought Kid A today
give me a day or two
You Must Be Really Dedicated to your Music
Well, I think Kid A's a bit easier to digest and completely comprehend than OK Computer, In Rainbows has been the most challenging for me so far, good luck..
I'd give it to Deerhunter
Liars as well, but only because of Drums not Dead.
Liars will get you if you let them
Drum's Not Dead is just the tip of the iceberg
Don't get me wrong
I love all their albums, but Drums not Dead just kills. It's my idea of the perfect album.
It is a wonderful dream
with a sweet DVD to boot- all lovingly made by Liars own little hands.
Can't see past Radiohead
on this one. Otherwise, Arcade Fire and Belle and Sebastian. B & S have moved into proper big pop territory this decade and are still awesome.
sorry to sound like a robot but...
interpol only have one great album
i would rate broken social scene and the national above them for a kick off
Interpol are 2nd only to Muse
Radiohead were the band of the 90s & Q.O.T.S.A are contenders.
Seriously, what?
How does it not make sense?
Erm
Because it says "Interpol are 2nd only to Muse".
_
Yes
This decade
1.Muse
2.Interpol
Understand?
I got Kid A last week
and hope to totally catch up with Radiohead by month's end.