One might go into a review like this one wondering how many words will pass before Joy Division is brought up. In this case, the answer is 16. Many are too quick to classify Interpol as mimics and lose out on discovering that little more than an allusion is being made. The music made by both bands explores the vast space between black and white and produces something pained, deftly penetrating, and beautiful. Save for a couple vocal tics, that's where the obvious parallels end. The other fleeting comparisons one can one whip up when talking about Interpol are several -- roughly the same amount that can be conjured when talking about any other guitar/drums/vocals band formed since the '90s. So, sure enough, one could play the similarity game with this record all day and bring up a pile of bands. It could be a detrimental thing to do, especially when this record is so spellbinding and doesn't deserve to be mottled with such bilge. However, this record is a special case; slaying the albatross this band has been unfairly strangled by is urgent and key. Let's: there's another Manchester band at the heart of "Say Hello to the Angels," but that heart is bookended by a beginning and end that approaches the agitated squall of Fugazi; the torchy, elegiac "Leif Erikson" plays out like a missing scene from the Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen; the upper-register refrain near the close of "Obstacle 1" channels Shudder to Think. This record is no fun at all, the tension is rarely resolved, and -- oh no! -- it isn't exactly revolutionary, though some new shades of gray have been discovered. But you shouldn't allow your perception to be fogged by such considerations when someone has just done it for you and, most importantly, when all this brilliance is waiting to overwhelm you.
interpol is one of my favorite bands...i got to see them live in Denver's Fillmore auditorium, i like the interesting themes they explore in their song, such as threesome...one of my favorite song "Leif Erickson" explores the idea of falling for an individual while engaged in a threesome... the lyrics are just superb...enjoy!
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well i'm just sitting in my creative writing class and i'm kinda bored.is it just me, or does interpol rock. i've been listening to turn on the bright lights for approximately a week in my car...and every time i play obstacle one i pretty much blast it for all others to hear. it's a fab song i must say. i def. like totbl better than antics. i wonder when some new stuff will come out...four more...
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Interpol.Turn On The Bright Lights.2002.NYC.This was a total surprise to me. Maybe the interesting part is that finding Interpol pretty much coincides with my introduction to pitchfork in 2002. I lapped up the fact that Pfork said it was the best record of the year and I had never even heard of it. It was on sale at Best Buy for 5.99. How could I pass that deal up? I bought this cd never having...
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Interpol announced that they have released a 6-song live recording today that is only available from independent music stores. The tracks were recorded at the band's powerful performance in July at London's Astoria club and they are the first official live recordings of Interpol. Does this mean the iTunes exclusive Live Sessions EP in 2005 was not an offical release?The album is called INTERP...
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Listening to Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down from Interpol reminds of of living in New Orleans. I was working at Tower Records in the French Quarter when Turn on the Bright Lights first came out. There was a huge goth scene in the French Quarter but they actually called it Darkwave. Darkwave encompassed Goth, New Wave, Industrial, Punk and everything in between.I recall when Interpol...
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i've had good luck with guys named dave or david.when i was starting out in music, i met this bassist named dave. we had an instant rapport, and i totally got where he was coming from musically. we never really worked together, but we could vibe off one another and it was cool.a few years later, i met a guitarist named david. he was completely unaware of his own brilliance, and i was all too ha...
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Sure, "PDA" was probably the most recognizable song off of their debut LP, but what makes this song the one I want to hear from Interpol is how the song ends. The last minute & a half is what will get the crowd going, and I can't wait to be part of that...
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Ew embarassing. We're both sitting next to each other on our laptops mogging. Losers much? Yes, and proud. Anyway...just wanted to say...We were driving around today in OC (Ocean City, not Orange County,(IWISH)), and Sam put on my ole interpol cd. Perfection. Awesome awesome relaxed rainy day driving music. It was wonderful. So the next time you're driving around and it's all crappy and drizzly...
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Nothing says fun like finding some old pictures of yourself and family and listening to really good music on top of that. OK Picture this: Your dusting your house/apartment/ box; wherever you happen to live and a couple of photos shoved somewhere falls out and lands right in front of you. You just-so-happen to have "Brothers On A Hotel Bed" playing followed by "A Lack of Color." There were only...
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interpol is great. I mean, I really tried not to like them......that joy division, the cure kind of thing. But, to my own demise, I heard obstacle 1, then stella, then nyc.....I was hooked. They have a depth that i havent't found in other "came out at the same time" nyc bands.....
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well i'm just sitting in my creative writing class and i'm kinda bored.is it just me, or does interpol rock. i've been listening to turn on the bright lights for approximately a week in my car...and every time i play obstacle one i pretty much blast it for all others to hear. it's a fab song i must say. i def. like totbl better than antics. i wonder when some new stuff will come out...four more...
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So I recently started working for the summer as a sales representative selling Cutco knives, which means alot of driving around the greater Baltimore area and listening to alot of music while doing said driving. How does this translate for you, the Mogger? Well, more driving around listening to music means more reviews! I'm thinking I may pick up one of those tape adapters for my iPod. My br...
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Turn On the Bright Lights is the debut album of New York City indie rock band Interpol, released 2002 and great critical successful the album got. You should listen this record, if you like indie rock.
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Fan vid of "The Heinrich Maneuver" from Coachella. It surprised me how many mog-ers thought Interpol were bad at Coachella coz this video shows them performing excellently.
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Part three of our tribute to the best music of the '00s and this time we turn the bright lights on 2002, a year dominated by the stunning debut of Interpol, the blitzkrieg rock of Queens Of The Stone Age and the epic, apocalyptic noise of … And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.Here's what I wrote about "Turn on the Bright Lights" at the unveiling of C.M.C.'s "Best Albums of 2002" list: "For
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Video Of The Week has been going for just about forty weeks now and not once have we featured Interpol, a personal favourite here at SG and possibly one of the best bands this decade has seen. Their debut, 2002s Turn On The Bright Lights was a near flawless first record and was considered a mile stone in the world of music.
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| 2 Obstacle 1 |
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| 3 NYC |
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| 4 PDA |
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| 5 Say Hello to the Angels |
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| 6 Hands Away |
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| 7 Obstacle 2 |
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| 8 Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down |
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| 9 Roland |
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| 10 The New |
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| 11 Leif Erikson |
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