ts: urge overkill v. the strokes

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

catch the urge. UO it to yourself

Poll Results

Option	Votes
the strokes	28
urge overkill	25

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 23 July 2017 13:38 (eight years ago)

wicker park 4ever

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 23 July 2017 13:38 (eight years ago)

I vote for having an actual stroke

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 23 July 2017 14:51 (eight years ago)

(tho I guess if I had to choose, uhhh.....no fuck it)

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 23 July 2017 14:52 (eight years ago)

Urge Overkill easily. Anyone who disagrees can GTFO.

― Moodles, Sunday, 23 July 2017 16:01 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

All the best snark has been taken.

― j arthur rank, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 16:29 (eight years ago)

my father was sister ray

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 25 August 2017 02:40 (eight years ago)

Saturation > Is This It

― the underground is pass-agg (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 26 August 2017 22:54 (eight years ago)

i've been slowly working my through the catalog of these bands over the past month. i should complete the tour in 2 weeks, giving me one more week to make the agonizing decision

― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 August 2017 22:59 (eight years ago)

The band smart enough to hire Chuck Treece.

― Andy K, Sunday, 27 August 2017 00:10 (eight years ago)

https://youtu.be/T4m1PGqvd5A

― Andy K, Sunday, 27 August 2017 00:20 (eight years ago)

There's a song I love on Urge Overkill's big album: "Back on Me."

― clemenza, Sunday, 27 August 2017 04:01 (eight years ago)

I'll just reiterate that UO should be the obvious choice here because they are great and The Strokes are not. However, it's a bit ironic that I got into a Twitter argument with Matt Perpetua the other day because I think that The Strokes had a weirdly outsized influence over 2000s music. He was very worried that I was cruelly hurting the feelings of Interpol and Franz Ferdinand by suggesting they were influenced by and owed a portion of their success to The Strokes.

― Moodles, Sunday, 27 August 2017 04:14 (eight years ago)

I dont even like the strokes but come on

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Sunday, 27 August 2017 08:43 (eight years ago)

I dont even like the strokes but come on

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Sunday, 27 August 2017 08:43 (eight years ago)

Also I don't find the relationship between strokes and franz ferdinand and interpol.

Franz Ferdinand if influenced by a modern rock bans are closer to Spoon. Interpol are Joy Division through and through and then influence The Killers maybe. Strokes are more like the very domesticated version of 70s rock bands like Television, Feelies, Stooges and Velvet Underground. I guess Tom Petty too.

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Sunday, 27 August 2017 08:52 (eight years ago)

Plus Daft Punk and hiphop rhythms and stuff. But we've been over this again and again recently.

― Frederik B, Sunday, 27 August 2017 11:05 (eight years ago)

"take me out" starts as pastiche of the strokes, then turns into pastiche of "interpol" (around the "i say you don't know" bit). in lizzie goodman's recent book, alex k directly admits seeing the strokes and interpol live encouraged him to make music like that

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 27 August 2017 11:54 (eight years ago)

three weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 00:01 (eight years ago)

I dont even like urge overkill but come on

― gospodin simmel, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 02:24 (eight years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 21 September 2017 00:01 (eight years ago)

kinda bullshit, right?

― Moodles, Thursday, 21 September 2017 00:38 (eight years ago)

i had never heard of urge overkill until today. sounds like a fictional hair rock band from an 80s/early 90s movie.

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 September 2017 17:20 (eight years ago)

I had an album of theirs once which made absolutely no impression on me whatsoever.

― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 September 2017 17:21 (eight years ago)

how to choose between two bands that have no songs

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 September 2017 17:27 (eight years ago)

― how's life, Thursday, 21 September 2017 17:29 (eight years ago)

well this is a shocker.

― mark e, Thursday, 21 September 2017 18:05 (eight years ago)

urge overkill were robbed

― starving street dogs of punk rock (Odysseus), Thursday, 21 September 2017 18:07 (eight years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.