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ok, so everyone claims that interpol are just ripping off various british 80s bands - but which ones? the first three songs on the album are all utterly fantastic, and i want to hear more stuff like this. i guess it's the guitar sound that i'm into - who else sounds like this?

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 3 February 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

INXS

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 3 February 2003 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Toby, check these threads

10 Intelligent Questions For Interpol
10 Intelligent Questions For Interpol

Interpol - Ian Curtis reincarnated? [I started this thread in April 2001]
Interpol - Ian Curtis reincarnated?

do you think Interpol sounds like Joy Division?
do you think Interpol sounds like Joy Division?

TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS -- whatcha reckon?
TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS -- whatcha reckon?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 3 February 2003 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

[ahem, linking an ilm thread, automatically selects the thread title !]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 3 February 2003 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Grrrrr.....it's not "who sounds like them," goddammit, it's "Who do THEY sound like"?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 3 February 2003 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Brian and Nabisco both IDed Kitchens of Distinction, and having finally heard a track, I have to agree. Julian Swales' guitar approach isn't famous enough. So Interpol should at least have the courtesy to make Matador do a KoD reissue series. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 February 2003 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

One Little Indian are supposedly releasing a KoD comp called Capsule; they're also "re-pressing" the four albums.

― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 3 February 2003 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Bands that Interpol sounds like: Echo & the Bunnymen, Versus, the Smiths, lots of others.

Bands that sound like Interpol: just wait, they should be cropping up any day now...

― die9o (dhadis), Monday, 3 February 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I got KoD! Definitely. Never listened to Joy Division though, miserable gits.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

This year's Interpol ...Longwave http://www.longwavetheband.com/

Longwave have been compared to Television, early U2, Psychdelic Furs, Doves, Radiohead, Echo & the Bunnymen, Puressence, Ride and.. by me.. Cactus World News and Blue in Heaven

Longwave release the Dave Fridmann produced The Strangest Things through Hummer / EastWest Records on February 24, 2003. In the US it's released on March 18, 2003 on RCA]

More info see my weblog: DJ Martian's Page
http://djmartian.blogspot.com/

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Forget British bands, Interpol sounds like My Dad Is Dead - from Cleveland.

― hstencil, Monday, 3 February 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

a question for the US folk/ in particular NYC types: is there a buzz about Longwave? on the radio, local press.

I notice that Woxy97X have playlisted Longwave.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

One Little Indian are supposedly releasing a KoD comp called Capsule; they're also "re-pressing" the four albums.

All very well, but U&K -- B-SIDE/RARITY COLLECTION. I'll make do with the one I made myself as needed, to be sure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Been listening to Longwave for a few years now. Pretty good stuff. Not much of a buzz as far as I know.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Theres an Interpol tribute band around my way called "Extrapol"

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh man, they should be named Extrapot. That would be kinda funnier.

― hstencil, Monday, 3 February 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Grrrrr.....it's not "who sounds like them," goddammit, it's "Who do THEY sound like"?

ha, i knew that wd wind alex up!

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 3 February 2003 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha, when I was reviewing the album I actually made a list, just to get it all out of my system: offhand I remember various bits either sounding like or specifically referencing:

Ride (opening track), the Church (lots of vocals), Echo and the Bunnymen (lots of everything), the Smiths (deliberate pastiche), the Cure (lots), the Pixies (circa Trompe le Monde especially on "Obstacle #2"), the Mission UK (just generally), Echo and the Bunnymen (ditto), Kitchens of Distinction (over and over and over everywhere but particularly on "NYC"), Chapterhouse (end of "PDA").

(Now someone cover the earlier 80s.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 3 February 2003 18:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Interpol sound a bit like post grunge chancers St.Johnny.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 3 February 2003 18:59 (twenty-three years ago)

The 'wave are getting foisted pretty hard on us student types. I am thus suspicious.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 3 February 2003 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

British Sea Power

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 3 February 2003 23:33 (twenty-three years ago)

the first chameleons album, dammit.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

don't get me wrong, Kitchens of Distinction are good, but would anyone try to emulate them? or is it just coincidence? or are Interpol drawing on the same influences as KoD and sounding the same?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 06:41 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

NYC sounds EXACTLY like Kitchens of Distinction on their first two albums. The guitar, the voice, the melody - it´s amazing how far you can go in emulating another band. In fact when i first heard NYC i thougt it actually was the Kitchens miraculously reunited somehow, like so many other eighties bands now. Apart from that there´s a bit of almost any gloomy early eighties guitar band in Interpol´s sound: The Bunnymen ("Crocodiles" & "Heaven up Here" phase), Joy Division, Psychedelic Furs, sometimes even the Smiths, 4AD bands like Modern English or the early Pixies, even Bauhaus ...

― nick prokop, Monday, 7 April 2003 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

A co-worker is currently listening to Interpol, but on the other side of my office wall, and so at first I thought he was listening to Gregorian chants.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 May 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a good article about interpol by j0hn darn13IIe at http://www.lastplanetojakarta.com/interpol.html
not sure if i agree,although i haven't heard much by interpol,but it's certainly an interesting article,and made me at least want to give them another chance...
all the writing i've read so far at this site has been fucking exceptional by the way,i've had it bookmarked for ages but have only got around to reading through most of it recently....

― robin (robin), Thursday, 15 May 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, nice work, J0hn -- if you're reading this. Spot on.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 May 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd feel a lot better about the excitement J0hn feels for the band's strength of conviction (as opposed to the music -- allow me to try and draw the distinction here, since I do hold to the basic 'worth of music created does not equal worth of people creating it' stance to start with) if I hadn't heard some firsthand stories about what the band are like in general. As it is, I can't find much exciting about a band that fuses stuff I like from various sources in an ultimately uninteresting rather than much more interesting way, like say the Rapture in my case -- derivativeness or strength of self-belief is not the issue so much as the final result and its worth towards the listener, surely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 May 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"if I hadn't heard some firsthand stories about what the band are like in general."

Would you care to example us?

John's stuff is always so great – he got me into Section 25 and lotsa lotsa good metal. Always such amazing writing.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Thursday, 15 May 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Been listening to Longwave for a few years now. Pretty good stuff. Not much of a buzz as far as I know.

I'd say the same if I had read it aat the same time. There was some promotional work being done at the college radio level but I forget by how now days.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 15 May 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Would you care to example us?

Basically, much less concerned about their art than they are about their pay, their cocaine and in one member's case apparently picking up people with the line, "I'm related to Hitler, you know." I know Joy D had their troubles with fascist identifications but that's a bit much. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 May 2003 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe it's just a form of dislosure, like, hey, I have herpes, still interested?

― Kris (aqueduct), Thursday, 15 May 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Did anyone say Winter Pole yet?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 15 May 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Cinder Hole?
Schindler's Goal?
Hinter Foal?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 15 May 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

For what it's worth, the new The Gathering album sounds quite a lot like Interpol with female vocals.

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 15 May 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Interpol with female vocals = CLASSIC, surely? Mummy, what's a The Gathering?

Oh, and another vote for Echo & The Bunnymen? I played "Never Stop" at the club I DJ at in Sydney a couple of weeks back, and about four people came up to me and said, "what's this? sounds like Interpol".

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 15 May 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a slow but sure process of revelation. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 May 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

About time we mention Wire then...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 28 December 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

What is it about Interpol that reminds you of Wire, out of curiosity?

― Schwingung (Damian), Sunday, 28 December 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

they're nothing like wire! that's even more off-base than the joy division comparison!

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 28 December 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The answers on this thread would lead me to believe that the question is "What bands do Interpol sound like," not vice versa. But I suppose the answers are the same. BUT, The Stills sound like Interpol. (Did I make any sense whatsoever? Argh.)

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Sunday, 28 December 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

What about the Walkmen?

― Shaun (shaun), Monday, 29 December 2003 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

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