Morrissey should front Interpol

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It's a highly synergistic, win-win situation.

I think Interpol's arrangements are strong enough that a singer/lyricist of ANY measure could elevate them to greatness. As it is, the whole package is reduced to it's lowest common hipster airhead denominator thanks to the embarrassing, emtpy lyrics and the WTF Ian Curtis aping.

― Aaron A., Monday, 14 March 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

its

― Aaron A., Monday, 14 March 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.montypythonpages.com/pictures/its/its6.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

patrick fitzgerald

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

That would be giving it away, Keith.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

Paul Haig, fuckers! Interpol are Josef K transplanted from 80's Edinburgh to 00's NYC with all the necessary adaptations you'd expect from moving from one place to the next!

― Quit glaring at Ian Riese-Moraine! He's mentally fraught! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

Interpol do need another singer, yes.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

I don't think Banks' voice is too bad (it's very Haig meets Byrne's feigned neurosis in order to impress art-school types), but he needs to lay off the "poetry" to attract the ladies.

I almost dated someone recently who said that she loved Paul Banks because his songwriting was exactly like what she wrote and that it felt like he was creeping into her mind for inspiration. Yikes!

― Quit glaring at Ian Riese-Moraine! He's mentally fraught! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

Morrissey should hire Interpol as session musicians, the same way Warren Zevon hired Berry, Buck, and Mills for Sentimental Hygiene.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

So Aaron, you like their songs but still can't get over the singer? The Joy Division thing annoyed me at first because I thought that was all they had. But by the time I realized that some of their songs are quite catchy I was totally over my initial annoyance. In fact, now I kind of like the idea of an Ian Curtis who can actually sing in tune. I'll agree that some of the lyrics are crap though. The line about picking up a guitar to "celebrate the myriad ways that I love you" totally makes me cringe.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

And here I go justifying why I can listen to them anyway (as partially explained in a thread earlier today about have more than one record by a crap band)...the lyrics are endearing in their daftness...

― Quit glaring at Ian Riese-Moraine! He's mentally fraught! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

Damnit, Ned, don't make me quote...oh wait.

― Quit glaring at Ian Riese-Moraine! He's mentally fraught! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

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