Look, this is a warning. I am trying to help you here. I know this is just making you want to go buy the album before I even say who to avoid, but it's for your own good. (aka, She Wants Revenge)

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this is carlos d interpol herpes 06'

― howell huser (chaki), Saturday, 21 January 2006 01:15 (twenty years ago)

i heard these guys on the local alt rock radio station, and yes, i was horrified. isn't it too early for bands to be sighting Interpol as an influence? i guess not. they fit right in with the Killers.

― one time gaffled 'em up (one time gaffled 'em up), Saturday, 21 January 2006 01:27 (twenty years ago)

That one song has the shittiest lyrics ever.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Saturday, 21 January 2006 01:29 (twenty years ago)

yah they are the new thang. doods dj'n all the lame clubs and they are in the local weeklys.

OH LOOK WHOS LABEL THEY'RE ON!!

"Another band signed to his label is She Wants Revenge, an L.A. band that captures the spirit of Bauhaus and Interpol without plageurizing (too much). A full-length is due this fall. In the meantime, download "Sister" and "Out of Control" from the band's website and get ready to incorporate more goth in your diet.

You see. Giving Durst some credit won't kill a per---"

― howell huser (chaki), Saturday, 21 January 2006 01:32 (twenty years ago)

This sounds positively loathsome. I don't care who you are, but if you're willing to sign to FRED DURST'S label, you must be a total douche. No exceptions.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Saturday, 21 January 2006 01:41 (twenty years ago)

isn't it too early for bands to be sighting Interpol as an influence?

if anything i'd say it's a bit LATE for bands to be citing interpol as an influence. that's so 2005.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 21 January 2006 01:42 (twenty years ago)

I had rather been wondering about them. Now it all makes (a certain sick) sense.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 02:06 (twenty years ago)

yo don't diss She Wants Revenge if you don't understand then listen to something else your all old anyway

― tyrone, Saturday, 21 January 2006 02:21 (twenty years ago)

That was just me being silly. Carry on.

― ratty, Saturday, 21 January 2006 02:22 (twenty years ago)

you HAVE to watch the video on the site:http://www.shewantsrevenge.com/thesethingsmov.html
that's some seriously shitty EBN/OZN shit right there.

― brndn, Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:03 (twenty years ago)

That girl on the turlet is cute! Maybe if pretend to like the band i can get a date with her!

Also: any band that rips off a band that rips off Joy Division should NOT have a song with the words "tear" and "apart" in the fucking chorus!

― naus (Robert T), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:18 (twenty years ago)

They've been getting saturation-level airplay on Sirius' alt-rock streams for a few months now and have already done a in-studio live session, so someone at Sirius is definitely on the bandwagon.

― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:20 (twenty years ago)

I wrote about them a bit back here: Rip it up and start again

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:24 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm. Read this. Amuse yourself.

(I have only just put two and two together to realize that Justin Warfield is the guy who did the guest appearance on a track on the third Placebo album. He was kinda dull.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:32 (twenty years ago)

God, the amount of awful writing in that piece I just linked.

The pair have a history in Hip-Hop, Justin as an MC and Adam as a DJ and Producer. Hip-Hop however did not seem like the best outlet for the subjects they want to talk about, “songs of love, obsession and sex.” What She Wants Revenge came up with is a dark dance music that still had hooks you could remember. She Wants Revenge’s music should be viewed in the context of dark dance music since by Justin’s own admission; they are “not a rock band.”

The band is going to have to work to dismiss the whole genre band label that some people are applying to them. Current comparisons range from Joy Division, Interpol, Depeche Mode, Interpol, etc. Are these comparisons warranted or is it the result of an industry that needs to categorize every new group to see if it fits in to an existing genre? There are tons of bands out there who cultivate a genre specific sound and some even dress to match, but that’s not what’s going on here. Adam and Justin seem to have created something that is familiar but different.

But read the original to enjoy the emphases as originally shown in the text. Disgusting.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:33 (twenty years ago)

She Wants Revenge worked hard to create an album, “not a collection of songs.” The guys are the type of music fans that go to the record stores “waiting to be blown away.” The records that have blown them away recently are albums from Bloc Party, Broken Social Scene, Radiohead, PJ Harvey and Bjork.

― one time gaffled 'em up (one time gaffled 'em up), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:54 (twenty years ago)

Ahmad T. Childress will be perfect to take the job over after Hilburn retires.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:55 (twenty years ago)

good god. the lyrics! "it's cold out/but her popsicle melts"

they could be a funny parody band. do that jd/interpol sound on, like, children's songs or something. "can you tell me how to get/ how to get/ to sesame street..."

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:09 (twenty years ago)

"Hip-Hop however did not seem like the best outlet for the subjects they want to talk about, “songs of love, obsession and sex.”"

GET ONE GHOSTFACE

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:38 (twenty years ago)

I've been sent so many copies of this cd it is kinda ridiculous. I wish they would just leave me alone. I'd ask them to stop, but it seems like it's coming from multiple sources.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:39 (twenty years ago)

Only -- wait, what the fuck? THAT Justin Warfield? "B-Boys on Acid" Justin Warfield? "Bug Powder Dust" Justin Warfield?!

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:39 (twenty years ago)

Oh no, it's Head Automatica in reverse

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:40 (twenty years ago)

The very same.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm waiting for Snow and Vanilla Ice to form a stoner rock band since hip-hop didn't have any "songs about drugs, blunts and getting high."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:42 (twenty years ago)

The real heart of this story surely must be that by doing this act Warfield figures he'll be able to do better than Chris Douridas with their joint preferred LA demographic.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:44 (twenty years ago)

"Edan stole my schtick. Guess it's skinny ties for me from here on out. :("

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:51 (twenty years ago)

His retro career melted.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:52 (twenty years ago)

But it's cold out!

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:53 (twenty years ago)

(I need a Tums or something)

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:53 (twenty years ago)

We need Chaki to do a mercy killing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:54 (twenty years ago)

If She Wants Revenge decided to go to Pluto...

Would I Care?

NO. I would not care.

― Silver Coffee (Bimble...), Saturday, 21 January 2006 11:46 (twenty years ago)

I don't hate these guys' song as much as that Subways song.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 21 January 2006 23:26 (twenty years ago)

In peace, in peace, always live in peace. We live in peace, we live in peace. Always, always.

― Dom iNut (donut), Saturday, 21 January 2006 23:35 (twenty years ago)

Justin and Adam are fans of music is the best line in that press release. What? Am I meant to be impressed? Also, the way they spelt the name of one of Warfield's previous bands wrong.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 21 January 2006 23:43 (twenty years ago)

The song titles look like someone had a magenetic poetry set of Joy Division song titles and rearranged them.

― mike h. (mike h.), Sunday, 22 January 2006 00:00 (twenty years ago)

omg who pays for this shit

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 22 January 2006 00:07 (twenty years ago)

Come on, if this were 1987, you'd be eating it up. I say more sexy men in leather and more pianos!

― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Sunday, 22 January 2006 00:14 (twenty years ago)

Take your attempt at fetishizing Billy Joel circa 1980 elsewhere, please.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 January 2006 00:32 (twenty years ago)

i would not be eating this up in 1987.

― howell huser (chaki), Sunday, 22 January 2006 00:41 (twenty years ago)

Wow, I've never actually felt sick after watching a video, but I just did with the "popsicle melts" video posted above. Horrific! Motherfucker is ugly too.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Sunday, 22 January 2006 00:53 (twenty years ago)

Ned, please feel free to get a life.

As for the rest of me, if you must: just under six feet tall, about 170 pounds, long wavy brown hair with touches of blonde and red, green-blue eyes, and wire-rim glasses.

who cares?

― Ahmad T. Childress, Saturday, 28 January 2006 07:57 (twenty years ago)

raspberrywho

― account settings (account), Saturday, 28 January 2006 08:04 (twenty years ago)

if Interpol's manager was Tom Waits, this band would be sued by now.

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 5 February 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

i'd think they'd be too busy suing the editors to even notice this band.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 5 February 2006 22:17 (twenty years ago)

alot of press thus far is "see look its a big joke they're doing this to dupe all the kids!" but i still think thats lamo and the music is painful to listen to. dear she wants revenge, please kill yourselves!

― shadeball (chaki), Monday, 6 February 2006 00:16 (twenty years ago)

damn. i loved One Inch Punch which featured Justin Warfield, and his debut hip hop album (Supernaut kinda stank however) - how on earth did this album completely get missed out. i had no idea of it untill yesterday.

and for all the hatred upthread.. the songs on myspace have a certain darkpop appeal .. which suits my current demands.

i would like to thing that justin must be playting a role with this band. the man has chopped and changed styles so often the lyrics are obvious digs to their sound. gotta be.

guess i should go and buy some interpol then.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 9 February 2006 09:40 (twenty years ago)

the video for "Sister," their most remarkable Interpol-ation.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 9 February 2006 09:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna get to see them when they open for Electric Six next week!

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 9 February 2006 09:44 (twenty years ago)

SHE WAS A BAD, BAD GIRL

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 9 February 2006 09:46 (twenty years ago)

'Look, the bandwagon is overloaded and slowing down! If we hurry up, we can just jump on!'

"It's cold out but her popsicle melts/ She's in the bathroom, she pleasures herself" has got to be the least sexy couplet I've heard in years.
However, since they do have a catchy hook and no one will care where it's stolen from (popism!), and because they have a hot girl in the video, I predict HUGE HIT.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 9 February 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Well, if I'd live in the USA, probably I'd find this horrifying, but now I find this rather funny. It's more eviden Paul Banks imitating, than the Editors.

― zeus (zeus), Friday, 10 February 2006 15:31 (twenty years ago)

is the first line of that song "she smelled like 2 a.m."? roffle.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 10 February 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

TS: "It's cold out but her popsicle melts" v. "The subway she is a porno"

― naus (Robert T), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:52 (twenty years ago)

double-interpol

Current comparisons range from Joy Division, Interpol, Depeche Mode, Interpol, etc

― jeff rosenberg (pukeandburn), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

interpol sucks. She wants revenge is the greatest thing ever.. You guys are all loser.

― LaZ, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Heya Justin.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh look, it stopped snowing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Are there nominations for worst song of the 21st century? When robots revolt and create high-pitched shrieks to burst our ear-drums and take over the planet, it will be less painful than She Wants Revenge. A lot less painful.

― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:46 (twenty years ago)

Heh. I liked the first album from When Robots Revolt and Create High-Pitched Shrieks to Burst our Eardrums and Take Over the Planet, but I'm not sure what they're going to do for a follow-up. I mean, they've taken their gimmick as far as it'll go, right?

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

Dude, you should listen to the EP that came before. But it goes for, like, four hundred dollars on Ebay.

Back then, I believe they were called 'Wolf Eyes.'

― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Thursday, 16 February 2006 01:02 (twenty years ago)

YSI it?

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 16 February 2006 01:22 (twenty years ago)

Arf. Just watched the video. You know, it strikes me that one of the things a lot of bands like this get wrong is that they try really, really hard to make this whole aesthetic seem really sexy and sultry and girls-masturbating-on-toilets, which ... it just seems to off. Is that just a matter of my having too much fondness for the original template, which was, well, not like that, necessarily? Not that there wasn't plenty of sex and/or sleaze posturing with plenty of things, but it seemed to operate in such a different way; these guys seem to be really playing up some kind of sex-in-the-bathroom rockstar vibe, and it's a giant leap (via like Myspace goth territory) from the much more alert/bookish vibe of the bands we reflexively claim it came from.

Like in terms of personality/aesthetic the closest reference I'd use for that track is probably bits of Love & Rockets, and yet that feels totally different, too -- because these dudes are like dudes, and their acting-sultry still revolves around just straight dudehood, and not any kind of imagination, and none of the imagination of oddity that seemed to peek out from supposed 80s equivalents.

(Also the guy's voice is massively irritating and the song's curiously dirgelike and hookless and totally lacking in motion or dynamics -- which, if I want something in this aesthetic that's dirgelike and droning, I will totally just listen to Colder, which is at least intentionally dirgelike and droning.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 16 February 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)

so, better than the Robots?

― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Thursday, 16 February 2006 02:43 (twenty years ago)

I want to know how the fuck shit like this sounds like Joy Division or Bauhaus.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 16 February 2006 02:52 (twenty years ago)

Would Daniel Ash dress like that dude playing the piano? Would Peter Murphy bleat like that fuck from the Killers? Would Ian Curtis write lyrics like "She's in the bathroom / She pleasures herself"? Would Barney Sumner turn up the suck on the compressor like that? THE ANSWER IS NO. THERE IS NO POST-PUNK REVIVAL, MEDIA CUNTS, NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU CALL "MR. BIGHTSIDE" THE NEXT PIL OR CURE OR THROBBING GRISTLE OR WHATEVER THE FUCK.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 16 February 2006 03:02 (twenty years ago)

My dear Curtis, no need to be so angry about it. Really I'm just amused by them. Warfield clearly thinks no good genre goes unpunished and acts accordingly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 February 2006 03:12 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone really say that, though? For one thing they say "new wave," not "post-punk," and by that they seem to mean a Cure through Depeche Mode floofy high-school mascara mode, and by that they seem to mean attitude more than sound. (And even in those terms they're off, which is part of what I mean about the feel being totally different.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:06 (twenty years ago)

There are new wave signifiers in the music, too, but it's a matter of identifying each one and trying to pin it down. The She Wants Revenge song I've been hearing on the radio (the "I wanna f***ing tear you apart" one - is that the one you guys are talking about?) seems like NIN kind of *shocking* explicitness mixed with that Ian Curtis-via-Interpol phrasing (you can hear it in the "Lie still, close your eyes, girl" line - sort of like "She's Lost Control" or something) and probably some other new wave signifiers in the instrumental parts, too.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:17 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

Block party gossip learned me today that my dad apparently knew lead singer Justin Warfield when he was growing up. There was all this talk about how he was this "rock star" and after I got through some vague descriptions of what band he was in ("They play alternative...stuff...") I found out it was She Wants Revenge. It's funny because I've seen and heard them a little bit I instantly thought of this thread when they told me. They also said he writes "sexual" lyrics...yeah, that's about when my inquiries ended.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 26 June 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

"yo don't diss She Wants Revenge if you don't understand then listen to something else your all old anyway
-- tyrone (yeahyousi...), January 20th, 2006."

this's almost as good as a DMB fan tryin to learn the ILM massif.

― edde (edde), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

These fools are playing the Greek Theater next month. Figures.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

If anyone is going, bring eggs.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Ostrich eggs.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

One of those eggs Tintin finds in that book.

― jimnaseum - formalist rigour! (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.gremlins.com/modelfest/mmf96_19.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

One of those dudes posted on craig's list looking for ass when they played in town.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

She Wants Ass Revenge

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

what radio stations play this band? how do people hear about them (besides this thread)? i've never heard of them in my life!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

You are, I believe, in England.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

yeah

OK i listened to "these things" and in response to the person who said "how in the hell are these people like bauhaus" - well, the guy is CLEARLY trying to do a peter murphy voice. he also looks really interesting, which might be a reason people like them. i agree that the music is awful.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

listen to "tear you apart" and report back

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

incentive = lacking

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

understood

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

this ruined my thread title :( wtg nu ilx.

― chaki, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

That is a crime, you are right. :-/

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

What will it have done to the original Marissa "nora jones" thread?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

"I kick Norah Jone's ass and she just won several grammys. She can barely sing or play the piano. Either can any of the them compared to me. I now perform for only fifty thousand dollars, because we

― marmotwolof, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

It adds drama, almost.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

And by drama I mean

― M.V., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

Precisel

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

fuckin sucks

― chaki, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

"interpol sucks. She wants revenge is the greatest thing ever.. You guys are all loser.

-- LaZ, Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:23 PM (1 year ago)"

that STILL makes me laugh.
it's like comparing oranges to tangelos!
or white cheddar popcorn to standard cheese popcorn!

― edde, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

http://beaumontkc.com/images/uploads/body_beaumont/petermurphywantsrevengeflyer.jpg

Raggett wept

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 9 September 2011 04:01 (fourteen years ago)

Believe me, ever since I learned about that I was all "Well, this tour I will have to skip..."

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 September 2011 04:04 (fourteen years ago)

same. cannot dignify this.

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 9 September 2011 06:02 (fourteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Their latest promo photo, apparently:

http://observatoryoc.com/sites/default/files/event_photos/swrblog.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 August 2012 18:11 (thirteen years ago)

they do look like a bunch of uncut pricks.

― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 25 August 2012 18:21 (thirteen years ago)

I honestly can't believe they're still around. Who the hell goes to their shows?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 August 2012 18:32 (thirteen years ago)

lol that's the exact same photo used in the flier rogermexico posted in September 2011

― your native bacon (mh), Saturday, 25 August 2012 19:18 (thirteen years ago)

Hahah consistency.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 August 2012 19:42 (thirteen years ago)

hobgoblins of small minds and talents, and all that.

― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:04 (thirteen years ago)

they're not around anymore.

a few more shows, and thats it.

i chatted to justin after their chicago show a couple of years back for 3 hours (they supported the psych furs who were amazing).

not one beer throughout, was not easy (he's a recovering alcoholic .. )

i mean i loved loved loved the one inch punch album, and justins daisy age album, and yes, some of the she wants revenge i can enjoy when in the mood, but damn, 3 hours of 'me me me me me' was a bit much.

i did find out some interesting stuff re tim simeon, and the woman from elastica.

and no i cant tell you.

― mark e, Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:11 (thirteen years ago)

Ah well.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 August 2012 00:38 (thirteen years ago)

eight years pass...

unfortunately they were, in fact, around anymore:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-03-21/cloak-and-dagger-goth-nightclub-closed-sexual-misconduct-claims

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 21 March 2021 14:51 (five years ago)

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