[kj] Top 10, post-Y2K

[Alex Smith]

That one dude in She Wants Revenge, Justin Warfield, used to be a hip hopper, I'm sad to report. 

I liked the idea of Interpol more than the execution (and I kind used to know the guitar player, Daniel, as he worked in a old fave disc store on Bleeker street). They have a decent (if largely unoriginal) sound. I love "PDA" and "Evil," but I literallyl cringe when I read/hear the lyrics. Embarassing piffle.

Alex in NYC


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>From: "B. Oliver Sheppard" <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>

>Sent: Apr 4, 2007 5:14 PM

>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>

>Subject: Re: [kj] Top 10, post-Y2K

>

>Another band sorta like Interpol that I think is yet another "throwback" 

>band is ... SHE WANTS REVENGE. Joy Division throwback, that is. Even 

>some of the song titles.

>

>Embarrassing confession: I actually dug this album when I saw 

>way-advanced copies of it floating around Soulseek about a year before 

>its official release. I was like, "Wow, this is like Joy Division meets 

>Sisters of Mercy." (That is, one song is like Joy Division, another like 

>Sisters of Mercy, but it all sorta worked.) Then the LP officially came 

>out and the album art was TERRIBLE (what is it, like an American Apparel 

>ad outtake or some MySpace photo of a girl's ass in her white cotton 

>undies? What the hell? I expected a cover that was mostly black with 

>some stormy clouds or simply white line art ror something, 

>Bauhaus-style) and it was carried at Target! That blew me away. Still, I 

>enjoyed it.

>

>Just don't tell anyone that.

>

>-Oliver

>

>

>ade wrote:

>> YES INDEEDY!

>>  

>> The whole obviousness of the retro thing going on these days is a 

>> total turn-off for me. "Ooh, why don't you

>> like Interpol?" Erm, maybe because they're such an obvious rip-off 

>> that it makes me cringe. Ian Curtis

>> vocals anyone? Editors, Killers, blah blah, on & on & on.....

>>

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