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bdrummond said:
Don't get me wrong...TOTBL is still a really good album and had some great tracks on it, but there's maybe one skip on Antics, a few on their debut.

Then Our Love to Admire came out....sigh.
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They remind me a lot The Strokes in that way. Two great albums. A third that sorta goes off the rails. And after that they pretty much become irrelevant.

Both had a small late career “revival” so to speak too. But still nothing will match their first two albums.
 
jfitzy said:
They remind me a lot The Strokes in that way. Two great albums. A third that sorta goes off the rails. And after that they pretty much become irrelevant.

Both had a small late career “revival” so to speak too. But still nothing will match their first two albums.
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The amount of songs I could stomach decreased significantly per album.
I think I liked 5 off OLTA.
2 off S/T
1 off El Pintor.

Nothing since.
 
bdrummond said:
Maybe, I'm basing it off wikipedia and have no knowledge of the material.
BSS is an actual good pick though. If you didn't jump on the TTL exclusives they're pretty hard to find. My local just got a couple of copies in and that's about it.
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The book is focused on the Indie Rock scene in NYC at the turn of century, they might have a quote or two from BSS members but they were not a featured group that the book spent much time with since they were based out of Toronto (as I am sure you are well aware).
 
these are all different kinds of rock btw...

interpol - post punk revival
modern lovers - garage rock (but is that too similar to interpol)
LCD Soundsystem - Dance Punk
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
The book is focused on the Indie Rock scene in NYC at the turn of century, they might have a quote or two from BSS members but they were not a featured group that the book spent much time with since they were based out of Toronto (as I am sure you are well aware).
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I mean....
I knew Kevin Drew, Metric, Stars, Feist, Amy Milan etc all were part of the Toronto/Montreal indie scene, but I didn't know BSS were.






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The Voidoid said:
I'm assuming Supergrass did not get a mention in Meet Me in the Bathroom ... which VMP clearly believes is the bible for early 2000s rock. Anyway, somebody needs to reissue Life on Other Planets already. Geez.
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yeah the book is about NYC based bands.
It’s an oral history so they interviewed plenty of artists that were not NYC based and there is an index in the back that lists all the artists/bands featured and discussed. And it does veer off a bit (They spend a bit of time on The White Stripes, The Killers, The Hives, The Vines, and The Kings Of Leon if I recall) but they aren’t the main focus. The main focus is on The Strokes, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD/DFA, then slightly less on JonathanFire*eater, TV On The Radio, and Vampire Weekend.
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TenderLovingKiller® said:
yeah the book is about NYC based bands.
It’s an oral history so they interviewed plenty of artists that were not NYC based and there is an index in the back that lists all the artists/bands featured and discussed. And it does veer or a bit (They spend a bit of time on The Killers, The Hives, The Vines, and The Kings Of Leon if I recall) but they aren’t the main focus. The main focus is on The Strokes, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD/DFA, then slightly less on TV On The Radio and Vampire Weekend.
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All I have to say is thank Christ no Kings of Leon album fits those years. I don't wish that on anybody.
 
jfitzy said:
They remind me a lot The Strokes in that way. Two great albums. A third that sorta goes off the rails. And after that they pretty much become irrelevant.

Both had a small late career “revival” so to speak too. But still nothing will match their first two albums.
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Angels was the last Strokes album I picked up and was surprised how good Side A is…Side B is a bit of a mess but it’s first half is quite good IMO.
 
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TenderLovingKiller® said:
You’re missing ou,t their first two albums are fantastic. Then on their third LP they went from the Southern Strokes to the southern U2 and their sex caught fire and it’s all been down hill since.
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That first album is still fantastic. I saw them in a small Toronto venue on that debut tour and they were great, aside from having zero personality... but I think they were all pretty young at the time...
 
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bdrummond said:
All I have to say is thank Christ no Kings of Leon album fits those years. I don't wish that on anybody.
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Agreed, but then it's difficult to find a band from that list that was doing anything interesting/unique and worthy of a feature column much less a book or this much attention from VMP & their 00's indie rock fetish (and I love indie rock!).

I know, I know, they were all in NEW YORK CITY so the (self-)importance is already implied and enough justification for breathless coverage of yet another generic garage rock band.
 
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