Pitchfork's top 50 of 2002

you forgot to add that Paul is hot.<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Relaxer:<BR><B>Interpol sounds to me like a lot of early 80s British post-punk bands, with somewhat atonal vocals and jagged guitars that go more for a sweeping sound than a series of riffs. Plus there often are either keyboards or heavy guitar effects. I admire the album more than I really like it, and the fact that it's a debut makes it more impressive. The great-sounding live show helped too. </B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>

Oh yeah, Paul the singer is hot. And Carlos the bass player is fabulous.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by markie:<BR><B>alright GGW fair enough. One thing though. I have gone out of my way to get someone to give me their opinion of interpol, and no one has. <P>Why is that, and what do you think?</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I think Interpol is excellent, but I don't see their album as the best album of 2002. In a year of bands unabashedly derivative of '70s garage rock, I think Pitchfork probably gave Interpol points for being derivative of something totally different – Manchester in the '80s.<BR>

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Jaguär:<BR><B><BR>Markie, I like Interpol though they can leave me a little cold at times. </B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>You are not the only one that feels that way. Somehow there is a lack of any real meaning or emotion to any of the songs.<P>

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by markie:<BR><B> You are not the only one that feels that way. Somehow there is a lack of any real meaning or emotion to any of the songs.<P></B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I think offering someone 200 couches to sleep on is a very emotional gesture. I dont follow your meaning.

it would only be emotional if someone was so big they needed two hundred couches to sleap on…………..<BR>although after the foodfest of the last 2 days…………..my tummy hurts.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by poorlulu:<BR><B><BR>although after the foodfest of the last 2 days…………..my tummy hurts.</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>same here

I still think J Mascis, Sparta, Queens of the Stone Age and Rocket From The Crypt should have been mentioned on that list. And I think that Hot Snakes should have been numero uno, followed by Trail of Dead. I have to admit, I am not really that turned on by most of the major foreign releases of the year, Coldplay, The Music, Supergrass, etc…But I usually don't tend to think of it in those terms. As a final note I wish the Burning Brides re-release of Fall of the Plastic Empire was listed as well.

I was glad to see that the Post reviewers avoided almost all of the Pitchfork stuff on their year end lists.<P>Though the snot nosed City Paper critics tended to agree with Pitchfork.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Henry Dark:<BR><B>I was glad to see that the Post reviewers avoided almost all of the Pitchfork stuff on their year end lists.<BR></B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Considering how often you criticize the Post reviewers, I guess that's a backhanded compliment to Pitchfork.

Actually, I didn't realize that I criticized the Post reviewers. Thanks for letting me know that info. I'm glad somebody takes notice of the nonsense I spew, because I guess that I don't.<P>What the hell did I just say?