Interpol - Obstacle 1
Interpol - Obstacle 1
'Obstacle 1' is taken from Interpol's debut album 'Turn On The Bright Lights' out on Matador Records.Follow Interpol:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/inte...
Turn On the Bright Lights (2002)
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Incredible song by an incredible band
I tried to get into Interpol for a long time and have settled on my opinion being incredible song by a mediocre band
It isn't everyone's cup of tea ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The general consensus seems to be against their newer albums but personally I really like them
@ForgetReddit @mounderfod The album is incredible, the lyrics are godawful, the band is mid.
I liked a few of their other songs here and there but nothing can compare to Turn On the Bright Lights.
https://kitschfork.podbean.com/e/03-new-york-doesn-t-care-interpol-turn-on-the-bright-lights/
Good podcast episode with the hosts reading the lyrics aloud and laughing at it. Also goes into the history of the band.
I’m actually not cool with isolating lyrics and laughing at them - they don’t own any context outside of the song and shouldn’t be judged outside of them.
That said, I agree the album (and band) is vastly overrated outside the first three tracks which deserve their place in New York rock history.
I'm a huge fan of the album and it was immensely influential in turning me into a life long lover of post punk. One of the hosts loves the album dearly as well.
The concept of the podcast, Kitschfork, is for the millennial hosts to reexamine favs from the Pitchfork era without the lens of hype or nostalgia.
The podcast episode goes over the album in song order and plays a snippet of each song. The lyrics are made fun of in the context of the album's concept, and Paul Banks being very pretentious about his writing process and intentionally cultivating a seedy party boy persona for the band that he can't live up to. They also discuss what makes the album good sonically from a musician's POV.
Daniel and Sam seem really chill but Paul and Carlos' interview responses have not aged very well. I'm perfectly fine with the idea of roasting some bad lyrics from 20 years ago when the work is appreciated in its entirety, good and bad.