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Interpol - Turn on the bright lights

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? by Skadazzle

Hello

I'm listening to this album for the first in quite awhile at work and I had forgotten how darn good it is and though I enjoy their other albums this is still my favourite.

Anyone else a fan of this album or their work in general?

Skadazzle | 08 May '08, 10:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Im a fan of this album

Its by far their strongest

Scatterheart1985 | 8 May '08, 10:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i think this album is nothing more than mediocre

and is probably more over-rated than In Rainbows or Sound Of Silver.

medulla | 8 May '08, 10:07 | Send note | Report this | Reply

What a load of rubbish.

Unarguably a fantastic album. A real grower as well.

ashstreath85 | 8 May '08, 10:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

^Could you be more wrong.

Yes, you could have said that Sound Of Silver and In Rainbows were amazing.

GalacticStar3ruption | 8 May '08, 10:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I can't belive you said this.

It is a work of beauty, as is Sound of Silver. In Rainbows is amazing also.

Interpol got me through some good times at uni...

justanothersheeldz | 8 May '08, 10:19 | Send note | Report this | Reply

:'(

it's a marvellous record. i'll agree with you on the other two. (although Sound of Silver does have some good moments.)

poptimusgrime | 8 May '08, 10:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

bit harsh

I'd say it's good but gets a bit boring after a while, has some dodgy lyrics and is fairly one dimensional

Jack_El_Biscuit | 8 May '08, 11:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I think that's pretty fair

When I first got it, I listened to it non-stop for about two months, and then have hardly touched it since. Then singles off it were pretty good, but not so good that I was desperate to listen to them again.

And I saw them live and if you closed your eyes it was like listening to the record being played really loudly. Hmmm.

Joe - www.anewbandaday.com.

joespro | 8 May '08, 16:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

that's quite a bit of an exaggeration.

It's a very solid album but it is certainly over-rated.

lyle | 8 May '08, 12:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Its not overrated at all.

I'll go with the person who said its subtle. It's one of the few (Is This It + Bows + Arrows being the others) from that whole NYC scene six and seven years ago that still bears up.

It's an album of incredible depth and atmosphere.

I can understand why people who have listened to it only a few times would say it was monotonous, and it does have some silly lyrics, but its an album that really repays the attention given to it.

And that rhythm section! Wow

Nailed-on classic.

ashstreath85 | 8 May '08, 12:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Sorry but

I've listened to it more than enough times.
It certainly doesn't have the depth of the albums it's trying to emulate.
It's a very competent album with very good songs, but for me, not the masterpiece many people are saying it is.

lyle | 8 May '08, 13:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

gasp! medulla!

? goodness sakes. Turn On Zee Bright Alights earns every accolade. Trouble is, mere human beings could possibly give it the ratings it deserves with mere, puny words.

rue_the_day | 8 May '08, 13:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Worth having

for NYC and the opener, whatever that's called.

arthurs_dad | 8 May '08, 10:10 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I've had it for about a year

and generally just stick it on when I don't have any particular preference for anything else (using it almost as the dreaded "background music"). Recently though, it's really started growing on me, and I keep finding guitar lines and random lyrics cropping up in my subconscious. Definitely a good album, but perhpas a bit monotonous.

To sum up: "Subtle".

hip_young_gunslinger | 8 May '08, 10:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

its

one of my favourite albums of the 00's. definately interpol's best album as well

funkymp | 8 May '08, 10:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

To me, that album is wonderful

practically perfection. The start of Untitled gives me the shivers. Such a shame Antics wasn't as good.

Kayleia | 8 May '08, 10:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Absolute nailed-on modern classic.

Despite containing some pretty ropey lyrics.

"Leif Erikson" is my favourite: the moment at the end where the solo crawls out of the last verse and sets the whole album spinning into space. Glorious.

ColdGlassEye | 8 May '08, 10:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

It's truly wonderful.

Their other albums are very good aswell and criminally underrated.

GalacticStar3ruption | 8 May '08, 10:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

underrated like all those amazing beatle albums

that have to live in the shadow of Sgt. Peepers.

rue_the_day | 8 May '08, 13:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

It is the best album

I have heard this decade. I love every minute of it (even the vaguely silly lyrics).

bobbygeorge | 8 May '08, 10:27 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Hello there

I am a fan of this album and their work in general. This album the most though.

HappyHandsClub | 8 May '08, 11:07 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Loved TOTBL and thought Antics was better

than people give it credit for.

What's the 'new' one like though? I still haven't heard it.

Alex-in-Ciderland | 8 May '08, 11:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

It is good. The worse album, but still good.

Kinda like saying Nestle chocolate is the worst. it is still chocolate.

justanothersheeldz | 8 May '08, 11:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Probably not as good as Antics

But it's growing on me, slowly.

His lyrics are even worse, though. "You wear those shoes like a dove." What the fuck?

The guitar sound is different too: a bit colder than Antics, and a bit spacier.

"Mammoth" is, and "Pioneer to the Falls" is also good.

ColdGlassEye | 8 May '08, 11:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Okay, thanks for the replies.......

I need to listen to this before Latitude.

Alex-in-Ciderland | 8 May '08, 12:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

If TOTBL is a 10

and Antics is an 8
then
OLTA is a 6.5

Great opener and closer, and some decent stuff in the middle, but none of the depth of the first one.

ashstreath85 | 8 May '08, 12:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

This is exactly right

Although maybe a 7.5 for Antics.

ColdGlassEye | 8 May '08, 12:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

brilliant LP

bye

Gorkys_Forever | 8 May '08, 11:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

this whole album makes me melt

with joy. And 'Evil' from Antics too...can't wait for Latitude

sebulous | 8 May '08, 12:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

isn't this the 54,456 subject on this matter?

not that i mind necessarily and i like all three albums equally for the record.

JohnnyZaza | 8 May '08, 13:19 | Send note | Report this | Reply

My joint favourite album of all time

alongside OK Computer. How predictable.

malick | 8 May '08, 13:27 | Send note | Report this | Reply

snap!

Jambo31 | 8 May '08, 16:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

oh look, it stopped snowing

i'm gonna pull u in close, gonna wrap u up tight, gonna play with the braids, that u came here with tonight

subway is a porno

he was growing on me

left my courage in the ice box

we have 200 couches where u can sleep 2nite

; - ) sorry, just reminiscing

rue_the_day | 8 May '08, 13:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

It was actually

his "urge" in the icebox.

IanJ | 8 May '08, 17:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I thought it was "birch"

As in a length of birch, used to strike women in a misogynistic, degrading, and extremely sexy way.

My God. I'm a pervert.

ColdGlassEye | 9 May '08, 13:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Far too classy for me!

I usually use a plastic ruler. But's that because they normally have one handy, being schoolgi---

<abandon reply>

ColdGlassEye | 9 May '08, 13:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

he's a bit of a mumbler

and i'm a bit of a dolt

rue_the_day | 9 May '08, 13:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

a truly wonderful album

has so many moments on it that make me go a little funny, in a very good way. particularly PDA

Vian | 8 May '08, 13:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I like Antics better than this album

Sorry. Antics sounds more like their own body of work, whereas TOTBL rips off too many other acts.

Plus Next Exit and Public Pervert slay.

lemonbrickcombo | 8 May '08, 16:47 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I thought it was shit

Sounded good, but upon closer inspection the lyrics are so bad I quickly sold the album on eBay.

eg:
"I feel like love is in the kitchen with a culinary eye,
I think he's making something special
And I'm smart enough to try"

oooow - still makes me cringe. The Joy Division comparisions too. pfffft. Style over substance.

dearl | 8 May '08, 16:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

BEFORE THIS TURNS INTO ANOTHER INTERPOL JOY DIVISION THREAD

please allow be to draw a line. It's been done to death. Some people like the album, some don't. Coooool

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ashstreath85 | 8 May '08, 19:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Allow *me*

cough.

Here's another line

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ashstreath85 | 8 May '08, 19:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

but you can say that about any album

and then there wouldn't be much point in having music forums like DiS?
(said from behind the line, not over it!)

dearl | 9 May '08, 13:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

he just doesn't like squabbling over beauty such as

turn on the bright lights

-poor ash, I hear ya

rue_the_day | 9 May '08, 13:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply