Re: (TV) a question (seeking heated debate)

["Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

I like the Strokes, although I don't hear any Television in them
at all. I do hear shades of late 1970s/early 80s power-pop and
punk-pop. The Strokes are fun live, too - I just saw them a few
months ago. (I agree with Brian's "smary singer" critique
though).

Interestingly, there's an interview with them on Yahoo! Launch
today, and it includes this exchange related to Television:

LAUNCH: You have been compared to some other bands, though. What
do you think of some of the comparisons you've gotten?

NICK: Well, they're flattering, I guess, because people
comparing us to bands they like is cool. But most of those bands
we've never heard of, or we've heard their music but it wasn't a
huge influence on us. I mean, people say the Velvet Underground
a lot, and the Velvet Underground is probably the one band that
they mention that was influential to us. Aside from that,
though, people say a lot of things that are usually way off.
Like, I never heard Marquee Moon until people said to me, "You
sound like Television."

LAUNCH: Once you heard Television, did you agree that the
Strokes sound kind of like them?

NICK: No. They're not in my CD collection. I don't think they're
in any of our CD collections. 

Full piece:
http://launch.yahoo.com/read/feature.asp?contentID=210558

--Phil


--- Brian Young <raggedglory57@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I just listened to the Strokes new album yesterday, and I
> thought it was the most uninspired, unoriginal piece of crap I
> have heard in a long time. And the vocalist may be the
> smarmiest singer currently alive not to actually live and work
> in Vegas.  All of his vocal melodies encompass the same 2 or 3
> notes, sung in the same way. If *this* group is spurring on an
> interest in Television, then people have no sense of history
> or ability to think critically.


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