Will admit finding the delivery of āoh look its stopped snowingā genuinely exhilarating
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I find it a bit head scratching about how lauded this album is Obstacle 1, Untitled and NYC are flat out brilliant, Stella is ok and the rest is landfill indie NYC style.
Itās just dull. 
meh /5
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If itās not TPAB Iām quitting the boards
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Didnāt listen to this Interpol album when it first came out, and came to it years later. It got so much love and so highly revered that it was always going to be an underwhelming experience for me. Iāve gone with 6/10. Itās so samey. Maybe you had to be there
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If itās not Rio Iām going to refuse to do the thread
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I donāt think Banks thinks theyāre silly.
But equally I donāt think he cares much so that the true answer is that they arenāt very literal.
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Iāve given it a 5.
Itās a great mood album but itās not a thinker. PDA is the only truly great song on the album.
Iāve enjoyed it immensely in the part but now it is just a safe background album for when you donāt want to worry about annoying any mates.
I think single feeling albums always hit big if theyāre done well bit being into Joy Division was definitely a big thing at the time.
This has been one of my all-time favourite albums for so long now. I couldnāt get enough of it when I first heard it, and kept it with me for several years.
Gut reaction was immediate 10, but Iāve not heard it in a while so going to have another run through.
Untitled as best track for me. Thereās just something about it that breaks me.
But I donāt think there are any particular weak points to the album. There are a few songs I donāt think I am that fussed about, and then suddenly there will be a little guitar moment or something and Iāll just be completely hooked again. PDA for example is only quite a good song but the ending is just amazing.
Only problem I have is that interpol peaked a little too soon. Theyāve not done anything very interesting since Antics, which is also great but not up to the level of Bright Lights.
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I think it would be dishonest of them/anyone to not say thereās a similarity of vocal tone there and even if the band themselves are closer to like Television or Bauhaus or the Chameleons - but really itās more that theyāre a pastiche of that post punk sound of which Joy Division were maybe the most culturally significant.
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Theyāre also sadly not as good as any of those bands
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Got into this album at a time when I didnāt know any 70s/80s post-punk, got really into post-punk years later and assumed this album would now suffer in retrospect having become very familiar with the source material, but it really didnāt. Still love it.
Also I first started listening to Joy Division because of all the Interpol comparisons and when I first listened to Isolation I immediately went āholy shit itās Paul Banksā so I think the JD comparisons are pretty justified yeah. Considering some of the other bands Iāve seen routinely compared to JD (British Sea Power? The National??) then this one feels a lot more accurate
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I think itās the vocals that draw the Joy Division comparisons. If they had a different singer Iām not sure youād see it so much
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primarily the vocals yeah, but theyāre still a gloomy post-punk band with very melodic basslines, i think the comparisons would still be inevitable
they donāt sound exactly alike or anything but thereās enough common ground
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I think Iād give it a 10 for Untitled alone tbh.
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- An all timer for me
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After joking about voting for the āsafe white optionā a couple weeks ago I managed to completely miss the public enemy thread 
glad to see it got a rightful score though.
As for TOTBL well its my favourite album of all time so what score do you think I gave it
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Up there with my ATD albums. Canāt add too much to whatās been said already. Picked it up on a geography field trip studying urban geography of town centres (CBDs anybody). Instantly fell in love with it. Yes, the lyrics are toss, but who cares.
Iām chuckling to myself about someone having such high standards that their all time favourite album is only a 7/10
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