Comments on: Julian Casablancas – Phrazes For the Young

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:30:01 +0000

Christ.

By: Mrs Toad

Mrs Toad — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:33:07 +0000

That bristol chart is hideous and was the picture up top of an actual, real life curled off turd really necessary? I was wondering who would go to the lengths of photographing their shite when I realised that the toilet is clearly one of those ledge style ones that they have in Germany where the maintenance of proper bowel function is accorded the reverence usually reserved for religious rites.

Anyway, on the topic of shite, these songs are pure steaming keich.

By: cowsarejustfood

cowsarejustfood — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:58:50 +0000

i think is this it? is fun and derivative and throwaway and all the better for it, but i’m damn sure it’s not the best album of the past ten years. as yr man says it wasn’t even the best album that year.

lists are fun though aren’t they.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:36:24 +0000

It’s not just the NME, I’ve seen it pretty high on a lot of lists, if I remember correctly. Mind you, I’m not doing a Best of the Decade list because I just can’t be arsed.

I might do a podcast with a song from each year though, although I doubt I’ll agonise over my picks all that much.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:53:42 +0000

I assume this is the NME’s voting of the Is this it album as being the best album of the decade?! Think it galvanised a lot of people into action, but rather like The Libertines, their actual output never quite seemed to match up to the hype and column inches.

Then again my favourite album of 2001 was ‘Things We Lost in The Fire’ by Low, so what do I know… ; )

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:46:03 +0000

Yeah, Cows, I keep hearing that. I totally disagree though. I remember hearing that first EP and being as excited as everyone else, but then the album was a bit of a damp squib for me. Even the new recordings of songs from the EP fell kind of flat. In general I found the the title of Is This It? to be all too apt.

By: cowsarejustfood

cowsarejustfood — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:22:46 +0000

you clearly haven’t heard that the strokes first record is the best record like evereverever this decade then.

actually half of first impressions is pretty good. the rest is as shite as the second one.

this? this is sub-shite. this would be number seven on the bristol stool chart.

handy link for ya: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Stool_Chart#Bristol_Stool_Chart

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:03:55 +0000

I wouldn’t worry I can’t even finish my comments -’Wish the Strokes would do another album, because the Nickel Eye album that Nikolai Fraiture the bassist put out earlier this year’ was also meant to say ‘was fucking terrible.

JP album was better, and certainly an improvement on the less than impressive third Interpol album.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:11:19 +0000

Erm yes, well spotted Ed, just changed that. But basically I think I agree with everything you’ve said there.

Linda, I had to be told as well. I may have been told less recently than you, but I was listening to the JP album thinking ‘gosh this sounds an awful lot like Interpol’ and then… d’oh!

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:57:31 +0000

I confess, I haven’t understood the hype about Casablancas. Although these two tracks aren’t terrible, I just don’t get hooked–or stroked or whatever.

Oh, DUH! Am I the last person alive who didn’t know Plenti’s alter-ego? Thank god for Google.