So, I was telling my buddy how Interpol are probably one of the greatest bands ever, but then he started pulling one of those faces that guys pull when they think your cheeks are full of hot steaming mountains of musically-retarded shit. Apparently, Interpol stole their moody foreboding and generally manic-depressive shtick from British band Joy Division. WTF?! I checked them out on YouTube and the lead singer looks like an uncoordinated lame and sings like he’s got giant pieces of marshmallow stuck in his pasty-European cheeks. How could anyone compare these guys to the ‘Pol? If I’d have paid some kind of money for dudes’ opinion, this would definitely be the point where I’d ask to see his manager and demand a full fucking cash refund.
USA: 1, Britain: Zilch
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Donald Crunk, why don’t you know who Joy Division is? Why don’t you know about Ian Curtis and his tossing and turning with epilepsy? You should in the least watch Anton Corbijn’s “Control” sometime to get a little background on one of Interpol’s mondo influences.
10.09.09 at 9:22 am
ignorant
10.09.09 at 9:23 am
… a band is so much more than just their music/videos… also you’re making your judgement on live tape versus studio recording youtube flotsam. What?
10.09.09 at 9:26 am
har har
10.09.09 at 9:27 am
interpol took a shit on joy division. right on it.
10.09.09 at 9:30 am
why do people still have fucking debates like this?
This is how it fucking works retard: without the telegraph you don’t have cell phones, without Linda Lovelace you don’t have Sasha Grey, and without Joy Division you don’t have Interpol. It’s called evolution. Uh fucking doye.
10.09.09 at 9:39 am
Dear Dickface,
You have a dick for a face.
Yours,
Britain
10.09.09 at 9:43 am
the day you understand the honesty and purity that was joy division is the day this post will bite you in the ass. seriously, you’re a retard.
10.09.09 at 9:48 am
It’s easy to be Joy Division after Joy Division have been Joy Division.
10.09.09 at 9:52 am
hillarious
new order is better than joy division
there i said it.
10.09.09 at 9:57 am
They’re both pretty lame bands. But then, depressed 14-year-olds need music, too.
10.09.09 at 10:11 am
Ian Curtis ripped off Jim Morrison, it’s obvious.
Also, New Order is way better.
Also, Interpol are a bunch of homosexual vampires that make the dude from Twilight look like Hacksaw Jim Duggan by comparison.
10.09.09 at 10:22 am
totally original troll, man
10.09.09 at 10:37 am
When was the last time Joy Division did anything important and/or relevant?
10.09.09 at 10:43 am
This article is transparent, and gay. Regardless, what LCC said is so true.
10.09.09 at 11:03 am
i enjoy the petshop boys.
10.09.09 at 11:08 am
I can’t wait til it’s 2004 so we can stop having this argument.
10.09.09 at 11:23 am
Do people really think that Interpol song is good? I can’t imagine why
10.09.09 at 11:41 am
Total wind up merchant
10.09.09 at 11:43 am
Oh, you almost got me and the rest of the internet with that one. Har.
10.09.09 at 12:14 pm
Seriously…still waiting…where’s the punchline?
10.09.09 at 12:23 pm
In-to-pole.
10.09.09 at 12:34 pm
People on here are really retard. Get a fucking life. Its called opinion. Try having one like Crunk. If you don’t like what is written then don’t read. Now, count to 3 like the good little sheep you are!
10.09.09 at 12:44 pm
woulda been cooler if you spelled Britain wrong
10.09.09 at 12:45 pm
Interpol’s fuckin’ gay and your face is indeed a dick.
10.09.09 at 1:05 pm
@Dumb asses. There is some delectable irony in your initial sentence. I wish you did that on purpose so I could look up to you.
10.09.09 at 1:15 pm
hipsters gettin’ all riled up and foamy
10.09.09 at 1:26 pm
if time is not linear, and indeed it is not, then interpol preceded joy division. they are weightless, semi-erotic. they take me there. they exist together.
10.09.09 at 1:44 pm
if you think joy division warn’t derivative you’s seriously ignant.
10.09.09 at 1:58 pm
i fucking love joy division, hate this post, but also agree with it. interpol is for life.
10.09.09 at 2:12 pm
not sure if anyone here uses the internet enough to understand what “you have been trolled means”
10.09.09 at 2:38 pm
Your friend is indeed an idiot to think Interpol is nothing more than a group of Joy Division wannabes. If he was the serious music fan he seems to think he is, he’d know Interpol were actually biting The Chameleons’ style, not Joy Division’s.
10.09.09 at 3:00 pm
This is a stupid first day of college dorm room debate. Glad this was published…
10.09.09 at 3:36 pm
joy division is amazing, people have forgotten about the value of evoking feelings
10.09.09 at 3:43 pm
Donald Crunk: 1, The Easily Duped: 0
10.09.09 at 3:47 pm
if you think interpol’s last record was actually worth a listen, maybe joy division is just over your head.
10.09.09 at 4:01 pm
“Sam: I can hear it a little bit. Nobody denies it. But Paul is a 24-year old man. He has just heard about Joy Division two years ago and he’s not the biggest fan either. Personally, Paul is way more melodic and intoned. Ian Curtis was like this monotone. God bless him. I am not dissing him.” 2002
10.09.09 at 4:17 pm
y’all niggaz postin in a troll thread
10.09.09 at 4:44 pm
LOL
First of all, this whole argument that Interpol is better than Joy Division and vice cersa WAS SO THREE YEARS AGO.. WHY IS IT BEING BROUGHT UP AGAIN….
There is no way Interpol sounds like Joy Division.
There is no way Paul Banks sounds like Ian Curtis.
Lose.
10.09.09 at 4:45 pm
TL;DR
Obvious troll is obvious.
10.09.09 at 6:27 pm
if this is a joke its not funny. if this is not a joke then its stupid. either way everybody loses.
@Dumb asses: when people disagree with somebodies opinion that is also an opinion. If you are older than 12 that would be pretty embarrassing…
10.09.09 at 7:59 pm
i’m gonna rest
10.09.09 at 11:03 pm
Warsaw is bad ass, the subsequent albums…not so much
10.10.09 at 12:49 am
@Rough. Mad street-cred son, with the Warsaw mention. Mad real yo. Word. So truthful, I wish I could misspell them shitz better.
10.10.09 at 3:09 am
the xx is the new Interpol. now it goes back to Britain! circle of life.
10.10.09 at 3:13 am
knee jerk nailed it! next!
10.10.09 at 5:17 am
Fuck your YouTube-quality comment wars. We’re almost at 50!!!
10.10.09 at 7:28 am
Joy Division birthed New Order and New Order birthed this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uFWGALVF0Y
Interpol would never be connected to anything that lame.
10.10.09 at 7:43 am
i might have agreed with you if you compared them on equal footing. you put a live joy division video up against a pre-recorded, professional interpol music video. they’re not good live either.
10.10.09 at 12:11 pm
Yo Gavin, let’s get a bit of quality control here.
10.11.09 at 6:30 pm