When It's Quite Bad
I'm afraid to say The Strokes didn't impress me at all on Saturday.
So much so that I left for the bar halfway through, and left entirely before the encores.
I wasn't the biggest Strokes fan in the world before I went, but I like a lot of their songs and I really really tried to get into it (I promise!). Trouble is I just didn't warm to the band at all, and all I could think watching them is that Julian Casablancas has to be the worst frontman of any band i've ever seen.
I'm sure he thought he was the epitome of cool standing there in his leather jacket - head down, hair over his face, mumbling into the microphone. But he, plus the rest of his 'uber cool' cohorts just bored me to tears. I now realise that The Strokes are to blame for every skinny-trousered moody sod that occupy every corner of London's clubs.
I'm sure a frontman with some charisma could have made it a cracking show, but Casablancas just looked like a sulky, spoilt teenager, and I think it rubbed off on the rest of them.
It may sound obvious, but in order to really like a band you have to find the members likeable. And I didn't.
So after that here's something a bit fun. I don't know too much about it, but some guy called DJ Riko has put it upon himself to splice together what must be every track ever made with whistling on it.
Surprisingly it seems to work quite well.... so get ready for the first (and hopefully last) appearance of The Scorpions on Headphone Sex!
DJ RIKO - WHISTER'S DELIGHT
EDIT: Link fixed. Sorry 'bout that...
And here's something similar from mash-up artist Osymyso, who's probably most famous for his work with Chris Morris.
You want 101 famous intros in 12 minutes? (err... do you?) Well now you can. The concept is supposedly to harness the power of a recognisable intro that causes a rush to the danceflooe.... and possibly multiply it 101 times so that an energy source as powerful as the sun can be synthesised.
Or something.
Anyway, i'm not sure it works all that well but it's well executed and definitely worth a listen.
OSYMYSO - INTRO-INSPECTION
The tracklisting is here. Unless you're using firefox, in which case you should check Wikipedia as that other link doesn't seem to work. Apparently this made the front of the New York Times!
Finally, well done to Jen Smacked Face for not dying last week..... check out that car. Cripes!
So much so that I left for the bar halfway through, and left entirely before the encores.
I wasn't the biggest Strokes fan in the world before I went, but I like a lot of their songs and I really really tried to get into it (I promise!). Trouble is I just didn't warm to the band at all, and all I could think watching them is that Julian Casablancas has to be the worst frontman of any band i've ever seen.
I'm sure he thought he was the epitome of cool standing there in his leather jacket - head down, hair over his face, mumbling into the microphone. But he, plus the rest of his 'uber cool' cohorts just bored me to tears. I now realise that The Strokes are to blame for every skinny-trousered moody sod that occupy every corner of London's clubs.
I'm sure a frontman with some charisma could have made it a cracking show, but Casablancas just looked like a sulky, spoilt teenager, and I think it rubbed off on the rest of them.
It may sound obvious, but in order to really like a band you have to find the members likeable. And I didn't.
So after that here's something a bit fun. I don't know too much about it, but some guy called DJ Riko has put it upon himself to splice together what must be every track ever made with whistling on it.
Surprisingly it seems to work quite well.... so get ready for the first (and hopefully last) appearance of The Scorpions on Headphone Sex!
DJ RIKO - WHISTER'S DELIGHT
EDIT: Link fixed. Sorry 'bout that...
And here's something similar from mash-up artist Osymyso, who's probably most famous for his work with Chris Morris.
You want 101 famous intros in 12 minutes? (err... do you?) Well now you can. The concept is supposedly to harness the power of a recognisable intro that causes a rush to the danceflooe.... and possibly multiply it 101 times so that an energy source as powerful as the sun can be synthesised.
Or something.
Anyway, i'm not sure it works all that well but it's well executed and definitely worth a listen.
OSYMYSO - INTRO-INSPECTION
The tracklisting is here. Unless you're using firefox, in which case you should check Wikipedia as that other link doesn't seem to work. Apparently this made the front of the New York Times!
Finally, well done to Jen Smacked Face for not dying last week..... check out that car. Cripes!
posted by headphonesex @ 11:10 PM
