Is This It vs Turn on the Bright Lights - Part 1

<p>It’s new clash week again, and the final (for now) stop on our tour of famous musical cities takes us to New York, as we compare two of the bands that were instrumental in the revival of guitar music at the start of the 21st Century - The Strokes and Interpol.</p> <p>And what a place to start, as we take a look at one of the most influential and important albums of the last 25 years - The Strokes’ 2001 debut ‘Is This It’. And in doing so we discover all sorts of interesting (well, we think they are interesting anyway) tidbits, such as how The Strokes’ signature low-fi sound came about as much by circumstance as by design, and why the track listing of the US release of the album differs from the rest of the world.</p> <p>In ‘can’t get you out of my head’, Kev bemoans the resurrection of a long forgotten Elton John hit, and Tim reminds us that not <em>everything</em> John Peel championed was gold.</p> <p>Also this week:</p> <ul> <li>we see how many not so oblique references we can shoehorn into one episode;</li> <li>we have a long old chat about the careers of various members of the cast of ‘This Life’; and</li> <li>Kev displays a frankly concerning familiarity with some of the internet’s bizarrest conspiracy theories...</li> </ul> <p>This. Is. ALBUM CLASH!!</p> <p>***PLEASE take a moment to subscribe to the podcast, leave a (preferably 5-star) rating and leave a review on whichever platform you get your pods. It makes it easier for others to find us and it means a hell of a lot. Thanks for listening!***</p>