Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City by Lizzy Goodman

Author:Lizzy Goodman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Music, General
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-05-23T16:54:07+00:00

46

“YOU COULD SAY WE HAD NO RULES”

JENNY PENNY: Interpol were just so crazy good. I’d sometimes just sit by the sound booth and cry. You even knew at the time that it was super special. You knew, “This is amazing.”

MOBY: Maybe a year after the Strokes broke, an old friend of mine from Connecticut, Peter Katis, played me a record he had just made by some band called Interpol. He said, “Oh, you might like this, because you like Joy Division.” I listened to it and said, “This is really good.” Then they blew up.

THOMAS ONORATO: Interpol were hometown favorites, then, all of a sudden they have a song on Friends. Do you remember that? I was at a friend’s house who was watching the next-to-last episode of Friends where one of them professed their love to another one . . .

SARAH LEWITINN: Joey to Rachel! I only watched that episode for that moment.

THOMAS ONORATO: . . . all of a sudden this song starts playing, and I’m like, “Oh my god, this is an Interpol song on Friends!” I was so confused. But obviously it was good for them.

NILS BERNSTEIN: After Turn on the Bright Lights came out, everything ramped up.

DANIEL KESSLER: We went back out on the road, in the UK at first. It wasn’t like we had a smash radio single, but we had a song getting played at certain times of day on radio stations.

ROB SHEFFIELD: Before I saw them live I was already a fan. I didn’t know they were such handsome bastards. I was like, “What the fuck? Who are these dudes in the Dolce and Gabbana suits? Can’t they leave anything for dorky dudes? They sound like this and they’re hot dudes that are well dressed? Fuck them.”

PAUL BANKS: You know the guy in Pavement playing Letterman in shorts? That’s not because he forgot he was doing Letterman that day, you know? All bands think about what they wear.

ROB SHEFFIELD: The suits were another anti-nineties thing. They were dressing up and doing a show, a show where they would play this super-fucking-mellow, dramatic rock. Art rock. It had none of the stasis and stagnation of art rock but all the pomposity and pretension. I mean, it cannot be said often enough that they put out their debut album and the first song on it was called “Untitled.” Thank you very much. This is a historic level of ego. It’s like, “Wow, this is some serious poser shit,” and it was part of the appeal of the music.

JOE LEVY: Interpol is not a New York band, for me. They dabble at international sound, and it’s why their sound comes from a British band as opposed to one out of New York.

NILS BERNSTEIN: I never thought they sounded like Joy Division. I never got that and I still don’t.

MARC SPITZ: I know firsthand that you don’t want to ask Interpol about sounding like Joy Division. They will tell you that they don’t sound like Joy Division and their fans will tell you that they don’t sound like Joy Division .

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