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Band interviews are so damn boring 95% of the time. Bands always tell journalists the same boring wanky lines.
What are your favourite / most hated cliches from interviews?
Here's one to start:
''It was such an organic record to make. We played live in the studio. It was so liberating''.
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It is a lot like someone relaying last night's dream sometimes. Without a critical POV most peoples thoughts are fucking inane.
when they talk about how they hate/aren't a part of whatever genre they're associated with. don't fence me in man
No, the worst is when bands such up to their big-name producer.
'' We loved his work with (insert name). It was such an honour to work with him. He's the man!''.
the connection between us all can't really be explained. it's MAGIC! we're all like brothers wank wank wank wank
i hate 'we never set out to do anything more than a couple of shows!'
It's funny when Vampire Weekend complain about being perceived as 'rich white boys'.
Nobody forced them to do photo shoots in university lecture theaters, wearing preppy shirts and trousers.
on a related note, there was an interview on youtube with a perth band called the novocaines. it became local legend, people started quoting parts from the interview in their own interviews etc. it was totally spinal tap, full of ego and over the top statements. the catch was, they were dead serious.
they have taken it off youtube, must have been way too embarrassing.
Not this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkl-0y9Ouf4
A bit more research tells me the PerthTV interview is another one. I have to find it...
Gosh, the interview you posted is pretty special, I couldn't even imagine the other one. The guy on the left tries so hard to be authentic, and each word makes it worse.
no, the one im talking about is with perthbands.tv. its hilarious, i wish it was still up there. the funny thing about that interview though, the guy on the right is jay, who is now the drummer in tame impala. in that interview, the singer admits that jay wrote all their material. he left the band years ago, they still play those songs.
''A lot of the music on this album was inspired by my recent trip to insert Asian nation here''
''we're just making music for us, not for anyone else''
or
''it's a far more mature record than our first''
No, the worst is when bands such up to their big-name producer.
'' We loved his work with (insert name). It was such an honour to work with him. He's the man!''.
...even better is when the band credits a producer on their record, uses the said producers name on all press releases etc, then the said producer publicly denies they produced the record!
''i can't listen to that album anymore''
Who's this in reference to?
If journalists asked decent questions I doubt many bands would have to resort to such cliches. I was flicking channels the other day on Video Hits Dylan Lewis and Fuzzy were interviewing Omar from the Mars Volta asking shit like 'Do you guys like to rock out?'
hahahahaha,hilarious johnnyzero, you've got a good memory dude.
More so from the interviewer post-interview:
''(name) was SO down to earth!''
Other words or phrases used way too often:
stripped back
back to basics
opus
tour de force
return to form
. . . and the comparison to someone else's album:
''This is their White Album'' . . . or '' . . . their Dark Side of the Moon''
Interviews in general irk me. Most are primarily to attract listeners, viewers, and consumers to (give the illusion of popularity) and score money or ratings.
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Novocaine interview has been deleted from Facebook. I'm devastated...
they can't take the heat!
Any interview with TISM is better than any street press / radio fodder you can find
Like this for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt8rIXEvL4c
Or this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XogiXuEFHNg
the novocaines new ep ahs just shown up for review. i don't know if i can take them seriously after the above. then again, if i can survive evermore...
Request a EPK and hopefully you can get a hard copy of that interview so it can be preserved.
We really didn't want to set any boundaries with this record. Our drummer even went around and got all these kitchen utensils and just stuff lying around and started banging them and using them for percussion. It was crazy, and very liberating
we're not influenced by other artists. we're influenced by life
Vice interview with Danzig - FFS
And how. ''We want to go now because you are a turd''
Dylan handles so well with so few words...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssqr7VsrJ0s&feature=related
bands always say their new stuff is better than their old stuff. fans almost always disagree
Oh come on! The McPheeters interview with Danzig is great, and covers a lot of ground I read with real interest. The stuff about his diet especially:
I saw John Carpenter speak in 2002. He was 54 then, but he looked ten years older, and he talked for a while about his sagging energy levels. You’re the same age now, right?
Give or take.
Well, you look my age and it’s kind of weirding me out. Do you ever have problems with your energy levels?
No.
What’s your secret?
I don’t know. I don’t eat shit food. I don’t do drugs. I don’t know what else to tell you.
I’m 40. I don’t do any of those things. I eat salad for lunch. And I wake up almost every day feeling like a wet bag of sand.
Salad is terrible if you put creamy crap on it.
It’s low-fat creamy crap!
There’s no such thing.
So you have nothing to share, nothing to impart to those of us who are rapidly turning into jiggly piles of goo? It seems like it happens quick.
Uh, do you work out at all?
Not every day.
You don’t need to do it every day. Diet is really important and I think vitamins are really important also. Maybe you want to go to a nutritionist and find out what your body is lacking and what it’s not lacking. And I don’t mean a fucking quack, chemo, murdering doctor. I mean a nutritionist, who evaluates your blood and tells you what you’re deficient in and what you’re not deficient in.
That's pretty awesome I think - aside from the weird swipe at the medical profession, he's basically speaking total truth here. He heads into some quite deranged territory then, but the interview is still of interest.
Shh
ouch.
yep
Ooooooooo. It's back. It's finally back.
3rd place... is the best thing that can happen to any band.. ever...
They're very very entertaining live.
ah cheers for that, a nice start to the day. the way it cuts between them playing in what is obviously not a live setting and them talking about their live show is too good...and what's that line, ''i realised i couldn't offer anything musically'' golden.
That was amazing. A-Mazing.