Editors vs Interpol

Tonights fight is between 2 popular indie rock band. UK vs USA.

EDITORS
Background infoEditors are a British rock band from Birmingham, England, comprised of Tom Smith
(lyricist/vocalist/guitarist), Chris Urbanowicz (guitarist), Russ Leetch
(bass guitarist) and Ed Lay (drummer), who met while studying at Staffordshire
University, in Stafford, England during 2003. They take their inspiration from
bands such as Echo & the Bunnymen, R.E.M. and Elbow. Many people cite New York band
Interpol as an influence but this has been denied profusely by the band.

The band were originally known as (The) Pride, before they changed their line-up and
became known as Snowfield, becoming a popular unsigned band. They remained with this
name until they signed with Kitchenware Records in September 2004.

The band's debut single Bullets was released as a limited edition of 500 on Kitchenware
Records on January 24, 2005; it quickly gained support from radio stations such as Xfm
and BBC 6 Music - where it was the single of the week.

Their debut album, The Back Room, was released on 25 July 2005, to critical acclaim.
The band toured out most of 2005, including two jaunts with We Are Scientists. However,
after a pivotal support slot on Franz Ferdinand's Arena tour at the end of 2005, it
was the re-release of single Munich in January 2006 that propelled them into the top 10
of the UK single's chart. The following May, Editors played three sell-out shows at
London's Brixton Academy, and countless gigs worldwide. The album has now sold over
500,000 units.

The track French Disko on the b-side of the single is a Stereolab cover.

In June 2007 Editors released a second album, An End Has A Start which included the single
Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors. This first track was released on June 18th 2007 in
the UK, and June 26th in the US, however it was leaked onto the Internet earlier. Following
a landmark appearence on The Other Stage at the Glastonbury festival, the album entered at
number 1 in the UK album chart.

The album's title track, An End Has A Start was released on September 3rd, 2007 on CD,
maxi-CD and 7" vinyl. The B-Side, Open Up was a bonus track on the Japanese version of
the album.

Editors are due to release The Racing Rats on November 26th, 2007. It is speculated that
the singles B-Side will be popular unreleased live track, Banging Heads.
Editors on Last.fm
Best song, in my oppinion: "Blood"
Editors - Blood lyricThis wicked city
Has dragged you down
You're with the red lights
Your side of town

Don't say it's easy
To follow a process
There's nothing harder
Than keeping a promise

Blood runs through your veins
thats where our similarity ends
Blood runs through our veins

Blood runs through your veins
thats where our similarity ends
Blood runs through our veins

There's nothing believable
In being honest
So cover your lies up
With another promise

Blood runs through your veins
thats where our similarity ends
Blood runs through our veins

Blood runs through your veins
thats where our similarity ends
Blood runs through our veins

Blood runs through your veins
thats where our similarity ends
Blood runs through your veins

If there's hope in your heart
It would flow to every part
If there's hope in your heart


vs

INTERPOL
Background infoInterpol is a rock band based in New York City and currently signed to Capitol Records/EMI.
Its members are Paul Banks (vocals and guitar), Carlos Dengler (bass and keyboards),
Sam Fogarino (drums), and Daniel Kessler (guitar and background vocals).

Interpol's sound is characterized by a dark mix of bass throb and choppy, sparse guitar.
They have been compared to Joy Division, Echo & the Bunnymen and The Chameleons for their
similarly stark, sombre sound and abstruse lyrics. Though Interpol's debut album,
Turn on the Bright Lights, is spare and tentative, Antics suggests a band confident to
expand to a fuller sound. Both Antics and Turn on the Bright Lights were recorded at Tarquin
Studios in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

The band formed in 1998 when Daniel Kessler met drummer Greg Drudy, now a member of
post-hardcore/screamo band Hot Cross, on the New York University campus. Kessler later
added Carlos D. on the bass after meeting him in a history class. The line-up was complete
after Kessler ran into Paul Banks, a friend whom he had met in Paris. In 2000, Sam Fogarino,
whom the band knew through his job at a local record store, replaced Drudy.

The band released a new song, 'Direction', on the soundtrack of the television program
'Six Feet Under' on June 28, 2005. Shortly thereafter they left Matador for a major label.

Our Love to Admire was released on July 10, 2007 in the USA (July 9 UK) to generally
favorable reviews. 'The Heinrich Maneuver' is its first single.

There was also a German band called Interpol, active in the late 60s and early 70s as part
of the emerging Kraut Rock scene. They were associated with the famous early Kraut Rock
band Floh De Cologne.

Interpol on Last.fm
Best song, in my oppinion: "Slow Hands"
Interpol - Slow Hands lyricYeah but nobody searches
Nobody cares somehow
When the loving that you've wasted
Comes raining from a hapless cloud
And I might stop and look upon your face
Disappear in the sweet, sweet gaze
See the living that surrounds me
Dissipate in a floral blaze

Can't you see what you've done to my heart
And soul?
This is a wasteland now

We spies
We slow hands
Put the weights around yourself
We spies
Oh yeah we slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself now

I submit my incentive is romance
I watched the pole dance of the stars
We rejoice cause the hurting is so painless
From the distance of passing cars
But I am married to your charms & grace
I just go crazy like the good old days
You make me want to pick up a guitar
And celebrate the myriad ways that I love you

Can you see what you've done to my heart
And soul?
This is a wasteland now

We spies
Yeah we slow hands
You put the weights around yourself
We spies
Oh yeah we slow hands
Killer, for hire you know not yourself

We spies
We slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself
We spies
Oh yeah we slow hands
We retire like nobody else
We spies
Intimate slow hands killer
For hire you know not yourself
We spies
Intimate slow hands
You let the face slap around the self


In my oppinion Editors is the winner. I found their lyrics better, and I like more "Blood", than
"Slow hands". Make your vote below :)




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