Turn on the bright lights

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Turn on the bright lights
Interpol studio album

Publication
(s)

2002

admission

2001

Label (s) Matador Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Indie rock

Title (number)

11

running time

49:02

occupation
  • Guitar: Daniel Kessler
  • Drums: Samuel "Sam" Fogarino
  • E-bass: Carlos "D" Dengler

production

Peter Katis, Gareth Jones

Studio (s)

Tarquin

chronology
- Turn on the bright lights Antics (2004)
Single releases
November 11, 2002 Obstacle 1
April 14, 2003 NYC
April 14, 2003 Say Hello to the Angels

Turn On the Bright Lights is the debut album by the New York post-punk revival band Interpol . The album was recorded in November 2001 at Tarquin Studios , Bridgeport , Connecticut and released on August 19, 2002 in Great Britain and on August 20, 2002 in the United States on Matador Records . The album reached number 101 in the UK album charts and number 158 on the American Billboard 200 in 2002. The album was in the US independent charts for 73 weeks and climbed into the top 5 of the charts.

Release

The album was immediately preceded by the release of the EP Interpol on June 4, 2002. The EP was the first collaboration with the independent label Matador Records , while the earlier EPs were distributed by smaller independent labels or as an in-house production. Three titles were released on the EP, of which PDA and NYC also appeared on Turn On the Bright Lights . The third song Specialist was only used as a bonus song in the Japanese, Mexican and Australian bonus editions. The song PDA , first published in 2000 on the promo EP Fukd ID # 3 , was released as a radio single in the run-up to the album release. The minimalist artwork for Turn On the Bright Lights was designed by Sean McCabe, the band photo in the booklet is by Andrew Zaeh. The title name of the album refers to the line of text "It is up to me now, turn on the bright lights" in the song NYC .

Tracklist

  1. Untitled - 3:56
  2. Obstacle 1 - 4:11
  3. NYC - 4:20
  4. PDA - 4:59
  5. Say Hello to the Angels - 4:28
  6. Hands Away - 3:05
  7. Obstacle 2 - 3:47
  8. Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down - 6:28
  9. Roland - 3:35
  10. The New - 6:07
  11. Leif Erikson - 4:00

Bonus tracks

Some songs or recordings of the John Peel Session , mostly published on earlier EPs, were partially supplemented by videos and used as bonus tracks for various special editions and single releases.

Bonus tracks of the Japanese and South Korean editions

The edition released in Japan and South Korea in 2002 received two bonus tracks:

  • Interlude
  • Specialist

A second version released in Japan included two songs that Interpol recorded at the John Peel Session in London on April 26, 2001 , and three videos:

  • Hands Away (John Peel Session)
  • Obstacle 2 (John Peel Session)
  • PDA (video)
  • NYC (video)
  • Obstacle 1 (video)

Bonus tracks of the Mexican edition

  • Interlude
  • Specialist
  • PDA (video)
  • NYC (video)
  • Obstacle 1 (video)

Bonus track of the Australian edition

The Australian edition published on October 7, 2002 by Matador and Remote-Controle also contained the song that was already released on the Interpol EP in June 2002 :

  • Specialist

Single releases

  1. PDA (July 2002)
  2. Obstacle 1 (November 2002)
  3. NYC (April 2003)
  4. Say Hello to the Angels (April 2003)

vinyl

In 2007 Turn On the Bright Lights was published again as a double LP 180g vinyl pressing.

  • A1 Untitled
  • A2 obstacle 1
  • A3 NYC
  • A4 PDA
  • A5 Say Hello to the Angels
  • A6 Hands Away
  • B1 obstacle 2
  • B2 Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down
  • B3 Roland
  • B4 The New
  • B5 Leif Erikson

Videos

From Turn On the Bright Lights three videos were produced. The first music video for PDA was directed by Christopher Mills and was released in 2002. The video for PDA was nominated for the MTV2 Award at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards .

In the same year, the video for Obstacle 1 was published under the artistic direction of Floria Sigismondi .

The third video from this record was the video for the song NYC, produced by Doug Aitken and Adam Levite in 2003 .

trip

In July 2002 Interpol began their “Turn On the Bright Lights” tour, initially in Great Britain. In the summer, numerous appearances at European festivals followed, including the Pukkelpop festival in Hasselt . Appearances in Germany followed in October 2002: Munich ( Feierwerk ), Schorndorf (Manufactory), Frankfurt am Main (Asta Fest), Dresden (Star Club), Berlin ( Knaack-Klub ), Hamburg (Logo) and Cologne (Building 9). Although the band was not yet able to record any top chart positions, the three concerts in the Bowery Ballroom in New York shortly before Christmas 2002 were completely sold out.

Chart placements

Turn On the Bright Lights was listed at number 101 on the UK Albums Chart and number 158 on the US Billboard 200 in 2002 . In 2003, Interpol's debut album, which had been in the US Billboard Independent Albums charts for a total of 73 weeks , peaked at number 5.

Of the singles, the Arthur Baker Remix Edition of Obstacle 1 was best placed in the UK singles chart at number 41 in 2003 , while the original of this song reached number 72 in the UK singles chart in 2002.

The double release of Say Hello to the Angels and PDA was best listed at number 65 in the British singles charts in 2003.

Reviews

The moderate sales success of the debut album was in stark contrast to the reviews of the trade press. Pitchfork Media named the Interpol debut album Album of the Year 2002.

Vicky Butscher (laut.de) summed up Turn On the Bright Lights :

“As mystical as English bands twenty years ago and as gloomy as a bright glow in a deep street, you find yourself in the middle of the flaming New York remake heart. Depressions standing at attention hover over the corpses of British post-punk and remain puzzlingly stuck to melodies, while an Ian Curtis clone sings stylishly broken about the suffering of interpersonal relationships. Interpol's instruments roam through a broad-based sound that becomes overwhelmingly large thanks to Daniel Kessler's gushing guitar work. Vomiting perfection that pays off, although every second is organized down to the smallest detail, but still sounds like a rehearsal room. By no means overproduced, just damn ingeniously presented. "

Andreas Borcholte ( Spiegel Online ) wrote one of the first German-language reviews on bugged :

“With Interpol, another band from New York City comes on the scene, which also seems to have been torn from the past. The four Americans around singer Paul Banks have dedicated themselves entirely to the New Wave sound of the early eighties on their grandiose debut album and accordingly sound as if they were more Mancunians than Nuyoricans. So everything else happens on 'Turn on The Bright Lights'. Instead, Interpol gloomily, depressed and feverishly search for models like Joy Division and early Cure , at times even appearing as 'doomy' as the forgotten Fields of the Nephilim . The lyrics are just as abysmal, where Banks mostly talks about drugs and existential fears in a threatening, sometimes plaintive voice. An almost perfect soundtrack for forays through gray Eastern Bloc cities with eyes smeared with kohl. "

The album is considered an indie rock classic.

Awards and placements

  • 1st place - Pitchfork Media : Top 50 Albums of 2002
  • 3rd place - Pitchfork: Top 100 album of the years 2000-2004
  • 20th place - Pitchfork: Top 200 album of the 2000 '
  • 5th place - Stylus: Top 20 album from 2002
  • 6th place - Stylus: Top 50 album of the years 2000–2005
  • 13th place - Stylus: Top 100 album of the 2000 '
  • 10th place - New Musical Express : Album of the year 2002
  • 8th place - New Musical Express: 10 top albums of the 2000 '
  • 59th place - 100 best albums of the decade

On August 22, 2011, Turn On the Bright Lights received the gold record from the Recording Industry Association of America for 500,000 records sold in the USA, nine years after its release .

A year earlier, on May 14, 2010, the record reached gold status in Great Britain for 100,000 albums sold.

Miscellaneous

The track Obstacle 1 was selected as a song for the video game Guitar Hero: World Tour in 2008. PDA is the only song used by Interpol for the video game Rock Band , Song Pack 2 (European first release April 17, 2009).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Interpol Singles , accessed April 10, 2012
  2. ↑ Setlist and videos of the John Peel Session on April 26, 2001, accessed on April 28, 2012
  3. ^ MTV Awards 2003, July 24, 2003, accessed April 11, 2011
  4. ↑ Tour plan 2002
  5. ↑ Simon Rogers: NME's top 50 albums of the decade: how high did they get in the charts? The Guardian , accessed April 28, 2012
  6. ↑ a b Turn On the Bright Lights - Interpol Billboard.Retrieved April 28, 2012
  7. ^ The Official UK Singles Chart for the week ending September 27, 2003 . ChartsPlus (Milton Keynes: IQ Ware Ltd) (109): 1
  8. ^ The Official UK Singles Chart for the week ending November 23, 2002 . ChartsPlus (Milton Keynes: IQ Ware Ltd) (65): 2
  9. ^ The Official UK Singles Chart for the week ending April 26, 2003 . ChartsPlus (Milton Keynes: IQ Ware Ltd) (87): 2
  10. ^ Pitchfork Album of the Year 2002 , accessed April 28, 2012.
  11. ^ Biography , accessed April 5, 2012
  12. ↑ Andreas Borcholte: CD review Abgehört . Spiegel Online , accessed April 30, 2012
  13. ^ Pitchfork retrospective on the occasion of the re-publication in 2012 , accessed on November 28, 2012.
  14. ↑ Stereogum-Review on the occasion of the re-publication in 2012 , accessed on November 28, 2012.
  15. ↑ BBC review on the occasion of the re-publication in 2012 , accessed on November 28, 2012.
  16. ↑ Top 50 Albums of 2002 , accessed April 29, 2012.
  17. ↑ Top 100 albums from 2000–2004 , accessed on April 29, 2012.
  18. ↑ Top 200 Album of the 2000 ' accessed on April 29, 2012
  19. ↑ Top 20 Albums of 2002 , accessed April 29, 2012.
  20. ↑ Top 50 albums from 2000–2005 , accessed on April 29, 2012.
  21. ↑ Top 100 Album of the 2000 ' ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2013 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 29, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / thestylusdecade.com
  22. ^ Album of the Year 2002 , accessed April 29, 2012.
  23. ↑ Top Albums of the 2000 ' accessed on April 29, 2012
  24. ↑ Rolling Stone : 100 Best Albums of the Decade.Retrieved April 29, 2012
  25. ↑ RIAA Gold and Platinum Records Database (interactive input) accessed on May 11, 2012
  26. ↑ BPI database of gold and platinum records (English, interactive input), accessed on September 14, 2014

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