Those last three songs...

[Futureman]

The last three songs on 'Antics'--although they have the same rich, full sound characteristic of Interpol songs--don't seem particularly strong. I admit that these songs may be "growers," and I may change my mind after multiple listens. For now, I find them to be merely decent. What do the rest of you think? Does the album begin to fizzle a bit after 'Public Pervert'?

[Thor]

C'mere, Length of Love, A time to be so small...

Firstly, I think Length of love is very, very good. I saw it live a few times last year and owned a live copy of it throughout the wait for Antics. I think it's vintage Interpol. C'mere was sounding a bit underdeveloped when it was being played last year, but I think the version on Antics is very good.

I will concede that perhaps a time to be so small is the weakest track on the album. it was an unreleased track from earlier in their career.. I still like it, but I suppose I'm saying it's no leif ericson.

So I have not a bad word to say about anything up until a time to be so small, but perhaps that's because I already knew the song so well and didn't consider to be of the same standard. But I still love it.

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by Thor
I will concede that perhaps a time to be so small is the weakest track on the album. it was an unreleased track from earlier in their career.. I still like it, but I suppose I'm saying it's no leif ericson.

That's actually one of my favorite Interpol songs. I have yet to hear the Antics version, but the version on the "Precipitate" EP (also on the This Is Next Year 2CD comp on Arena Rock) is gorgeous, with the underwater sounding vocals and real phased out sound overall...

[Thor]

yas, I'm beginning to like the old version better, also.

no phased vocals this time, and no overlapping spoken word parts. it feels a bit... bare. but it's a nice finish to antics.

[Paul Davis]

I agree, the last three songs haven't grown on me yet.

[yovan]

C'mere is my favorite track on Antics...

[Duncan]

I kind of agree with you, but on the other hand kind of don't. For instance, C'Mere is really, really f*cking good, length of love is, I think like Thor said, vintage Interpol. A Time To Be Small just sounds like a song you would expect to be put at the end of the album, but I think it could have perhaps suited being placed a little further up the track listing and have been substituted with something else (what, I have no f*cking idea). It is, by no far stretch of the imagination a bad song, but perhaps could have used the layers missing from it from the earlier version. I have to say that I found New, Lief Erikson & The Specialist to be a marginally better combination of songs, but as we should all be well aware of, Interpol are a band that don't neccessarily just hit you in the face with something (although they can), they grow. And oh how I'm looking forward to growing along with it.

Peace, the f*ck, out.