Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights in 5 Minutes 

A lot of people wondered if this record and The Strokes' first would hold up over time. I'd argue you could release them today and they'd be on top 10 lists all over again.

This album's an absolute masterpiece

IT'S UP TO ME NOW TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS

This is one of the few albums that really generates a magical atmosphere; you can really just not hear but feel all the sorrow and melancholy not only from Banks voice but from all the instruments. The album is a ride full of feelings from the begining to the end

That part in " NYC" - It's up to me now, turn on the bright lights - is so hauntingly beautiful.

The New is still one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard

Such a great album... such a great band. The last two minutes of "PDA" always get my juices flowing.

A great album to drive along a free flowing highway at night.

my very first indie album. I feel privileged to have have listened to them when I did. I still consider it to have the best bass lines in an indie record

One of the all time great debut albums.

It's tattooed on my back, that's how great it is. It's been 10 years and I'll never regret it. I mean who does stop loving Interpol?!

heartbreaking album

Lol, Pitchfork really loves Turn on the Bright Lights (and so do i). Awesome masterpiece that Interpol never bettered. Great sound and aesthetic.

This album changed my life so much when I first heard it, loved reading the interviews with band in "Meet Me in the Bathroom"

No other album has made such a huge impact on me. For a long time it was my favorite and still is in my Top 5

Literally one of my favorite albums of all time. Believe it or not I first heard this album when I was 10, way back in 2007. I listened to mostly crap back then unsurprisingly, but this band (and Antics, Evil was the first Interpol song I heard) was my absolute favorite for the longest god damn time, and they'll always hold a special place in my heart. Without this band I probably would have never found NMH, or The Smiths, or Animal Collective, or any number of incredible indie bands that are now favorites of mine. If it hadn't been for this band I would probably have become a very different person. So, suffice to say, thank you so much Interpol.

i don't think anything will ever top this album for me

Probably the best record of all time.

over the last 2 decades, this one stands alone.

I had chills every time the music played. This album is a stunning work of art. Thank you Interpol. I remember listening to this album and "Original Pirate Material" incessantly. Do that album next please.

album of the decade for me

one of the best of all time

Fun fact : Pitchfork was one of the few medias shittin on interpol at the time

My first introduction to Interpol was through their 2007 album 'Our Love to Admire' I was 17 at the time. Would love them to re-release this *(especially on vinyl, the original press is rare and expensive)* as it's about to have its 10th anniversary. Love this band.

The beat change on “the new” gives me goosebumps

I cannot express how much I love this album

this record shaped my future in music. little did i know that when my bassist/vocalist in my shitty high school band asked me to learn obstacle 1 that i'd be discovering the band that i would obsess over for years to come. i wanted everything i listened to to sound like turn on the bright lights.

Thank you Interpol for this amazing soundtrack to my life.

This is the first album I truly fell in love with, and one that I still very deeply admire. Can still quote every track at the age of 28 just as well as I could when I was 13.

now i will listen to this amazing album all day.

This and Antics - undeniably great albums.

Do Bloc Party's "Silent Alarm" next please!!

Hearing Leif Erikson live in person was beautiful!.TOTBL will always be one of my all time favourite music releases ever.

I had never heard of Interpol until probably about 6 years ago. I was in my local record store and I came across Turn On the Bright Lights. I had never listened to it, so I bought it on a whim. I'm so glad I did, because it's one of my favorite albums now.

I'm gonna get into these guys, preparing to listen to their debut and El Pintor. I hear so much Joy Division goodness in these guys.

Thank you for making this. So worth the watch...

Liner notes is a gem! Thanks a lot for making these great videos!

These are Amazing. Keep it up Pitchfork!

You bastards. You didn't have to demote this (and RAM) in order to give Discovery a 10

First indie band i listened to at the tender age of 12. I feel privileged to,I miss the NYC indie scene when it was like this 😩

16 Years later and i still find something new which each TOTBL listen. I also still have the fukd i.d. #3 in disc form. Wish i had the og tape they released in 1999

This video and album is a masterpiece if it wasn’t for this I would have never of found one of my favorite bands and as a filmmaker and music lover this video and the series as well has had a big influence on who and what I want to do in the future , thanks pitchfork

A life-changing masterpiece for me personally.

This album has been my Lullaby for years. It's like a Mantra that transports me. I must listen to it every single time from Untitled all the way to Leif Erikson. I'm a drummer and love, love, love playing it entirely on a single take.

best albums of the 2000: KID A IS THIS IT UP THE BRACKET TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT HUMBUG THE AGE OF THE UNDRSTATEMENT IN RAINBOWS RATED R YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS

This is the only album to make me cry. The heaviness of the New hit me all at once and just broke me down after I had gone through a rough break up.

This AND Antics are top tier all-time albums. As close to perfection as it gets.

best album ever, no questions asked. took forever to grow on me, but good lord once it finally did, there was no going back

Absolutely one of my favorite records. The New, always hits the spot.

Brilliant album, and a great 5 minute summation. Played it to death then and still love it now

This album is one of those albums that immediately brings me back to a time and place that I remember so well. High School in the early 2000s. My first real relationships. Playing in bands with my friends and visiting NYC to go to shows. The city had just been through so much. It was a revolutionary time period for so many legendary bands to come out of NYC post 9/11.

Every time you listen to this album, you hear something different or hidden under the layers of each song. It could never be replicated or done again.

The new is easily one of the 10 best rock songs of the century.

loved this to bits takes me back to my uni years

A defining indie rock album. Great video!

My favorite album ever

Love this series

One of my favourite albums ever

Yess! Definitely one of my fave albums. Didn't realize the history behind it.

One of my favourite bands

this album was an eye opener to the whole sound/genre for me. their guitars drilled into my brain until they couldn’t get out anymore

This album is good but I'm not sure if I could convince someone who didn't known interpol why it's good....

Best debut album of twenty-one century.

My favorite album ever, no doubts.

First song I found of theirs was an 8-bit version of Obstacle 1, have loved this album ever since!

This album was just the best. On constant replay.

One of the best albums I heard in my life.

What a great video!

Greatest album of ALL TIME! ❤️

CARLOS D IS A FUCKING GOD

One of the best albums to grace my sad little ears

Sólo me gusta este álbum pero es uno de los discos de mi vida...fue el primero que se vendió en una tienda en mi región...y lo compré yo...introduje a mucha gente en la escucha de Interpol poniéndolo en el bar dónde pinchaba...Un disco que parecía hablar de mis emociones...Perfecto para mí.

Great & beautiful sounding album, I live in London but was in New York for two summers in a row, around the time the band put this album out, a mate out there played me the album, it really sounded like New York to me. So much so when I go back to London had to go HMV and buy a copy for myself, it's like a NY souvenir. Note: baselines 10/10

untitled is literally one of the greatest intros ever

If you haven't given The Chameleons a chance yet then play them a few times. Musically they were huge influences on Interpol, more so than Joy Division. Listen to "Don't Fall", "Up the Down Escalator", "A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days", and of course "In Shreds." The Catherine Wheel was also influential ('Ferment' and 'Chrome').

This and Antics. Chef's kiss

My favorite album for Life

The best album of 21 century.

Stella was a diver and she was always down rocks worlds. Epic album!

I fucking love getting high to this album

I got tickets to see them play this album in its entirety in LA this fall! I'm so stoked. I'm going to get wasted and belligerently yell all the lyrics while arm and arm with all my bros and brodettes in the crowd.

I just remembered listening to them in a loop 2002...how could I ever...its so depressing. :D

I still remember the store where I bought the album, back in 2002.

Didn't know those little tid-bits about them all having a similar fashion sense, I really respect that. They have a very late 70's kind of joy division-esque look that I think makes them stand apart from other 2000's alt-rock bands that just kind of have the same look with t-shirt and jeans, it begins to get stale after awhile. If I ever had a band of my own I'd probably take some inspiration from their style.

I really want interpol to do a 20th anniversary tour of TOTBL 😭

this and silent alarm are the closest that humans have come to musical perfection

One of the best albums ever recorded.

There are only two albums that I rate 10/10 and this is one of them

Such a great album

Greatest album I've ever heard

The early 2000s were a good time. Glad my high school years happened during it. This, and many other, albums were the soundtrack to it.

My favourite Indie band and my favourite song from them is PDA

First EP put out by a Glasgow label haha I feel well chuffed with that, as a Glasgow native.. good stuff!

There's Nothing Wrong With Love by Built To Spill? Or Funeral or The Suburbs by Arcade Fire?

TOTBL was released on my exact birthday. Like exact day and year

My fave bands ever. Interpol. The doors. Cake.

One of the greatest albums ever

who would have thought that PDA's outro wouldnt have made it into the album without carlos d

Do Siamese Dream next

Finest rock album of this century. Ever better than Is This It and that album is a gem. So just imagine what's this?