I am 71 years old and I am just riveted by Idles. I don't feel the same way about all the material, but I love the fact that they are totally original , don't sound like anyone else and they keep me growing musically. Back in the day ,I was a radio DJ, and Tangk would have been on my turntables for sure. Listening to this very insightful commentary by Joe, makes me understand why I feel as I do. He runs deep.
This man is so full of love I can feel it in his talk and his music. I loved the band the moment I first heard them play. Everyone in the band is outstanding , with beautiful souls.
Without a shadow of a doubt, the best interview I have ever seen. So much credit must go to the ego-less interviewer allowing Joe all the space in the world to talk and open up. Totally professional in every way, allowing things to go where they should. Then to Joe himself for being totally in the room and showing his inquisitor complete respect, no false self-deprecation, no holier than thou, no bollocks and just being a solid, grounded human being.
The new album is soooooo good and I find Joe intriguing and passionate. Each member of IDLES is so committed to what they do. Profound respect and full enjoyment for what they do. Plus, I am a sister in sobriety. Love that :)
Cool guy. Been following Bristol UK music for a while now. So much talent. Huge shout from the US. Loving Idles and other Bristol acts like Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Roni Size, DJ Krust, AllFlaws
I thankfully got into this band two albums ago and am so glad for that. Idles are the first band to make me feel love, joy, bliss, energy, and sanctuary since Nirvana. The more I hear of them, the more they impress, and to hear that Joe grew up on hip hop, well, that's sublime. So did I. Joe Talbot, we should talk, I'd love to find out who he's into hip hop wise and talk to him about who I listened to growing up. He'll never read this so that'll never happen. Going to see them for the first time in July in my hometown, Cardiff and I cannot wait 😌
@ballerinawallenberg interesting, thanks. I'm old enough to remember Mc Serch with 3rd Bass and was still listening to hip hop when Lupe Fiasco came along. I could definitely open his ears to old skool, and he could probably open my eyes and ears to more recent hip hop too 😊
Freudenfreude, joy on joy Cheerleader, happy boy Strong like bull, vulnerable Keep my people up, that’s my tool Freudenfreude, happy boy Top seeder, lucky coi Heat seeker of a missile smile Don’t let pricks take your inch to a mile. Freudenfreude, bada bing She’s a freight train, man Watch your swing Holy water eyes, soft skin Bricks and mortar, horizon begins Sunbeams, oh sunbeams like -god- from your face
Just saw them in Copenhagen, and the new songs definitely gives the show the sort of arc/journey that makes it a very deep, meaningful experience. Even to people who are not too familiar with the lyrics and themes of all the albums over the years.
Majestically refreshing to hear a modernist music artist. Actually speak with genuine personal honesty about themselves and what they attempt to achieve. Void of pretence, arrogance and compliance with “celebrity” status. There needs to be much much of this in new school music. Because, both music and general creative world… is drowning itself in the cash gain of brutally predictable repetition… Let’s make the new school NEW!!! 🤟🏼😜
Just saw them in asheville and holy shit, some of the greatest vibes and atmosphere that i've ever felt at a concert, pure adrenaline they're incredible
Joe, thank you for telling us how it actually is.... you are the real deal... l'm in my late 50's & idles are as current as it gets in this mess called the UK.... Thank you to the whole band ❤.
Your growth has healed things I could never get closure on.....grace in your being my leonard cohen interworld. Thoughtfulness. Connection. Passion . Love with accountablity....is magic is the meaning many of us needed. AIL
Watch watch my my steed steed go go far far. It’s like the beat of a tribal language, poetry. I can’t stop playing it. Picked me up when I was having a bad day.
4:50 Interesting comments about anger... people had the same misconception about Coltrane and Free Jazz in the 60s... it's not angry... It *can* be angry, but it's not inherently angry... dismissing it as 'angry' is lazy; listen with open ears and change your mind.
@@spraymie yeah but you had me thinking of the bands I saw live in the late 70,s in the punk era and I can assure you there were bands as talented as Idles such as the Ruts 👍
He needs an interview with an improv background. He's hilarious, but the interviewer doesn't know what to do with that chaos energy. Someone like Conan is the right caliber of interviewer to extract and purify the raw, pure energy Joe exudes.
Voting is the equivalent of cows in the back of the truck mooing to the driver "Go left, Go right" all the while not knowing the driver is going to meat factory either way.
Crap pretentious interviewer out of his depth, but love listening to Joe. He sums up how i feel about politics, being lied to, brexshit, socialmedia which has 1 motive - to hide the truth and sell you lies. Joe is the real deal, a real person, an artist in the truest sense. He explores his own nature and shares it with us to take from it what we will. We benefit from that creativity with another fantastic album Tangk. I have no idea what half of it is about, but I love that Idles music makes me think and I can make it about what i want it to be about. Few artists have that ability to challenge the audience nowadays, apart from Banksy perhaps. Joe is talking about everything I want to say about refugees , right wing hatred, media lies, monarchy, hate and compassion, Palestine! What a breath of fresh air. Cheers Joe.
There's no love on the right.... but there's definitely no love on the left. It's so difficult sitting somewhere in the middle when it's so polarised right now. We're being lied to from all angles.
Since the second album Every press release he has been using this same excuse about his bullshit cycle of behaviour I get it and respect the man but fuck me It’s the same every album now
Stop with the constant "lied to". Whichever way a person thinks, just because they might not agree with you, doesn't mean they are ill informed or not capable of independently researching a subject and coming to their own conclusions. Find his outlook incredibly patronising. Get over it mate, not everyone thinks the same.
When he talks about politics here he says "there is no love in the right". I don't think there is any love in left, right or any other realm of politics. There are facades of love and empathy that certain areas of the political spectrum exploit to gain favour among the populace, but under the surface it's always about power and money. Don't pick teams in politics. Just be open-minded and don't hate people based on who they happen to vote for or who they identify more with. We all have our values and all perspectives are valid in some ways and wrong in others, that's how we maintain balance. Don't let them separate you.
Because he's a self important, narcissistic, douchebag. Now, it's not uncommon for an interview to target the lead, but it's a spot on revealer of what sooo many never see, just lapping up whatever pontificating narcissists say.
@@olivialoot point I'm making is, I don't think an openly leftist musician who's spoken out about racism, misogyny, and bigotry his whole career will see eye to eye with the guy who made his name sucking up to billionaires
Ya know, when I first heard a previous version of Joe’s spiel (which he’s doing here, which he’s done for at least the last couple albums give or take and which has only really been added to here by talking about his being a father), I thought: wow, how cool that someone in post punk is being so vulnerable and down to earth. Three albums later hearing the same shit (and being vaguer about it every album cycle), it just sounds like a sales pitch. I get he’s selling an album, but to have yet another album be about, in part, how he was a fuck up whose trying to ask for forgiveness etc, and I’m just like: well no wonder the new record’s boring. He’s clearly either not learning the lessons he’s hypothetically talking about working through over and over again or he’s going to the same well of pain and abuse that he was culling from from years and years ago. Not to mention he sounds completely up his own ass. If this keeps up he’s gonna be sounding like James Brown in a few years. Real Shame, I hate to say it. The new record blows. This coming from someone who actually liked crawler and doesn’t need them to be a previous iteration of themselves. Just feels in the work *and sounds in things like this that success got to his head.
Great fella. Great band. Despite the comments trying to degrade/accuse these of being faux, from some confused bitter middle-aged man from Nottingham who sat on his hands when someone displayed a Palestine flag at a gig - “Don’t be asking me to pick sides for something I ain’t got any real idea about”. Someone who has based his entire career on apparently fighting against injustice lol.
I am 71 years old and I am just riveted by Idles. I don't feel the same way about all the material, but I love the fact that they are totally original , don't sound like anyone else and they keep me growing musically. Back in the day ,I was a radio DJ, and Tangk would have been on my turntables for sure.
Listening to this very insightful commentary by Joe, makes me understand why I feel as I do. He runs deep.
This man is so full of love I can feel it in his talk and his music. I loved the band the moment I first heard them play. Everyone in the band is outstanding , with beautiful souls.
That’s the most bent comment I’ve ever read
@@JG91462 I'm downright scum.
@LittleGrayMouse noice
Without a shadow of a doubt, the best interview I have ever seen.
So much credit must go to the ego-less interviewer allowing Joe all the space in the world to talk and open up. Totally professional in every way, allowing things to go where they should.
Then to Joe himself for being totally in the room and showing his inquisitor complete respect, no false self-deprecation, no holier than thou, no bollocks and just being a solid, grounded human being.
The new album is soooooo good and I find Joe intriguing and passionate. Each member of IDLES is so committed to what they do. Profound respect and full enjoyment for what they do. Plus, I am a sister in sobriety. Love that :)
Didn't think i could be more compelled by this man's voice but I hadn't heard him speak
so to speak
and the sweat
Easier in an interview to focus on the cold cold butter running down your neck
I love you guys!
Cool guy. Been following Bristol UK music for a while now. So much talent. Huge shout from the US.
Loving Idles and other Bristol acts like
Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Roni Size, DJ Krust, AllFlaws
Roni Size is an up himself prick
It's great here!
Hope to visit one day@@wakeywakeyriseandshine
Check out Fink too 😉
We love you Joe! Thanks for sharing your message of radical compassion!❤
Love Joe, love IDLES, good interview!
Very cool! Sweet real talk! Humble. Insightful. Tru dat.
Looking forward to seeing them in cologne!! Much Love from Germoney
The amount of love I have for this man and this band is immense. Thank you boys for all you do
The most interesting band I've heard in years. The music speaks.
I thankfully got into this band two albums ago and am so glad for that. Idles are the first band to make me feel love, joy, bliss, energy, and sanctuary since Nirvana. The more I hear of them, the more they impress, and to hear that Joe grew up on hip hop, well, that's sublime. So did I. Joe Talbot, we should talk, I'd love to find out who he's into hip hop wise and talk to him about who I listened to growing up. He'll never read this so that'll never happen. Going to see them for the first time in July in my hometown, Cardiff and I cannot wait 😌
He was into Sagat, Lupe Fiasco and MC Serch.
@ballerinawallenberg interesting, thanks. I'm old enough to remember Mc Serch with 3rd Bass and was still listening to hip hop when Lupe Fiasco came along. I could definitely open his ears to old skool, and he could probably open my eyes and ears to more recent hip hop too 😊
Incredible interview. Thanks for this! The interviewer was fantastic btw,
Freudenfreude, joy on joy
Cheerleader, happy boy
Strong like bull, vulnerable
Keep my people up, that’s my tool
Freudenfreude, happy boy
Top seeder, lucky coi
Heat seeker of a missile smile
Don’t let pricks take your inch to a mile.
Freudenfreude, bada bing
She’s a freight train, man
Watch your swing
Holy water eyes, soft skin
Bricks and mortar, horizon begins
Sunbeams, oh sunbeams like -god- from your face
I salute you. Gives me hope. Our divine masculine speaking clearly, truthfully and from the heart. Brilliant. Thank you.
THANK YOU IDLES FOR SHOWING ME A NEW LOVE
It's amazing to see these guys progress so well. Enjoyed meeting you, Joe, along Prince Charles Road doing some Olympic hedge jumping.
Joe Talbot has such a pirate/kindergarten teacher energy. Very difficult to not love this man.
Just saw them in Copenhagen, and the new songs definitely gives the show the sort of arc/journey that makes it a very deep, meaningful experience. Even to people who are not too familiar with the lyrics and themes of all the albums over the years.
Love this interview!
Love Joe. What an inspiration
Love is the fing! Can’t wait to see them live in December
Fascinating interview
Majestically refreshing to hear a modernist music artist. Actually speak with genuine personal honesty about themselves and what they attempt to achieve. Void of pretence, arrogance and compliance with “celebrity” status. There needs to be much much of this in new school music. Because, both music and general creative world… is drowning itself in the cash gain of brutally predictable repetition… Let’s make the new school NEW!!! 🤟🏼😜
seems super spacey/comfortable compared to other interviews. super cool!
Just saw them in asheville and holy shit, some of the greatest vibes and atmosphere that i've ever felt at a concert, pure adrenaline they're incredible
'If you don't know what I'm talking about it's because neither do I' sums it up really.
Hey Joe.. thank you for existing- godsend you are!
Joe, thank you for telling us how it actually is.... you are the real deal... l'm in my late 50's & idles are as current as it gets in this mess called the UK.... Thank you to the whole band ❤.
😂😂😂😂 Farage in a debate would blow him away in telling you how it is.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Your growth has healed things I could never get closure on.....grace in your being my leonard cohen interworld. Thoughtfulness. Connection. Passion . Love with accountablity....is magic is the meaning many of us needed. AIL
Got into Idles about a year ago. Absolutely love TANGK. 🖤 Anyone know where I can find the boots he's wearing for this interview?
beautiful stuff
LOVE IS THE FING
This man wants me to be a better man❤
Well said ❤
love that he shouted out blur at glastobury as the best show he's ever seen
I love…my man I love….my man
Love this ❤
Thank you, Joe Talbot. ❤
Love these guys. Joe is the man. Their sounds is INCREDIBLE.
I LOVE YOU, JOE.
i wanna hug Joe’s shirt creator - Beavis is the King
I love the Idles more every album!
Me too
Watch watch my my steed steed go go far far. It’s like the beat of a tribal language, poetry. I can’t stop playing it. Picked me up when I was having a bad day.
4:50 Interesting comments about anger... people had the same misconception about Coltrane and Free Jazz in the 60s... it's not angry... It *can* be angry, but it's not inherently angry... dismissing it as 'angry' is lazy; listen with open ears and change your mind.
The every man
For the people
As a person and as a band
Best of the very best
And how old are you with that statement?? 16
@@gmantramp404
I’m 43, what has my age got to do with my thoughts and statement?
@@spraymie when you say best of the very best.,.
Just saying....
@@gmantramp404
IDLES I’ve followed for a good seven years and in my view they are the best band in the UK.
An option, my opinion.
@@spraymie yeah but you had me thinking of the bands I saw live in the late 70,s in the punk era and I can assure you there were bands as talented as Idles such as the Ruts 👍
hands down best interview of an artist since 1997
love is the fing!
This guy doesn't need an interviewer.
He needs an interview with an improv background. He's hilarious, but the interviewer doesn't know what to do with that chaos energy. Someone like Conan is the right caliber of interviewer to extract and purify the raw, pure energy Joe exudes.
Love,y lad is our Joe.
This man is SO dope!
Nice hat ❤
Hi NME. Question: why isn't the interviewer credited in the title or description?
He had me at “fuck the king”
good lord.... rock and roll as self help therapy culture... good thing they're funky
Great genuine guy!
Is that Tshirt a Beavis and Butthead version of the Goo album cover by Sonic Youth?
Now I need to find somewhere that shirt can be bought.
Check out the new Idles album
Nah man
You tube comments is your only friend . Be TANGK full for that mate .
That much is true I like you tub I am very lonely
Great interview, Joe is legit
legitimately buzzed
Sleaford mod and idles colab would be brilliant 🙏😁🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
anybody know where got that striped shirt he's wearing over the T-Shirt from?
Voting is the equivalent of cows in the back of the truck mooing to the driver "Go left, Go right" all the while not knowing the driver is going to meat factory either way.
Well spoken 🤘
Love is the Fing.
Idles are a great band
Which Blur Glastonbury set is he talking about?
he's insanely attractive, IDLES is the best band right now.
Joe! Please! Idles to NZ mate please
he gave you the clue at the beginning. don't be convinced by what he says as wholistic truth.
as convicting and poetic as he is..
Convicting is something that prosecutors do.
Convincing?
Absolutely agreed. He is a salesman.
He would make an excellent british mob boss in a movie
Crap pretentious interviewer out of his depth, but love listening to Joe. He sums up how i feel about politics, being lied to, brexshit, socialmedia which has 1 motive - to hide the truth and sell you lies. Joe is the real deal, a real person, an artist in the truest sense. He explores his own nature and shares it with us to take from it what we will. We benefit from that creativity with another fantastic album Tangk. I have no idea what half of it is about, but I love that Idles music makes me think and I can make it about what i want it to be about. Few artists have that ability to challenge the audience nowadays, apart from Banksy perhaps. Joe is talking about everything I want to say about refugees , right wing hatred, media lies, monarchy, hate and compassion, Palestine! What a breath of fresh air. Cheers Joe.
5 words to describe IDLES:
Laudable
Observant
Veracious
Ecumenical
boring, repetitive, predictable, mid
Wait, wasn't that 4?
@@RiccardoAlbertini
L
O
V
E
five.
@@alsanderz5199??
@@Steve-by4ufbruh you are describing yourself or what?
Not anger, PAIN🙏🏼🫶🏼☮️
There's no love on the right.... but there's definitely no love on the left. It's so difficult sitting somewhere in the middle when it's so polarised right now. We're being lied to from all angles.
Got any more clichés?
@@paintsilj oooh....
Who rattled your cage?
@garyholmes2568 people who right baseless platitudes. Must be hellish living in the middle.
@@paintsilj write not right
James Franco's been watching a lot of Russell Brand. 🧡Idles.
Since the second album
Every press release he has been using this same excuse about his bullshit cycle of behaviour
I get it and respect the man but fuck me
It’s the same every album now
Well his fucking kid died so lets see your bullshit cycles of behaviour when that happens to you...
combined with a heavy digital marketing campaign and after some months I'm selling my tickets for next month. dudes are full of shit
Stop with the constant "lied to". Whichever way a person thinks, just because they might not agree with you, doesn't mean they are ill informed or not capable of independently researching a subject and coming to their own conclusions. Find his outlook incredibly patronising. Get over it mate, not everyone thinks the same.
I loved what he said about why the band and is it anger or not. Lovely take.
Sonic Beavis and Butthead
Joe, why did you spend the entire interview scratching your nose?
Hayfever
When he talks about politics here he says "there is no love in the right". I don't think there is any love in left, right or any other realm of politics. There are facades of love and empathy that certain areas of the political spectrum exploit to gain favour among the populace, but under the surface it's always about power and money. Don't pick teams in politics. Just be open-minded and don't hate people based on who they happen to vote for or who they identify more with. We all have our values and all perspectives are valid in some ways and wrong in others, that's how we maintain balance. Don't let them separate you.
Spot on. Talks a lot about love and unity. He's a typical lefty, unity on his terms.
Why is he alone when it is band.
Because he's a self important, narcissistic, douchebag. Now, it's not uncommon for an interview to target the lead, but it's a spot on revealer of what sooo many never see, just lapping up whatever pontificating narcissists say.
Might all be right on paper, but I liked Idles much more when they were angrier and in your face.
The album it's so unique, sodaspique...
Anyone know where he got that sweet hat at ?!
Oh, you mean the crown to his narcissistic douchebag uniform 🤡🤡🤡🤡
I would love to see Joe on the Lex Fridman podcast. They both share a philosophy rooted in love.
absolutely! that would be a joy to listen!
i wonder if lex ever listened to IDLES
Uhh... What? The Elon Musk guy?
@@ajaces96he’s a podcaster and so much more than “The Elon Musk guy” lol
@@olivialoot that's right he had Kanye on to talk about the Nazi shit
@@olivialoot point I'm making is, I don't think an openly leftist musician who's spoken out about racism, misogyny, and bigotry his whole career will see eye to eye with the guy who made his name sucking up to billionaires
Conversation is so wonderfuly put! Explained on a wonderful wavelength. Felt every word. 👏👏👐🪷
I wish I had Joe’s Moustache
❤🔥❤🔥
29.14 ...
You guys are ridiculous to actually think this man is anything more than a cowboy with a following
Yeah but cowboys are a rare breed these days so power to him.
@@tatiustate no mate. He’s a complete and utter moron
@tatiustate Uhhhh, no they're not. They're a dime a fuckin dozen, and as toxic as self important, narcissistic, douchebags, have ever been.
♥️✨
Didn’t they write a song about ‘gammons’ living in racist rural England? Sounds like the antithesis of compassion 🙃
Ya know, when I first heard a previous version of Joe’s spiel (which he’s doing here, which he’s done for at least the last couple albums give or take and which has only really been added to here by talking about his being a father), I thought: wow, how cool that someone in post punk is being so vulnerable and down to earth. Three albums later hearing the same shit (and being vaguer about it every album cycle), it just sounds like a sales pitch. I get he’s selling an album, but to have yet another album be about, in part, how he was a fuck up whose trying to ask for forgiveness etc, and I’m just like: well no wonder the new record’s boring. He’s clearly either not learning the lessons he’s hypothetically talking about working through over and over again or he’s going to the same well of pain and abuse that he was culling from from years and years ago. Not to mention he sounds completely up his own ass. If this keeps up he’s gonna be sounding like James Brown in a few years. Real Shame, I hate to say it. The new record blows. This coming from someone who actually liked crawler and doesn’t need them to be a previous iteration of themselves. Just feels in the work *and sounds in things like this that success got to his head.
Cheap indeed. Typically being in a think tank would require expertise. Not many vocalists.
He seemed okay until 10:15. From then he started speaking speculative behalfs and sounded like Russell Brand.
Russell Brand is smart though
Joe Toilet.@@humanbeing4841
@@humanbeing4841hardly. But I sense Joe is losing it here.
Great fella. Great band. Despite the comments trying to degrade/accuse these of being faux, from some confused bitter middle-aged man from Nottingham who sat on his hands when someone displayed a Palestine flag at a gig - “Don’t be asking me to pick sides for something I ain’t got any real idea about”. Someone who has based his entire career on apparently fighting against injustice lol.
Leave sleaford alone lad
Waitrose-punk for bald, specky, centrist dads who only listen to radio 6.
Tangk is horrible. Sputnikmusic sums it up pretty well.
narcissist alert
Y. He seems to be drifting that way for sure. The way he degraded the drummer and bass player in a back handed way was lame.
Joe is my new Alex Turner