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.

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.

Didn't think i could be more compelled by this man's voice but I hadn't heard him speak

@jesseasch-ortiz6136

4 ай бұрын

so to speak

@peternilsson8193

2 ай бұрын

and the sweat

@vvvoda

Ай бұрын

Easier in an interview to focus on the cold cold butter running down your neck

@kirkulate

11 сағат бұрын

I love you guys!

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.

@JG91462

17 күн бұрын

That’s the most bent comment I’ve ever read

@LittleGrayMouse

14 күн бұрын

​@@JG91462 I'm downright scum.

@kirkulate

11 сағат бұрын

​@LittleGrayMouse noice

The most interesting band I've heard in years. The music speaks.

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

@joeman8523

5 ай бұрын

Roni Size is an up himself prick

@wakeywakeyriseandshine

4 ай бұрын

It's great here!

@getthoseskills4451

4 ай бұрын

Hope to visit one day@@wakeywakeyriseandshine

@boabglen

3 ай бұрын

Check out Fink too 😉

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 ❤.

@gmantramp404

14 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂 Farage in a debate would blow him away in telling you how it is. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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 :)

THANK YOU IDLES FOR SHOWING ME A NEW LOVE

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

'If you don't know what I'm talking about it's because neither do I' sums it up really.

Love this interview!

It's amazing to see these guys progress so well. Enjoyed meeting you, Joe, along Prince Charles Road doing some Olympic hedge jumping.

Fascinating interview

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

We love you Joe! Thanks for sharing your message of radical compassion!❤

Hey Joe.. thank you for existing- godsend you are!

beautiful stuff

seems super spacey/comfortable compared to other interviews. super cool!

Incredible interview. Thanks for this! The interviewer was fantastic btw,

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.

I salute you. Gives me hope. Our divine masculine speaking clearly, truthfully and from the heart. Brilliant. Thank you.

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

4 ай бұрын

He was into Sagat, Lupe Fiasco and MC Serch.

@leerog1

4 ай бұрын

@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 😊

Love Joe. What an inspiration

This man wants me to be a better man❤

@kirkulate

11 сағат бұрын

Well said ❤

LOVE IS THE FING

Love this ❤

Great genuine guy!

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

love that he shouted out blur at glastobury as the best show he's ever seen

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.

i wanna hug Joe’s shirt creator - Beavis is the King

Got into Idles about a year ago. Absolutely love TANGK. 🖤 Anyone know where I can find the boots he's wearing for this interview?

So dead from being lied to.... LET'S CREATE LIFE!

Idles are a great band

I love…my man I love….my man

Well spoken 🤘

Nice hat ❤

I love the Idles more every album!

@kirkulate

11 сағат бұрын

Me too

Joe Talbot has such a pirate/kindergarten teacher energy. Very difficult to not love this man.

love is the fing!

This guy doesn't need an interviewer.

@freeradical5535

4 ай бұрын

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.

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.

Love these guys. Joe is the man. Their sounds is INCREDIBLE.

Great interview, Joe is legit

@Evan95.

5 ай бұрын

legitimately buzzed

Hi NME. Question: why isn't the interviewer credited in the title or description?

Sleaford mod and idles colab would be brilliant 🙏😁🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

The every man For the people As a person and as a band Best of the very best

@gmantramp404

5 ай бұрын

And how old are you with that statement?? 16

@spraymie

5 ай бұрын

@@gmantramp404 I’m 43, what has my age got to do with my thoughts and statement?

@gmantramp404

5 ай бұрын

@@spraymie when you say best of the very best.,. Just saying....

@spraymie

5 ай бұрын

@@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.

@gmantramp404

5 ай бұрын

@@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 👍

anybody know where got that striped shirt he's wearing over the T-Shirt from?

He had me at “fuck the king”

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.

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.

❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

Love is the Fing.

♥️✨

What’s the t shirt ?

Anyone know where he got that sweet hat at ?!

Joe! Please! Idles to NZ mate please

Conversation is so wonderfuly put! Explained on a wonderful wavelength. Felt every word. 👏👏👐🪷

good lord.... rock and roll as self help therapy culture... good thing they're funky

Check out the new Idles album

@HarveyJackson1967

5 ай бұрын

Nah man

@chriskosowan21

5 ай бұрын

You tube comments is your only friend . Be TANGK full for that mate .

@HarveyJackson1967

5 ай бұрын

That much is true I like you tub I am very lonely

I loved what he said about why the band and is it anger or not. Lovely take.

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.

James Franco's been watching a lot of Russell Brand. 🧡Idles.

Not anger, PAIN🙏🏼🫶🏼☮️

29.14 ...

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..

@maryburke5423

5 ай бұрын

Convicting is something that prosecutors do. Convincing?

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.

@slewthervandross773

4 ай бұрын

Leave sleaford alone lad

The album it's so unique, sodaspique...

5 words to describe IDLES: Laudable Observant Veracious Ecumenical

@Steve-by4uf

4 ай бұрын

boring, repetitive, predictable, mid

@RiccardoAlbertini

4 ай бұрын

Wait, wasn't that 4?

@alsanderz5199

4 ай бұрын

@@RiccardoAlbertini L O V E five.

@jackodriscoll3817

4 ай бұрын

​@@alsanderz5199??

@spiritoftime8464

4 ай бұрын

​@@Steve-by4ufbruh you are describing yourself or what?

Sonic Beavis and Butthead

This band sounds like a hardcore imagine dragons

eh

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

@joeman8523

5 ай бұрын

Well his fucking kid died so lets see your bullshit cycles of behaviour when that happens to you...

@mariocipollini1998

4 ай бұрын

combined with a heavy digital marketing campaign and after some months I'm selling my tickets for next month. dudes are full of shit

Good album but its a bit too Nigel Godrichy for me, prefer the angry…I mean brush strokey sleeve stuff✌🏻😉

Why is he alone when it is band.

i’m balding and fat 😂 still hot tho

Joe, why did you spend the entire interview scratching your nose?

@tetsuoshima7385

16 күн бұрын

Hayfever

Might all be right on paper, but I liked Idles much more when they were angrier and in your face.

Waitrose-Punk.

Joe is my new Alex Turner

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.

Idles are such a great example of being the modern male.

Wired..

I would love to see Joe on the Lex Fridman podcast. They both share a philosophy rooted in love.

@funobruso

5 ай бұрын

absolutely! that would be a joy to listen! i wonder if lex ever listened to IDLES

@ajaces96

5 ай бұрын

Uhh... What? The Elon Musk guy?

@olivialoot

5 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@ajaces96he’s a podcaster and so much more than “The Elon Musk guy” lol

@ajaces96

5 ай бұрын

@@olivialoot that's right he had Kanye on to talk about the Nazi shit

@ajaces96

5 ай бұрын

@@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

You guys are ridiculous to actually think this man is anything more than a cowboy with a following

new album? oh... no

Cheap indeed. Typically being in a think tank would require expertise. Not many vocalists.

narcissist alert

@nockee

4 ай бұрын

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.

Tangk is horrible. Sputnikmusic sums it up pretty well.

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.

Don’t get too smart

Waitrose-punk for bald, specky, centrist dads who only listen to radio 6.

He seemed okay until 10:15. From then he started speaking speculative behalfs and sounded like Russell Brand.

@humanbeing4841

4 ай бұрын

Russell Brand is smart though

@ballerinawallenberg

4 ай бұрын

Joe Toilet.@@humanbeing4841

@nockee

4 ай бұрын

@@humanbeing4841hardly. But I sense Joe is losing it here.

New album is weak.. whats happened to them?

Nice bloke and I don't even like Idles lol.

absolute toolbox

Imagine thinking the left is any different 😂😂 undermines all of his other thoughts

@refracted6349

5 ай бұрын

^ victim of horseshoe theory

@peterhulse7239

5 ай бұрын

@@refracted6349 hahah the levels of stupidity this takes are fascinating

@tobyb1018

5 ай бұрын

“The left” and the Labour Party are not the same thing. Most who are truly liberal, truly left wing, are not supportive of Labour anymore if they ever were. Yes there’s less of a gap between right and left within our political parties themselves but that is because Labour ARE more right ring nowadays… on the left sits compassion, empathy, equality, fairness, creativity, on the right sits selfishness, bullying, racism , homophobia, greed and many more nasty nasty things- that has nothing to do with the political parties that’s just the way it is and what left and right is and always will be.. what we have now is Tories hard hard horrible right, Labour soft right pretending to be socialist

@mariocipollini1998

4 ай бұрын

you should spend more time listening to both sides if you think the world is so black and white. it will seriously help you. its also how a democracy is set up.

@bawsack69

4 ай бұрын

​@@tobyb1018 you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.