Having come of age listening to and enlisting in the fandom of the band Joy Division, we couldn’t help but love Interpol from the moment they first entered our conscience.  We’ll write more about this great band another time, but unearthing the videos below of their semi-obscure song, The Specialist, has caused us regret again.  We thoroughly regret skipping their show last year in Santa Barbara and not driving down to LA ages ago to catch one of their prior tours.  We haven’t seen them live, but our motivation to see them is on high-alert after re-visiting this fine song off 2003’s “The Black EP.”  Check out the band performing The Specialist in Dallas in 2003 (for effect) and then the studio version of the song (for the sublime sound).  The drums and bass alone are worthy of wow, and then the staccato guitar simmers and slays.