I think I like the Strokes

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Last Night is catchy

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

traitor.

― chaki, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's plenty more where that came from; the album is filled with catchy songs. I think it's great; now let's hear from everyone who still hates them (again).

― Sean, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think they are okay too!

― james, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Our single is higher than theirs on the current Rough Trade charts, so nyeah nyeah nyeah.

― Ugly Wife, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What's Your single? I hated teh strokes a littel cause I hate hyped bands, but I gave them a chnace and I think their ok

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Proven By Science! Or at least Rough Trade. There we are at number eight, there they are at number fifteen, and they're ON Rough Trade, so mwah hah hah hah hah! Except then you go over to the albums bit and there's Tompaulin at number four, so you know, clearly Katie is even better than I am. Sigh. Ah well, Katie's lovely so I don't mind.

― Ugly Wife, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

is this masonic boom in disguise!?

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not in disguise. Long story.

― Ugly Wife, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

welcome back long- suffering heroine of teh stats cock!

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think it's the hype that breaks them. From what I've heard (admittedly little) they're not awful but they aren't spectacular either. And I don't like the guy's voice.

― Samantha, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I bet you would like his voice if you saw how sexy he is

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ugh! He thinks he is sexy. He is wrong. He thinks he looks like a DDB. He looks like a stuffed fish. Thank you, no.

― Ugly Wife, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If they were sexy I'd be the first one to say so; but they're not really. Doesn't affect the music, tho.

― Sean, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Their video is pretty awesome. They look like Huey Lewis and the News.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sexiness DOES effect the music

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is it better to look DDB than to look like DDP?

― james, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Finally got to hear 'Is this it'. Oh dear.

― stevo, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What is DDP, or should I not ask? Is that like OPP or something?

― Ugly Wife, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Diamond Dallas Paige! I'm stupid!

― james, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What is this "Diamond Dallas Paige"? We know nothing of this in the icen forests of Hertforshire! Is he a Dirty Dronerock Boy?

― Ugly Wife, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He's a top sports entertainer! He's got tattoes!

― james, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A testosterone fueled, steroid munching wrestler.

― bnw, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes!! Just like with the Clientele, I tried so hard to hate the Strokes, but forgive me. I am weak. I bought the album and I like it... A lot.

― phil, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeats catch

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Last Night" is an Enjoyable Choon. They should have stopped there, though.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ouch. thats pretty harsh, ned.

― chaki, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why did you try to hate the Clientele, Phil?

I still like the Strokes. I like the album, I like the last single a great deal, I like them. I didn't much like "Last Nite" until I played it in a club.

However I suspect they wouldn't be as likeable as the Lollies were live, and I'm sure none of them are as nice as Katie (whose band I've never heard). So there we are. Play the album: Strokes. See live: Lollies. Go to pub with: Tompaulin. Stand by for further updates.

― Tom, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I still hate the Strokes, they're still as shite as they were when they first reared their ugly stupidly-named heads. What's more, that new single sounds like the bit in the Day Today MTV parody where George Formby sings Subterranean Homesick Blues. Yes it does. So says the divine LC, and I agree.

― DG, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I scanned the album at a store. What I heard sounded like a parody of the Velvets at their least interesting. But I just scanned it at a store.

― sundar subramanian, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My sister likes them, so I must stay vigilantly suspicious of them.

― Nicole, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tom, I went to go see the Tahiti 80/Clientele show last year, and I think I was the only one who was there just to see Tahiti 80. Everyone else was raving mad/wetting themselves for the Clientele and I thought they were a complete snore, especially after an hour-long set of happy-pop. Then all the Other Music employees kept telling me that I simply HAD to buy the album. Ugh. Though I ended up coming around eventually.

― phil, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There is nothing wrong with liking the Strokes dont feel bad. There is something offensive with their marketing saturation. I dont think theyre here or there and are closer to pond scum then Timmy the Trutle who is obvisouly cool. lets see if I can spell his name right, Nardwaur the human serviate has a great interview with them where he spends about fiften minutes asking them about their cd cover and the value of good check bones in the Strokes. Outside of Brave New Waves, Nardwuar is the coolest thing to happen to Canadian radio, David Wisdom and Nightlines(waves?moves?) is a close third.

― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hype turns me off. I have enjoyed hating the strokes. Its fun

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i've only heard the snippets of songs in TV ads - you'd figure those must be the best bits tho, eh. & they sound lame.

― Duane, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nardwuar -

― , Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Strokes: Julian Casablancas (vocals); Nick Valensi, Albert Hammond, Jr. (guitar); Nikolai Fraiture (bass); Fab Moretti (drums).

Recorded at Transporterraum, New York, New York.

Arriving on a wave of well-earned hype rooted in tight chops and a confident swagger, The Strokes offer a rock & roll antidote to the plague of boy bands, teen divas and petulant rap-rock outfits. Despite this quintet's prep-school background, their sound comes from the same primordial ooze that spawned Big Apple legends like The New York Dolls and The Velvet Underground.

Clocking in at 36 minutes, IS THIS IT packs its perfect length with stellar songs that draw inspiration from all over the map. Among the many highlights are "Last Nite" with its insistent Motown backbeat and choppy Johnny Thunders-like guitar solo, "Barely Legal," sounding like '80s-era Cure fronted by a saucy Iggy Pop, and the jangly "Someday" with its hairshirt of vulnerability from a bad break- up. While frontman Julian Casablancas (son of Elite Models founder John ) drawls like Lou Reed through a busted intercom, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr. do Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd proud as their sinewy chords intertwine to great effect on the angular "The Modern Age" and equally neurotic "Alone, Together." Thanks to The Strokes, rumors of rock & roll's demise appear to have been greatly exaggerated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Reviews: Rolling Stone (10/11/01, pp.89-90) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Pure New York rock & roll: all gray-pavement aggression wrapped in black- leather cool....The music leaves no doubts - more joyful and intense than anything else...heard this year."

Q Magazine (9/01, p.120) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...A breathless, goggle-eyed, assuredly brilliant album...it works wonders."

Entertainment Weekly (9/28/01, pp.71-2) - "...A blur of sooty grit and grind..." - Rating: A-

Mojo (9/01, p.97) - "...A heartily uplifting brew of scruffy street style, swear words and stammering pop tunes which sweat musical history...and sound infuriatingly easy to make..."

NME (8/25/01, p.49) - 10 out of 10 - "...Concise and elegant rock music by 5 young men....Indispensable....There's nothing unnecessary here..."

CMJ (10/15/01, p.6) - "...One big rock'n'roll orgy..."

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But Mike, what is the point of that post?

― DG, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

wanky reviews, yay, it must be good. I heard the strokes for the first time the other night, It sounds like midlle of the road nostalgia old school rock and roll rip off. Nothing particularly original and differentiating from any other band polluting the genre.

A friend of mine says it is good party music. I suppose it is ok in background capacity but it will probably kill off more braincells than the alcohol does. I'm with Duane on this one; I think it is lame

― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hooray!

― DG, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

th epoint is they are too hyped

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was singing New York City Cops all the weekend along. But I leave Kylie's antics (+ choreography)for the shower.

Hyped or not hyped, I like them. Specially the bassist...

― Laetitia, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dammit I always spell his name wrong, even when I get the u and a in the right place, thanks.

― Mr Noodles, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the album but I think Last Night is really crap and obvious. They're nothing particularly amazing but they're nice and catchy I guess. The last song on the album is great. I forget the name.

― Ronan, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what does a "scruffy street style" guitar sound like? is that like the guitar in "that's what i'm looking for" by da brat?

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i saw the video for "last night" last night. the strokes are musically boring. they appeared like they spend a lot of time choosing their rock'n'roll retro denim outfits, and not much time trying to be actually GOOD. that said, the lead singer is awful sexy and i want to be sandwiched between him and shayne carter.

― di, Saturday, 17 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

see?sexy counts. Thats why Lou Rawls has draw.

― Mike Hanle y, Saturday, 17 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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