"The STrokes Suck"

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Quoth Steve Albini Industry aside, what’s your opinion on the current global interest of American Punk/Alternative bands, i.e. The White Stripes, The Strokes, The Yeah, Yeah, Yeah’s? The Strokes fucking suck man. They’re a hype job.

So, not a big Strokes fan then? It’s immaterial on whether I’m a Strokes fan or not, they are a hype job. They have purchased publicity, they have purchased media attention. They are not a band that has their own organic following. I would consider the Strokes a parasitic aberration. My point is that they are not a part of this American punk rock scene that you are talking about. The White Stripes have been around for years, they are more involved in the Roots, Garage rock underground. There are many different layers of the American punk scene, and I don’t think that it’s represented in the specific bands that you mentioned. When I think of the punk scene, I think of something that’s stylistically Punk sounding. That style has not necessarily received anymore attention in the last couple of years. "

― mike hanle y, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate it when people say "organic" when they mean "hip".

― fritz, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One of the best things about the Strokes is that they don't come out of any 'garage rock underground' - they're free to steal from ANYWHERE!

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Still talking about the Strokes? How declasse.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs rock because they actually use a few of the thousand inventions Sonic Youth casually coughed up over the years but they are MORE PUNK than Sonic Youth maybe ever was because they are not so in love with their own reflections; they do not "jam"

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

leave it to Steve Albini to argue against the most boring and feeble version of "StrokesKonzept" he can muster

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Their no Dandy Warhols, thats for sure.

― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i was never paid by them to write the article I did.

will anyone remember them in 20 years? I dunno - maybe, like me, the same people who remember the smithereens

― Queen of the Mentalist Gs, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was pleased by the strokes snl performance but why did the guitar player play the solo from "Last Night" exactly as it is ono the record? how dull. They are like an American Blur, or perhaps like the Velvet Undergournds kids, like The Wall flowers, echoing glory but blazing no trails

― mike hanle y, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They are not a band that has their own organic following. I would consider the Strokes a parasitic aberration

This is so close to the sort of fascist/purist thing SR talks about wrt Detroit techno, wow.

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

astound your friends, impress your enemies, disgust self-styled Harbingers of Cool: start liking this band now, before the twelve-year-old girls do.

― petra jane, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the datsuns, puh. they're no tony valens & the incisions, are they.

― duane, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

answ: no they amn't.

― duane, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i like the strokes better than the datsuns. the datsuns are supposed to be reflective of nz rock, and thats really scarey cos they're about as nz as a big fukkin mac.

― di, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, they're no crowded house.

― duane, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ixnay on the big macs, Di. they sold their ~~souls~~ songs to KFC instead.

new teevee series concept...Minor Celebrity Longhaired Wheedly Rockboy Deathmatch. the Dattos could strangle The Hives with their improbably long and lustrous hairdos.

― petra jane, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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