The Strokes - "Is This It" - (how is that album?)

The best review of the Strokes, so far: "I'd like it a lot better, if it were something else."

Todd, the video is great. The album "Is This It?" is pretty good too. It's on Rough Trade records and should be pretty easy to find. Try Amazon if you're desperate.

You sound like you need a friend. It's a shame you weren't loved as a child. "Give a bad name for people with the name Todd"? Give me a break, goatboy. This is a music board. I ask a question about music. If anything, you give a bad name for people with the name of Todd by your idiotic response.

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Try living in the UK and putting up with the overblown hype these posh young things have had coming their way

Please go buy the Strokes album. It is great. It defies explanation.

Also, buy a copy of Mel Tillis greatest hits.

Instead I'll take this moment to pump A Northern Chorus from Hamilton.
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Moment gone lets pretend this thread never rererereappeared.

Don't project! If they were not hyped, I might not even have bought it. I don't know where to find good records anymore. And, for what it's worth, I don't know a single person in real life that has this record. I only hear about The Strokes *here* and on one other board. I've mentioned it elsewhere and nobody knows about it. They really are mediocre, but that is better than most of the crap on MTV these days. Still haven't heard it on the radio. I'm not so sure they've actually broken big, have they?

I'm sorry, but I hate these kind of answers, because they presume some sort of jealousy or envy of someone's success. I'm not jealous or envious of the Strokes at all, I could care less how many goddamn records they sell or the airplay they get (nor should you, Andy, you're working at an indie and all ;-) ). Outside of the original "Last Night" they bore me senseless! If I woke up and found myself in the band, I would immediately quit so I wouldn't have to deal with such idiocy. Give me, oh, I dunno, early a-ha instead. ;-)

So no. "Threatened" my ass. Who the fuck are *they* threatening?

Yeah, I got into a rock band for the MUSIC, man.

everyone please shut up about these guys, including myself. One of them will die of a heroin overdose soon enough, and then we can all buy the oversize picture book.

whats that shit about? i don't even LIKE the strokes. excuse me for finding people attractive.

whats that shit about? i don't even LIKE the strokes. excuse me for finding people attractive.

fear not, you aren't alone.

Oh, calm down.

Kris and I = on same level.

Last Nite is the riff from American Girl.

Also, I wonder what Mr Albert Hammond SENIOR has to say about this whole Strokes thing, since you could theoretically sing "Little Arrows" over "Last Nite." OK, at a stretch. Well OK, just keep the drum track.

Could "Is This It" (and I'm sure the "comical" anagram of the title has been done to death more fatally than Dido/Dildo and B/ryan Adams) end up as one of those records wot forward-looking people secretly like but are guilty about doing so?

My long-lost comrade Reel Musik Not Plastik Koktail Krap (XStatic Peace in embryo) did of course pass the definitive verdict on ver Strokes way back in June last year (look up the "strokes is future of music I sez" or however he misspelled it) the wisdom of which I cannot hope to surpass.

Bingo, MC -- thanks for putting the finger on it for me, you're absolutely right.

Could "Is This It" end up as one of those records wot forward-looking people secretly like but are guilty about doing so?

I should hope not, more because I think nobody should be ashamed of what they like or not.