The New Strokes Record Will Be Titled "First Impressions of Earth"

I'll Try Anything Once
Juice Box
Heart In A Cage
Razor Blade
The Other Side
Electricityscape
Killing Lies
Fear Of Sleep
15 Minutes Of Pain
Vision Of Division
Red Light
Evening Sun
Eyes Of The World
Ask Me Anything

Not at all. Since Julian Casablancas' problems have never struck me particularly human, their thoughts on their gradual interaction with the human race should be interesting.

I am still looking forward to this, though, in the hopes that it will not sound like fucking Gang of Four.

just like all their other music doesn't

Is this about Drew Barrymore's vagina?

I like how they introduce the last 5 songs.

*DFA = fun as fuck

Told ya they are going hippie!

-- Matos-Webster Dictionary (michaelangelomato...), September 20th, 2005. (M Matos)

word. I'm trying to figure out if Disco Violence has not heard Gang of Four, not heard the Strokes, or both....

http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3L0Q0TU63K7TJ32SYTAOC2X0MB

I'd spend more time arguing, but apparently the Strokes are THE CRAMPS NOW, HOLY SHIT

The Strokes were like "fuck Television, we love us some Collective Soul!"

-- Keith C (lyncounio...), September 20th, 2005 12:50 PM

dude, if that was *the* "Eyes of the World" I'd shit a brick!

I don't know what to think of this.

"EVENING SUN" Chill-out Strokes, with soothing, atmospheric guitars. Not exactly cocktail punk, but mellow in a relative sense and literal in a lyrical sense. Sunsets are, occasionally, really pretty.

"JUICEBOX" Opening with a mock-metal bass riff, this first single candidate's flanged solo and Stooges-worthy lyrics ("Standing in the light field / Waiting for some action") could make it a radio monster. "I remember people saying this track is ugly," Casablancas says. "I think it's got a great personality."

"UNTITLED 1" A reggae stomper with big guitars and what could be the lyrics of the year: "I hate them all / I hate myself / I hate myself for hating them / So I drink some more / I love them all / I drink even more / I hate them even more than I did before."

"YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE" A poppy homage to the Cars' Ben Orr, with power chords and a clean vocal mix (no slurred singing). "Dave Kahne liked it when I sang out of my range," Casablancas says. "A chair would squeal and he'd say, 'Hit that note.'"

"RAZOR BLADE" Guaranteed to remind anyone over 30 (or anyone who frequents gay piano bars) of Barry Manilow's "Mandy." "We wanna sound like stuff from the future you've never heard before that references stuff from the past," Casablancas explains.

"VISION OF DIVISION" One of the album's more overtly '80s tracks, with a synthy riff that recalls Room on Fire's "12:51"; a dubby bridge in which Casablancas complains, "All that I do is wait for you"; and a guitar freak-out that sounds like the Charlie Daniels Band.

"ASK ME ANYTHING" Over a spooky mellotron riff (actually a computer), Casablancas sings a series of non sequiturs, like "Don't be a coconut."

"HEART IN A CAGE" More hard rock, with nifty marching drums. Casablancas' urban ennui is a good fit with the darker, slithering metal vibe. But even though this track (along with "Juicebox") may set off alarmists, "We're not Velvet Revolver," Hammond assures.

"KILLING LIES" The ballad. Gothy, quasitribal drumming that recalls Yeah Yeah Yeahs at their dreamiest. An appreciative nod to the great, brooding modern rock of the '80s.

"EYES OF THE WORLD" The metallic and the new wave collide here, with weird echo effects and big guitar crescendos. And the fake ending totally faked us out.

"UNTITLED 2" Possibly the most "classic Strokes" track. Dirty, New York City pop, looser drumming, and evidence of the band's heavy (though seldom explored) debt to Blondie.

"FEAR OF SLEEP" Distorted vocals return for this oddity in which Casablancas repeats the title, Lou Reed style, as if warding off ghosts of long nights past. "I don't sleep anymore," Casablancas says of his inspiration. "The worst is when you've been up all night and the morning news comes on."

"UNTITLED 3" Swirling burlesque, reminiscent of the Doors' "Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)" or everything Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ever recorded.

"UNTITLED 4" Another jaunty, percussive, new-wave raver that could get play from radio and -- provided the video isn't a nod to Modern Girls, Electric Dreams, or Vision Quest (à la the Tron-obsessed clip for "12:51")

the verses though...man...ug...i dunno.....maybe this is a "grower"...i hope so.

"juicebox" is their "hash pipe" innit
-- jermaine (noblemusi...)

haha

http://doctorpegamento.8k.com/Cheech__Chong_4.jpg

If you have a p2p client, and you dont care to be a thief, download "Heart in a Cage", it is my favorite song off the album.

This record is absolute boring crap. The first record was awesomely simplistic. What I figure is this, JP "comb-over" Bowersock and R. Gentiles found the Strokes in 2000 (or whenever) and figured these dudes had the looks, but the music weren't cutting it. They hired some "NY sound" songwriters and bought the best of the batch of songs. Sweet hair, moist teen-girls, everybody wins. After 2 years (or whatever) of worldwide domination, The Strokes get big heads (and some sweet trim, natch) and decide the write some of their own songs and we get 11:59 (or whatever it was called). It goes over OK (but was actually a total snoozer, but what do you care?) so they convince the powers that be (greenback counters, sloppy sixths) that they can write a whole record, they take a good two years to do it, and here you have it. IT'S GARBAGE MUSIC. THE WEED HAS TAKEN OVER, TURN THE BLACKLIGHT OFF.

Why isn't there a moderately popular band called The Storks?

http://www.lowculture.com/archives/2004/04/low_culture_gos.html

Fanz of old-skool Strokes should definitely get or hear "Hawaii," the b-side - it's really fun.

yAh, ist tru mostly, but the "on the other side when those saints come marching in bits" sounded base.

It isn't. This is my fav Strokes rec and increasingly one of my fav recs ever, which has come as something of a surprise. I've listened to it nonstop last couple days.

i was unable to get excited about it at the time

perhaps...maybe just...could be due for a revisiting

didn't care then, don't care now.

i still think IN HER PRIME should get a proper release.

Not a bad album, just cut the three or four fillers, and it would be really great.

"killing lies" through "fear of sleep" just bury this album, though i guess the solo on "ize of the world" is cool enough.
"you only live once" and "razorblade" are two of their best songs ever, and i'm basically content with walking away from FIOE with that.

does anyone have the vinyl of this? i couldn't take the super loud mastering on the CD vers. and was wondering if the vinyl maybe makes this a little more human sounding?

it is true that this album sags but the ending duo of evening sun and red light make it seem soooo much better. my fav strokes album.

also, electricityscape is maybe my fav strokes song.

Not really that bothered. When will people realise that Room on Fire is their masterpiece?

When will people realise that Room on Fire is their masterpiece?

THX.

But it just... is

I have the vinyl, as it happens. A wonderful sounding record it is, too. I think they've gotten better with each record!

what a dire fucking band

Has any band had such a horrible influence on "indie" since they came out? Of course it's not their fault they spawned countless imitators, but still.

how do folks feel about this now?

revisiting it this week for the first time in a while, still holds up mostly, though maybe they should've cut like 3-5 songs, saved 'em for a julian solo album or something.

Meh. They're a band that totally exhausted their sound with just two -- and really maybe just one -- discs (Interpol is another such band).

Room of Fire was such a perfect distillation of their sound (or pose?). They were doomed because the idea of growing or expanding their sound immediately voids anything that made them great, their two dimensionality.

I can't help but really love this band. I only ever go back to that first album, but the singing still hits me in all the right places, the riffs are just simple and catchy enough for my put-put lizard brain, and if I can manage to put their image out of my head then all is well. Singing sonds a little acerbic on this one (from what I've heard in youtube vidoes) though I don't dislike what I've heard.

Mostly the same goes for Interpol while we're bringing them up. Daniel, Esq. otm basically.

"sounds" yeesh

xpost to IK,R?... I was kinda hoping they would go the way of the Ramones and have at least repeated themselves successfully for four or five albums before petering out for whatever reasons.

Oh well.

Should have rushed out a covers record after that first one, obvs