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yeah yeah yeahs?

french kicks?

a.r.e. weapons?

― fritz, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've never heard any of these bands but they sound cheeky.

― fritz, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How can you have a NEXT Strokes when the FIRST Strokes are still around (and released an album less than a year ago)?

― David Raposa, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just mean the next rock band to get hyped. jeesh.

― fritz, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, geesh yourself. :) Just me being too dang literal. Never mind.

― David Raposa, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It'll be the Hives at this rate.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nah, it's my fault... The Next Strokes implies what you said, David.

Just wondering if anyone has any predictions for who might crawl thru the crack opened by The Strokes 'n' The Stripes.

― , Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

infesticons.

― ethan, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Coral...or are they the next Oasis?

― john-paul, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought we had already decided it was going to be The Notwist...

― Arien, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The cycle of nostalgia tightens up every day, so it won't be too long before we're looking back on yesterday as the golden age. After that there'll be a temporal anomaly and we'll have to get Kirk or Picard to come save us from the implications.

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've seen ARE Weapons twice. The first time was at an AS4 fashion party. I just recall this rather amorphous bass-heavy strobe-lit terrorist style thing. Then the second time I saw them, this girl in the band poured vodka on herself and set fire to her breasts. She was in hospital for three weeks. That kind of upstaged them.

― Momus, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anybody wanna form a band with me and call it the Next Strokes?

― John Darnielle, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can play washboard!

I'd go ahead and list a slew of NYC-based geetar bands that will undoubtedly get noticed (because they're from NYC, and they ain't half bad), but I'll just offer S. Process (based on what I've heard) & Enon (based on what I've read). (What the hell happened to Mike Mills, the Skeleton Key junkyard percussionist?)

― David Raposa, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the hives are way to dirty punk rock to be considered the next Strokes. They have been doing their thing way too long in sweden to be the next big thing. I would shoot for Mooney Suzuki or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs for the proposterous title of the "next Strokes."

― Brock K, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the mooney suzuki's fighting technique is unstoppable. their live show is electric. and they've got 10x the charisma of the strokes.

the moldy peaches? the damn personals?

― geeta, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...Mooneys - nope, to old. Moldy Peaches - one trick pony, points off when signed to Rough Trade, reek of novelty, could have one hit wonder status in them though..

― Bob, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Enon on MTV would be incredible! They've got my vote.

― Keiko, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Next strokes= magma

― Julio Desouza, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm still lobbying for the full-scale Donovan revival. Box sets, critical fawning, "Epistle to Dippy" as unescable in normal life as it is in my apartment. Volkswagen commercials! Donovan himself giving mean and drunken interviews a la Mark E Smith where he claims to invented rap, punk, acid house and glitch! A good comeback record (preferably not on American)! And so on...

― adam, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Er, to have invented.

― adam, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

THE NEXT STROKES = NAKED RAYGUN.

wait...

― Gage-o, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Next Strokes? Wouldn't it be that bloke on the new Wire. What's his name... Richard Hell?

― helenfordsdale, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

First the Strokes.
Then the Hives.
Mix 'em together and you get the Hypes! YAAAAYYY! Feh.

― Lord Custos, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Enon (based on what I've read). (What the hell happened to Mike Mills, the Skeleton Key junkyard percussionist?)"

you mean Rick Lee, who was in Butter 08 with Mike Mills, who recently left Enon, apparently. hopefully they'll be better than the post RL Skeleton Key. it'd be nice if Enon got some attention, although i don't think a Strokes parallel would apply since their 2nd album's about to drop, and the members were in other bands before Enon, and I think of the Strokes phenomenon as being about a new band that kind of comes out of nowhere, and that everyone rushes to be the first on their block to know about, dig?......

― al, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

next Strokes=MX-80 Sound

― John Darnielle, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the White Hypes, shurely

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 24 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If the next Strokes are as boring and one-dimensional as the first Strokes, who really cares who they are? ... On another note, I finally (and unfortunately) got a huge dose of Andrew WK... and he seems kind of like a cross between Gay Dad and Slipknot. Screw the next 100 big things from the UK!

― Tim DiGravina, Sunday, 24 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the yeah yeah yeahs are the best thing ever in the whole wide world ever. pretty much.

― kleight, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

NOW who's The Next Strokes?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

the Strokes

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

who cares - the first strokes were lame enough.

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

So how come nobody took John up on his offer to actually form said Next Strokes band? Aside from Daver.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Jet, totally

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i actually like the current Jet single (Are You Gonna Be My Girl) a lot - sure its derivative trashy nonsense but they got the look and they got the hook and they something something in my book

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Capitol is trying to push the Star Spangles as the next Strokes while trying to make the band seem more legitimate. In the bio, the Spangles dis the Strokes as being trust-fund punks, claiming that they, the Star Spangles, are the real deal. Y'know, street-wise punks who lived on the, um, street before getting that major label record deal after releasing one single.
Actually, this sounds very British.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

How can you be pretentious with a name like the Star Spangles? They sound like Redd Kross's foxy female counterparts.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The photograph on the CD's back cover has them tousled and dressed in that same thrift-store chic, which doesn't really help their case. In that same bio, they claim to have always dressed like that, moaning about these fake lower east side bands co-opting their style.
Again, sounds very British, except for all the NYC parts.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahaha who are the BROAD STROKES?

(hint it's not the Donnas)

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

what sounds British with NYC parts, the music or the shit-talking?

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

the shit talking. the music sounds kinda New York Dollsish.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

but the star spangles just sound like the replacements! (i like them, actually)

next strokes (i.e. next nyc band to get big major-label push) = secret machines. and holy shit they're amazing.

next strokes (i.e. next nyc band to get hyped via three-track ep) = prosaics. and holy shit they're amazing except their singer (who used to be in tel aviv) has the worst voice ever (david byrne + gilbert godfried?).

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll join the next strokes. i'll be the aloof theremin player with the HUGE sunglasses.

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

stevem never never mention Jet again

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

what about longwave? do they have a snowballs chance in hell?

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i knew Jim would hate Jet

i like that Longwave track as well - I must be ill...

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

longwave's earlier singles have a lot more spark than their LP does..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

WHY HAS NO ONE MENTIONED HOT HOT HEAT?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

because they are toss

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

jet are the coolest kids in melbourne.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

you mean 'coolsiest'

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The only thing lamer than trying to be the next Strokes is the kneejerk reflexive "ew ick" criticism given to the original article. Is there anything lamer than gratuitous party-line Strokes-hatred? I posit: NO.

(first person to say "gratuitous Strokes-defending" gets THE FROWNING OF A LIFETIME)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 28 August 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

*shrugs, frowns at Nate as requested*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 August 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

GETS, not gives, silly

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 28 August 2003 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Reread your maledictum.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 August 2003 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

oh hell, he got me with his legal mumbo-jumbo

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 28 August 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Still I like The Casanovas.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 28 August 2003 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

as long as it's not jet or treet0ps

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 28 August 2003 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

However I don't think either The Casanovas or some of the other bands mentioned upthread realy quality as the next Strokes. To be the next Strokes you need bands that almost, nearly, sort of rock.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 28 August 2003 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

quality = qaulify

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 28 August 2003 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

qaulify = qualify

ah, screw it, too much coffee.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 28 August 2003 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i dunno. i saw the prosaics on saturday night, and the singer was amazing. totally different then when i last saw them months ago. totally different band or something. touring will do that to you i guess. but yeah, all the sudden, he can sing or something.

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but the star spangles just sound like the replacements! (i like them, actually)

next strokes (i.e. next nyc band to get big major-label push) = secret machines. and holy shit they're amazing.

-- Yanc3y (ystrickle...), August 26th, 2003.

― 's', Monday, 8 September 2003 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

Finally heard the Star Spangles. I like this album, and thing a few of the songs are totally fucking killer, but i don't think it's quite as good on the whole as it could be, but the "carefully-tossled-hair" look doesn't help their case much.

― Kingfish Beestick (Kingfish), Monday, 8 December 2003 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Jet is some awful shit, you fucking aussies.

― Michael Patrick Brady (Michael Patrick Brady), Monday, 8 December 2003 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

hey don't blame me! i actively tried to suppress their ascendancy

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

In the last ten years, Australia has given us:

Natalie Imbruglia (v. v. good)
the Hives (v. v. bad)
Jet ("awful shit")
The Living End (v. mediocre)

Yikes.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

the vines you mean

we've also given you, er, umm..

back in a sec

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 8 December 2003 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, yeah, Vines. Oops. (The error kind of speaks for itself re: garage-rock revival)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 8 December 2003 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

you are almost entirely unlikely to hear any good australian bands. the ones playing at SXSW are among our dullest (except for the Tucker Bs who rock, and Gersey who don't rock but are good anyway)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 8 December 2003 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)

the good ones never seem to make it far out of the country

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 8 December 2003 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Y'all are running out of AC/DC goodwill.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 8 December 2003 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Though that reminds me - has there ever been a successful (in the US) band from New Zealand?

(I don't remember the Datsuns enough to say if they were successful or not.)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 8 December 2003 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

crowded house

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 8 December 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

split enz

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 8 December 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

the clean

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 8 December 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

> ... the second time I saw them, this girl in the band
> poured vodka on herself and set fire to her breasts. She
> was in hospital for three weeks.

This has to be the best music-related anecdote I've ever heard. It strikes me that self-immolation is the only honourable response to finding oneself a member of the likes of A.R.E. Weapons.
Can we hope to soon hear that Jet have concluded a show by performing collective hari kiri with sharpened microphone stands?

― Palomino (Palomino), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Judging from the arguments they've inspired, looks like it's Vampire Weekend. Some reviews have mentioned The Strokes as an influence. I don't really hear it, other than their unfortunately rare ability (for a rock band) to write good pop hooks.

I dug up Is This It and still enjoy it. Apparently so do a lot of people -- it's ranked the #1 album of the 00s on http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/, and #60 of all time. That's kind of crazy, but people do loves the pop songs. I think there was a fear that we'd be inundated by hundreds of copycats, but it never really happened. The closest I've heard may be Sweden's The Horror, The Horror, but they've gone largely unheard outside of Europe.

I usually prefer more original, challenging music, but occasionally do get that sugar craving for The Strokes and the like. First Impressions grew on me some, but I wouldn't mind hearing a little more along the lines of Is This It. Who else scratches that itch? Franz Ferdinand maybe. THTH will have a new one this spring.

― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 10 February 2008 01:46 (eighteen years ago)

I wouldn't mind hearing a little more along the lines of Is This It

hi my name is room on fire

― J0rdan S., Sunday, 10 February 2008 01:52 (eighteen years ago)

lolz

― stephen, Sunday, 10 February 2008 02:23 (eighteen years ago)

The "Next Strokes", in retrospect, is kinda a dubious honor, no?

YOU TOO CAN BE THE NEXT BAND TO UTTERLY FLAME OUT IN A SPECTACULARLY ANTICLIMACTIC FASHION!!!

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 10 February 2008 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Julian C lives across the street from me (in the same building as Chris "Mr.Big" Noth). I see both of them -- albeit not together -- constantly. Julian is fond of wearing a "vintage" Metallica hoodie.

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 10 February 2008 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

Tell him to get off his ass and make a new record.

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 10 February 2008 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

Snakes On A Plane!

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 10 February 2008 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

I have to say...I'm EXTREMELY surprised that no one has mentioned Arctic Monkeys. In my mind, that's who it is.

― lolmatts (iamkfcsnacker!), Thursday, 30 April 2009 01:10 (seventeen years ago)

but vampire weekend were the new arctic monkeys.

― keythkeythkeyth, Thursday, 30 April 2009 01:43 (seventeen years ago)

Lady GaGa and the Animal Collective

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 30 April 2009 01:47 (seventeen years ago)

worst collaboration ever

― private static void (electricsound), Thursday, 30 April 2009 01:47 (seventeen years ago)

How is this NOT Kings of Leon???

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 30 April 2009 02:43 (seventeen years ago)

too popular

― private static void (electricsound), Thursday, 30 April 2009 02:47 (seventeen years ago)

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