Influence defined- Strokes article from NYTimes Magazine

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nytimes.com has an article about The Strokes up this afternoon, and from the last sentence of the first paragraph: (Downtown bands are influential: big after the fact.). Anyway, the article seems to be saying that they're a post-9/11 Velvet Underground, but it is well written.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/06/magazine/06STROKES.html?8hpib

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 5 October 2002 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, how can I get Paris '68 hair?

― g.cannon (gcannon), Saturday, 5 October 2002 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Post 9/11 VU, haha! Well written yes, but misguided(?)

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 5 October 2002 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"...three or four of the five of them seem to have when they get drunk sometimes of kissing one another fully on the mouth and then rating the kisses -- post-gay-consciousness hetero bonding, or something."

I have missed this. I like them more.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 5 October 2002 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Post 9/11??The hype was already there.Didn't the album come out in the UK in August??

― brg30 (brg30), Saturday, 5 October 2002 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Ridiculously misguided, probably, but I enjoyed the writing anyway. I'll take junk food ideas if you have nice sentence structure, I guess.

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 5 October 2002 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, definitely the best part of the whole article.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 5 October 2002 20:14 (twenty-three years ago)

julian is fuckn hot

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Saturday, 5 October 2002 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

he's been looking bloated lately. already entering his fat elvis phase.

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 5 October 2002 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

"Junk food ideas" + "Nice sentence structure" = NYT Mag.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 5 October 2002 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

that term 'Post 9/11' is ridiculous (it seems that everything is Post 9/11 now, which of course it is but not in THAT way), esp. when coupled with the Velvet Underground comparison...this does remind me that i was thinking about just what the Strokes get up to when not in the studio and whether they're hanging out with perverse maverick artists and smoking crack...and if not (which is likely) should they be and what will happen to them when they do...

― blueski, Sunday, 6 October 2002 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

"Junk food ideas" + "Nice sentence structure" = NYT Mag.

Oh. OUCH. That's perfect. I was gonna say something extremely cruel about Gerald Marzaroti -- his Moby cover story was a case of someone desperately trying to find something paradigm-shifting about a fairly ordinary man -- but I don't think I need to now.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 6 October 2002 12:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Neal Pollack has a wicked funny piece on the Times Magazine on his blog:

I must thank Gerald Mazorati, the greatest rock writer in America, for introducing culturally clueless Times readers to my favorite current band, The White Strokes. I am a huge fan of them all, particularly lead singer Julio Casablancas and drummer Fabio Morroni. Since August, I've been telling readers of this blog to buy their album, This Ain't It. Together, we can push this truly fabulous pop-punk combo over the top

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 10 October 2002 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

"Junk food ideas" + "Nice sentence structure" = NYT Mag.

seconded

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 10 October 2002 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

and thirded, too

― maura (maura), Thursday, 10 October 2002 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

fourthed is not a word, but i am it anyway. and what's the definition of 'pushed over the top'? what top have they failed to be pushed over, so that i can do it for them?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 10 October 2002 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

When you're on top, baby, you pull, you don't push.

― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 11 October 2002 10:03 (twenty-three years ago)

The Strokes are not a post 9/11 VU. What they are (were?) is a Television for the cleaned-up Giuliani era, instead of the bankrupt urban hellhole (late 70s - early 80s) that gave rise to all the bands who the Strokes are a pale imitation of.

― dave q, Friday, 11 October 2002 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

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