The Strokes - Classic or Duds?

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(Sorry, I'm not going to post on this thread anymore, everything comes out mean and skeezy.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I kiss you all, including Julian and his barely-legal high school sundae.

― mahirsco (nabisco), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

haha - not at all, I really appreciate your comments upthread, I think we're all falling into a bit of a paternalistic trap with this.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Spencer, I'm serious -- she looks unremarkable. *shrug* There ya go.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I agree about the trap thing, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link

it's like a Paul Schrader script!

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I think she's Latina. Maybe not Ned's cup o' tea?

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

jesus lord

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't fall for or reject anyone for their ancestry, Kickit, and if the thread is going to take THAT kind of a turn, I'm agreeing with both Nabisco and Slocki and letting it go.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link

he's not looking so fabulous these days

The Morrissey/Casablancas duet serving as the b-side to The End Has No End?

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, that sounded less accusatory in my head. Sorry Ned. My bad.

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link

No worries.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Ned told me to "go back to Moscow" one time, and I'm like "Don't you mean Dublin?" and he leaned in and hissed "Moscow!" and tossed his glass of wine in my face.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link

we've been friends ever since

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link

there is no reason to think there was anything racist about cricket's comment

― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I love you, Gear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost, would never suggest or even meant to cause anyone to suggest something like that about Ned (as it's absurd) - I was only asking whether Ned was wearing Strokes-goggles, but he has convinced me otherwise.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Heh, this is making a mountain out of a molehill at this point. Let us leave it at 'tastes differ.'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Next time, I'll leave my can of worms at home.

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.sputnikdesignworks.com/clipart/people/russians.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

That's me second from left, yes?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

yes. the haircut's wrong, everything else is all too accurate

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Yowsa!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

a can of worms is useful for actual fishing, but not much else.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Ellis comparisons OTM but this is no less gr8 for it.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link

i think the only time i've read ned admit to being knocked out by someone's appearance is when i posted a picture of janet gaynor to the silent film thread!!

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― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link

the rest of my post was swallowed up by something sinister

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link

something ate your eyes.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

is that a come on?

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link

"something ate my eyes, and baby it's you"

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Ned has one of those corrupted LA conceptions of hot.

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 26 August 2004 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link

*scratches head bemusedly*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link

The bar is raised here. Unfortunately. Why can't people just accept all the hotness in this city?

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 26 August 2004 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyway jawdropping girls get sneered at by my bitchy friends here. This may be more of an envy thing, however.

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 26 August 2004 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link

*Thread closed until the live album leaks*

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link

she deleted it. i blame ned.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

and by ned i mean gawker.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Great, can I complain more and have the band delete themselves?

(Am: "See, this is another variation on 'meh!' I KNOW I'M RIGHT!")

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I wonder if this is more or less evidence that she was maybe making everything up...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

...or maybe Julian said, "Listen baby, we're on separate tracks heading on the same line, but all those others, you know they're not on board, don't bring 'em into this, it'll only bring us down and prop them up, know what I mean?"

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

classics!

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

esp. 'is this it?'

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link

oh yes, this'll do.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Is this the famous Strokes thread that was reprinted in that book?

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link

four years pass...

The Strokes Are Back In Action!
March 26, 2009 12:48 PM
For the first time in ages, the Strokes are back in New York, hard at work on album number four in their midtown studio. "We have three songs," Julian Casablancas tells the S.S., three weeks into the sessions. "I would say it's going great. We have a lot of work to do, though."
It's been more than three years since First Impressions of Earth, and what's helping the process is good vibes and honesty. "It feels like we're new," says Casablancas. "We didn't used to be honest — there would always be minifeuds over stupid shit. Now, if Nick (Valensi) and Fab (Moretti) or anyone are saying they like it fast or slow, we'll talk about it, as opposed to saying, 'Well, I never liked you sister.'"
Casablancas says that they've resisted jamming on old tunes; instead they're forging ahead. "Some of the new stuff has a Seventies vibe, like Thin Lizzy or Elvis Costello," he says. "But then some of it is bizarre music from the future that we're trying to tone down to sound catchy. So we're trapped between the future and the Seventies."

― Bee OK, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link

If there really are bands that are "so much more deserving of the media attention and critical accolades" than the Strokes, then apparently I need to listen to more rock bands.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 01:53 (fifteen years ago) link

I didn't need to learn that they've "advanced" by listening to Elvis Costello.

― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link

Is This It is one of the greatest albums ever made, and Room on Fire is one of the worst. First Impressions was a bit better, but I only listened to it maybe four times before moving on to other stuff. The way rock music is going I wouldn't surprised if album #4 turns out to be as wretched as that new Franz Ferdinand album. Strokeman mentioning "bizarre music from the future" is definitely not a good sign. :(

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 02:00 (fifteen years ago) link

The first album is, indeed, pretty darn classic. That being said these guys have given off the impression of being more about style and attitude than about content, and now that the zeitgeist has moved on without them (and in fact uses them as a sort of cultural time capsule for the early part of this decade) their transition between albums and styles is that much harder - if that makes any sense.

― Cunga, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 03:10 (fifteen years ago) link

future v catchy is the new artistic integrity v radio friendly

― phantompenguin, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link

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