The Strokes - Classic or Duds?

like every brit review of (and ilx post about) hard to explain spent so much time praising the ROBOTIC DRUMS OF FAB MORETTI, which i think just sound super-awkward and choppy

i stan for this band so hard and i'd like to say 69 otm

high-five dogg

ya like Interpol they're first album is better

Leif.

I don't see how anyone familiar with Jonathan Fire*Eater could canonize Is This It?. It's a decent record, but it's neither life-affirming nor great.

I'm starting to think we're being linked to by a Jonathan Fire*Eater album, containing all three people who are familiar with them in 2009.

The Strokes themselves have admitted their massive debt to JF*E.

I think the initial UK gaga explosion was from people who never heard JF*E, and even if it is misguided, the gaga train can't be block on its trip across the Atlantic ocean since it is powered by that grossly invincible NME fuel. That's how we ended up where we are unfortunately.

I like JFE but their kinda slow-ass compared to the Strokes

they're, rather.

and that doesn't mean better-worse per se, but it's not like the Strokes were a photocopy

They were called Jonathan Fire*Eater, they got what they deserved

Also I never heard a fun JFE song, were there any?

these little monkeys and when prince was a kid probably the funnest jfe songs.

new member!
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music/strokes/tommyhilfiger/16.jpg

I don't get why peeps upthread are comparing them to Jonathan Fire*Eater (they likely doomed their whole career with the band name alone) but while we're at it I'll give my 5 cents and say the 'tremble under boom lights' ep is the only thing even worth listening by those guys.

But then, 'Is this it' is the only album even worth listening by the Strokes. I like to pretend that 'Little Joy' solo project was their following album before they disbanded. Hope they prove me wrong next time.

Some of you must spend 98% of your day walking around in an uncontrollable rage and I feel very sorry for you.

Whoa, really wrong thread.

uncontrollable rage can cause strokes

Why are there other bands called the Strokes or JF*E that I'm not aware of?

Because I think they're fine but you definitely wont see me throwing my panties their way.

I just heard New York City Cops for the first time in a while, with it's lol metarock intro. God I hate this fucking band.

fun to listen to "Is This It" and pretend it was a really "experimental" Matthew Sweet album.

new song is kinda puzzling, possibly in a good way

reminds me of The Chipmunks doing A-Ha
http://pitchfork.com/news/49301-listen-the-strokes-new-song-one-way-trigger/

possibly in a good way

If by good you mean "it doesn't compel me to end my own life" then, yeah.

Dreadful

good to hear the strokes still suck. gives life a satisfying sense of order.

what's incredible is that these guys are still young enough to be the same age as most 2013 buzzband groups

That first album still stands up.

That was really, really, really terrible, redeemed only by the hilarious comments on the Soundcloud. I don't begrudge stylistic changes by bands I like, but for god's sake that was like MGMT for deaf people.

reminds me of that 'diff'rent strokes' britisher covers thing a while ago

back when mash-ups were a thing this would have spawned an "take on me" hybrid within 6 hours

This is growing on me

Room on Fire is secretly better than the first album

Good God that is fucking ATROCIOUS.

Not sure if anyone will care but the new album is available to stream here.

http://pitchfork.com/advance/48-comedown-machine/

I've been listening to it, but I didn't know which thread to revive.

It's remarkably okay, but I guess anything they recorded would be considered an improvement on Angles.

I'm over half way through and it sounds like a mixed bag but there are some really good moments.

When Angles came out I really liked it and defended it on one of the Strokes threads but listening to it again recently I didn't enjoy it that much at all. There were probably three or four songs that were decent.

Okay, Partners in Crime is like the best thing they've done since Room on Fire.

they should just keep making that one song from their first two albums over and over i mean why not

I reckon it'll be a grower like Angles was. When I first heard that album, it was all very "WTF?" to me but I grew to like it. Not quite as good as Is This It? or First Impressions Of Earth, but a good solid album all the same.

Room on Fire is my favourite these days. Is This It is a great album but I just overplayed it so much back in the day that I just don't play it that much anymore. First Impressions is a lot better than people say but it need need a lot of trimming, it would be a solid 10 track album.

New one sounds a lot more interesting than Angles. As I said I went from loving that album to really not rating it all. Machu Picchu, Under Cover of Darkness, Taken for a Fool and Gratisfaction are the only keepers.

"What kind of asshole drives a Lotus?" made me lol and was a great rhyme

surprised to be digging this! weird, seems so far that the 2 songs they released prior were the worst songs

Yeah the Lotus line is great.

This was the least excited I've ever been for one of their albums but I'm pleasantly surprised. I actually really liked All The Time, it's just a really simple song that always seems to gets stuck in my head. It does rip off it's chorus from All Mod Cons by The Jam though.

Room on Fire is my favourite these days. Is This It is a great album but I just overplayed it so much back in the day

I don't listen to them anymore but, yes, this.

Can't imagine ever actively listening to them

officially nearly loving this record

i felt sort of indifferent to it on the first two listens but on the third listen somehow the melodies appeared and they're all great

I need to give it another shot, on first listen it was very eh

Best one since Rooms on Fire undoubtedly. Maybe the best one period, because not every song is identical.