The Strokes - Classic or Duds?

do you think their best is is this it? or room on fire? i'm torn on that question

also "call it fate or karma" is amazing.

it's still room on fire but man the second half of this record

its their third best record, but thats kinda faint praise considering how highly i rate the first two

Oh yeah I still like this. I'd rank it behind the first two albums but it's a big improvement over the last album. It's a shame no one bought it and the campaign seems like it's over. Partners in Crime, Chances, Welcome to Japan and Call it Fate are the highlights for me.

Room on Fire is still my favourite overall.

http://vevo.ly/o0K2Oe

Love the Daft Punk nod in the bridge.

Hmm, not sure why that link doesn't go through.
http://radio.com/2016/05/26/the-strokes-oblivious/

comedown machine is their best album and this is as good as anything on it imo

listened to his radio show this morning, it was neat. new song is cool. he had this burned out just shot up and smoked a million cigarettes affect. after he played C.R.E.A.M. he was like "some people like to peg me into one genre....but i like to go all over the spectrum."

i agree that comedown machine is their best but i'm not sure oblivius is quite as good, it doesn't have that lightness?

i don't like drag queen though, it feels like the voidz album but not in a good way

yeah "drag queen" is kinda wacky

i think i really love the voidz album now

felt like if i kept listening to it i would inevitably fall in love with it but never dedicated the time

it's really something! i have 40 hours a week at least in front a computer so i got the time

Listening to Comedown Machine reminds me it's pretty good.
Actually, thinking about their output, I think they only released one bad album : First Impressions (still it has one of their best songs on it !).
The first 2 are great. The 2 latest are good.

I'd agree that they've only made one bad album, but I'd go with Angles. I tired of that one very quickly. The three singles are the only keepers.

if julio did nothing but release eleven-minute songs called 'human sadness' i might quite like him

Dud.

Destroy all of it.

Classic.

Great drumming.

*julian, lol

ahah. julio would be a cooler name for him actually !

There's apparently an oral history, when they could have just used our old threads instead.

And having scanned the thing, all these people going "No really, that first album is a classic!" now sound as desperate as people did back then when they were trying to pretend it was going to save music.

Is This It really is a perfect album though. I really don't care how many people agree.

The first two albums are classics.

I would happy erase their master tapes.

the oral history comes from this http://fabersocial.co.uk/2017/03/22/meet-me-in-the-bathroom/

Joining the ranks of classics like Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, Meet Me in the Bathroom is the definitive account of an iconic era in rock-and-roll.

"An iconic era where NYC musicians once again thought they were they only thing that mattered."

It was a silly scene for sure and I think the excerpt acknowledges that, the fact that these guys really didn't sell a whole lot of records. Doesn't detract from how great the debut was though (and yeah, Room on Fire was very strong as well).

saw some excerpts here it reads like the most delicious parody ever, but then it gets kind of sad.

still a damn fine band there for a minute though

weird how them turning down a Heineken ad is considered "dumb", i mean smart move i'd say.

weird time to release a book about the 2000s rock revival, since that scene has virtually no lasting significance, at least not right now

Like, the bands profiled in Our Band Could Be Your Life, another book about a burst-and-boom scene, mattered even after their commercial window closed. Much harder to make that argument about most of the 2000s bands

If nothing else the excerpt proves that Ryan Adams is without a doubt, a total ding-dong

sorta interested in the claims of them being an amazing live band -- were they really that good? Casablancas always struck me as a pretty uninspiring frontman, and the rest of 'em seem dull as well. maybe i just haven't seen the right clips.

I saw them once in a very small room right when the first album came out. They were fine. Def could have been three out of four on a wknd night in Mpls.

"An iconic era where NYC musicians once again thought they were they only thing that mattered."

lol Ned otm

One reason I hoped I would live to see 2017 is that I thought people would finally be done talking about The Strokes by now.

Nah, nostalgia cycle at work. Makes sense. If everyone's been muttering about a nu-metal revival for the past couple of years, this might as well follow. (In that respect, Ja Rule returning to public attention does too.)

If nothing else the excerpt proves that Ryan Adams is without a doubt, a total ding-dong

On this we can all agree.

lol yeah, this part is great
When he shows you a song, he doesn’t stop for hours. You’re like, “Oh, that reminds me of a song I wrote.” And you play a G chord and he’s like, “I know what you’re talking about,” and he grabs the guitar back. There’s no way to play music with him. It’s the Ryan show, always.

I mean, that whole Ryan Adams/John Mayer douche crew thing. Imagine being stuck in THAT room.

"You two have inspired me to form a band consisting of nothing but evil industrial noises and anti-heterosexual lyrics."

YOUR BODY IS A DEATHTRAP/I'LL USE MY TONGS*

* I don't know any Ryan Adams songs, completely by choice, so I can't parody them as effectively

Ryan Adams (musician): One night I was hanging with the Strokes guys and Ryan [Gentles, the band’s manager]. We were really stoned because we were basically always smoking pot.

Ryan Adams: I didn’t do drugs socially, and I don’t remember doing drugs with Albert ever

i listened to the ryan adams maron episode and man, he is irritating.

all of these people seem like dumbbells

I saw the Strokes around 2006 at a *Heineken Sponsored Event* in NYC hosted by Paul Shaffer. All around great time, not sad or weird at all.

So that means you like The Strokes, Mr.Sinkah? :)
― Omar, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 01:00 (fifteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nevah heard a note, Omah!! Doubtless they are toss.
― mark s, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 01:00 (fifteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So wise, wonder if he ever heard them.

that whole era of fashion spread version of junkie '70s rock is pretty dull. i liked the strokes' debut well enough, but in the same way i liked Poison's debut in '86. in other words, they're no Def Leppard.