Best song from 'The Strokes'

I like new york city cops

lol..never heard of em..

new york city cops a good choice

credite, just pretend you like them and everyone will think you're cool :)

jeez, i forgot this lot even existed

Or do like onewheel and look super-cool :)

'Last Night'

Great song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVKXBMqvgpI

12.51 by a million miles.

HARD TO EXPLAIN

Very good, BGP, about 'Tiger Feet'!
I'd never even thought of that before, and I detested everything Mud ever did, but I see your point.

I love 'Last Night' by the Strokes though.
Each to their own, eh?

The videoof their appearance on MTV (a bit rauunchier than the earlier link) has been on 'repeat' for numerous times now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1vvUec71v8

seriously listen to it mate.. in the chorus i think it definitely sounds like it.....

i dont mind the strokes but to be honest when they broke, and after.. i always preferred the white stripes...

Yes, BGP, I can appreciate your linking of the song to Tiger Feet, but I wouldn't have thought of it otherwise.

I too like some of White Stripes' stuff. I think it's the fast drum beat that does it.

hard to explain

someday

Someday by a mile.

Reptillia.

Their only good song (but it is brilliant).

'The Modern Age'

The first album is fantastic, 2nd and 3rd good but couldn't live up to their debut.

This Is it. Mainly cos its the first Strokes song you ever hear and is a classic.

Can't believe 12.51 only has one mention :O

The most overrated band in history.

Seems you can't account for taste.

'Is this it' was groundbreaking. The best in that genre since The Velvet Underground.

how glossy?

what exactly was new about it?

not looking for a ruck..but one band that's popularity utterly mystifies me.

their look had been done before,their lead vocalist can barely hold a note,there was no diversity in any of their tracks..hence the reason they went backwards ever since.

none of their major tracks could be classed as the standout track of its time.

Gary Mulholland of The Observer considers the release of Is This It a "world-changing moment" and notes that its impact was "immediate and dramatic" on both music and attire.[61] BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe suggests that the album moved popular opinion from DJs and pop music to "skinny jeans and guitars", "the template for rock 'n' roll in the modern day".[62] Tam Gunn of FACT agrees and explains that it "caused a sea change" in mainstream music in the U.S. and the UK,[63] while Anthony Miccio of Stylus points out that The Strokes' success created the commercial context for "other new-wavers" to flourish.[64] Rolling Stone writes that Is This It inspired "a ragged revolt" in Britain, led by The Libertines and Arctic Monkeys, and continued its influence in the U.S. on the success of bands like Kings of**[65] The Observer shares a similar view and concludes that "a fine brood of heirs", like The Libertines and Franz Ferdinand, would not have existed and been successful if The Strokes had not reinvigorated "rock's obsession with having a good time".[66] Jared Followill of Kings of**notes that the album was one of the main reasons that he wanted to get into a band; he states, "The title track was one of the first basslines I learned ... I was just 15 at the time."[67]

Jed Gottlieb of the Boston Herald argues that, although Is This It provided substantial musical influence, its biggest success was in revamping the music industry and making A&R delegates scout and promote alternative bands.[68] Gunn links the success of alternative music in British charts throughout the 2000s to the album, but notes that "the copyists" could never match the attention to detail and heartfelt emotion of The Strokes.[63] Mulholland adds that even the pop stars of that decade who rediscovered disco, electro, and synthpop owe a debt to the record, because its commercial success "made every forgotten art-pop experiment of the late 70s and early 80s instantly hip and ripe for reinvention".[61] Hamish MacBain of NME writes that "the western world has moved on, and is now swinging to the tune of Is This It",[69] while Pitchfork Media's Joe Colly suggests that "you only capture this kind of a lightning in a bottle once".[70] Gunn concludes that, while the status of the album as the 2000s' most influential guitar record may be "a double-edged sword" because of poor quality copyists, its status as the decade's best pop album should not be in doubt.[

check mate

Thanks Glossy.
I've got Mulholland's "This is uncool" book..which is excellent.
but they've always left me cold.

"Last nite" is such an insipid track.
A band like The Psychdelic Furs have b-sides with more zip

No imagination imo..and that's why they were found out on the their second album.

Granted, they don't show much variety but I think they hit on a formula that worked and stuck to it. I.T.I. was an album that was always going to be hard to follow up - always going to be downhill from there.

Plenty of great bands made their name with only 'great' album.

Each to their own - if we all liked the same things, life would be very tedious. :-)

Take It or Leave It, but not the album version.

The album track is a bit rubbish really but live it's very very good.

Youtube the Letterman performance imo.

Got to be Last Night

and Hard to Explain

:) and sorry to hijack your thread


Juicebox btw.