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Post by fange on Jan 21, 2020 10:46:52 GMT
What do you think about the Strokes' second single from 2001?
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Post by oh oooh on Jan 21, 2020 10:58:06 GMT
Good, not quite great. It blew me away at the time - it was the first thing I'd heard by them, and in fact it was the video I saw. I honestly didn't know if it was some recently-unearthed thing from 1980 or a contemporary release. I bought the album as soon as it came out, loved it and played the fuck out of it, but pretty quickly it lost its appeal. I'd rank it below 'See No Evil', above 'My Best Friend's Girl'
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Post by fange on Jan 21, 2020 11:12:35 GMT
Lol
I'll be honest, i never quite fell for them like you and many people obviously did; despite liking this song i've never quite loved it or them. I like the sound, which of course is right up my alley - tight and slightly wired with punk and new wave attitude, but i never quite got past the feeling that their one trick was all they had and had already been done better.
But for this song, it's still a Yea.
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Post by The Red Heifer on Jan 21, 2020 11:48:49 GMT
Oh yeah big yea here, it felt like the first music movement I could live through as an adult (I was 19 when it came out). I like some other songs better, and they went off the boil QUICK, but for a while there they were something.
We were one of the first places to get them I think, they famously (over here anyway) were the support act for a You Am I tour
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jan 21, 2020 12:34:55 GMT
It felt like a welcome breath of fresh air at the time. Immediate, hooky, memorable.
It's still good but they were thin times and the reaction was influenced by that.
They had production issues on that album too...the earlier EPs sounded better.
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Post by rayge on Jan 21, 2020 12:58:48 GMT
Well, of course, I bought the first single on import, and thought it was great. And then this one came out, and much as I liked it, I didn't think either side was quite up to the promise of the three on the first isingle. And then I bought the album, and the five tracks I already had were better than anything else, the trajectory became clear, so I stopped buying them. Obviously newness was a major factor
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Post by loveless on Jan 21, 2020 13:16:20 GMT
Yeah, I like and liked it with the same basic caveats as everyone else.
I could basically live with the second hand ingredients here, perhaps because of "the energy" or something like that. But...it did have an appeal like flash paper - within a year, there was a sort of shrug, and...few people have had more chances than they did to try and fail to do "it" twice.
I saw them perform as a support act in 2006 and they seemed pretty lost.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2020 14:59:46 GMT
Lol I'll be honest, i never quite fell for them like you and many people obviously did; despite liking this song i've never quite loved it or them. I like the sound, which of course is right up my alley - tight and slightly wired with punk and new wave attitude, but i never quite got past the feeling that their one trick was all they had and had already been done better. But for this song, it's still a Yea. Agreed on all points
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Post by nolamike on Jan 21, 2020 16:33:28 GMT
I love it, and I still like the debut (though I don't think I've listened to it in five or more years), even if it is largely aping other bands that did the same thing earlier.
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Post by DarknessFish on Jan 21, 2020 17:15:58 GMT
Yeah, it's a cracking song, there's something about that driving guitar coupled with the strangely energetic-yet-languid vocal style with some cool distortion on top. It's got hooks aplenty. Never convinced me to delve into the album, mind you, there was something studiously derivative about them, so I never got the impression that there'd be much depth or breadth of wonders to be found.
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Post by oh oooh on Jan 21, 2020 17:26:37 GMT
Yeah, it's a cracking song, there's something about that driving guitar coupled with the strangely energetic-yet-languid vocal style with some cool distortion on top. It's got hooks aplenty. Never convinced me to delve into the album, mind you, there was something studiously derivative about them, so I never got the impression that there'd be much depth or breadth of wonders to be found. try this one, at least (I think it's their best)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2020 18:16:59 GMT
It's a solid single and the album is decent, but they never excited me beyond that..Interpol were more interesting (for the first two albums) from that NYC scene.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2020 21:20:01 GMT
The Strokes were okay, but my least favorite of those neo-garage bands. The lead guitarist, Albert Hammond Jr., has put out some good solo albums.
This is from his first or second.
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Post by npht on Jan 22, 2020 17:41:07 GMT
Will always love their first ep (modern Age) and album. We stumbled on the Strokes in Feb 01 when we went to see the Doves. The opener was the Strokes who opened with NYC cops. Within minutes the place went wild for a band most of the audience had no idea about and within a few weeks they took over the town. After that nite, we saw them several times over the next two years. Never thought they would burn out and fade away so quickly, but after reading "Meet me in the Bathroom" (friends book) and other stories about them during the early days I can see why.
In regards to Last Nite its a wonderful song we still enjoy. I like other Strokes songs from albums after IS this It? but nothing compared to the first album. I agree that Albert Hammond has some good solo stuff too. My favorite band of that era of NYC would still be Interpol.
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Post by oh oooh on Jan 22, 2020 19:03:33 GMT
Will always love their first ep (modern Age) and album. We stumbled on the Strokes in Feb 01 when we went to see the Doves. The opener was the Strokes who opened with NYC cops. Within minutes the place went wild for a band most of the audience had no idea about and within a few weeks they took over the town. After that nite, we saw them several times over the next two years. Never thought they would burn out and fade away so quickly, but after reading "Meet me in the Bathroom" (friends book) and other stories about them during the early days I can see why. In regards to Last Nite its a wonderful song we still enjoy. I like other Strokes songs from albums after IS this It? but nothing compared to the first album. I agree that Albert Hammond has some good solo stuff too. My favorite band of that era of NYC would still be Interpol. Say 'hi' to the goons!
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