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Nee Lewman said:
1/9/25
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The Strokes - Is This It



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Is This It - The Strokes | Album | AllMusic

Is This It by The Strokes released in 2001. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Sometimes I wonder how I would feel about This album had I been born in 1961 instead of 1981.

As it stands, I was 18 when this album was released and it was the perfect soundtrack to hanging out until the wee hours drinking cheap beer and smoke packs of Parliament Lights.

What a time to be alive.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Sometimes I wonder how I would feel about This album had I been born in 1961 instead of 1981.

As it stands, I was 18 when this album was released and it was the perfect soundtrack to hanging out until the wee hours drinking cheap beer and smoke packs of Parliament Lights.

What a time to be alive.
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Being born in ‘68 I enjoyed the album, but fully understood it was just Beatlemania, The Musical.
 
jamieanderson1968 said:
Being born in ‘68 I enjoyed the album, but fully understood it was just Beatlemania, The Musical.
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If you say so. I had a realization last night. They’re like Death Cab to me, it feels like their songs don’t resolve… like it’s building to something that it never gets to and then just ends. I don’t like it. The music is fine.
 
jamieanderson1968 said:
Being born in ‘68 I enjoyed the album, but fully understood it was just Beatlemania, The Musical.
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The funny thing is being a somewhat “hip” music nerd, seeing these trust fund pretty boys on the cover of every music magazine with their immaculately disheveled hair and thrift store suits, I wanted to hate them so bad, I wanted them to just be a bunch of phonies riding the hype.

Then I heard “Last Nite” and my immediate reaction was letting out a resigned “fuck” as I knew even if all the manufactured hype was a put upon, these dudes were making the music I had been waiting for. The music was good which made the t much easier to buy into the hype moving forward.
 
dbarila said:
This is one of those albums that I really enjoy listening to, but I never understand all the hype surrounding it. It's a 4/5 album for me, but it doesn't seem like the kind of album to set off a whole musical revolution.
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I think a lot about it was timing. The landscape was a bit dire after the nu-metal years. It felt like the first new fresh music scene since Britpop imploded in a cloud of cocaine in 97.

Of those NME hype bands of the time none of them lived up to it over a career but these were probably the best.
 
Joe Mac said:
I think a lot about it was timing. The landscape was a bit dire after the nu-metal years. It felt like the first new fresh music scene since Britpop imploded in a cloud of cocaine in 97.

Of those NME hype bands of the time none of them lived up to it over a career but these were probably the best.
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I ask this from a complete place of ignorance. Wasn’t LCD Soundsystem part of this whole New York scene? Musically they are very different but then so are Talking Heads and Ramones.
 
Nee Lewman said:
I ask this from a complete place of ignorance. Wasn’t LCD Soundsystem part of this whole New York scene? Musically they are very different but then so are Talking Heads and Ramones.
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Yes but I don’t seem to remember them breaking as big or being hyped as big initially. My memory was that they were a bit more cult initially and blew up with Sounds of Silver.

They kinda always were a music fans band too whereas that first strokes album was a big chart success in the wider sense.
 
Joe Mac said:
Yes but I don’t seem to remember them breaking as big or being hyped as big initially. My memory was that they were a bit more cult initially and blew up with Sounds of Silver.

They kinda always were a music fans band too whereas that first strokes album was a big chat success in the wider sense.
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The question was really provoked by your last but… the Strokes have certainly built a career. Murphy has lived up to the hype and sustained himself. I actually like LCD Soundsystem too.
 
Nee Lewman said:
The question was really provoked by your last but… the Strokes have certainly built a career. Murphy has lived up to the hype and sustained himself. I actually like LCD Soundsystem too.
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Yeah for sure. I like that first strokes album but I can take or leave vast swathes of their later career. And to be honest if I want to hear that kinda sound I just grab Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers debut album and probably enjoy it more. I’ve also seen them be very bad live on a number of occasions.

Out of the 2001 era new rock hype bands they probably did the best though. As I’m sure you can imagine I preferred the British bands that followed in their wake in the half decade that followed.
 
Joe Mac said:
Yeah for sure. I like that first strokes album but I can take or leave vast swathes of their earlier career. And to be honest if I want to hear that kinda sound I just grab Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers debut album and probably enjoy it more. I’ve also seen them be very bad live on a number of occasions.

Out of the 2001 era new rock hype bands they probably did the best though. As I’m sure you can imagine I preferred the British bands that followed in their wake in the half decade that followed.
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I was in a coma or something during this time.
 
Joe Mac said:
I think a lot about it was timing. The landscape was a bit dire after the nu-metal years. It felt like the first new fresh music scene since Britpop imploded in a cloud of cocaine in 97.

Of those NME hype bands of the time none of them lived up to it over a career but these were probably the best.
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Exactly. They were the right band from the right place at the right time.
 
Nee Lewman said:
I ask this from a complete place of ignorance. Wasn’t LCD Soundsystem part of this whole New York scene? Musically they are very different but then so are Talking Heads and Ramones.
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You should read Meet Me In The Bathroom. It does a great job of painting a picture of the New York Indie scene at the turn of the millennium.

LCD might not have been as big of a thing had The Strokes, Interpol, and Yeah Yeahs Yeahs established NYC as the indie hipster Mecca.

James Murphy is a bit of an odd duck comparatively. He was a bit older and had already been a failed indie rock musician. What he did, first with his label DFA and then as LCD Soundsystem was popularize the melding of post-punk and dance music amongst the kids that weren’t around for the Factory/Manchester scene a 15 years earlier. He didn’t kick off the NYC scene but he made it bigger adding club kids to the mix.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
You should read Meet Me In The Bathroom. It does a great job of painting a picture of the New York Indie scene at the turn of the millennium.

LCD might not have been as big of a thing had The Strokes, Interpol, and Yeah Yeahs Yeahs established NYC as the indie hipster Mecca.

James Murphy is a bit of an odd duck comparatively. He was a bit older and had already been a failed indie rock musician. What he did, first with his label DFA and then as LCD Soundsystem was popularize the melding of post-punk and dance music amongst the kids that weren’t around for the Factory/Manchester scene a 15 years earlier. He didn’t kick off the NYC scene but he made it bigger adding club kids to the mix.
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It’s in my pile.
 
Joe Mac said:
Yes but I don’t seem to remember them breaking as big or being hyped as big initially. My memory was that they were a bit more cult initially and blew up with Sounds of Silver.

They kinda always were a music fans band too whereas that first strokes album was a big chart success in the wider sense.
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It was originally his singles that started him down blog hype train (at least for me) “Losing My Edge” in particular was a big song at the time. Probably at least a year prior to Sound of Silver officially dropping.
 
Nee Lewman said:
The question was really provoked by your last but… the Strokes have certainly built a career. Murphy has lived up to the hype and sustained himself. I actually like LCD Soundsystem too.
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He’s released a single album since 2010 and that album was released 8 years ago. I love LCD Soundsystem as well but they are exactly setting the industry ablaze at this point.
 
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