I know when you found that clip at 15:38 you were like “I HAVE to include this,” and then the “albums are cousins” quote came up and you were like “YES”
She may have had some good insights from her experience - no one questions her intelligence - even if she is totally incapable of following her own advice. The two things don’t always overlap
their best album for me. the media hyped them up so insanely and then wanted to knock them down but the music in those first three albums (coincidentally the ones julian casablancas wrote near-singlehandedly) is almost flawless
Lucky me. Caught them in NYC live at Roseland Ballroom or maybe the Bowery in 2001/2, before the explosion…one of most memorable rock shows I’ve seen. Rinsed those early tunes for months. Thanks for the back story friend 🤙🏽😎🖤
@PastPerspectives3 Idk if the strokes are better than nirvana or not. But when you dig deeper into music and find bands like the doors, talking heads, modest mouse, etc. You find there's so much better music than Nirvana. Nirvanas great but they're definitely on the lower teir of iconic bands.
Growing up I was OBSESSED with the Strokes and how dreamy Julian was ☠️ I continue listening to him through the Voidz. Did I also fell in love with Albert Hammond Jr’s solo work? Absolutely. And who could forget Fabrizio Moretti’s lovely work with Little Joy. These guys were (and still are) incredibly talented, authentic, and the definition of “cool” during the post punk revival era. What a great time to be an adolescent. Kids these days will never know!
While I didn’t crush on the dudes…the “indie” bands of NY were awesome! Interpol, the Strokes, The Rapture..etc (I know they’re from SF, when they went DFA, they were in NY) and LCD..so many great bands in the 00s! Definitely a kick as time in music
@@99fxr68 agree! And just to clarify, I had no other crush but Julian 😂. But yes, they paved the way along with other awesome bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Libertines… Arctic Monkeys.
I am soooo interested in the strokes. I literally found one of my new favorite bands bc of this channel! Please keep making this amazing, enterteining, informative videos!!! Love from Argentina ❤🇦🇷
@@yungcee321 that’s just a fan theory and there’s barely any evidence supporting it. People just get confused because Courtney says “meet me in the bedroom” in her song
The real ones have always known this was the better album. I learned so much from this video. It was cool to see the order in which some of these songs were written, I had no idea.
I saw the Strokes play at Soma in San Diego. Right after the 2nd album released. Julian was sick and sat on a stool for the whole show. Somehow it was still the most entertaining show I’d ever been to. He rocked the house and barely moved
The hunger to do better is not as strong as the hunger to fit in/make it. There is nothing more confident than a 20 year old as far as creativity. After that, doubt and second guessing mess it up.
Really engaging work! This captures the self-seriousness of many bands and fans in the early-2000s music scene. It's a phenomenon brought into greater relief - and even made poignant - by the decline of music as a signaling tool for young people (Gen Z) to indicate their tastes and group memberships (cf. Rick Beato's commentary: th-cam.com/video/TU96wCDHGKM/w-d-xo.html). Remember how John Cusack's character in the movie High Fidelity talks about his "desert island" songs/albums? Most young people today would probably not even know what the phrase "desert island" means in the context of music. And among those who do, the idea probably doesn't resonate as well because it hinges on an assumption of scarcity: Gen X and older generations remember what it was like for music to be out of reach (e.g., waiting for a song to be played on the radio, hoping an album will be on the shelf in Tower Records). The Strokes may be kind, well-meaning people in real life, but that doesn't take away from the silliness we can see in this old footage now: trust-fund hipsters bogged down by seriousness in their intention to made records that would do little more than retread classic rock sounds from the '70s more than 20 years later. I remember seeing the Strokes perform at a club in 2000/2001. They got to their single, "Last Nite," and it sounded to me like a cut-time shuffle suspiciously similar to Tom Petty's "American Girl." I liked it, but I didn't think a straight-faced advertisement of taste amounted to something culturally important in itself. Now nearly 25 years later, it's fun to remember when music still meant so much to young people. It meant much to me, but by seeing the old footage here, I'm reminded that it's okay for some sacred cows to die.
Platinum and Gold records are not necessarily awarded for sales - contrary to popular belief, they're awarded after an album SHIPS, the thinking being that shipments will eventually equal sales (which hardly turns out that way, given how the record industry still accepts returns).
“Wicked Game” by Chris Isaak almost certainly inspired the album title and “Reptilia.” The melody of “the world was on fire” and “the room is on fire” is identical.
I discovered this band last December. They are now tied with Weezer for my favorite band. And right as I started to get really interested with them you made the Is This It video. And now we have a sequel. I am excited for the strokes lore videos.
Highly recommend Gordon Raphael’s book where he recounts working on Is This It and Room On Fire with The Strokes, absolutely crazy seeing a first hand account on the matter
They only have 4 that should be mentioned, the two and a half after are shades of bad. I don't expect things to get better since Julian seems to be having a cringe midlife crisis and looks unbathed so I have put them to rest in my mind. I had hope for Albert but I couldn't make it a full song on whatever he released semi recently.
@@cosmo.curtis Haha I can find some gems here and there. I catch myself humming some Albert tunes, but he's certainly no Julian. That said, I'd buy tickets if he ever comes through NYC again!
1:10 they were Nepo babies. Never a part of any kind of underground. Their parents’ connections got them signed. Great band, no doubt, but no one would have ever heard of them had they not come into the business with these connections. It was the main point of criticism by most everyone at the time.
It wasn't the nepo thing, IMO. Most hipsters I hung out with in 2000 were richy-rich suburbanites, anyways. It was the fact that 1. ) they were being hailed as the Second Coming of Christ and 2.) you ended up with a CD that sounded like an "edgy" Tom Petty out take. Let's just be real, this band is good, but not mind blowing. Spike Jonez, "Lost In Translation" etc was all nepo baby stuff, and nobody dogged on it that hard. This band is simply "ehh". Not bad but not great.
For someone who wasn't living the hype at the time, living in Brazil, Room on Fire was the sound that got me first and got me good. Apart from Last Night, it was only then I turned to Is This It and, of course, loved it.
Courtney wrote half of Nevermind. She wasn't credited. She was right about what she said. They needed to become the new Nirvana. They needed to break out. They did. Just not in a good way.
I love that picture of all of them,after recording is this it, with the giant mixing board.I was such a fan when it came out and I was so happy they just keep on getting better. ❤❤
First song I ever heard from the Strokes was Reptilia and from there I was hooked, by that point they'd already broken up, but I still had what they'd made to enjoy. Then the New Abnormal came out and it made me happy that they came together again and made that all that time later
My favorite Strokes song, 12:51, is off this album. It gets me excited for the weekend every time I hear it, killer music video too. Julian once said in an interview that it describes "the feeling when you know you're about to fuck".
I was Rough Trade's Label Manager at their distribution co. in the UK. Vital Distribution back in 2000/2001. Hearing the Modern Age at Rough Trades offices for the first time, seeing their first UK shows in 2001, the release of subsequent singles and the finally the release of the Is This It album was a really exciting time . I have a platinum disc for x 300'000 UK sales. I don't think I've ever listened to Room On Fire or any of their other albums all the way through. Never saw them live again aside from one encounter at the recording of a live spot on the Later: With Jools Holland TV show where the atmosphere around the band (and crew) was pretty grim. Fun while it lasted though!
Lol i really think that Pitchfork don’t know a lot about music .. they’re just a bunch of hipsters who believe that modern rock music begin with Radiohead 😂 .. If you’re not arty like they love you’re nothing/no one .. I remember when they discovered Deerhunter,it was like God was born again .. The New Abnormal is a true good record,the cover,the songs,the band himself is really really good but it’s not a « Is This It » perfect album so PitchFuckFork give it a 5,7 instead 9 🤷🏻♂️ ..
Sorry folks, nothing compares to the first album. I remember hearing room on fire in 2003, me and my friend. We were pretty disappointed by the album. Makes sense though only two weeks to make it and people still bought it. Huge fan of this group, but I slowly watched the decline of the strokes all the way to "juicebox." I think they suffered like alien ant farm great start, but slow fizz to burn.
I remember the day room on fire dropped and going to buy the cd later that evening. I kept listening to it on repeat as I loved the off beat songs and still love it to this day!!
I saw The Strokes on the Is This It album tour and then on the Room On Fire album tour. The difference between the shows was stark. Is This It was a new band with confidence and swagger in a small venue. Room On Fire was a tired, unsure band in a massive conference hall. I've seen them live a couple of times since, and they have always been disappointing when compared to the first time. Julian's detached aloofness did not age well.
I was at art college in the UK in 2001 and it seemed like everyone around me had the first Strokes album, they were so hyped, I remember seeing them at a festival where they were headliners and they didn’t even have a full hour of material. The Pixies played beneath them!!!
I’m so mad at the crown they placed on their heads when the band didn’t want it, saviours of rock’n roll etc. Yes it’s a very much needed and loved sound but the expectations alone doomed the band to stay between the line of something old and something new. If this wasn’t their origin story maybe specially Julian would’ve loved the band much more and put out more stuff. I feel like even with The New Abnormal’s success the guy wants to get away as much as possible from the name the Strokes. Well as an epitome of fear of failure i respect that they’ve managed to handle all of that. I’ve stopped studying after getting in to med school and also stopped writing after an editor proposed to publish a poem of mine. You just don’t want to try anymore once you are admired if you’re a perfectionist.
thank god you didn’t say anything negative about room on fire. I had my finger hovering over the unsubscribe button all video long. great video though ❤
Wow this video is amazing. Watched until the last second. Would love similar ones to all follow up albums. Specially now that they seem to not be on good grounds with Julian talking shit about the band
I hate to be that guy, but I was there in the summer and fall of 2001. I got the EP in July and I got the British import of the album because I wanted to hear it so bad (because I loved the EP). And then I saw them twice in the fall. And I don't want to say they sucked, but they weren't great. They only had an hour's worth of material, and they just played a passable version of what you heard on the album. They didn't seem like they had the chops that some of my friends' bands had. By the time the second record came out, I didn't really care any more. I'd moved on to the White Stripes, and then to The Mooney Suzuki. When I saw the Mooneys open up for the Strokes in 2003, they blew the Strokes off the stage, and they clearly didn't care what the Strokes might have thought about it.
It's literally the worst one with some of the most cringe lyrics I've ever heard, finally put the nail in the coffin for me after years of overlooking how bad they play live. All bands cease to be cool once they get old, blur almost made it but the last album was a very sad state of old man grumps. The strokes are more out of touch now than even their childhoods of Swiss private schools. Winning awards nowadays isn't a sign of anything. The strokes ended in 2011 with Angles being their last memorable and enjoyable album.
That debut was something else. That's probably my most listened to album. There are much better bands than the Strokes, but that debut is a top 10 album all time for me.
I know when you found that clip at 15:38 you were like “I HAVE to include this,” and then the “albums are cousins” quote came up and you were like “YES”
This is exactly what happened
immediately followed up by "He mentions in basically every interview from this era..."
Can’t wait for the “Strokes lore” playlist
Stroking lore
The death of Margaret Thatcher
@@susragejr477marry me
*buddy holy riff*
@@RuralProgressive ☝️🤓 WEEZER MOMENT
Julian getting a lesson from Courtney Love about managing fame and ego is like getting a lesson from Mr. Krabs on managing money and greed
Well, they know ball
They just can't play
@@MapleMilknice
@@MapleMilk the coach doesn't play
She may have had some good insights from her experience - no one questions her intelligence - even if she is totally incapable of following her own advice. The two things don’t always overlap
@@lawjef Kurt got whacked. She done it.
It’s Strokin’ time…
Strokinnnnnnn timeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
No, dad, no!
please use lubes
I'm over here strokin my casablancas I got lotion on my casablancas rn just strokin my shit. I'm Abnormal as fuck I'm an angle like fr.
I love the part is Is This It where the Strokes say 'It's Strokin' time' and start Strokin' all over the place
All things considered, “Room On Fire” is a solid album; I like it as much as the first.
I like it a 🤏 more than their first. Mostly bc of "Under Control"
Such a marvelous tune.. Both albums are great, tho. IMO
I like it more
Used to put that on and think of my crush in high school 😢
@@Durrantula man, Under Control is my fav
I completely I agree I think I like it a little more actually. Then again I personally love each of their albums
I played their first album so many times my girlfriend at the time broke up with me. As soon as she moved out, i played the album again, even louder.
amen
😂 I bet she went on to greatness.. 😁I always thought they were so fake, NME darlings . Remember 'Gay Dad'? 😂😂 NME died in about 1997😢
For the first time EVER... I will be PINNING my FAVORITE comment in ONE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!! (please clap)
I wanna marry julian casablancas, I'm not gay right?
@Articinvolved Nah fam your good
Yay
That is so gay
I clap
5:11 you really thought you could hide that huh
But he didn’t hide 0:04 🤭
their best album for me. the media hyped them up so insanely and then wanted to knock them down but the music in those first three albums (coincidentally the ones julian casablancas wrote near-singlehandedly) is almost flawless
Same!
Lucky me. Caught them in NYC live at Roseland Ballroom or maybe the Bowery in 2001/2, before the explosion…one of most memorable rock shows I’ve seen. Rinsed those early tunes for months. Thanks for the back story friend 🤙🏽😎🖤
"Your next album has to be Nevermind" is a hell of a thing to live up to
Territorial pissings and a catchy single. The rest is whatever. Strokes blew nirvana out of the water.
@@snorky222222LOL
@@snorky222222lol..nope
@@jimjiminy5836 actually never mind is crap. Never listen to it. Over catchy pop and a few boring numbers.
@PastPerspectives3 Idk if the strokes are better than nirvana or not. But when you dig deeper into music and find bands like the doors, talking heads, modest mouse, etc. You find there's so much better music than Nirvana. Nirvanas great but they're definitely on the lower teir of iconic bands.
Impressive work. I've watched a lot of Strokes docs and videos and you taught me a few new things. Well done!
For a rushed record it's on fire 🔥🤟. I'm a new strokes fan since December of last year.
I was 18 when Room On Fire came out. The album is a masterpiece. It's my favourite album from them. Such fashion icons.
Growing up I was OBSESSED with the Strokes and how dreamy Julian was ☠️ I continue listening to him through the Voidz. Did I also fell in love with Albert Hammond Jr’s solo work? Absolutely. And who could forget Fabrizio Moretti’s lovely work with Little Joy. These guys were (and still are) incredibly talented, authentic, and the definition of “cool” during the post punk revival era. What a great time to be an adolescent. Kids these days will never know!
While I didn’t crush on the dudes…the “indie” bands of NY were awesome! Interpol, the Strokes, The Rapture..etc (I know they’re from SF, when they went DFA, they were in NY) and LCD..so many great bands in the 00s! Definitely a kick as time in music
Yes, they will. They have their own heroes
I was obsessed. Little Joy ❤ om i miss them
@@99fxr68 agree! And just to clarify, I had no other crush but Julian 😂. But yes, they paved the way along with other awesome bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Libertines… Arctic Monkeys.
BABE WAKE UP NEW MARCBUTEVIL
0:37 that line is both menacing and very dreadful at the same time
id simply retire
Imagine worrying about what courtney love has to say 🤣
Like most Lines
I collected all their albums back in high school. I bonded with my aunt and mom through the Strokes. Awesome video! 🤍
Ahhhhh!! Not cool man!! I need a part 2! Angles is my fav album from them and you set it up so well. Looking forward to it
I am soooo interested in the strokes. I literally found one of my new favorite bands bc of this channel! Please keep making this amazing, enterteining, informative videos!!! Love from Argentina ❤🇦🇷
Check out the garden
Excellent research, excellent video, well done Marc
You know its a good day when @MarcButEvil posts a video about the strokes
hell yeah more strokes content
I’ve literally never heard of the Courtney Love thing wtf
It's what inspired the song "meet me in the bathroom" his response to her song after they met
@@yungcee321 that’s just a fan theory and there’s barely any evidence supporting it. People just get confused because Courtney says “meet me in the bedroom” in her song
15:37 what made bro say this
alcohol? in part maybe frig who knows, wild tho
Every song on their second album is a banger. Back when a whole album was a thing.
The real ones have always known this was the better album. I learned so much from this video. It was cool to see the order in which some of these songs were written, I had no idea.
I saw the Strokes play at Soma in San Diego. Right after the 2nd album released.
Julian was sick and sat on a stool for the whole show. Somehow it was still the most entertaining show I’d ever been to. He rocked the house and barely moved
another local legend video drop
I go back and forth between Is This It and Room on Fire as being my favorite Strokes album. Kinda just depends on my mood any particular day lol.
The hunger to do better is not as strong as the hunger to fit in/make it. There is nothing more confident than a 20 year old as far as creativity. After that, doubt and second guessing mess it up.
We need the rest of the discography!!!!!!! Please!🙏
Really engaging work! This captures the self-seriousness of many bands and fans in the early-2000s music scene. It's a phenomenon brought into greater relief - and even made poignant - by the decline of music as a signaling tool for young people (Gen Z) to indicate their tastes and group memberships (cf. Rick Beato's commentary: th-cam.com/video/TU96wCDHGKM/w-d-xo.html). Remember how John Cusack's character in the movie High Fidelity talks about his "desert island" songs/albums? Most young people today would probably not even know what the phrase "desert island" means in the context of music. And among those who do, the idea probably doesn't resonate as well because it hinges on an assumption of scarcity: Gen X and older generations remember what it was like for music to be out of reach (e.g., waiting for a song to be played on the radio, hoping an album will be on the shelf in Tower Records). The Strokes may be kind, well-meaning people in real life, but that doesn't take away from the silliness we can see in this old footage now: trust-fund hipsters bogged down by seriousness in their intention to made records that would do little more than retread classic rock sounds from the '70s more than 20 years later. I remember seeing the Strokes perform at a club in 2000/2001. They got to their single, "Last Nite," and it sounded to me like a cut-time shuffle suspiciously similar to Tom Petty's "American Girl." I liked it, but I didn't think a straight-faced advertisement of taste amounted to something culturally important in itself. Now nearly 25 years later, it's fun to remember when music still meant so much to young people. It meant much to me, but by seeing the old footage here, I'm reminded that it's okay for some sacred cows to die.
Haha, I cracked up at that photo at 0:04
where was Nick, under the table? just playin, yo
Is this it changed my life when i was 10. Still my favorite album.
CHAOS AND CREATION MENTIONED!!!!
BANGERBANGERBANGER
I had already forgotten about some of these quotes, facts and you put them all together really well.
Platinum and Gold records are not necessarily awarded for sales - contrary to popular belief, they're awarded after an album SHIPS, the thinking being that shipments will eventually equal sales (which hardly turns out that way, given how the record industry still accepts returns).
🤔
“Wicked Game” by Chris Isaak almost certainly inspired the album title and “Reptilia.”
The melody of “the world was on fire” and “the room is on fire” is identical.
I discovered this band last December. They are now tied with Weezer for my favorite band. And right as I started to get really interested with them you made the Is This It video. And now we have a sequel.
I am excited for the strokes lore videos.
If you haven’t, listen to Arctic Monkeys debut. Very much influenced by the Strokes and its an absolute class record
Strokes > Weezer and Arctic Monkeys. Easily.
Highly recommend Gordon Raphael’s book where he recounts working on Is This It and Room On Fire with The Strokes, absolutely crazy seeing a first hand account on the matter
The Strokes only have six albums, and not one of them is bad. I love them all.
They only have 4 that should be mentioned, the two and a half after are shades of bad. I don't expect things to get better since Julian seems to be having a cringe midlife crisis and looks unbathed so I have put them to rest in my mind. I had hope for Albert but I couldn't make it a full song on whatever he released semi recently.
@@cosmo.curtis Haha I can find some gems here and there.
I catch myself humming some Albert tunes, but he's certainly no Julian. That said, I'd buy tickets if he ever comes through NYC again!
1:10 they were Nepo babies. Never a part of any kind of underground. Their parents’ connections got them signed. Great band, no doubt, but no one would have ever heard of them had they not come into the business with these connections. It was the main point of criticism by most everyone at the time.
Wow, do you mean like pretty much all significant people throughout all of history?
Nietzsche would love The Strokes
@@jorden9821why?
Yeah everyone I ever encountered who felt this way was always an oblivious douche with bad taste.
It wasn't the nepo thing, IMO. Most hipsters I hung out with in 2000 were richy-rich suburbanites, anyways. It was the fact that 1. ) they were being hailed as the Second Coming of Christ and 2.) you ended up with a CD that sounded like an "edgy" Tom Petty out take. Let's just be real, this band is good, but not mind blowing. Spike Jonez, "Lost In Translation" etc was all nepo baby stuff, and nobody dogged on it that hard. This band is simply "ehh". Not bad but not great.
Saw them several times playing in bars before they blew up. Totally great songs and shows and deserved all the success
Room on Fire is their best album by far, they bat out their issues from Is This It
Please keep going with their story this was great! 👍🏽
For someone who wasn't living the hype at the time, living in Brazil, Room on Fire was the sound that got me first and got me good. Apart from Last Night, it was only then I turned to Is This It and, of course, loved it.
Courtney wrote half of Nevermind. She wasn't credited.
She was right about what she said. They needed to become the new Nirvana. They needed to break out. They did. Just not in a good way.
thanks for putting the sources, pretty helpful. great video! :)
I will always love The Strokes. Its only band that I seem to only really remember the words too. That says a lot after 20 yrs
ICONIC video. Need part 2!!
I was waiting for this video. I love this band 👌
The The New abnormal video is gonna be fire, I just know it
is this it changed my life
Room On Fire was awesome.
Lots of great songs still to this day
Outstanding segment
Your editing and story telling is getting better
I love that picture of all of them,after recording is this it, with the giant mixing board.I was such a fan when it came out and I was so happy they just keep on getting better. ❤❤
Please make a video on the recording of First Impressions of Earth! I’m loving these strokes videos, man. Thank you.
Great narration. You're very good at putting life into all those quotes.
First song I ever heard from the Strokes was Reptilia and from there I was hooked, by that point they'd already broken up, but I still had what they'd made to enjoy. Then the New Abnormal came out and it made me happy that they came together again and made that all that time later
Despite Room on fire not being the next is this it it's still a good album imo
My favorite Strokes song, 12:51, is off this album. It gets me excited for the weekend every time I hear it, killer music video too.
Julian once said in an interview that it describes "the feeling when you know you're about to fuck".
Great video man, i can't get enough of your content. You're doing great work; excited to watch you grow
I was Rough Trade's Label Manager at their distribution co. in the UK. Vital Distribution back in 2000/2001. Hearing the Modern Age at Rough Trades offices for the first time, seeing their first UK shows in 2001, the release of subsequent singles and the finally the release of the Is This It album was a really exciting time . I have a platinum disc for x 300'000 UK sales. I don't think I've ever listened to Room On Fire or any of their other albums all the way through. Never saw them live again aside from one encounter at the recording of a live spot on the Later: With Jools Holland TV show where the atmosphere around the band (and crew) was pretty grim. Fun while it lasted though!
I can’t believe pitchfork would give TNA a 5.7
Lol i really think that Pitchfork don’t know a lot about music .. they’re just a bunch of hipsters who believe that modern rock music begin with Radiohead 😂 .. If you’re not arty like they love you’re nothing/no one .. I remember when they discovered Deerhunter,it was like God was born again ..
The New Abnormal is a true good record,the cover,the songs,the band himself is really really good but it’s not a « Is This It » perfect album so PitchFuckFork give it a 5,7 instead 9 🤷🏻♂️ ..
Sorry folks, nothing compares to the first album. I remember hearing room on fire in 2003, me and my friend. We were pretty disappointed by the album. Makes sense though only two weeks to make it and people still bought it. Huge fan of this group, but I slowly watched the decline of the strokes all the way to "juicebox." I think they suffered like alien ant farm great start, but slow fizz to burn.
Ending on a cliffhanger, I hope you make more
I remember the day room on fire dropped and going to buy the cd later that evening. I kept listening to it on repeat as I loved the off beat songs and still love it to this day!!
I saw The Strokes on the Is This It album tour and then on the Room On Fire album tour. The difference between the shows was stark. Is This It was a new band with confidence and swagger in a small venue. Room On Fire was a tired, unsure band in a massive conference hall. I've seen them live a couple of times since, and they have always been disappointing when compared to the first time. Julian's detached aloofness did not age well.
You remember a band that opened for the strokes on their first tour called Long wave?
The sophomore record is my favorite of their discography. I might get shade for this take but it’s so consistent in its tone and so minimalist
What Ever Happened is still my favourite one, it gets me every time 🖤
I was at art college in the UK in 2001 and it seemed like everyone around me had the first Strokes album, they were so hyped, I remember seeing them at a festival where they were headliners and they didn’t even have a full hour of material. The Pixies played beneath them!!!
Let’s gooooo! NEW VIDEO!!!!
I love Room on Fire. I agree with later Julian. It’s like Is This It? Part II. And I love it.
I’m so mad at the crown they placed on their heads when the band didn’t want it, saviours of rock’n roll etc. Yes it’s a very much needed and loved sound but the expectations alone doomed the band to stay between the line of something old and something new. If this wasn’t their origin story maybe specially Julian would’ve loved the band much more and put out more stuff. I feel like even with The New Abnormal’s success the guy wants to get away as much as possible from the name the Strokes.
Well as an epitome of fear of failure i respect that they’ve managed to handle all of that. I’ve stopped studying after getting in to med school and also stopped writing after an editor proposed to publish a poem of mine. You just don’t want to try anymore once you are admired if you’re a perfectionist.
I didn't know anything about the strokes before. Now I do, thanks Marc
You deserve my subscribe. cant wait for more videos about the strokes
Nevermind and Room on Fire, these are the only albums where I like every song.
"Strokes - Machu Picchu" is one of the greatest songs I've ever heard...Hands-Down !
thank god you didn’t say anything negative about room on fire. I had my finger hovering over the unsubscribe button all video long. great video though ❤
Wow this video is amazing. Watched until the last second. Would love similar ones to all follow up albums. Specially now that they seem to not be on good grounds with Julian talking shit about the band
Your channel is amazing! Thats for the great content
I'm working on a sequel to a book right now on a tight deadline, and I totally get this stress.
I love your videos best album reviewer ever
After the required amount of the strokes I go to sleep
You should check out Guided By Voices! They're a great band who were a huge influence on the Strokes! They're even in the Someday music vid!!
Great comment
R.I.P Marc Spitz. The book Poseur was great!
One of my favorite bands
Love your videos, especially your Weezer and Strokes videos, would love to see similar videos about Radiohead too.
I hate to be that guy, but I was there in the summer and fall of 2001. I got the EP in July and I got the British import of the album because I wanted to hear it so bad (because I loved the EP). And then I saw them twice in the fall. And I don't want to say they sucked, but they weren't great. They only had an hour's worth of material, and they just played a passable version of what you heard on the album. They didn't seem like they had the chops that some of my friends' bands had. By the time the second record came out, I didn't really care any more. I'd moved on to the White Stripes, and then to The Mooney Suzuki. When I saw the Mooneys open up for the Strokes in 2003, they blew the Strokes off the stage, and they clearly didn't care what the Strokes might have thought about it.
Their latest album is the best imo. Love every song in that album. No wonder they won a Grammy with it😅
It's literally the worst one with some of the most cringe lyrics I've ever heard, finally put the nail in the coffin for me after years of overlooking how bad they play live. All bands cease to be cool once they get old, blur almost made it but the last album was a very sad state of old man grumps. The strokes are more out of touch now than even their childhoods of Swiss private schools. Winning awards nowadays isn't a sign of anything. The strokes ended in 2011 with Angles being their last memorable and enjoyable album.
@@cosmo.curtis i liked it🤷 and a lot of people did aswell. If you didnt thats your opinion and we can all have one ;)
Great as always!
Nigel Godrich also composed the Scott pilgrim VS the world sound track.
Thank you for this video.. nice ANGLES on this bands story.
it's not strange at all for US bands to be bigger in the UK. countless examples.
Jimi Hendrix and Blondie and The Ramones being prime examples
New MarcButEvil video finally dropped
That debut was something else. That's probably my most listened to album. There are much better bands than the Strokes, but that debut is a top 10 album all time for me.
that title is wild