Is This It

The Strokes - Is This It

Is This It
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Artist: The Strokes
Brand: STROKES
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-10-09
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
  1. Is This It
  2. The Modern Age
  3. Soma
  4. Barely Legal
  5. Someday
  6. Alone, Together
  7. Last Nite
  8. Hard To Explain
  9. When It Started
  10. Trying Your Luck
  11. Take It Or Leave It

Music reviews of Is This It

Music Review: Eight years later...
Rating: 4 Stars

Yes, 2001 was quite a long time ago, and I almost forgot about all the hype surrounding the Strokes first release. Now that the Strokes are out of the spotlight, I took some time to rediscover this album which used to be one of my favorites. Completely disregarding whether the album was worth all the hype or whether the Strokes were the saviors of rock and roll or just a played up commercial band, I found this to be a very good album that I listened to again and again. With a more critical musical ear than at the time of the release, I found the rhythm and lead guitar blended together quite nicely, and the drum beats, while not very varied and lacking fills, provided a steady foundation and gave a good feel to each song. The bass lines gave another rhythm to mix with the guitars, so overall solid and catchy instrumentation (all the songs are quite fun to play with a band.) The vocals, although kind of repetitive and in the same style, still sounded fresh and interesting. As for lyrics, not too diverse, but still, I like many of the songs. Among my favorites are Barely Legal, The Modern Age, Someday, and When It Started. Overall a cool album, still one of my favorites, even after the Strokes' peak.

Description of Is This It

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  • Track: 10: Trying Your Luck,
  • Track: 11: Take It Or Leave It,
  • Track: 1: Is This It,
  • Track: 2: The Modern Age,
  • Track: 3: Soma,
  • Track: 4: Barely Legal,
  • Track: 5: Someday,
  • Track: 6: Alone Together,
  • Track: 7: Last Nite,
  • Track: 8: Hard To Explain,
  • Track: 9: New York City Cops
    Media Type: CD
    Artist: STROKES
    Title: IS THIS IT
    Street Release Date: 10/09/2001
    Domestic
    Genre: ROCK/POP
    With all the media hype that dogged the Strokes before the release of their debut album, it's rather apt that they chose the title Is This It. On the strength of just five songs released on two singles, the Strokes were being hailed as everything from the saviors of rock & roll to the Savior himself. Surely, few bands could live up to the impossibly high standards set for this young five-piece, but the band needn't have worried: Is This It is one of the most exciting and energetic debut albums to spring from New York's long-dormant club scene. In fact, the Strokes are a New York City band through and through; like the Velvet Underground, these are a bunch of uptown artsy types elegantly slumming downtown to the tried and tested themes of sex, drugs, and rock & roll. Their singer-songwriter, the fantastically named Julian Casablancas, delivers his lyrics with a weary nonchalance that belies his age on songs like the title track, "Soma," "Hard to Explain," and the altogether wonderful "Barely Legal." And the band recalls the likes of Television and the Stooges on "Last Nite" and "The Modern Age." Let's hope this sexy, stylish, and undeniably cool band is the future of rock & roll. --Robert Burrow

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