Is This It

The Strokes - Is This It

Is This It
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Artist: The 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: Didn't Even Take Time to Grow On Me
Rating: 5 Stars

This IS it. The Strokes are one of the most addicting bands out there. Their sound is influenced by some, but like no other. I would describe them as artists that create beauty out of disgust. They have a really rough and grungy style that becomes catchy and original. This is mainly due to the lead singer, who is like Jim Morrison without poetry. There are people that will look at this band and say "I Get It!" They're displaying a harder message behind their simple abandonement of class.

The Strokes are sarcastic, dirty, and rebellious. The microphone recording style is roughly polished and yet most would consider it "ugly." I listened to them awhile back and I didn't quite understand it till I came back to it at age 19. They're recreating grunge with the element of real art. It took me two seconds to buy the album after previewing. Do what I did, and preview "Is This It?" and "Someday" and tell me that you wouldn't buy this on the basis of those samples.

"Is This It?" is an album that will go in my generation's collection as a classic. I feel sorry for those who cannot connect with it as I can, because it generated a lot of good feelings within me.

Description of Is This It

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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