The Strokes, love/hate?

[intergalactic]

Today I suddenly got an urge to listen to a few tracks off their Room On Fire album, which is only a shadow of their first album, but still great; I just love the way their so catchy and I wanna sing along to every song

I think, Is This It, is probably one of the best debut albums I've ever listened too and i really like every track. There third album is supposedly set for release in January 2006- I cant wait!!! :)

[cosmo105]

definitely enjoy, they're fun to listen to. but i wouldn't ever pay to see them again.

[Trimm Trabb]

They bore me. Singing/playing like you don't care just doesn't work for me.

[DroppinScience]

Got love for The Strokes.

I don't know why "Room On Fire" got hated on in some circles. It was a great follow-up!

[pshabi]

definitely enjoy, they're fun to listen to. but i wouldn't ever pay to see them again.
What's your beef? Never seen 'em.

I loved the debut. Didn't get Room on Fire. Might get it now though just to listen.

[ToucanSpam]

Meh. To me they are just mediocre. I respect them though.

[Freebasser]

3 or 4 good songs.

20 or so wasted pounds on 2 below average albums.

[King of Rock II]

i've listened to room on fire over and over and over. i want to see them live some time.

[DipDipDive]

Overrated.

[mickill]

Overrated.
Wrong, douche.

They're overhyped. And underrated for that very reason. It's their gift and their curse; they get a lot of support from their record company and loads of publicity from the media, especially in the UK. Then felchers like you skim through their album and think, "NAH, I think I'll go back and listen to some more PEARL JAM instead".

[zorra_chiflada]

they're ok as far as bands go, i suppose.

[cosmo105]

What's your beef? Never seen 'em.

I loved the debut. Didn't get Room on Fire. Might get it now though just to listen.
i was really looking forward to seeing them at BFD last year. i enjoy them a lot...but Julian was so trashed that he was basically falling all over himself onstage and slurring every lyric...we left halfway through the set.

[mickill]

I saw them about a year ago. The crowd was nuts, the band was pretty mellow and the set was short (45 minutes or so). There was a clear glass ceiling at the venue, so you could see a reflection of the whole crowd from way above and it just looked like a great big human whirlpool.

[cosmo105]

Wrong, douche.

They're overhyped. And underrated for that very reason. It's their gift and their curse; they get a lot of support from their record company and loads of publicity from the media, especially in the UK. Then felchers like you skim through their album and think, "NAH, I think I'll go back and listen to some more PEARL JAM instead".
by the way, <waffles. this is so true. especially the felching part.

[pshabi]

"when we were young , i'll admit that we had fun.. always, always"

(y)
Great song
Good lyrics
Badly misquoted

"When we was young, oh man did we have fun.....always, always"

I particularly like, "And now my fears, they come to me in 3s, so I, somtimes."


Or......

"We missed the last bus, I'll take the next train, I try but you see it's hard to explain.

I say the wrong things, but act the wrong way, I like it right here but I cannot stay.

I watch the TV, forget what I'm told, I am too young, they are too old.

The joke is on you, this place is a zoo, you're right it's true."

And that video is fucking gangster.

[pshabi]

on top of this I ain't ever gonna understand.........

[DipDipDive]

Then felchers like you skim through their album and think, "NAH, I think I'll go back and listen to some more PEARL JAM instead".

You're 100% correct (but NOT about the felching part. Shut up, cosmo :mad: ). The Strokes are boring as shit and to even bring Pearl Jam up in discussion as if you're comparing the two is ridiculous.

[kezz]

i really like them.

i saw their show in sydney before bdo last year, and i have to say, i really wasnt expecting much- just going by the live stuff id seen of them ie, looking bored etc,


but they put on a really good show. i turned into a hormonal teenager for some reason. hmmm

so at bdo my sister and i lined up for ages and got soaked in the raine listening to muse and the hoodoo gurus so we could be front row. and it was sooo good.

[mickill]

You're 100% correct (but NOT about the felching part. Shut up, cosmo :mad: ). The Strokes are boring as shit and to even bring Pearl Jam up in discussion as if you're comparing the two is ridiculous.

I bet you used to stay up late at night listening to your Yield album on your headphones thinking to yourself, Hot Damn! These brothas still got it!

cosmo, <hotcakes.

[b-grrrlie]

I won the first album and a T-shirt on a crossword competition on the radio (about music of course, and I could make it without the griddle as well). I enjoyed it for a while, it's been a long time since I listened to it tho'. Never bothered to listen to the second one. The first time they played here was at the Accelerator Big One just before they got big. I had to leave before they got on because I had to go to grandma's funeral... I got so fed up with the hype so I lost interest in them pretty quick. Didn't even bother to go to see them the next time they came over, thought the tickets were too expensive.

[mca47]

You're 100% correct (but NOT about the felching part. Shut up, cosmo :mad: ). The Strokes are boring as shit and to even bring Pearl Jam up in discussion as if you're comparing the two is ridiculous.

i agree 100%
the two bands should never be mentioned in the same sentence.

[Sandinista!]

Arse-twisting dross from a group of hapless snotbags.

Listen to real music, like the Stooges or Buzzcocks instead.

[zorra_chiflada]

Arse-twisting dross from a group of hapless snotbags.

Listen to real music, like the Stooges or Buzzcocks instead.

where the shit have you been, kiddo?

[Sandinista!]

where the shit have you been, kiddo?

I've been hooked on myspace :D

Internet addictions ebb and flow, as you probably know.

[samoan_boy33]

The Strokes kick butt! That's all I gawstah say!