Music CD - The Strokes: Is This It

	Music CD: Is This It Artist: The Strokes List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $4.81 Your Save: $ 7.17 ( 60% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: RCA
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Tracks: 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
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0078636810126 Label: RCA Manufacturer: RCA Number Of Discs: 1 Publication Date: 2001 Publisher: RCA Release Date: 2001-10-09 Studio: RCA
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: It's all been done...Better and harder. Comment: Is this IT?!!! Too bad. The English Invasion (by the Beatles) spawned a bunch of bands who supposedly "all sounded alike", at least to the casual listener. Now we have the "New Rock", and I see what those people meant. The Strokes (like The Hives, The Kill, and The Yeah,Yeah, Yeahs) are weak (though The YYYs DO rock much harder than the rest) and pathetically derivative.....I bought this album hoping to get a dose of the "new" sound of rock that The Strokes are said to exemplify.. ...I did, and it is nothing new, or special. These are not the Rolling Stones, or Ramones, or New York Dolls, or even the (early) ZZ Top of the 21st century, definitely not a band with a raw edge, or even anything new or interesting to impart musically... this is the new Partridge Family, or The Monkees, a band who sees top-40 radio play as THE measure of "success". If you like to rock out, this ain't the disc for you. (Try The Black Keys, or Donita Sparks new album) Customer Rating: Summary: The Strokes Comment: This is a good album. A few of the songs don't stick with you, but overall it is good. Customer Rating: Summary: Catchy Comment: This was the only CD I bough of the Strokes so far, but it was well worth it. Some of the catchiest tunes that I have ever heard, probably a little inappropriate in some, but you can hardly find a CD or movie without language these days unless you want to go pure Gospel and Religious. Customer Rating: Summary: Rip off artists Comment: You can find all these tunes in better form on old classic rock and R&B recordings from the 50s thru to the 70s. How on earth these guys were ever considered the "saviors of rock" is beyond me other than as a really great marketing ploy. They've added absolutely nothing to rock. Many of the riffs and rhythms are catchy, because they're ripped directly from really cool music from decades ago. Beyond that, it's minimalist boring 'garage' rock that any 16 year old with a guitar could re-create. Customer Rating: Summary: Simply Beautiful Comment: The Strokes are one of my favorite bands. They keep it real with simple melodies and smooth groove rhythms, backing the humble, incisive lyrics of Julian Casablancas. If you're tired of the overproduced, pandering to the masses mold that encompases the vast majority of todays top 10 lists, give this one a try. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: 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