Skinner went to the same gig as me a few months back. He looked pretty miserable.
To call music simple is, of course, as neutral as calling music complex.
To call music simple is, of course, as neutral as calling music complex.
Music The Strokes
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
I have a button badge with it on it. I say it only when spastics are talking about the Beatles.
The Strokes first album was great though, like a breath of fresh air ... old sounds but the noise was great. Can't really give an opinion on the rest as I haven't really listened. I was more about the noise they made than the song content and structure and all that so never really pursued them. Bands like this rarely occupy me, as good as the albums are. I love them in a pop way, the Fratellis too, and even Razorlight. When they land first out of the studio it's great, exciting in a way, but there'll be another one along soon.
What a band. Looking at Brophs OP over a year ago when were they considered uncool? I must have missed that.
I think they are in America because they're rich boys.. It's never had a baring in Europe though.
They're the coolest band in the world for me. All amazing musicians and brilliant live too.
Good singles band. Their demos are always really good, particularly the first album demos. I kinda wish they hadn't been silver spoon rich kids and had ended up making more lofi records.
They've always reminded me of The Cars somewhat.
The SONG Reptilia is fecking excellent. And the 'Someday' single from the first record always makes me smile.
They've always reminded me of The Cars somewhat.
The SONG Reptilia is fecking excellent. And the 'Someday' single from the first record always makes me smile.
Shit just seen this.
They're at Reading and Leeds Festival this year so downloading some of their stuff, I quite like it
They're at Reading and Leeds Festival this year so downloading some of their stuff, I quite like it
Their 1st album is by far the best. Its brilliant. The 2nd one has a few fantastic tunes but it aint as solid as the 1st.
All downhill from then on
All downhill from then on
Pardon my ignorance but which was the 1st album?
You going to Leeds Boothy?
Aye, not done our usual threads and banter between festivals! 
Reading's shit
What do you make of the line-up?
Reading's shit
What do you make of the line-up?
Saw them support Doves around 2002 in a small club. Great live show
Strokes first two albums were great, since then, they've been shit.
Much like Reading Festival since 09.
Much like Reading Festival since 09.
Last nite reminds me of being year 8 and playing bass for about 4 hours every day after school, good times.
Machu Picchu is great.
I just stuck that new album on the iPod. Anyone gone through it yet? Any good?
I particularly like Machu Picchu, Two Kinds Of Happiness, Under Cover of Darkness and Gratifsfaction.
Saw them at Lollapalooza last year. Good live band.
Angles is pretty crap. Probably worst than the third album whatever it was called.
Only listened to it casually, Machu Picchu is very good. Its a good start to the album with the first three tracks..
I really like the album. Life is simpler in the moonlight is another great track.
Apart from the first 2 tracks, Angels is pretty rubbish for me. My least favourite Strokes album, even including Julian's solo one.
Lies. It's had some fecking cracking line ups in the past, Maiden, Foo's, 'Tallica, RatM, Muse head lined it some great years.Reading's always been shit.
As Reading and Leeds have got shitter and shitter, Download has got better and Better.
Anyway back ontopic, Strokes now suck.
Download was terrible last year...............two ancient rock bands? nothx
New album hasn't left the cd player since it arrives yesterday. Crackin' record.
Machu Picchu <3
Actually fair play to the Strokes, certainly one of the better bands of the last few years.
......hopefully a grower...
Sounds like they just took snippets of every song they've ever recorded and played them all at the same time. Then threw in A-ha's 'Take On Me' for the craic.
It works, I think...
It works, I think...
Awful song.
This is it was a great album though.
This is it was a great album though.
I love the strokes, one of my favourite bands, but that tune is fecking terrible.
Their new album's somewhere here: http://pitchfork.com/advance/48-com...strokes-20130318-nl613379061&cid=nl:613379061
Be warned, most of you shan't like it.
Be warned, most of you shan't like it.
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What kind of asshole drives a Lotus?"
Listen to it. I've heard it loads of times and it's at least as good as Angles.
The bad songs are 80s Comedown Machine, Chances and Call It Karma Call It Fate (really, poor songs IMO).
Tap Out is brilliant, 50 50 is brilliant, Welcome To Japan is also excellent. All The Time, whilst good, shouldn't be the lead track IMO. We've all heard One Way Trigger which I loved at the time. Slow Animals, Partners In Crime and Happy Ending all good too.
There's more falsetto singing from Casablancas again, but at the end of Tap Out he sings the verse in his 'normal' voice, and it sounds better to me. Although he's passing it off, I hope he reverts back for the next album.
For me it's like Angles in that the style is quite similar, but they've probably got more good songs, I'm just not sure I love any like I did Undercover of Darkness(?) and Machu Picchu which was one of my favourite Strokes songs.
Solid 7/10, well worth a listen.
What kind of asshole drives a Lotus?"
Listen to it. I've heard it loads of times and it's at least as good as Angles.
The bad songs are 80s Comedown Machine, Chances and Call It Karma Call It Fate (really, poor songs IMO).
Tap Out is brilliant, 50 50 is brilliant, Welcome To Japan is also excellent. All The Time, whilst good, shouldn't be the lead track IMO. We've all heard One Way Trigger which I loved at the time. Slow Animals, Partners In Crime and Happy Ending all good too.
There's more falsetto singing from Casablancas again, but at the end of Tap Out he sings the verse in his 'normal' voice, and it sounds better to me. Although he's passing it off, I hope he reverts back for the next album.
For me it's like Angles in that the style is quite similar, but they've probably got more good songs, I'm just not sure I love any like I did Undercover of Darkness(?) and Machu Picchu which was one of my favourite Strokes songs.
Solid 7/10, well worth a listen.
Is This It? - One of the greatest and most influential albums of all time. Near perfection.
Room On Fire - Obviously not as good as Is This It? but still an excellent album.
FIOE - A bloated mess, the worst of their albums. Way too long, way too much filler. Even the decent songs (i.e. the singles and maybe 2 or 3 others) don't match up to the better songs on the previous albums, or even some of the album tracks. I really dislike this album, such a disappointment.
Angles - Four tracks I love (Machu Picchu, UCOD, Taken For A Fool, LISITM), another track I kinda like (Gratisfaction) and the rest ranges from poor to terrible. This is the least consistent of their albums, it has some of their best songs and some of their worst. Definitely not as irritating as FIOE, I wouldn't listen to it as an album but I regularly play the better tracks. Hard to judge Angles because of the wild variations in quality but on balance an okay album.
Comedown Machine - A better album than Angles, not as good as Room On Fire. This album has the consistency Angles lacked but none of the tracks are quite as good as Angle's best. 80's Comedown Machine is the only song I strongly dislike. The best tracks are Tap Out, One Way Trigger and Welcome To Japan. All The Time is good and the most "Strokes-y" song on the album but is their weakest lead single bar Juicebox. 50 50 is good but lacks the killer chorus that would make it great, Slow Animals is a grower, Chances is quite a pretty song and is a nice comedown moment, Partners In Crime and Happy Endings are both good too. CIFCIK is the strangest song on the album and reminds me a bit of Tom Waits. Don't particularly like it but it doesn't really bother me either, bit of a nothing song.
I really wish Casablancas wouldn't sing in falsetto though, it makes it harder to like a lot of the songs (I couldn't stand One Way Trigger at first, mostly because of his voice)
Room On Fire - Obviously not as good as Is This It? but still an excellent album.
FIOE - A bloated mess, the worst of their albums. Way too long, way too much filler. Even the decent songs (i.e. the singles and maybe 2 or 3 others) don't match up to the better songs on the previous albums, or even some of the album tracks. I really dislike this album, such a disappointment.
Angles - Four tracks I love (Machu Picchu, UCOD, Taken For A Fool, LISITM), another track I kinda like (Gratisfaction) and the rest ranges from poor to terrible. This is the least consistent of their albums, it has some of their best songs and some of their worst. Definitely not as irritating as FIOE, I wouldn't listen to it as an album but I regularly play the better tracks. Hard to judge Angles because of the wild variations in quality but on balance an okay album.
Comedown Machine - A better album than Angles, not as good as Room On Fire. This album has the consistency Angles lacked but none of the tracks are quite as good as Angle's best. 80's Comedown Machine is the only song I strongly dislike. The best tracks are Tap Out, One Way Trigger and Welcome To Japan. All The Time is good and the most "Strokes-y" song on the album but is their weakest lead single bar Juicebox. 50 50 is good but lacks the killer chorus that would make it great, Slow Animals is a grower, Chances is quite a pretty song and is a nice comedown moment, Partners In Crime and Happy Endings are both good too. CIFCIK is the strangest song on the album and reminds me a bit of Tom Waits. Don't particularly like it but it doesn't really bother me either, bit of a nothing song.
I really wish Casablancas wouldn't sing in falsetto though, it makes it harder to like a lot of the songs (I couldn't stand One Way Trigger at first, mostly because of his voice)
Two new tracks in the build up to their first album in seven years. The second of which lifts from Billy idol, for some reason.