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Is This It |  | Artist: The Strokes
Label: Rough Trade
Category: Music
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Rating:  150 reviews
Sales Rank: 405
Format: Extra tracks
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5050294107621
ASIN: B00005N53P
Release Date: August 27, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Is This It | | • | The Modern Age | | • | Soma | | • | Barely Legal | | • | Someday | | • | Alone, Together | | • | Last Nite | | • | Hard To Explain | | • | New York City Cops | | • | Trying Your Luck | | • | Take It Or Leave It |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
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 IIs This It?/I. On the strength of just five songs, released over two singles, the Strokes were being hailed as everything from the saviours of rock roll to the Saviour Himself. Surely, few bands could live up to the impossibly high standards set for this young five-piece, but they needn't have worried: IIs This It?/I 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 such as the title track, "Soma", "Hard to Explain" and the altogether wonderful "Barely Legal", while the band recall the likes of Television and the Stooges on "NYC Cops", "Last Night" and "The Modern Age". Sexy, stylish and undeniably cool, here's hoping that the Strokes are the future of rock roll. I--Robert Burrow/I
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 The best rock and roll band for twenty years December 31, 2001
Ian Shone (Ian_Shone@hotmail.com) (Liverpool, England)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I saw the Strokes play the Liverpool L2, and had the privelege of meeting them after the show. They were cool, handsome, affable, and utterly brilliant performers. I bought the album the next day and was blown away. There is not one song on this album that is not at the very least amazing. My favourite song is whichever track is playing at the moment - it's that consistent. It's a wonderful throwback to garage rockers like the Stooges, and to the CBGB scene of the late seventies, with inventive chord progressions, bass-led harmonies, bluesy guitar solos, and witty lyrics that are sometimes funny and sometimes so sad. Someday and Trying Your Luck are achingly beautiful, while The Modern Age, Last Nite and New York City Cops are clever, self assured, and very much rocking. The album is so good that it seems wrong to single out songs...it's tuneful, sexy, and after so much boring jangly Dadrock and idiotic commercial 'punk' clogging up the charts, it's great to see a real rock and roll band finally kicking out the jams. It's the best album I've heard since the Doors' debut LP...and it doesn't get any better than that.
So Catchy October 23, 2001
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I love this CD. I bought it spontaneously after hearing NOTHING of theirs, just read a few good reviews and decided to take a chance. I'm so glad that I have. Okay, so while you're listening to it, you think that sounds a bit like such and such and everyone has said how derivative it is...but at the end of the day, so what? It's just damn catchy music. Great to start your day with on your discman because it just puts you in a good frame of mind. Now if i can only wean myself off it. After seeing what other Strokes fans had purchased I also bought the White Stripes White Blood Cells totally on speculation and though they arent overly similar to The Strokes, I have to say that it's a really enjoyable and raw sounding album too. Great Stuff.
I can't stop playing this April 3, 2002
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Forget what has been written about the band in the press, if it's putting you off buying this. So what if it's not completely original - what music is? This is an exciting, vibrant, pulsating gem of a record. Other people have said they've not felt this excited since Oasis' debut in '94. I'd go back to '89 and say not since The Stone Roses have I felt so excited about a record or a band.pIf you like your rock fast, simple, and fun, filled with enthusiasm and life, then this is the album to buy. It's not rocket science, sure, but it is better than a lot of what's out there at the moment.pIf you like your rock contemplative and meaningful (like I usually do) then give it a chance. Don't be a rock snob, get Is This It and revitalise your life!!!pWe'll see if they do turn out to be the saviours of rock, but for now they are enough to make me glad to have ears.
Great, but ignore the hype August 28, 2001
A. Moore
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Listen... ignore the hype, this is just a good album by a good band. That's it.p11 great songs. Short, sweet, to the point: start, say what you need to, short solo, end. Perfect, really.pCasablancas sometimes sounds a bit like Iggy, occasionally phrases his words like Lou Reed on the last 2 Velvets albums. Most of the time he sounds like himself... the kind of drawl no British singer could get away with.pSometimes the guitar player plays 'slash guitar' like Lou usta do live. Occasionally the band sound like Television, if they had been forced to make songs averaging 3 minutes long, not 5.pBut when it comes down to it, what we have here is a good rock band playing solid songs in an addictive way. The record's just been released but I got a promo copy 2 months ago and everyone that's heard it - Goths, pop kids, HipHop fans and Alt Rock fans - are going out to buy it (or at least have taken a copy). Even after 2 months, I can't bring myself to skip a track when I play it.pIt might only be 36 minutes long but it's worth every penny. And the cover art's great too. Buy it...
the greatest record of the last five records February 17, 2006
David Johnson (Buenos Aires)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Sometimes I wish reviewers would just tell like it is. I live in Argentina and I am largely immune to the dross written in the British and American music press. This group are the best thing to happen to pop music since the early 90#180;s.br Punchy, absurdly melodic pop songs that defy belief.br Weighing in at just over half an hour this album smacks of a band desperate to show you everything they#180;ve got in their armoury. I like the way they start with the low-key yet beautifully lacrymose "Is this It." Every single tracks builds to a transcendent melody."The Modern Age," leads in excellently to,"Soma."br A personal favourite is,"Someday," the riff has a anthemic quality to it but the lyrics are movingly distant and understated.br Most of the songs are about love and distant relationships which is comfortable territory for a first record but the slant on everything is somehow distinct to most of the other predictable bands around at the moment. Someone told me they#180;ve been compared to The Velvet Underground. The person who said that obviously has never listened to The Velvet Underground. br The great thing about this album is the way the guitarists work is tandem.It all sounds so simple but yet they compliment each brilliantly, Nick Valensi provides the drive, whilst Albert Hammond Jnr chips in with his quirky little riffs that keep the listener constantly entertained. The bass player knows what he#180;s doing as well. Anyone who#180;s seen them live knows how well they work together as a unit.br They also know how to stop a track, this album never drags, each tune zips along as if they are ready to get on to the next one. Julian#180;s vocal style is undeniably cool, he brims with confidence and I love the way he throws the odd word in completely against the beat a.k.a Mark E Smith.br Anyone with a genuine love of music will warm to this. So what if they dress cool, isn#180;t that what Rock and Roll#180;s meant to be all about about? I hope this lot are here to staybr Dave
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