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Is This It by: The Strokes List Price: $11.98 CD-Charts Price: $8.97 You Save: $3.01 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0078636810126 Label: RCA Manufacturer: RCA Number Of Discs: 1 Publication Date: 2001 Publisher: RCA Release Date: October 09, 2001 Studio: RCA Sales Rank: 2211 MPN: 68101 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com's Best of 2001: 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 Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Excellent!Arguing about whether the songs/this album is good or bad is meaningless. Everyone is different and like different things. Whether you like or dislike something is unlikely to sway me. So, all I want to say is I really like the album. I first heard this band from the video game Rock Band and immediately started looking up their work. I've got this one and Impressions so far. What stands out about them are the vocals, Casablancas doesn't sing the words, he shouts them into the mic making them slightly distorted, and what I really like are the guitar rhythms and riffs, very catching. Like any composition, it really isn't the individual pieces that sound good, it's the combination of all the pieces of the band that make ... Read More: Rating:  - More Boring Than Coldplay, Nickelback, and Linkin Park, COMBINEDThis album, it seems, will probably be regarded for a while as being a classic. I stand by my stance that I really don't care for negative reviews as much, because music is enjoyable to other people, that I can understand. But, this? Only if you were dead or in a coma. This infernal piece of _______ lacks everything that makes up music. Most people could easily just knock them for the fact they are derived, unimaginative music that doesn't have an ounce of creativity. I don't even know WHO influenced these clowns, as the fact they seem to have no inspiration in their music and don't take their influences and make an interesting, or a sound that sounds great and has a value to it. These guys are probably as derivative as you can ... Read More: Rating:  - The album title.......pretty much sums up how I felt when I listened to this album. Yes, I know I'm arriving late to the whole "Strokes" scene. But it was recommended to me by Amazon so I decided to give it a listen. My first thought was "which song is one I would have heard before?" you know, just to put a sound with the name. So I looked through, trying to recognize a title. Nope. So I played the first 15-20 seconds of each song trying to recognize one. Nope. So I listened to the whole album... and that is when I discovered why I have not heard any of The Strokes' music before: it sounds like countless other bands I've heard. Maybe I HAVE heard them before, but I wouldn't know it, because it doesn't stand out. I'm not saying that ... Read More: Rating:  - MehNot much here. The whole album is very repititous. All in all it's standard, and not much more. I wouldn't mind the standard chords and rather bland instrumentation if the lyrics were there to back it, but they aren't. As another reviewer said, there's nothing here that's new or innovative. That said it's not horrendous, but also not particularly enjoyable. Rating: - Awesome Album; cracked CD caseThe album is great. The product from Amazon came with a crack in the case - not impressed. |
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