Is This It

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FACT placed it at number two behind Burial's Untrue in its editorial list of the 100Best: Albums of the Decade, [81] while Billboard featured it at number three in its critics' picks of the 20 Best Albums of the 2000s. Arriving on a wave of well-earned hype rooted in tight chops and a confident swagger, the Strokes offer a rock and roll antidote to the plague of boy bands, teen divas, and petulant rap-rock outfits. Best version I've heard (I have UK and US originals, both RJ-Sterling, as well as the SST mastered European original). The album received widespread critical acclaim, with many critics praising it for its charisma and rhythm, which often referenced the works of 1970s garage rock bands.

The same year, The Observer included Is This It at number four in its Albums of the Decade list, [79] while Uncut ranked it at number five in its list of The 150Greatest Albums of the 21st Century. By 2000, all band members had part-time jobs and were practicing new material several nights a week in a small hired recording space. To my ears the generic repress sounds much better and has a fuller/crisper analog sound then the MOV version which sounds kinda flat and compressed. It's a spontaneous recording, not the audiophile experience, something that I am sad about as in the right hands, it could very well have been a sonic masterpiece too. The Strokes chose to replace the song "New York City Cops" on the CD version of the album with a newly recorded song, " When It Started", after they witnessed the "valiant response" of the city's police department during the tragedy.COM | THE RCA RECORDS LABEL IS A UNIT OF BMG ENTERTAINMENT TMK(S) ® REGISTERED | MARCA(S) REGISTRADA(S) [RCA LOGO] ® GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. Casablancas's stepfather and Moretti's and Fraiture's older brothers introduced the quartet to the music of reggae artist Bob Marley, protopunk group the Velvet Underground, and alternative rock band Jane's Addiction. This is a brash sounding album of a garage rock band that was recorded in a basement studio on reasonably budget equipment. It was recorded at Transporterraum in New York City with producer Gordon Raphael during March and April 2001. Soma" incorporates jerky rhythms and starts and ends with the same guitar and drum chimes, [14] while "Barely Legal" contains some of the album's softer guitar melodies inspired by Britpop as well as drumming patterns that evoke the sound of primitive 1980s drum machines.

I haven’t taken these out of the plastic sleeve they came in yet, so I’m assuming he’s telling the truth. In 2007, Q included the record at number21 in its editorial staff list of the 21Albums That Changed Music.

In his favorable A− review, David Browne of Entertainment Weekly conceded that he did not know whether the Strokes would have a long-term impact, but noted that, at the time, the record "just feels right, and sometimes that's enough". British label Rough Trade Records was impressed by the songs and released them as a January 2001 extended play titled The Modern Age. I just bought a version that has this jacket, no mention of MoV anywhere, but based on the matrix in the dead wax they used the Music on Vinyl metalwork of this release https://www.