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- #1
- Posted: 02/11/2021 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3708): The New Abnormal by The Strokes
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Today's album of the day
The New Abnormal by The Strokes (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 2020.
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Overall rank: 971
Average rating: 83/100 (from 559 votes).
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Tracks:
1. The Adults Are Talking
2. Selfless
3. Brooklyn Bridge To Chorus
4. Bad Decisions
5. Eternal Summer
6. At The Door
7. Why Are Sundays So Depressing
8. Not The Same Anymore
9. Ode To The Mets
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Mercury
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EyeKanFly
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- #3
- Posted: 02/11/2021 22:01
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IMO The Stroke's best since Room on Fire. It's definitely a solid album, but so many great albums came out last year that it really surprises me that this one sits at #1 (especially considering the Fiona Apple album was really solid and highly acclaimed).
"Ode to the Mets" is probably my favorite Strokes song.
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DommeDamian
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CharlieBarley
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- #5
- Posted: 02/11/2021 23:56
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Love this album
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Keatownrodriguez
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- #6
- Posted: 02/12/2021 00:43
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Having At The Door as the sort of climax to this record along with the quick length and mastery of their sound makes this easily my favorite Strokes project
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- Posted: 02/12/2021 12:12
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By far the best album of 2020 and easily on par with Is This It, possibly even a fraction better. Such a wonderful mix of all the sounds The Strokes have been exploring in their career and the songwriting is just as brilliant.
The Adults Are Talking, At The Door and Ode To The Mets are all perfect songs and among their best, with another 3-4 songs close behind.
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- #8
- Posted: 02/12/2021 12:40
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Respect the love for this album, but like EyeCanFly, for me it was more a welcome return to form than a genuine AOTY contender. I'd much rather see Apple, Bridgers or even Swift up in the number one spot ( that said, I can't claim to have listened to that many of the generally accepted AOTY contenders released last year).
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- Posted: 02/12/2021 13:26
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It's not bad, which was an unexpected achievement for The Strokes in 2020. It might even be better than Room On Fire. The idea that it stands up next to Is This It, mind, is plainly absurd. That album was a near perfect mix of The Modern Lovers and The Cars and Television, full of bulletproof songwriting, at a time when guitar-based indie rock was a largely directionless tangle of mildly exploratory post-Britpop or increasingly sanded down neo-psychedelia, usually made by dudes well into their thirties. It really is no exaggeration to say that The Strokes, with their skinny jeans and garage rock riffs and extremely catchy three-minute pop songs about being young and not giving a fuck, were revolutionary in a way, inspiring a legion of copycats (particularly in Britain) who had neither the chops nor the innate sense of cool to pull it off. However, time shouldn't be allowed to dilute its greatness - it still bangs from start to finish. It's interesting that the only two decent Strokes records since, this and the aforementioned Room On Fire, are the ones which try to stick most closely to that Modern Lovers/Cars/Television formula, albeit with understandably diminishing returns.
This is a fine record, full of well-crafted pop songs and comfortingly familiar sounds, but it most certainly is not ...It.
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- #10
- Posted: 02/12/2021 13:52
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This is a fine record, full of well-crafted pop songs and comfortingly familiar sounds, but it most certainly is not ...It. |
Hahahahah this was such a great punchline. While I agree that the impact of Is This It is huge and that the cool factor of that album is apsolutely of the charts, I guess from a purely subjective view of my enjoyment when listening to those records, I feel they are about equal. Of course The New Abnormal will never reach the heights of the debut in terms of overall influence, greatness and importance, but it still packs a punch and offers on a smaller scale a similar feeling of "this is what modern rock music should sound like".
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