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albummaster
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- #1
- Posted: 02/18/2013 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#825): Is This It by The Strokes
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Today's album of the day
Is This It by The Strokes (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 2001.
Overall rank: 27.
Average rating: 85/100 (from 789 votes).
Tracks:
1. Is This It
2. The Modern Age
3. Soma
4. Barely Legal
5. Someday
6. Alone, Together
7. Last Nite
8. Hard To Explain
9. New York City Cops
10. Trying Your Luck
11. Take It Or Leave It
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.
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- #2
- Posted: 02/18/2013 21:00
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Nope.
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RFNAPLES
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Age: 76
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MrFrogger
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- #4
- Posted: 02/18/2013 21:17
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Man I love this album, at one point it was in my top 10, but not anymore. The Strokes have never topped this.
Good album
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- #5
- Posted: 02/18/2013 21:22
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I really wasn't that familiar with The Strokes before listening to this, so I wasn't expecting much, but man, was it a surprise! If I had to desribe that album in three words, those would be "shitload of fun". The two opening songs are pretty good, the riff of the title track somewhat reminded me of Where Is My Mind, The Modern Age gives all the reasons why these guys are being compared to The Velvet Underground, but when Soma begins, this is really when it kicks in for good! Especially the trio of Last Nite (dat guitar solo...), Hard To Explain and New York City Cops is excellent. True, lyrically, while honest and heartfelt, it's not something groundbreaking, but it's obvious that what the dudes were aiming at was rocking it hard. And they did it so well that they actually brought garage back to the game! 100% enjoyment-not totally perfect, but somewhat close.
Last edited by useless on 02/18/2013 21:25; edited 1 time in total
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Hayden
Location: Vietnam 
- #6
- Posted: 02/18/2013 21:22
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| MrFrogger wrote: | Man I love this album, at one point it was in my top 10, but not anymore. The Strokes have never topped this.
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Except my blurb ends with "Amazing album". Sometimes I wonder whether this album was actually made by the Stokes based on their future albums...
New York City Cops, Is This It & Take It Or Leave it are my favourites.
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pearljammer13
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- #7
- Posted: 02/18/2013 21:33
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This album kicks multiple boatloads of asses.
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19loveless91
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- #8
- Posted: 02/18/2013 21:48
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If you don't like this album, you don't like fun
BAM! You've just been Jhereko'd. Or Necharsianed or whatever
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- #9
- Posted: 02/18/2013 22:02
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I only recently listened to this for the first time based on how well it's liked around here. I enjoyed it and it was a lot of fun but I think it's a little overrated.
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- #10
- Posted: 02/18/2013 22:08
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Perfect album, not a single track that's even below great. Contains several stretches of absolute perfection and is one of the best rock albums ever made. I actually stand in a strange camp of people who like every Strokes album to some degree, but this one is the clear best.
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