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- #1
- Posted: 03/21/2021 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3745): Angles by The Strokes
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Today's album of the day
Angles by The Strokes (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 2011.
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Overall rank: 932
Average rating: 72/100 (from 792 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Machu Picchu
2. Under Cover Of Darkness
3. Two Kinds Of Happiness
4. You're So Right
5. Taken For A Fool
6. Games
7. Call Me Back
8. Gratisfaction
9. Metabolism
10. Life Is Simple In The Moonlight
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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- Posted: 03/21/2021 20:09
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'Under Cover of Darkness', 'Life is Simple in the Moonlight', 'Taken for a Fool', and especially 'Gratisfaction' are truly great songs. The rest ranges from just about tolerable ('Machu Picchu') to total dumpster fire (everything else). 'Gratisfaction' is incredible: The Strokes doing bouncy, pretend-drunk Thin Lizzy worship, but cooler. It's maybe their best song that isn't on the debut. Casablancas even affects Lynott's cadence at times, and they do the dual-guitar thing. It's amazing.
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- Posted: 03/21/2021 20:13
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I made a 30-song playlist of Strokes songs I actually really like, and the debut takes up ten songs, Room on Fire has five, and this one and the last one have four each. Therefore it's basically equal third in their discography.
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- Posted: 03/22/2021 00:01
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| Skinny wrote: | | I made a 30-song playlist of Strokes songs I actually really like, and the debut takes up ten songs, Room on Fire has five, and this one and the last one have four each. Therefore it's basically equal third in their discography. |
Nothing from First Impressions of Earth, Comedown Machine, or Future Present Past? It's been a while since I listened to either Angles or Comedown Machine, but I recall enjoying Comedown Machine better overall. Maybe like you said, the highs are good on Angles but the lows really drag it down.
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- Posted: 03/22/2021 02:07
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| Skinny wrote: | | I made a 30-song playlist of Strokes songs I actually really like, and the debut takes up ten songs, Room on Fire has five, and this one and the last one have four each. Therefore it's basically equal third in their discography. |
I probably would've made the same playlist with half the songs.
I feel like this band was a bit hyped up. Really exciting at the time. Waaaaay less exciting now. Like don't get me wrong, their debut deserves it's place, but as artists/musicians/whatever they aren't that interesting to me. They were important to the garage rock revival (the 800th wave... hehe), and that's really the only reason most people care they exist. White Stripes were considerably more interesting.
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- Posted: 03/29/2021 19:55
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This is the first album of the "New Strokes", as I like to call them. The first one where they moved away from the garage rock sound and into the more synth driven, modern sounding rock music, with Casablancas using his higher register notably more often. It's the sound they've been using ever since, and this is the first, messy version of it.
It is definitely uneven but it has some serious bangers, most notably Under Cover of Darkness, but there are several interesting songs. However, I feel like they've done this sound so much better on Comedown Machine and esp on The New Abnormal.
I find it interesting that Skinny likes Gratification that much, it's never been one of my favourites. Taken For A Fool is greath though.
And no, The White Stripes aren't remotely more interesting than The Strokes.
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