Is This It

Is This It Artist: The Strokes
Label: RCA
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Limited Edition
Media: LP Record
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 078636804514
EAN: 0078636804514
ASIN: B00005NIE1


Release Date: 2001-01-01

Is This It


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Tracks:

  1. Is This It
  2. Modern Age
  3. Soma
  4. Barely Legal
  5. Someday
  6. Alone, Together
  7. Last Nite
  8. Hard to Explain
  9. When It Started
  10. Trying Your Luck
  11. Take It or Leave It

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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 <I>Is This It</I>. 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: <I>Is This It</I> 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. <I>--Robert Burrow</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Fun, fast and punchy - 4.5 stars.......2007-05-13

I remember getting this back in 2001 when everyone and their dog were stumbling all over themselves proclaiming The Strokes saviors and future of rock and the best thing since sliced bread. Unfair as it may be, all that hideous overexposure and ubiquity only served to set me against The Strokes because personally I just couldn't see what the fuss was about. Now that the hype around the band has dimmed and the music press are busy pushing other fresh new things into the spotlight, I could finally enjoy "Is This It" for what it is, a highly enjoyable collection of energetic, catchy guitar songs that borrow heavily from the rock'n'roll past - Television, Stooges - but still manage to sound modern and fresh. The album does start to suffer from sameness by the end especially when it comes to Julian Casablancas' monotone slacker delivery, but it's not much of a problem since "Is This It" wraps itself neatly in just over 35 minutes. Original? No, just like 99.9999% bands (some of them great) out there. Fun to tap your foot to? Heck yeah.

5 out of 5 stars Strokes best.......2007-03-09

One of the best album's to come out in the last 10 years

5 out of 5 stars What A Debut!.......2007-01-14

With a million units sold, it is still merely considered gold. Platinum is what it should be if you ask me. This band could not have had a better debut or the world would have stopped. It is a classic album, with great tunes that talk about simple things like chasing after girls, walking out the door and chasing that girl no longer, getting wasted, and missing old days hanging out with friends. If it wasnt for this album........what would have saved modern rock? Paul McCartney? Oasis? Actually, nothing would have. Right now we would have rock that was created by computer sounds. Thank god for THE STROKES!!!!

1 out of 5 stars all the young dudes.......2007-01-06

How could so many people regard those lads as the saviours of rock and roll?Does it need to be saved at all?There is much more interesting music that branched off rock'n'roll anyway.Look beyond the messy hairstyles,the unironed shirts with loose neckties and ripped converse's.The prep school drop-out image is getting so worn out.There is a huge wave of manufactured rock bands for the past few years and The Strokes were among the first successful breakthrough's.After three albums, the sound has barely evolved, and it doesn't even rock,with couple of exceptions.What pisses me off the most is when they are compared with The Libertines, perhaps the only important act that came out of the alleged punk revival thing.The Libertines had Pete Doherty, hence the substance, they carry a message.Not to mention that their rough sound is so catchy and authentic.Work on your taste,don't believe the industry.

5 out of 5 stars

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