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pyt Presents:
Artist: The Strokes
Album: Indianapolis, IN 0507
Record Label: PYT Live
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Street Date: 05/07/2004
Ripped Date: 07/02/2004
Genre: Indie
Year: 2004
Ripper: pyt
Source: Other
Encoder: EAC/Lame 3.93
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Release Information
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Equally inspired by classic tunesmiths like Buddy Holly and
John Lennon as well as the attitude and angular riffs of
fellow New Yorkers Television and the Velvet Underground,
the Strokes were also equally blessed and cursed with an
enormous amount of hype -- particularly from the U.K. music
press, whose adulation for the group rivaled their fervor
for Oasis in the early '90s. Barely in their twenties by the
time their debut album Is This It? arrived in 2001,
singer/songwriter Julian Casablancas, guitarists Nick
Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr., bassist Nikolai Fraiture,
and drummer Fabrizio Moretti's success wasn't quite of the
overnight variety, but it still arrived pretty swiftly.
Casablancas (the son of Elite modeling agency kingpin John
Casablancas), Moretti (who began playing drums at age five),
and Valensi started playing together in 1998 while they
attended Manhattan's private prep school Dwight School. Soon
after they met Fraiture, who attended the Upper East Side's
Le Cest Francais, and added him to their ranks. Hammond (the
son of singer/songwriter Albert Hammond, whose songs include
"It Never Rains in Southern California," "When I Need You,"
and "To All the Girls I've Loved Before") came from Los
Angeles to attend film school at N.Y.U. and was invited into
the band by Casablancas; the two met at L'Institut Le Rosey
in Switzerland when they were kids. Casablancas officially
christened the quintet the Strokes in 1999, and the group
spent most of that year writing and rehearsing material in
New York City's Music Building. They made their live debut
that fall at the Spiral, and word of mouth about the
Strokes' incendiary live show propelled them to gigs at
venues like Under the Acme, Lower East Side clubs such as
Arlene Grocery, Baby Jupiter, and N.Y.C.'s Luna. The band's
December 2000 dates at the Mercury Lounge and the Bowery
Ballroom not only gained them a manager (Ryan Gentles, who
booked them at those clubs), but also helped Strokes-mania
reach critical mass in New York. Rough Trade released the
group's three-song demo as The Modern Age EP in January
2001, which sparked a bidding war from which RCA emerged as
the victors. Meanwhile, the Strokes' acclaim reached the
U.K. and grew to massive proportions over the course of the
year. NME quickly championed the band, profiling them
several times that spring and summer as the Strokes' live
act and singles like Hard to Explain (which debuted at
number 16 in the U.K. charts) won them a rabid British
following. That spring, the band also completed their first
U.S. tour as the opening act for the Doves and proceeded to
play dates with Guided By Voices and And You Will Know Us By
the Trail of Dead in the U.S. and the U.K. The group's
popularity continued to snowball in the U.K., with a side
stage slot at the NME Carling Weekender changed to a main
stage performance for fear of people trampling each other to
see the band. In late summer of that year, Rough Trade
released Is This It? with an album cover featuring a sexy,
Helmut Newton-esque photo of a woman's nude behind and hip
with a leather-gloved hand resting on it; the U.K. chains
Woolworth's and HMV objected to its controversial nature.
The U.S. version of Is This It? was released in October and
featured a few changes from the U.K. edition. The Strokes
opted for an abstract pattern on the cover and removed the
song "NYC Cops," feeling the song was inappropriate in the
wake of the terrorist attacks that struck New York prior to
the album's release; the planned B-side "When It Started"
took its place. The group closed out the fall with an
extended tour of the U.S., culminating with a Halloween gig
at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom. The remainder of 2001
and 2002 saw the group's profile continue to rise. Is This
It? and the Strokes were lauded in many ways, ranging from
This Isn't It, an EP of instrumental versions of some of the
album's songs performed by a mystery band called the
Diff'rent Strokes (Pulp's Jarvis Cocker was rumored to be a
member) to 2001 NME Carling Awards for Best New Act , Band
of the Year and Album
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Track Listing:
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No. Time Track Title
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01 2:07 A Salty Salute
02 3:35 Whatever Happened
03 4:18 Someday
04 3:45 Automatic Stop
05 3:39 The Modern Age
06 2:26 12:51
07 4:37 NYC Cops
08 4:52 Trying Your Luck
09 5:35 I Can't Win
10 3:42 The End Has No End
11 3:28 You Talk Way Too Much
12 5:29 Barely Legal
13 3:04 Under Control
14 3:59 Last Nite
15 3:51 Alone Together
16 3:36 The Way It Is
17 2:39 Is This It?
18 4:46 Hard To Explain
19 4:11 Reptilia
20 4:03 Take It Or Leave It
CD Time: 1hr17min .. Total Size: 106MB
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