Artist.......: The Strokes
Album........: You're So Right
Label........: (P) 2011 RCA Records
Genre........: Alternative
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: WEB
Rip.date.....: 2011-03-06
Str.date.....: 2011-03-04
Quality......: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Full Stereo
Url..........: http://new.thestrokes.com/
track title time
1. You're So Right 2:33
Runtime 02:33
Size 5.93
Release Notes:
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 Model Agency Group kingpin John Casablancas),
Moretti (who began playing drums at age five), and Valensi started playing
together in 1998 while they attended the Dwight School, a private prep school in
Manhattan. Soon thereafter they met Fraiture, who attended the Upper East Side's
Lycee Franτais, 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 NYU 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
Luna. The Strokes' 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 became their champions, 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 its 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 "New
York City 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
of the Year. The band toured extensively throughout 2002, including a series of
dates that summer in New York and Detroit with the White Stripes, summer
festivals at Reading and Leeds, and a string of gigs supporting Weezer, some of
which were canceled due to a leg injury Casablancas suffered. During these
shows, their fall tour, and their dates opening for the Rolling Stones, the
Strokes debuted some new songs, including "Meet Me in the Bathroom," "You Talk
Way Too Much," and "The Way It Is."
By March 2003, the band was ready to start recording its new album, but instead
of working with Is This It producer Gordon Raphael as previously reported, the
Strokes began recording with Nigel Godrich of Radiohead and Beck fame. That May,
however, the Strokes' sessions with Godrich came to an end, and they returned to
Raphael to finish the album, Room on Fire. The single 12:51 introduced the more
meticulous, new wave-inspired sound of Room on Fire, which arrived in fall 2003.
Just before the album's release, the Strokes hit the road once again, taking
Kings of Leon with them. Early in 2006, they returned with the even poppier and
more polished First Impressions of Earth. The band took a hiatus after the tour
for that album, with each member working on other projects. Albert Hammond, Jr.
was the first to venture into the solo fray with Yours to Keep, which was
released in late 2006 in the U.K. and in early 2007 in the U.S.; he followed it
with 2008's Como Te Llama?. Fabrizio Moretti played with the indie pop band
Little Joy, whose self-titled album arrived in late 2008. Nikolai Fraiture
embarked on the folky solo project Nickel Eye, and released the debut Time of
the Assassins in early 2009. Later that year, the Strokes announced they were
heading back into the studio; that summer came news of Julian Casablancas' own
solo album, Phrazes for the Young, which arrived in fall 2009.