The Strokes

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New York City (1998 – present)

The Strokes are a five-piece band hailing from New York City, made up of Nikolai Fraiture (bass), Julian Casablancas (vocals), Albert Hammond Jr. (guitar), and Nick Valensi (guitar), and Fabrizio Moretti (drums).

The band formed in 1998 and rose to fame in the early 2000s as a leading group in the “garage rock revival”. Their The Modern Age EP kick-started a wave of hype that saw their 2001 debut record, Is This It, achieve massive world-wide success, initiating an explosion of New York punk attitude and catchy pop structures in modern day rock music. NME made Is This It their “Album of the Year”. They were hailed by music critics, including Rolling Stone, as the “saviors of rock and roll”.

The Strokes released Is This It in the US in October 2001 on RCA after some delay due to changes made from the UK released version (released 27th August 2001). The cover of the latter features a black-and-white photo of a gloved hand on a woman’s naked backside, shown in semi-profile, and is said to reference Spinal Tap’s fictitious Smell the Glove. The North American version replaces this with an image of particle collisions and the song “New York City Cops” with “When It Started”. The replacement of “New York City Cops”, which contains the refrain “New York City Cops, they ain’t too smart”, was made in good faith following the September 11 attacks.

After the release of Is This It the band toured around the world, featuring dates in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and North America, staging for the Rolling Stones.

1	Reptilia	7,034
2	You Only Live Once	6,166
3	What Ever Happened full track	6,002
4	Someday	5,455
5	Juicebox	5,308
6	Heart in a Cage	4,596
7	12:51	4,516
8	Is This It	4,312
9	Hard to Explain	4,256
10	When It Started full track	4,150
11	Last Nite	3,685
12	Soma	3,626
13	Barely Legal	3,625
14	The Modern Age	3,559
15	Razorblade	3,214

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Room on Fire
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First Impressions of Earth
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ripplemusic wrote:
yesterday afternoon

If you dig music like these guys, come check us out at the From the Garage Group, a new group dedicated to rocking music from the world's garages. We're new and growing. http://www.last.fm/group/From+The+Garage

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ShiningNSilent wrote:
yesterday morning

''mercy mercy me'' great cover by the strokes

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MiguelFD wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

The best album is IS THIS IT so far!

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millerzinho wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

Best band of the 00's so far!!

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Arianeee wrote:
Wednesday morning

I miss them so much...

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in-vizible wrote:
Wednesday morning

it's really hard to explain !

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Rodrigo_Hendrix wrote:
Wednesday morning

\o/

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DalastStroke wrote:
Wednesday morning

*****These guys r HARD 3 EXPLAINE***** 2 GOOD 2 B TRUTH

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yellostella wrote:
Wednesday morning

one of THE best

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DantonUk wrote:
Tuesday evening

Best Band.(L) Vision of Division

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nili1 wrote:
Tuesday morning

Best band of the 00's so far!!

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Bolshevized wrote:
Monday evening

God, what's wrong with this site? This band is another example of the more recent material being more popular than you'd otherwise expect. Room on Fire is the most listened to, and Is This It, their legacy album, is only 20,000 listeners ahead of First Impressions of Earth: almost in last place!

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colorfuldreams wrote:
Monday afternoon

something like... perfect. o_o

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scatterbrainer wrote:
Monday afternoon

I love you, band.

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In_the_dream wrote:
Monday afternoon

nice band)

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Gussstavo wrote:
Monday morning

You Only Live Once is the best Strokes song [2]

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05061985 wrote:
Sunday evening

You Only Live Once is the best Strokes songgg

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spacerockboy wrote:
Sunday evening

If you like indie rock, listen to this song of ukranian indie rock band: http://www.last.fm/music/Esthetic+Education/_/With+You?setlang=en and write me what you think.

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Odelaybradford wrote:
Sunday afternoon

You should check out this great Indie & Electro blog... http://therecommender.wordpress.com

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symh2O wrote:
7 days ago

*.* Happy Birthday JULIAN! <3

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