Now that the dust has settled on the millenial generation, I think we can all admit that the Strokes were a 5/10 band that was elevated because there was nothing else going on
>>126873454
Yeah pretty much. There's nothing fundamentally new, interesting, or exciting about The Strokes besides being among the first NYC rich kids to get the idea to LARP as old school garage rockers. It's a genre with an extremely low barrier to entry and yet very lucrative in what the Zoomers call aura farming.
>>126873454
Agreed. They've got some good songs here and there but they're far from special. When I found out just how pampered these guys were it really started killing it for me. >>126873633
Right now? In no particular order:
Death, 12 Rods, Magdalena Bay, Quruli, Neil Young, Todd Rundgren, XTC, The Mountain Goats, Spandau Ballet, Sade
>>126873874
it was a result of late 1990s really
also nothing wrong with pop really
stick the fuck around and fuck indie anyway
again there was bunch of rock still back then
>>126873454 >millenial
Learn to fucking spell first before opening your whore mouth about maybe the most influential guitar album of the last 25 years…. you weren’t there; every band in the early 2Ks wanted to be these guys. And I mean EVERY band. Especially in the U.K.
So gain some scholarship on the subject before pretending to be an expert you SSRI’d TikTok brained zoomer faggot.
>>126873454
The strokes first couple of albums are classic and if you haven't realized this by now you are mentally deficient and really shouldn't be on this board. These are truths I realized when I was 15 years old and it's still true 20+ years later of browsing /mu/ and obsessively listening to records. What's your excuse for being such a tasteless faggot?
>>126875957
good im glad. i don't think people like you should be allowed to enjoy things and it brings me peace to know that music i like ruined music you like
>>126873454
No not really
Of course Strokes were nothing new stylistically but what set them apart were the top-tier songs, the melodies had nerve, beat explosion, despite the overall blasee tone of the singer
>>126873454
Ehhh This album came out in 2001.
At the time it’s earth shattering. Now not so much but what you said could be applied to any era once we’re past it so I kinda disagree as a whole.
>>126872741 (OP)
This album was never good. I remember it getting shilled to me back when it was big and indie was getting popular and even then I thought it wasn't good.