Is This It

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Is This It
Studio album by The Strokes

Publication
(s)

AustraliaAustralia July 30, 2001 August 22, 2001 August 27, 2001 October 9, 2001
JapanJapan
European UnionEuropean Union
North AmericaNorth America

admission

March 2001 - April 2001

Label (s) RCA Records
Rough Trade Records

Format (s)

CD , LP , MC

Genre (s)

Indie rock , post punk , garage rock

Title (number)

11

running time

36:28

occupation
  • Nikolai Fraiture - bass

production

Gordon Raphael

Studio (s)

Transporter room, New York City

chronology
- Is This It Room on Fire
(2003)

Is This It is the debut album by the American rock band The Strokes . It was first released on July 30, 2001 and received positive reviews, and it is now one of the most important albums in contemporary rock music .

Emergence

Guitarist Nick Valensi met Julian Casablancas during his time at New York's Dwight School. During their school days, both made friends with the drummer Fabrizio Moretti and the bassist Nikolai Fraiture, the last member followed in 1998 by the guitarist Albert Hammond junior , son of the musician Albert Hammond . In the fall of 2000, a demo recording of their first songs fell into the hands of booker Ryan Gentles, who signed them for four performances in December. These appearances left a lasting impression; Ryan Gentles quit his old job and became the manager of the Strokes. In March 2001, shortly after the release of their debut EP The Modern Age , he helped them sign a record deal with RCA Records . In the following weeks, The Strokes recorded the album Is This It .

Style and reception

source rating
Allmusic
Rolling Stone
The Guardian
New Musical Express
Pitchfork Media
Laut.de
Music Express

Already on Is This It you can hear influences from The Velvet Underground , which Julian Casablancas later called one of his favorite bands, and the Ramones .

The Allmusic Guide saw the origins of the Strokes in punk-influenced New York in the late 1970s:

"On the Modern Age EP, singles like Hard to Explain , and their full-length debut, Is This It , the NYC group presents a pop-inflected, second-generation take on late-'70s New York punk, complete with raw, world-weary vocals, spiky guitars, and an insistently chugging backbeat. "

“On Modern Age EP, singles like Hard to Explain, and their debut album Is This It , the New York group presents a pop-inspired, late-breaking recourse to New York punk of the late 1970s, complete with raw, life-weary vocals, pointy Guitars and a persistently chugging rhythm. "

As an album that revived the garage rock and post-punk of the 1970s, Is This It is also considered to be an essential template for later successful bands such as the Arctic Monkeys :

"Without strokes there would be no libertines , no Franz Ferdinand , no Kings of Leon , no Arctic Monkeys."

The album reached number 33 in the Billboard charts and number 28 in the German charts. In Great Britain, Norway, Sweden and Australia it reached the top 5 of the national charts. The album received four out of five points in Rolling Stone , and the Allmusic Guide selected it as the AMG Album Pick .

The New Musical Express voted Is This It # 4 of the 500 best albums of all time and # 1 of the 100 best albums of the 2000s. The song Hard to Explain is # 3 of the 100 best songs of the decade.

Rolling Stone magazine ranks it # 199 out of the 500 best albums of all time and # 2 in the 100 best albums of the 2000s.

In the selection of the 200 best albums of the decade from Pitchfork Media has Is This It Place 7. The song Someday reached number 53 of the 200 best songs of the decade. Spin magazine chose Is This It as # 18 of the 125 best albums from 1987–2012. The album was voted one of the 150 records for the ages by readers of Visions magazine in 2006.

Is This It is one of the 1001 albums You Must Hear Before You Die .

Track list

All songs are written by Julian Casablancas .

  1. Is This It - 2:34
  2. The Modern Age - 3:32
  3. Soma - 2:37
  4. Barely Legal - 3:58
  5. Someday - 3:07
  6. Alone, Together - 3:12
  7. Last Nite - 3:17
  8. Hard to Explain - 3:47
  9. New York City Cops 1 - 3:36
  10. Trying Your Luck - 3:27
  11. Take It or Leave It - 3:16
1This song is missing from the US release of the album. The reason was the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . It was replaced by the track When It Started (2:57). This Is It was only released in the US in October 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review by Heather Phares on Allmusic.com (accessed February 27, 2018)
  2. ↑ Review by Joe Levy on RollingStone.com (accessed February 27, 2018)
  3. ↑ Review by Alexis Petridis on TheGuardian.com (accessed February 27, 2018)
  4. ↑ Review by John Robinson on NME.com (archived) (accessed February 27, 2018)
  5. ↑ Review by Ryan Schreiber on pitchfork.com (accessed February 27, 2018)
  6. ↑ Review by Dominik Kraus on laut.de (accessed on February 27, 2018)
  7. ^ Review by Michael Weilacher (2001), in: Musikexpress, 1973-2017 - Platten für Kenner, special issue, p. 147
  8. ^ The Strokes: Julian Casablancas in a big uncut interview (motor.de story). (No longer available online.) December 22, 2005, archived from the original on November 4, 2011 ; Retrieved February 17, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.motor.de
  9. ↑ Dominik Kraus: "Is This It" by The Strokes - laut.de - album. Retrieved February 27, 2010 .
  10. ^ Uwe Schütte: The Strokes: Is This It. (No longer available online.) February 1, 2002, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 27, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / 2005.wienerzeitung.at  
  11. ^ A b Christian Ihle: Albums of the Decade - 2001: "Is This It" by The Strokes. November 18, 2009, accessed February 27, 2010 .
  12. ↑ a b Heather Phares: allmusic: Is This It.Retrieved February 27, 2010 .
  13. ^ The Strokes News & Info. Retrieved February 27, 2010 .
  14. ↑ Musicline.de chart tracking. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 28, 2005 ; Retrieved February 27, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / musicline.de
  15. ↑ ultratop.be - The Strokes - Is This It. Retrieved February 27, 2010 .
  16. ↑ Joe Levy: Is This It: The Strokes: Review: Rolling Stone. October 11, 2001, accessed February 27, 2010 .
  17. ↑ The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time on nme.com (accessed February 27, 2018)
  18. ↑ The Top 100 Greatest Albums Of The Decade 2009 on nme.com (accessed February 27, 2018)
  19. ↑ 100 Best Songs Of The 00s on nme (accessed July 17, 2019)
  20. ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time on rollingstone.com (accessed February 27, 2018)
  21. ↑ 100 Best Albums of the 2000s on rollingstone.com (accessed February 27, 2018)
  22. ↑ The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s on pitchfork.com (accessed February 27, 2018)
  23. ↑ The 200 Best Songs of the 2000s on pitchfork.com (accessed July 17, 2019)
  24. ↑ 125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years on spin.com; accessed on February 27, 2018
  25. ↑ visions.de / Back Issues / Heft Nr. 150. Retrieved on February 25, 2010 .