Track Listing

1. Is This It
2. The Modern Age
3. Soma
4. Barely Legal
5. Someday
6. Alone, Together
7. Last Nite
8. Hard To Explain
9. New York City Cops
10. Trying Your Luck
11. Take It Or Leave It

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #515 in Music
• Released on: 2001-08-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Customer Reviews

The best rock and roll band for twenty years
I saw the Strokes play the Liverpool L2, and had the privelege of meeting them after the show. They were cool, handsome, affable, and utterly brilliant performers. I bought the album the next day and was blown away. There is not one song on this album that is not at the very least amazing. My favourite song is whichever track is playing at the moment - it's that consistent. It's a wonderful throwback to garage rockers like the Stooges, and to the CBGB scene of the late seventies, with inventive chord progressions, bass-led harmonies, bluesy guitar solos, and witty lyrics that are sometimes funny and sometimes so sad. Someday and Trying Your Luck are achingly beautiful, while The Modern Age, Last Nite and New York City Cops are clever, self assured, and very much rocking. The album is so good that it seems wrong to single out songs...it's tuneful, sexy, and after so much boring jangly Dadrock and idiotic commercial 'punk' clogging up the charts, it's great to see a real rock and roll band finally kicking out the jams. It's the best album I've heard since the Doors' debut LP...and it doesn't get any better than that.

So Catchy
I love this CD. I bought it spontaneously after hearing NOTHING of theirs, just read a few good reviews and decided to take a chance. I'm so glad that I have. Okay, so while you're listening to it, you think "that sounds a bit like "such and such" and everyone has said how derivative it is...but at the end of the day, so what? It's just damn catchy music. Great to start your day with on your discman because it just puts you in a good frame of mind. Now if i can only wean myself off it. After seeing what other Strokes fans had purchased I also bought the White Stripes "White Blood Cells" totally on speculation and though they arent overly similar to The Strokes, I have to say that it's a really enjoyable and raw sounding album too. Great Stuff.

I can't stop playing this
Forget what has been written about the band in the press, if it's putting you off buying this. So what if it's not completely original - what music is? This is an exciting, vibrant, pulsating gem of a record. Other people have said they've not felt this excited since Oasis' debut in '94. I'd go back to '89 and say not since The Stone Roses have I felt so excited about a record or a band.

If you like your rock fast, simple, and fun, filled with enthusiasm and life, then this is the album to buy. It's not rocket science, sure, but it is better than a lot of what's out there at the moment.

If you like your rock contemplative and meaningful (like I usually do) then give it a chance. Don't be a rock snob, get Is This It and revitalise your life!!!

We'll see if they do turn out to be the saviours of rock, but for now they are enough to make me glad to have ears.