Board 8 > I've just recently "discovered" The Strokes. I like them a lot.

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By discovered, I mean I've finally decided to listen to their first three albums. I've loved the tracks Juicebox and Reptilia and to a lesser extent Last Night since 2007 and I just never felt the urge to dig deeper.

I've been listening to their first three albums for basically the entire week, and I think they're all ****ing great. If I had to rank them I'd probably say First Impressions>Is This It?>Room on Fire.. but I do really like all of them.

I'm a little apprehensive to listen to their newest album, as I'm afraid I won't like it as much, but I'll probably pick it up sometime in the next week.

Any thoughts or opinions on the band? Other groups I should check out? Rankings of their albums? It's been a while since I've listened to anything outside of electronic genres and I wouldn't mind listening to some similar bands.

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It's going to be tough following that awful second post, but good band.

Their first two albums are excellent. Their new one has a couple good tunes but is nothing special to be honest

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I like Reptilia too!

Maybe I should give the albums a listen.

Their first three albums range from good (First Impressions and Room on Fire) to top tier material (Is This It). Don't like the new one bar a few songs.

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The strokes are good stuff

I'd probably rank their albums in order of release, but they have a lot of good tracks spread across the first 3.

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is this it was great, room on fire was okay, don't really care about the other 2 albums they are inoffensive I guess.

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I really liked the first two albums, but honestly, I never listened to the others. Not sure why.

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Really? First Impressions is your favorite? It has a few good tracks, but the second half is really bad, imo.

Is This It>Room on Fire>First Impressions of Earth >Angles (really poor effort)

From: colliding | #009
Really? First Impressions is your favorite? It has a few good tracks, but the second half is really bad, imo.

Is This It>Room on Fire>First Impressions of Earth >Angles (really poor effort)

The second half is weak, I'll give you that. But again, I've basically been listening to all three on repeat for the week... It's a little hard to separate the tracks at the moment, and all I know for sure is that first half of First Impressions is my favourite stretch on any album. Is This It might actually be the best from top to bottom though... Need more listens.

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I wish I saw what guiga said. might have been funny.

and oh ya good band

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Strokes are my favorite band, I would agree with your rankings too: First Impressions > This Is It > Room on Fire. I like First Impressions because it has so many of my favorite songs, even if there are some lame one later. This Is It is pretty much perfect throughout, but I like some tracks in First Impressions so much. But I think in my top 5 of their songs, there's songs from every album, so it doesn't really matter.

They're new album is distinctly bad, except for like 1 or 2 tracks (you'll know it when you hear them).

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From: thundersheep | #001
Other groups I should check out?

I would say The Fratellis (Costello Music) and Two Door Cinema Club are kinda similar and good

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From: foolm0ron | #013
I would say The Fratellis (Costello Music) and Two Door Cinema Club are kinda similar and good

Ooh thanks. The Fratellis are another group that I've basically just heard a couple of their songs (Flathead and Chelsea Dagger) over the past several years, and never bothered to check out the discography.

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Glad you like them; they're pretty exceptional. If I had to make a ranking based on what I feel the community at large thinks, it'd be something like:

Is This It > Room on Fire > Angles > First Impressions

Although I'd personally rank them:

Room on Fire > Angles > Is This It >>>> First Impressions

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If you want more music like the Strokes you can check out Phoenix, and the first Libertines record.

From: BoshStrikesBack | #015
Angles > First Impressions

No one thinks this

I hope no one thinks this

From: BoshStrikesBack | #015
Room on Fire > Angles > Is This It >>>> First Impressions

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"the community at large" definitely does not think Angles is better than anything.

The Strokes community hated Angles? More than First Impressions? I'll take you guys' word for it, but that's a pretty LOL-ish opinion

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From: KingButz | #011
I wish I saw what guiga said. might have been funny.

and oh ya good band

Oh, forgot to reply to this one.

It was a masturbation joke. Strokes, rubs, nothing special.

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Is This It>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The rest

but they're a kick ass band that make good music to get drunk to.

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"Someday" Top ****ing tier.

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"Is This It?" is the only album I enjoy.


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From: Tom Waits | #023
"Is This It?" is the only album I enjoy.

This. But there are some good songs on everything but Angles

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all about Hard To Explain

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From: foolm0ron | #025
all about Hard To Explain

It's more about Trying Your Luck.

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The Modern Age the best

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My favorite is actually probably Juicebox

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Chrono1219

My favorite are Juicebox and 12:51

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