Do the Strokes kick ass?
 

It is my stern belief that they do kick ass. Every single one of their songs is very listenable, so far. I am utterly amazed. As a youngster, I forced myself to listen to "grunge metal" or whatever it is called, like KoRn and LimpBizkit and what not (I'm still young, but you know...) I eventually realized that listening to such music hurts my ears, because it is loud and noisy and disturbing to my ears. The Strokes, however, have kick-ass beats and a kick ass singer and everything, all with the added bonus of not splitting my ears. Yup. I was disappointed when I bought the Queens of the Stoneage album, because the only two songs on it that kicked ass were "Go With The Flow" and "No One Knows". The rest of the album is... noisy and not very cool. The Mars Volta is also listenable, but that's not the point.

So, do The Strokes kick major ass or what?

(hint, the results better be lop-sided in my favor :icare: )

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I like The Strokes. Their first album was great but I haven't got around to buying the second one yet.

Ass-kickers for sure.

Yes, Virginia, The Strokes do kick ass.

You know, you might like The Cars -- at least their early stuff. Good songs that don't try to do anything unnecessary and are 3 minutes or less.

Two people voted wrong. Why? Please correct this error.

not a big fan sorry

Don't really like them, but at times they have a neat guitar sound.

I like some of their stuff, but I don't see what all the big deal is about them. Just sounds like another garage band to me.

They suck. Along with all of the other "The" bands. Nothing original about them at all.

Heathen!

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i like the White Stripes

Yeah, and The Mars Volta kicks ass, too. Where's K-Dub when... oh, nevermind.

I said no, but don't get me wrong. They are far less craptacular than most recent "rock and roll". Some of their songs are quite listenable, and most of their songs don't suck badly. Their only problem is that they are identical to the White Stripes, and a pale imitation of a half dozen better bands in the 80s. Still all credit for trying. Try harder.

Don't like the Strokes, so no, in my opinion they don't kick ass.

They definitley do not kick ass. They don't kick anything, but I hope their music kicks the bucket.

Sorry, didn't mean to be so harsh. But it was funny.

Despite the anti-sentiment for The Strokes here on the TFP The Strokes ARE kicking ass on sales, not just radio play.

I like music that moves faster...way faster.

hehehehe

yeah TMV certainly do kick ass.

I like the strokes but i hate the hype surroudning them 24/7

I'm lukewarm about The Strokes. I saw them live in Montreal when "Is This It?" came out and I asked myself the same question. I like their music, but not to the extent that I think they're revolutionary or truly "kick-ass".

Identical to The White Stripes?

Please explain how a 5 member band can be identical to a 2 member band? The singing, drumming, lyrics, style, etc are completely different. Maybe you were thinking of another band? The Velvet Underground maybe?

Yeah, I mean theres nothing original about The Mars Volta at all. Not to mention the fact that music doesn't have to be original to be good.

That said, I like The Strokes. And The Mars Volta.

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The strokes write some reasonably decent songs, but nothing I've never heard before. But their image really gets on my nerves. Their live sets are 30 minutes long. They look like they can't be bothered. Julian Casablancas sings like he's half asleep. And the music press are always pushing them as some kind of hard-living strung out methadone popping band from hell, and they're not any one of those things.

It's another case of the music media latching onto something completely mediocre and blowing it all out of proportion.

Nope, just another cookie cutter MTV-brainwashed band for the masses.

I think The Strokes are a breath of fresh air in modern rock radio. It's refreshing to hear something that's not pop-punk, or rap-metal, or post-grunge, or *shudder* ....emo.
They may not be the most original band out there, but they put 99% of the stuff that gets major airtime to shame. I think it'll be interesting to see how they mature, and if future albums display a little more originality. Keep in mind, these guys are still really young.

the strokes rule

I'm going to have to say the Strokes definitely kick ass, they've put out two quite strong albums and are just all around an excellent band.

There should be another poll:
"Do you hate The Strokes because they're popular?
Yes/No"

I vote no. I hate them because they are (as Cradle of Filth would say) they are sucking the corporate cock like the rest of the hell spawned MTV bands.

I like the strokes, I dont think they are quite as poplular as some people are saying. I don't hear them on the radio that often and I don't watch a whole lot of MTV, mainly because all the hip hop/rap, so I wouldn't know. Also if someone has a problem with sucking the corporate cock they should think about what they would do if they were in the situation. Everyone loves money and if you say you don't you are a liar. Everyone knows money makes the world go round ;)

What makes you say that?

Same thing came to my head.

Well, I would have to disagree with you on this one. Truth be told, The Strokes got their start playing every dive bar and crappy club in NYC before being discovered (and not by MTV). And since when does MTV play rock anymore? I thought it was P. Diddy, Brittney, and Clay Aitkens, 24-7.

Any how, The Strokes aren't any great techincal band, but they do create some great pop songs that stick to a 3 minute rule. I think if they tried to make any epic 8 minute songs, they'd fail miserably.

Its pretty obivous where their influences come from: Television, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, and The Cars. I'd rather have a band exude this sort of musical influence than a band like The Darkness who rely on Dio, Ratt, and Spinal Tap for artistic fuel.

The Strokes aren't anything great musically, but they do have some catchy songs and exude that sort of disenchanted, underground attitude so popular with wanna-be punks and so desired with 16 year old girls. I just like them because they sound like the old NYC bands of the late 70s.

i think the strokes have an awesome almost sparkley feel to their guitar riffs, i love them!

#5, take "less crapacluar than most" and run with it. How a 5 man band can sound like a two man band? That'd be style & production. They sure as hell sound identical to me. Much as Linkin Park sounds like Limp Bizkit with a touch of melody somewhere back there, and Pantera sounds like Gollum on nitrous (nothing wrong with that!)

Nah I dont really like them, musically and lyrically they are nothing special, and their sound is a bit too pop. I would not say that they suck, cuz they clearly can make some catchy songs.

I voted no. I've listened to them because my sister likes them, but I wouldn't buy any of their records or go to their show or anything.

No way. Not my thing. Just find them boring.

I wouldn't say they kick ass but they are pretty good.

Ugh, no thanks. I like White Stripes, but they have a completely different -- original -- sound.

A simple no, because they just aren't my kind of music I guess.
I find them rather boring.

I have never heard of a more critically overrated band in my LIFE. I kept hearing "the Strokes are like *insert good band here*" and "the Strokes are reviving *insert description of genre here*". Christ, I heard like three of their songs, and it sounds like a drugged-out Ben Stein "singing" alongside the most repetitive guitar riffs I have ever had the displeasure of encountering. It's not that their guitar is technically more repetitive than say, death metal (although it actually is in a lot of cases), but the way they play actually accentuates the repetitivity of it. In short, I disagree and want to stab the Strokes in their collective eye, but respect your opinion.

Hey The Darkness kick ass leave them out of this! That being said I'm with Bob here...I think their a good band..they make fun cool songs but certainly not KICK ASS to me. And as for the White Stripes..doesn't take a genius to see that Jack has a hint of blues interest..so does the band...the Strokes however..do not...So I don't really think they sound the same but I can see where he's going..they both follow a simple formula that works for them. Lots of people are blown out of proportion..as long as they're not TOO blown out of proportion like say Eminem for example I usually just ignore the hype and take them for what they are.

Asta!!

Yeah, I never did like the Strokes.
However, I do have an entertaining story involving the Strokes to share:

At the Big Day Out festival in Auckland (NZ) this year, the Strokes were unfortunate enough to be the band playing right before Metallica. So naturally the crowd was mostly full of rough, leather-clad, skinheaded chaps who couldnt give a sideways toss about the strokes or their music.
Halfway thru the set, in between songs one avid metallica fan yells out "You suck! Fuck off and bring on metallica!" and the singer from the band (quite stoned i think) just looks at him and says "well... well fuck you, you... meathead faggot."
And I swear everyone in the stadium laughed at this poor guy. You got owned in front of everyone by the dude from the strokes. How do you feel.

On a side note, the Mars Volta were at the same festival, and blew my mind right out the back of my head and on to the poor bastard behind me. Awesome.

i agree the strokes are good but i also say they dont kick ass. if you had have said are the strokes good, bad or ugly (or something along those lines) i would vote good but i cant say they kick ass. on that note, im not voting in this poll

It's b/s. Everybody hates them on the grounds of the hype. I found their "Modern Age" demo in the $1 dollar bin about a month or two before the album hit and I was hooked from that. WAAAAHHHH! I want my bands to be underrated and obscrure, the kind that you have to work in an indie record store to have even heard about because they released one goddamn EP in the summer of 1982 on 8 track and you and your best friend have the only two copies, as well as the only remaining operational 8-track player in your beat up, brown early 90's Cadillac that you have so wittily covered in stickers from local dives where the bands that the next generation of scenester pieces of shit will play for 50 dollars a gig so that they record an EP on CD that some asshole 20 years from now that looks, acts, and dresses just like you can work in an indie record store, hear about the band from the drummer's kid when he comes in to pick up Korn's Greatest Hits: Volume 18, spend 3 days looking for it until he finds it under his couch, and then gloats for years about how he rediscovered the shit. WAAAAAAHHHHHHH! I like music that is so technically complicated that I can barely listen to it without getting a fucking migraine. Nevermind if it doesn't sound good at all. It's complicated and dark and gives me an excuse to wear black clothes and black makeup and hate my parents and make fun of Hot Topic even though your clothes are still made by the SAME FUCKING POLYNESIAN CHILDREN. Never mind that I'm full of shit, because I'm too dark and brooding to hang out with people who realize that conforming to certain social norms is healthy and may actually make you not just a more approachable and successful person, but also a person that is less likely to die of drug overdose, AIDS, infected piercing, infected tatoo, infected ruptured spleen that you didn't know you had because you're too busy getting drunk every night and trashing about in a circle to get your pent up sexual frustration and self loathing out in the most deevolved and violent manner possible. WAAAAAHHHHHH! They're on the radio. I don't listen to the radio. I only listen to the music that I steal online from the unsigned and unknown artists, THE ONE"S THAT CAN AFFORD IT THE LEAST. Not that it matters. They're usually unknown or unsigned for a reason and that reason is that they suck. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! They only have one genre. I want my music to fuse as many genres as possible in a futile attempt to create something new through forced breeding of musical genres due to a hopeless postmodernist outlook at everything creative, resulting in the auditory equivalent of being brutally sodomized by a broken broom handle while hot wax and rusty nails are shoved into every orifice. Everything has already been done before, even what I'm saying right now. JESUS! How about this: try combining the musical stylings of a bucket of bleach and ammonia inside of an oversized plastic trash bag with the complex soundscape of you inside of that trash bag? Yeah! It'll be awesome. Your little posse of thrift store clad neo-Bohemians will be so proud. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I only listen to rap/hiphop/rnb/gangsta and in doing so achieve the modern day equivalent of black face by taking another culture and raping it in ways that even the most perverted Japanese porn director cringe and tear holes in his own skin. Yo YO Yo Nahmsayin. I refuse to respect my own culture cuz i be a mad azz gangsta mutha fuka dat be slappin dem hoes, makin dat chedda, and pimpin dat mike like it's my bitch, despite the fact that I drive my dad's Ford Pinto, am 25 and still living in my parent's basement, am dating a high schooler, and the last time I tried to even talk to a black person, my appearance and demeanor were so offensive that they spat on me. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! I only listen to techno. Machines don't mess up like humans do. Machines don't start wars. Machines don't need strings. Machines don't need to breath. Machines are the way of the future. One day, People will be Cyborgs. Won't that be cool? Just like in anime! Hey, techno fruit: You want a cyborg? Go fuck a blender. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I only listen to Christian/Atheist/Agnostic/Hindu/Jewish/Islamic/New Church of Silver Mount Zion in the name of the Great Jesus Vacuum Cleaner. Why? I'll tell you at great length with little substance, regurgitated mantras, and other people's ideas. I get off on religious fervor and unleash my repressed desires in a blinding jesus based rage on the non believers. Death to those who deny the Sacred Wood Beast! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! For any one I forgot; Fuck you.

They're OK, but definitely not as good as they were hyped up to be. Just another band that will come and go in my opinion.

No Draconis, I hate them because I think their music is awful. I simply mentioned that they're also horribly overrated.

i saw the strokes live before their first record came out.
that is where i decided that they did not really interest me.

i am not sure that i really understand the impetus behind the neo-mod thing in any event.

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That's a pretty bold thing to say considering that i'm 100% positive that you haven't listened to every "The" band out there.

A good portion of the most classic, influencial bands of all time had "The" in their name.

Don't worry. I wasn't flattering any particular person with that rant. Don't think I'd waste my time referring to some character someone likes to live out their life through online instead of moving out of their parents basement. Get a job, get a policy, and get off my fucking case.

And yes, I really am this mean in real life.

You're a Mac lover, so your opinion doesn't count. :p

jk of course

but really.... :lol:

as of this moment 2 out of 3 people think the strokes do not kick ass at all. I am one of these.

Haha thats a pretty awesome rant.

last december i apparently voted that the strokes suck

wish i could do so again this december ;)

The Strokes kick ASS!!! Room On Fire was one of the most solid albums ive heard in along time... especially from an indie band like the strokes

The Hives are better. Especially live

I wouldn't say they kick ass, they're more likely to stick their peni in it.

Wow, has it really been a year?

Yeah I like em, Reptilia good song, and pretty cool Video aswell, I don't really care how popular or whatnot they are, I just like their music. I don't own MTV, just some CD's.

Simple answer:
No, no they don't.

That stupid in real life. :) I do not live in my parents' basement, and I have a job as well as going to school. I was simply explaining the reason that people ACTUALLY don't like The Strokes. Because they suck. I'd also like to mention that disagreeing with someone is not being on their "fucking case". Anyway, I shall take the advice offered in your signature, and refrain from discussing anything further with you, as it warns of an impending downhill slide in the intellectual level of the conversation.

Draconis, do you feel better now that you've gotten that heavy load off your chest? Let's calm that aggression down by listening to the soothing sounds of Enya and aligning our chakras.

Strokes kiss major ass. just non stop high tempo music with all the thrills and rawness you need. Thought would agree although the do look the part and embody coolness after seening them live would have been nice if their set was longer. Maybe after the next album it would be. Rock on.

i wouldn't call the strokes indie

they don't kick ass really. i'd say it's more like a faint slap. not that i dislike them, they are just not overwhelmingly exciting.

"the" concretes are a good "the" band
as for ass kicking, i'd say autolux, dungen, or m83 are closer

If both of their CD's didn't sound exactly the same, maybe. I have the first disc, and it really takes listening to it about a dozen times to start differentiating the songs, and then the second CD is more of the same. They have a unique sound, but they need to broaden their songwriting a bit.

if you take offense, it means you've been offended. pretty basic statement, i know, but it carries a lot with it. so if i offended your musical tastes or beliefs or anything like that, then chances are i wouldn't be the first person to call you out. but here's the real kicker: i didn't call you out. if you want to get your panties in a bunch, fine. i'd just like to see a direct reference to any one user, just one. until you can find that, take it as a rant and don't turn it into some kind of tag team flaming fraught with false inquiries into my emotional state, cheap shot witticisms about my sig, and anything else that you can put on there to give the illusion that my post was a direct attack on all that you stand for. unless you wear a metal mask or have some kind of portal to an alternate dimension, i don't want you for my nemesis and i don't want you to try to portray me as yours. you are, of course, free to do so, but pretending to have a nemesis who doesn't bother remembering your name would be an excessively lame move on your behalf. with that, i will say what i have said before in the aforementioned rant: wah.

Not so much that people have called me out on it, just that it's a tired provokative way of speaking that I get really sick of hearing people say, or type, whether it's directed at me or someone else in the room/forum. Also could be that someone peed in my cornflakes that morning and I decided to go pick a fight. I wouldn't flatter myself thinking someone considered me to be their nemesis after one teeny little flamy post if I were in your position. ;)

Bugger!! I voted yes, but I was getting confused between the Stokes and The White Stripes.

Can I have my vote back please? :)


Mr Mephisto

bleh

they kick my ears' ass, thats for sure
(thats a bad thing)