It also helped to make their native New York cool again during a tumultuous time for the city. Here's 20 things you may not know about the LP, or may have forgotten in the haze of a hundred wild indie nights Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas wasn't a fan of his now signature distorted vocals at first.
When producing their proto album EP, The Modern Age, which dropped at the start of , Raphael wanted to impress some new electronic "industrial music recording techniques" on the young band. Indie music wasn't cool anymore and venues in the city had been closing down.
They settled on number four instead, and The Strokes' early sound was born. In true post-punk garage revival style, its 11 tracks are done and dusted in just over 36 minutes.
Roughly the time it takes to cook and eat Thai prawn noodles. The album title, taken from the name of the languid opening track, is generally considered to be a question - as posed by five coolly detached upstarts. But keen-eyed fans will have noticed the lack of a question mark therein. The lads decided to drop the '? The Strokes may have looked like five modern beatniks with holes in their jeans, but they were actually fairly well educated and all took music lessons.
Guitar teacher JP Bowersock is credited in the liner notes as "guru" with helping guitarist Nick Valensi and co to come up with some of those killer solos. While the album was released on 30 July in Australia, it didn't actually arrive in the UK until late the following month this was pre-streaming, remember and went to number two in the chart. The subsequent US release, which peaked at only number 33, was an even more complicated affair.
As a result, their riotous anti-establishment anthem New York City Cops, about the fun-spoiling police, was omitted from the subsequent October US CD release out of respect for the officers who helped with the immediate aftermath of the attacks, which killed almost 3, people. The band practised that night in Manhattan as usual.
Lizzy Goodman, who wrote the book Meet Me in the Bathroom, about the rebirth of the New York rock scene, told the BBC in the catastrophic event provided a "violent, destructive and traumatic" backdrop to all the urgent music-making and hedonism that followed. On hearing the album, Killers singer and lyricist Brandon Flowers decided to throw out all of his songs bar one, luckily as he knew they weren't up to par.
Everything else that we had we knew wasn't good enough. So we started building again. The Strokes helped me realise that I wasn't good enough yet. That influence extended to the UK too.
Oasis chief Noel Gallagher recently told Later The album's famous cover, in the UK at least, featured an image by photographer Colin Lane of a leather-gloved hand resting on a woman's rear and hip.
The model was Lane's then-girlfriend, who, fresh out of the shower, posed for pictures naked but for the glove left by a stylist. It was considered to be too racy for the US music market however and replaced with a more psychedelic and colourful image of subatomic particles in a bubble chamber. Drummer Fabrizio Moretti remembered things differently. The several levels of Dante's inferno that we had to go through emotionally within the band to be able to stick to it, was crazy. That's ambition.
Moretti fell and broke his hand following a gig in Glasgow in June , shortly after the release of debut single Hard to Explain. A couple of UK gigs were scrapped, but their friend Matt Romano flew over to replace him for the remaining few shows, including Top of the Pops. A good one for the CV. One of the reasons for the rapid success of the album was the band's much-hyped sets at Reading and Leeds Festivals in August , just before it hit the UK shops.
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