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...hate them. The Strokes' effortlessness is pure fiction; not since the Velvet Underground met Andy Warhol has a band so effectively been art directed to achieve the look of not having been art directed. But when you hear the Strokes, that cultivated cool disperses with every passing guitar chord, and suddenly, just by listening, you're cool too. That's how good their melodies...
...Computer by Radiohead... This particular album seems wonderfully depressing, if that makes sense... One of my favorites is ‘Paranoid Android’ because of this immense guitar playing, like schizophrenic guitar, it’s just off the wall for guitar playing, it shows a lot of variation. One of my favorite songs of all time is ‘Karma Police,’ because it manages to be haunting and depressing yet easy to listen to. The CD was written by Radiohead to show how machines distort people, so it has this sad nuclear fallout...
...Pharmacists renew your faith in rock—not to mention frontmen who can pull off singing and guitar-playing at the same time—at a local stop on their nationwide tour with guests Weird War, Helms, and DJ Klaus. 7 p.m., $12; 18+. The Paradise Club, 967 Comm. Ave., Boston...
...that there’s anything necessarily wrong with that. Sparkling guitars and lightly-brushed cymbals litter the album’s complex compositions, and the smooth delivery from lead singer Tim Fletcher weaves in and out of the guitar lines, evoking something like dark, rainy nights on a highway—or perhaps just early 1986. “Lola Stars and Stripes” features guitar squalls and staccato bleats that reveal the Stills’ influences and their subscription to the current New York school of well-dressed hipsters. “Lola, no, we?...
...hate them. The Strokes' effortlessness is pure fiction; not since the Velvet Underground met Andy Warhol has a band so effectively been art-directed to achieve the look of not having been art-directed. But when you actually hear the Strokes, that cultivated cool disperses with each passing guitar chord, and suddenly, just by listening, you're cool, too. That's how good their melodies are. The Strokes' first album, 2001's Is This It, contained 11 aggressively simple songs about love, sex and getting drunk in the boho paradise of New York City's East Village. For their follow...