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...Last Nite.” The band also does a masterful job of perverting genres—“Someday” is a dirty Bill Haley and the Comets-type number, while “Take it or Leave it” evokes comparisons to the Velvet Underground. The only track that seems somewhat incongruous among the mix is “Trying Your Luck,” which replaced “NYC Cops” before the release date in respectful response to the tragic events of Sept. 11. An upbeat, New Wave-influenced track that...
...difficulty in reviewing a group hailed as “the saviors of rock and roll” by NME and the heirs to the Velvet Underground by almost every major music publication is separating the band’s hype from the sounds they emanate. The Strokes’ full-length album, Is This It, has yet to hit stores (the release date is Oct. 9), but the five New York city college dropouts are being given the proverbial jock ride by the press...
...Strokes ripped through the set of pop-punk delights including crowd favorites “Last Nite,” “Someday” and “Hard to Explain.” To describe the music, of course, there are the already clichéd Velvet Underground comparisons, but I maintain that they sound like a darker, dirtier, more anxious and volatile version of Weezer. They have precise, sonically taut arrangements with undertones of straight-up 50s rock ‘n roll. Or think of it this way: If Rivers Cuomo...
...hanging up my reportorial keyboard and donning the velvet gag of the public-relations man, well, I'm sure the news will be ably reported while I'm gone and still around when I get back. I'd get to participate in something instead of just writing about it from the outside. Maybe I hear a few things that you folks don't. And if the Army thinks I can help us win, well - I am rooting for our side. Happy to help...
...time Tori Amos sang about guns was in her revelatory “Me and a Gun” on her first album Little Earthquakes—a song about her experience of being raped. “She’s well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand,” never sounded so sinister. The song stretches out and engulfs, this time with the band’s accompaniment, laced with soulless defences of the amendment, while Amos intones, full of multiple meanings: “Mother Superior jump the gun.” If this...