We're Back Baby!
After a long long time the blog is back. Honest to Blog to borrow from Juno.
I wanted to start by looking back this decade. It seems like this decade's theme was fear.
Of course we are still in it. The future seems uncertain, but I think there was some good stuff there, and I wanted to focus on that for a little while.
I can't help thinking about the decade, the 00's, if you will, without thinking of the Strokes first album This is it.
In hindsight it doesn't seem that great, but it really did back then. It was the first time I had heard the word indie music, before it was called Alternative.
The strokes came in at that last part of the 70's nostalgia scene and proclaimed "The 80's are back" And so they were, and it started with the late 70's -early 80's sound that was The Strokes.
It was somehow refreshing to here a very rough recording of a band that would probably sound the same live as they did on the record, and without special effects. These guys were young and fresh. The were super big amongst college and young adult , usually white, scene.
These were the people who had never heard Tom Petty and The Cars loved them. In truth, The Strokes literally lifted that sound and put in on their record without so much as putting their own take on it. It is more of a copy than a derivative.
Tracks like 'This is it' and 'Last Night' are still good to listen to every now and then.
These guys made being a rich kid from New York City with a Jew-fro cool, which hadn't been done since the early 1970's .
After this record they have declined in popularity, but they had their fifteen minutes.
