The Strokes - Room On Fire

An acclaimed debut prompts one of two kinds of follow-ups: either the band strives to broaden their palate or they attempt to deepen the colors they splashed all over that heralded first effort. The Strokes' second outing falls in the latter camp. In the tradition of the Ramones' Leave Home and Oasis' (What's the Story) Morning Glory, the Strokes largely stay the course with their second full-length release, producing an album that won't cause the stir that its predecessor did, but has a sneaky appeal all its own. Thanks to the quintet's Lower East Side roots, Velvet Underground and Television references abound with these guys, but Boston new wavers the Cars, and in particular their hit-heavy second album, 1979's Candy-O, provide a more suitable point of reference for Room on Fire. As with Ric Ocasek and company, Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas and his cohorts have a Cars-like knack for sly riffs that creep deeper into ones consciousness with each listen. Not much longer than a half hour from start to finish, this 11-song is modest in intent and execution, and succeeds quite nicely on its own terms. --Steven Stolder Amazon.com

room on fire - THE STROKES

I love this CD. It is one of my new favorites.
If you liked their last CD, Is this It?, you will
like this one too. Great guitar and lyrics November 2, 2008

strong follow up

after reviving rock and roll, the strokes come back with a solid second effort, after this however they begain to backslide in my opinon. June 8, 2008

Don't listen to the hipster snobs

There a lot of snobs who try to knock any band that gets any public recognition while clinging to obscure bands that can't sing or play their instruments. Why all the music politics? I've listened to television, velvet underground and the stooges... I have their albums. The worst strokes song is easily better than the best television song especially because the singer of television has a HORRIBLE voice. Velvet underground is a mere novelty, and the stooges are ok at best. If anything, the strokes build from all the obscure idie bands and make them actually listenable by having talent.

There are so many few bands left that are actually good songwriters and the music snobs all want you to not listen to any of them and sit in a basement listening to Marque Moon all day. Don't listen to them and buy this album and if you are a fan of rock music this album can not possibly fail to deliver. The strokes are one of the only true rock bands left. When the rest is horrible rap-metal, brat-punk, emo-trash, and bubblegum-nonsense, you gotta thank your lucky stars for a band like the strokes. I Can't say enough about all their albums, pure songwriting genius.

Do yourself a favor and tell the hipster snobs living in their mom's basement to sit on a stick. Buy this album! Don't ever let anyone dictate to you what is "cool" or not. Use your own ears and you'll be rewarded. May 11, 2008

Great Rock

When this album came out it got great critical reviews, but they ended up hurting it in the long run because of the over hype. Some critics claimed the band to be "the saviors of rock n' roll" in the fury of their first release of Is This It. While both of their releases contain some great rock n roll tunes that are incredibly catchy and memorable, there just isn't anything original. But then again it's kinda hard to come up with something ground breaking and original when just about everything has already been done.

Singer Julian Casablancas sings with a straightforward style a-la Lou Reed, yet lets it rip from time to time, kinda breaking away from his style on the first album. Oddly enough the guitars at times sound like synthesizers, making it a slight different from than their first album into a more new wave '80's vibe. The album is only a mere 33 minutes but it it sorta nice because it's not weighed down by boring "filler" tracks/songs. April 27, 2008

nice wok as usual!

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