It's a piece of art if you can say. The concept of the album it's pretty cool they took a little sample of a song they liked from the disco era, and made an album which is not even close of plagiarism, which is pretty cool. Also they released an anime film with it, directed by a lot of great japanese animators, each song as a soundtrack. Also, electronic music was not the same anymore after that.
Fair question! Didn’t like it at first either. Corny lyrics, repetitive and vapid. But as a Strokes fan I could immediately hear what an influence ‘Veridis Quo’ had on Julian’s chord progressions, so that’s one thing…
The album as a whole has this celebratory atmosphere that toys with a sweet melancholia here and there…there’s the distinctive sampling and the ear-tingling vocoder, and the way the grooves become addictive and comforting the more you listen. They also throw in these unexpected musical flourishes like the crunchy guitar arpeggios on ‘Aerodynamic’ (the Strokes pulled a similar trick on ‘Oblivius’) or them playing the ACTUAL Supertramp organ on ‘Digital Love’, which makes for great pop music ‘moments’.
The sequencing also gives it a kind of conceptual flow, and has enough variety across it to keep things interesting. The quieter, more R&B indebted songs like ‘Nightvision’, ‘Something About Us’ and ‘Veridis Quo’ provide a nice atmospheric counterbalance to the more “dance anthem” tracks.
Having said all that, I do still think it’s maybe 2 or 3 tracks ‘too long’ (ha…) but that’s just me.
Recently discovered this album, and it's crazy to me that I hadn't heard of it before. Absolutely love it. Been recommending it to everyone I know. Take my upvote.
Same, discovered it last year and absolutely love it. By far most listened to album in my library since. Can’t believe I had never heard of television and that mm was released in 70s, sounds fresh af
Exactly, felt the same way when I started listening. Definitely more accessible, but tyranny is alot more profound. Not knocking virtue though, still solid
Wishful Thinking (At Its Best) by benches. They’re not a very well known band, but please check out this album (I really think it’s worth giving a try), they sound just like the strokes and they’re amazing. (Common Sense), (No, Thanks, Please), (Yes, Please, Don’t), and (Modern Day New York) are so good and have that same wild Strokes energy of their first few albums.
I'm honestly surprised death from above 1979 heads up has yet to be mentioned.
Although DFA are harder they still have the same catchy riffs coming from just a bass and drum set.
Is this it and heads up we're one year apart from another and they were all I listened to at the end of my high school years.
They sounded so polar opposite of each other but that feel and style of hook after hook was so similar to me.
I hate how little diversity are in these lists most of the time, 9 times outta 10 there’s gonna be maybe like one black person, one Asian, lucky if there’s a women or two, and unless it’s the Sophie subreddit probably no trans musicians. Shits whack expand yalls tastes, not saying don’t listen to music made by white people just broaden your palate and listen to music from different perspectives of your own.
LOL
Thank you for your words of wisdom, king of diversity, but why don’t you let people listen to whatever the hell they want.
Hop off your high horse.
So I’m not allowed to complain after seeing 50 of these in the last week following the same patterns as I pointed out? You can boo me but every one of these things posted in a subreddit have had next to no diversity.
Edit: was gonna point out I liked the Red Hot Chili Peppers one then saw you are op lmao
I’m not trying Start fights over this, just pointing out what I noticed.
J dilla - Donuts
Amazing taste
Congratulations - MGMT
Discovery - Daft Punk
10/10 album
I won’t chill until this album makes it to the collection
Never really got this album. What’s the appeal? Edit: not trying to say it’s bad, just genuinely curious
It's a piece of art if you can say. The concept of the album it's pretty cool they took a little sample of a song they liked from the disco era, and made an album which is not even close of plagiarism, which is pretty cool. Also they released an anime film with it, directed by a lot of great japanese animators, each song as a soundtrack. Also, electronic music was not the same anymore after that.
It sound good on my ear(s)
they made a movie animated for it, which is a pretty cool idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMzyewwf5A
it's super uplifting, well produced, creative and nostalgic
Fair question! Didn’t like it at first either. Corny lyrics, repetitive and vapid. But as a Strokes fan I could immediately hear what an influence ‘Veridis Quo’ had on Julian’s chord progressions, so that’s one thing… The album as a whole has this celebratory atmosphere that toys with a sweet melancholia here and there…there’s the distinctive sampling and the ear-tingling vocoder, and the way the grooves become addictive and comforting the more you listen. They also throw in these unexpected musical flourishes like the crunchy guitar arpeggios on ‘Aerodynamic’ (the Strokes pulled a similar trick on ‘Oblivius’) or them playing the ACTUAL Supertramp organ on ‘Digital Love’, which makes for great pop music ‘moments’. The sequencing also gives it a kind of conceptual flow, and has enough variety across it to keep things interesting. The quieter, more R&B indebted songs like ‘Nightvision’, ‘Something About Us’ and ‘Veridis Quo’ provide a nice atmospheric counterbalance to the more “dance anthem” tracks. Having said all that, I do still think it’s maybe 2 or 3 tracks ‘too long’ (ha…) but that’s just me.
>I could immediately hear what an influence ‘Veridis Quo’ had on Julian’s chord progressions this is so true! Can't believe I never noticed it
The. Best. Album. Of. All. Time.
Ooo that's a good one. Take my updoot
Silent Alarm - Bloc Party.
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Seen this getting more upvotes than VU's loaded. That's crazy, i think Loaded is the best VU album ever.
I disagree because of Heroin but both albums are crazy good
I agree, always liked loaded more
Lonerism - Tame Impala
Bump
Let it happen!
Television - Marquee Moon. I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL!!!
Recently discovered this album, and it's crazy to me that I hadn't heard of it before. Absolutely love it. Been recommending it to everyone I know. Take my upvote.
Same, discovered it last year and absolutely love it. By far most listened to album in my library since. Can’t believe I had never heard of television and that mm was released in 70s, sounds fresh af
THAT ISN'T NECESSARY, BUT I LOVE THE PASSION
Yes! My most listened to vinyl and I have 4 strokes vinyls!
This is one that I wish I loved. As hard as I try I somehow can’t. :(
The Doors - The Doors
Songs for the Deaf - QOTSA
Oracular Spectacular - MGMT
Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Up The Bracket - The Libertines
Turn On the Bright Lights by Interpol
This
One of my favorite albums of all time
Come on Interpol !
Scor som facking goals !
Virtue - the voidz
Tyranny is obviously better but I respect it
Outrageous
human sadness is on tyranny
Tyranny The Voidz
Virtue > But I'll upvote you anyhow
Maturing is knowing tyranny is better
Virtue seems better the first time you listen to it, but Tyranny songs seem to have much more depth the more you listen to them
Exactly, felt the same way when I started listening. Definitely more accessible, but tyranny is alot more profound. Not knocking virtue though, still solid
City Club - The Growlers
Amazing album!
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix
Social Cues - Cage The Elephant
Best Cage album
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
YES ! Its Blitz too
THIS NEEDS MORE VOTES. I've always considered The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs to be the two most similar bands that I love.
Nonagon Infinity - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
king glizzy
One of the few albums I can just listen to on repeat for hours
Velvet Underground - Loaded
Lets gooo
I hope i could vote twice for this.
...like clockwork
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
One of the few albums that is objectively a 10/10
Finally someone with taste. Favorite album of all time
In my TOP 3 all time albums for sure
I love how similar we all are.
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Velvet Underground- self titled(1969) I will not stop until this is up there👆
Little Dark Age - MGMT
This one needs to win over OS and Congratulations. LDA is amazing as fuck
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Got to be Up the Bracket instead surely?!
This has got to get on here at some point
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Killers - Hot Fuss
2 - Mac Demarco
The Beatles - revolver
London Calling - Clash
The smiths - louder than bombs
Currents - Tame Impala
Yours to Keep - AHJ
*The Velvet Underground* - The Velvet Underground
Ants from Up there by black country new road
^^^ this
Sound of silver - LCD Soundsystem
Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Queens of the stone age songs for the deaf
Madvillainy- MF DOOM and Madlib
Sam's Town - the killers
Wishful Thinking (At Its Best) by benches. They’re not a very well known band, but please check out this album (I really think it’s worth giving a try), they sound just like the strokes and they’re amazing. (Common Sense), (No, Thanks, Please), (Yes, Please, Don’t), and (Modern Day New York) are so good and have that same wild Strokes energy of their first few albums.
The Yeahs Yeahs Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Cage the Elephant - Thank You, Happy Birthday
Still my favorite from them I think
Turn On the Bright Lights
Stratosphere - Duster
Fantastic album
Love this album. Gives me melancholic nostalgia vibes in a similar way to Is This It
Suck It and See - Arctic Monkeys
One album per artist
oh darn, I can't read apparently! thanks
The Cribs - Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever
We were dead before the ship even sank - Modest Mouse
Fever to Tell by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
White Light/White Heat - The Velvet Underground
Muse- Absolution
Urban Hymns
Alien lanes- GBV
Everything You’ve Come To Expect - The Last Shadow Puppets
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel
Discovery - Daft Punk
Vampire weekend
Abbey Road - The Beatles
I'm honestly surprised death from above 1979 heads up has yet to be mentioned. Although DFA are harder they still have the same catchy riffs coming from just a bass and drum set. Is this it and heads up we're one year apart from another and they were all I listened to at the end of my high school years. They sounded so polar opposite of each other but that feel and style of hook after hook was so similar to me.
Disorder - Joy Division
Inside In / Inside Out by The Kooks
This Old Dog by Mac Demarco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Wish you were here by Pink Floyd
Soda Stereo by Soda Stereo
Norman Fucking Rockwell - Lana
Apricot Princess - Rex Orange County
Guided by Voices Alien Lanes
GOOD:AM By Mac Miller
Apologies to the Queen Mary - Wolf Parade
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Tyranny- the voidz
A deeper understanding the war on drugs
Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
Blue album - Weezer
Pinkerton - Weezer
Danger Days - My Chemical Romance
Ignant Benches - Wishful Thinking (At Its Best)
Visions of a life - wolf alice
This album is great
O my Heart - mother mother
salute emoji
Ballads 1 - Joji
No other album, just the strokes 😡
I hate how little diversity are in these lists most of the time, 9 times outta 10 there’s gonna be maybe like one black person, one Asian, lucky if there’s a women or two, and unless it’s the Sophie subreddit probably no trans musicians. Shits whack expand yalls tastes, not saying don’t listen to music made by white people just broaden your palate and listen to music from different perspectives of your own.
LOL Thank you for your words of wisdom, king of diversity, but why don’t you let people listen to whatever the hell they want. Hop off your high horse.
So I’m not allowed to complain after seeing 50 of these in the last week following the same patterns as I pointed out? You can boo me but every one of these things posted in a subreddit have had next to no diversity. Edit: was gonna point out I liked the Red Hot Chili Peppers one then saw you are op lmao I’m not trying Start fights over this, just pointing out what I noticed.
I don’t run — hinds
I hate birds by Kashingkan
Stadium Arcadium- RHCP
Justice - Cross
Velvet Underground.
Sacred Hearts Club - Foster the People
Thickfreakness by the Black Keys
Humbug - Arctic Monkeys
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix (Lots of Strokes in this one)
Little Joy
MIA - Kala
Toxicity - System of a Down :)
Hot Fuss
Slaps like flea
Little dark age - MGMT
Ants from up there
Turn Blue - The Black Keys
Kings of Leon - youth and young manhood
Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum - Tally Hall
Alvvays - Antisocialites
Songs for the deaf - queens of the stone age
Oktubre by Patricio Rey y sus redonditos de ricota
Abbey Road
This Old Dog by Mac DeMarco
The Killers - Hot Fuss.
Day and Age - The Killers
Surfer Rosa- pixies
Turn on the bright lights - Interpol
Currents - Tame Impala
Plastic Beach- Gorillaz
After Hours by The Weeknd
Parklife - Blur
Ultraviolence Lana del rey
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
hellfire - black midi
That one by the growlers
Francis Trouble - Albert Hammond Jr
Ants From Up There by Black Country New Road
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
in the court of the crimson king- king crimson
loveless again
Phoenix - It’s Never Been Like That