How Is This It Reset Rock｜Modern Classics Month
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- Is this it?
Hello and welcome to Mod Month 2.0! This is my annual 4-part miniseries where I showcase modern classics from the past 25(ish) years that deserve the shelf space in my VERY classic rock vinyl collection. My thoughts on The Strokes’ retrofuturistic debut, Is This It (released 2001.) Subscribe for more vinyl content and fun fashion!
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Timestamps:
intro - 0:00
Is This It - 1:31
my thoughts - 11:37
thanks for watching! - 29:30
Music:
Intro Music: Yeah Yeah Yeah (Long) by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Artist: audionautix.com/
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popping in to say the cover was photographed by *colin lane i have no idea how i missed this in post. so sorry!
ANYWAY: what’s your favorite album from the 2000s? comment below!
My favorite indie albums all came out in 2004: "Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes" by TV on the Radio, "Misery is a Butterfly" by Blonde Redhead, Franz Ferdinand's S/T, "i" by The Magnetic Fields, "Funeral" by Arcade Fire, "La Maison de Mon Rêve" by CocoRosie......
Cliche music nerd pick but madvillainy. Just two of the bests at their best
My favorite is Southern Rock Opera by the Drive-By Truckers
charlotte hatherley the deep blue. an album of beauty neglected to the point of absurdity. it happens.
Easy Listening
Album by Pigface
I nearly wheezed when I saw the end announcement. OH MY GOD THIS IS NOT A DRILL, I need to get ready to look like Buddy Holly asap
HOW ARE YOU ALREADY THAT FAR this video’s only been up for 14 minutes??
@@abigaildevoe jumped ahead because I can't handle suspense and then went back to watch the video.
SHE DID IT! SHE COVERED THE STROKES
But did she stroke the cover?!
I can still hold out for my OK GO Computer
Oh boy! Inching closer to a Modest Mouse episode. Someone's gotta send her a vinyl of This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About or something.
i would 100% feature building something out of nothing, interstate 8 was one of my favorites in college
@@abigaildevoe I said this half-facetiously cuz I never think anyone will talk about MM cuz they've always been off in their own little corner of music, it can be difficult to weave them into a grander musical historiography (other than as a link between grunge and post-punk revival, perhaps) but not only are you familiar, you go droppin a relative deepcut. I am impressed!
Building Nothing and Everywhere and His Nasty Parlor Tricks got me out of a big slump when I was still learning guitar - it helped me escape the blues boxes. Forever in debt to Isaac and the gang for that, so I fly the flag whenever I can. I proselytize for the cult of Modest Mouse.
Oh. Fairwarning, it might be a bit difficult to do your thing with Building Nothing out of Something since it's technically a compilation album.
7:35 Pitchfork from around 1998-2002 was the most egregious and most unintentionally funny thing in all of music journalism history.
And that's saying a lot!
Brilliant breakdown of the tracks. Perfect blend of history info, cultural info, music info, but through a clear and humorous curator who actually gets it the way it was intended to hit. So this is more than info. It's knowledge. Bravo. I only disagree with the dismissal of "When it started". I never listen to "NYC cops", but yearn deeply for the former.
I'll be honest, my love for indie music has waned a fair bit as my music taste has veered into experimental territory over the last few years, but I do have a soft spot for this album in particular, because it's simultaneously a throwback and a glimpse into the future. I have a better appreciation of this one now that you've talked about its backstory, because now everything on here makes sense to me.
I think what I'm trying to say is that Mod Month has gone off to a lovely start! ❤
AHHHH SHE'S TALKING ABOUT THEM!!! YESSSS
I listened to this album for the first time a few years ago and I was taken back as to how well it holds up. It flows very well, all killer no filler imo. It has this way of acclimating you to the vibe and how earnest it is. It’s not flashily produced, it’s practically Lofi. Buts endlessly relistanble
Wow! You really brought back some memories for me with this installment! (Please forgive this novella length rant) When NME was still printed in the newspaper-style format, they declared The Strokes to be THE best band to come out of New York City, EVER. I've tried googling for that orig. cover, but couldn't find it with that exact headline, (I'm not crazy, NME DID declare that). When that issue was circulated, there was an instant backlash. Especially, from other New York City bands. The strokes were a nepo-baby, lower east side transplant. With all of that said, I liked the orig ep, cd they released (I still have it) and I did get to see them on Halloween, 2001 (the original show I had tickets for to see them were cancelled due to the Sept. 11th attacks and all of lower Manhattan was access restricted). A few in the audience were dressed for Halloween, (my friend and I were Father Damien and Regan from The Exorcist) but the vast majority of the audience (regardless of gender) looked exactly like the band. Fitted denim jackets and curly, shaggy hair. The band performed the songs in the exact order of the cd, the band barely interacted with the audience but they sounded good and their fans loved it. - Thanks for the nostalgia, Abagail. Your videos are consistently top quality, you're just great!
The strokes have been my favorite band for 20 years now, found them when I was 11 and was hooked, now they have so much music out and in so many different directions they have songs for any mood!
Not just important to the indie rock revival but the perfect transitional record and jolt needed for the slumping britpop scene with it's timing.
I love all the records from last year's mod month so much :( hope you're not discouraged to keep making them
Is This It re-newed my faith in rock n roll when I bought it back in 2001. I was so tired of post grunge and post alternative music. The Strokes was a breath of fresh air. Great video!!
Someone else might have mentioned it, but keep an eye out for the Vinyl Me, Please reissue of Is This It. Has the cooler not-a-butt cover and has *both* 'New York City Cops' and 'When It Started'.
I read a rave review of it and bought it the week it was released without hearing a note before I got home and put it on the stereo. It blew me away! I still love it.
Albums like this one, , and provided a great foothold on the 00's when the vinyl resurgence got me back into buying new music on LPs again about 10 years ago. What an exciting revelation it was to discover those albums. My American blue and yellow cover LP of actually HAS NYC Cops. I'm pretty sure it's a first pressing.
I’ve always wondered what your thoughts are on Queens of the Stone Age. They are one of the best bands from the 2000s and still manage to put out quality to this day. Their 2002 album Song for the Deaf is in my opinion one of the best rock albums of all time.
whenever i try listening to I found a reason by the velvet underground i imediately think of Is this it, and now I know why
Love how you brought it for this LP
You're really 🎉 good
@Abigail Devoe
Fun House and Is This It
Damn ❤
I hope you cover the libertines
The Strokes were OK, but Detroit ruled with the White Stripes and the that garage sound🎸🎶
though i prefer The Strokes, white stripes definitely had a more raw and huge sound for sure
I would love to hear you review Patti Smith Horses. Granted Television was the first band at CBGB’s, Patti was the first album.
I'd never seen the I Saw A Butt version, atta The Strokes
Wow. I remember seeing the Strokes in Arlene's Grocery, a few blocks from where I lived as a kid with my folks in the LES of Manhattan. This was, '98, '99, I think, a year or two before they hit big. They were alright - enough for me to sign up for their mailing list and buy their demo CD (which I still have, hah). Good times.
I remember very well when this album came out; I was just beginning my senior year of high school. It was refreshing, especially in the face of the horrid tractor rock of guys like Nickelback and Staind and their ilk. While it was my younger sister who REALLY cottoned on to the Strokes, I always dug what they brought to the table. Excellent video, as always!
Lol tractor rock
Thanks Abby you seem to have fun making these Videos
That was a nice surprise; clicked the video an up popped Abie…. her positive enthusiasm (an eloquence) just the job to start my weekend.
Thank You.
Thank god you didn't re-create this cover
Actually she's wearing a leather jacket, which references the leather gloved hand, so it's a subtle recreation...
i wish she did 😢
She always captures the vibe which is even better. Is the cover a tip to Smell the Glove
Actually, I was hoping for an X-rated interpretation of the cover but I suppose YT must have banned it 😞
Oh, and wasn't "Smell the Glove" a highly-rated Spinal Tap album once upon a time?? Perhaps Ms Devoe will bless us with a musical critique of that classic in due course 🙄
Yeah, it would have been really f'ing weird, honestly.
such a great album
Great video Abby❤❤❤ keep it up
I was reminiscing about this album during my morning shower and then the algorithm throws me this after I watched your “Nick Drake - Pink Moon” review the other day, deserves my subscription! I love “Is This it” but I remember the first few months of listening were heavily overshadowed by 9/11 and “New York City Cops” was still on the CD release I owned. I still can’t separate the album from the event over two decades later. A “moment in time” album for sure, you have great taste in music Abigail, you just get it! 👏🏻
Black jacket, check.
guitar pick necklace, check.
Dangling cigarette, che....hey!
Dangling cigarette please!!
This album means so much to me. I first discovered it as a high schooler in the early 2010s and I was immediately taken with it, which makes sense to some degree, having already discovered and fallen in love with the influences you stated, mainly ramones and velvet underground. I have listened to this album hundreds of times probably over the course of the follow 15 or so years, and almost every band that I have played in has done a cover of a song from this album, especially Someday and Last Night. A truly iconic band that I will forever love. Next week it's time to weeze, heck yeah!
I waved to Fab from a boat and because it was a boat, he had to wave back. True story.
How cool, yet another of my favorite LPs.
Ok, I'll try not to mention Trout Mask Replica this month...
...uhm, starting now!
The Strokes fantastic! Enough said!
😊
Hey you got me Monday and Friday too!
I fucking love this album
"Music Has The Right To Children" (1998) by Borards of Canada gets my vote for best modern classic album. Looking past BoC's cryptic aesthetic as a band, you get a sense after listening to this album that there's something way, way deeper being communicated here--something mysterious and deeply human that seemed to resonate very strongly, and specifically with my generation.. By content, MHTRTC feels like a love letter written by GenX to itself; a generation saying goodbye to its own childhood, and doing so during the peak of its golden hour, right before it slips into the darkness of middle age mediocrity and frumpy parenthood.. The album kind of asks, "What do you say to the world, when you know its time to move on?" The answer seems to be, you let the world know you were there, and you were cool, too, once upon a time. You let go by acknowleding your time is up, and as the album's title implies, you acknowledge that music has the right to affect a new generation, just as it had a right to you, when you were little. It is a profoundly beautiful, profoundly complex album that more than a few of us have a deep emotional attachment to. I'd be very curious to see if that same feeling resonates with younger generations.
I didn't know the "Ivy League Wave" was a thing that existed, ever. Now I do. I tend to think of Johnathan Richman and the Modern Lovers (Johnathan seemed like a frustrated romantic in his early life), and songs like "Roadrunner" or "Oh New England" by The Modern Lovers, or Johnathan Richman.
Great Great Album! I grew up listening to the US version. I love When it started and Trying Your Luck as follow-ups to Hard to Explain. I think the album flows better(IMHO). When I spin the UK version It throws me off when NYC Cops comes on. Just so used to the US version 😂 .. I do have to say NYC Cops is a fantastic song ! Loved the review 👏🏽
Have you seen the guy that made a cover of As It Was as if it had been a Strokes song?
Can’t wait for the Alvvays debut review this month!!!
ooh the thumbnail just got a significant upgrade : your presence adds more style abby as per usual
I never knew about the other album cover!
Hi Abby! I am Corey and I love this album! Also love the concise yet really penetrating technical analysis, I have been following your channel for a while. You really should branch out to other genres, although I also love the classic rock niche you have dominated so far. Keep going!!!! P.S. Julien is a true romantic.
I also like The Strokes, good band, and all those Revival bands from the 2000's like The Killers, The White Stripes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Ting Tings, Le Tigre, The Joy Formidable, LCD Soundsystem, Le Butcherettes, The Black Belles, Chromatics, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, The Bravery, The Kills, The Horrors, Blood Red Shoes, TV On The Radio, White Lies, Death From Above 1979, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Metric, Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys, MGMT, She Wants Revenge, Savages, Dirty Projectors, Fontaines D.C., The Fratellis, OK Go, Battle, Band Of Skulls, The Black Keys, etc.
I still remember the 2000s as the great music of the 90s, but the happy times have changed. Post Punk Revival and Garage Rock Revival were something interesting and fun in the 2000s, I love them... now they are both revived by many new bands, as is Shoegaze, but now they lack the media attention.
Love the necklace!
Great video.
14:00 ahahah love the psychedelic production
Honestly when I listened to this album it took me a track or two to figure a genre i could feel that runs through the album which gives a alt power pop or even Weezer the blue album vibes 🎸
I'm Wheezing for Weezer over here Abbey 😮💨🟦
Great review! That LP was such a breath of fresh air in 2001! It destroyed Nu Metal thank God!!! I was becoming completely apathetic and reverted back to the past and then all this amazing new music came out! Is This It was definitely the catalyst for so many great bands to be brought into the limelight in the years to follow.
I'm glad you mentioned Weezer, Abby!!!!! Weezer and The Strokes have a lot in common. The curse of the Perfect Debut Album. Both bands have spent the rest of their careers chasing or remaking their debut album to little success. The Strokes are a great band. I think the White Stripes eventually passed them up, but I think like "The Ramones" and VU they will be more appreciated by future generations.
Me at the start of this video: Oh hell yeah! Mod month is back!
Me at the end: HOLY SHIT WE’RE DOING WEEZER!?!? (But seriously I am so psyched for this episode)
Hard To Explain is my favorite track on the record and I gotta say, Touché Amore’s cover of it is pretty perfect as well
First time I heard this album I thought it was mid, it took me a long time to like it because of the mix, now I really like this album
First heard em on a free 45 with that Brit(Mojo, the IggyStoogesissue) mag and loved their post/proto/Manhattan Mad hatter mafia thang...but never did pick up one of their lp/cds but it's good to be here with you. Casablancas/Devoe are underrated in Pop Culture.
although I follow this channel, it took me awhile to recognize this effort as vinyl Monday despite UA-cam shoving it in my face every time I looked. without the host pictured , I didn't recognize the effort as vinyl Monday , and finally just clicked in out of curiosity. I type now just to trigger the payment algorithms , as this is just another New York/east coast band to me, and I care little for the characteristic artistic choices.
Btw, my favorite Strokes album, weirdly, is "First Impressions of Earth". I love the rawness and a bunch of songs from the earlier albums too, but Impressions is overall more varied and I love the melodic approach.
Great video with info I hadn't heard before. I always thought the drums on Hard to Explain sounded too robotic to be a real drum performance. Also, I used to assume the lyrics were "my ex" until I looked them up and it said "Maya" which I don't like as much so I'm glad to hear that they're in dispute. I do hear the Television/Lou Reed/Ramones influence, but most of all I hear the Buzzcocks especially the track "Everybody's Happy Nowadays".
As a vinyl nerd, I was excited to see someone else with a copy of London Calling in shrink with the 2 hype stickers.
Favorite 21st Century Album so far? Oh, too many to list!!!! LADYTRON's self titled ( I call it "Into the Fire"...see the cover) is an icy, dystopian masterpiece. Sturgill Simpson's "Sound and Fury". Country Rock that is presented as how it should be performed!!! Unleash the Archer's "Abyss" is divine prog metal as is Seven Kingdoms' "Zenith".....I could go on! Music is NOT dead....it's on UA-cam.
Billy Squire--The Stroke.
Now you just need to do Up The Bracket by The Libertines 😎
That record did a much better job holding my attention. I felt the same grimey, scumbagginess the likes of FEAR had back in the bronze age.
I've seen cloud chamber type pictures for other bands from the 90s and 00s. I think like Rodan.
It'll be a HAPPY DAY if you choose a BUDDY HOLLY album, but that would be a real hail MARY choice, and you don't care about that, WHATTSA MATTER, WHATTSA MATTER, WHATTSA MATTER YOU, steve TYLER & the stones would be nothing without buddy, what MOORE could you ask for? But that'll be the day...
Saw them open for Tom Petty. In Gainesville!
In the "hint" from the last vinyl Monday, all I saw was black and white so I was somewhat hoping for that Royal Blood debut album. Anyway, I'll see what you have to say about this one.
The only song I know off this album is Last Nite. I thought that was a great tune.
yeayyy my favourite album, please do funeral, turn on the bright side, and sound of silver next time😂❤
"Hi, I'm Abby I [wear] a lot of [makeup]".
Glad to see you trying your luck with this one.
All the critics in 2001 were comparing this to the Velvets... I never got that; to me this record sounded like The Pretenders with a bored rich dude singing.
Time & place? This was a great one. It embodied NYC at the turn of the millennium like Appetite for Destruction did for 1980s Sunset Strip or... well, yeah, the VU did the Village in the '60s.
Love it when you do 2 albums a week. Rather listen to Arctic Monkeys personally. There are artists that you think you should really like but don't. For me these include Nick Drake, Tim Buckley, My Bloody Valentine and yes, The Strokes
Aby, please review an album of the band Black country, new road. They're amazing and you might've heard of them if you like black midi!
Any thoughts on covering a Paul Weller or Jam record? His name was literally the mod father lol
This is one of those modern bands that I liked the singles that were getting played on SNL and radio, but just never got into for some reason. Then again, I'm a metalhead/Hard rock Gen-X'er, so I'm not always into the younger bands these days.
QUEEEN
The album that defined my senior year of high school...it felt so important to me as a teen considering all mainstream pop at the time was total garbage...just having some cool dudes playing rock and roll songs felt like a revelation at the time.
Meet me in the bathroom by Lizzie Goodman is definitely recommended
Her book and documentary
Speaking of Television - have you covered that one yet?! I'd love to hear your thoughts on that one.
17:22 - 17:57 Classic - modern classic as well as other classics.
i like the nabakov reference in terms of how borderline preferences can be treated and the difference between those who sing and singers. if the lead singer here stopped trying to sound like reed it might have helped and the recording of the vocals grates over an album. modern age is catchy and alone together the track i liked best. mod month is always going to be interesting because albums released in recent times are always going to have a special presence.
for some reason thinking there was some kind of link, young bands digging a retro sound, i listened to the la's today and that was a band of honesty, musicianship and songwriting relating to their situation: not some cooked up fashionable thing.
look into the past
we can't live without it
we can't live within it
everything must pass
lee mavers
Pls do linda perhacs!!
Yeah Yeah Yeah's
2 albums dropped in that micro-era which gave hedz a renewed sense of faith: this, and 13 tales. Then everything went to beershit until Halcyon Digest. Someone please do anything better than everything being done now.
Dragon New Warm Mountain on mod?
11/07 hunting high and low's next?
Do a White Stripes album. Probably, White Blood Cells.
best album of the naughties? Sure as shit wasn't an arctic monkeys record. The naughties was a solid music decade. I'll vote for Madvillainy by Madvillain or The Execution of All Things by Rilo Kiley or Vespertine by Bjork
This is the best UA-cam channel
I've kinda forgotten how much this LP kicks arse. Not a duff track on it.
Abigail you did not talk enough about the modern age 😢😢
Thurston at 19:38 in Bethel?
YES it’s one of the funniest photos i’ve ever seen. a real finger snapper
@@abigaildevoe I've tapped my toes to MMM
I saw them live last year in salt lake and while the songs were performed decently, Julian was drunk and very obnoxious between songs and even made like he was gonna suck one of the other members off like wtf. gay jokes in 2023? apparently it was one of his better shows though, he hasn't performed sober in a long time from what I know. all their songs sound so similar that I thought the handful I knew were played before they actually were
that sounds about right from i’ve heard from recent strokes gigs :( it’s a real shame, watching footage from this era i was impressed with how julian’s voice was ALWAYS spot on back then
Abby love your channel and eagerly await each edition but... I don't think the arctic monkeys were influenced by the strokes. I could be wrong though, I'll go find out
“i just wanted to be one of the strokes” - alex turner, on the opening line of the tranquility base album
Well played! I could have sworn the artics appeared first but it was a long and woozy time ago
I just listened to it I finished it put be here now on and the. Saw the video oasis can wait
Oh great, now I have absolutely zero idea what day of the week it is, and no, I’m not buying a colander or whatever you norm-cores call it
Im surprised you dont play an instrument, as you use a lot of musical terms in your description of the music. Well done!