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I feel as if Under Cover Of Darkness is a song of the year, IMO. While I like the direction of the sound the album, as a whole, didn't do all that much to make me excited.
Post by itrainmonkeys on Mar 18, 2011 9:28:21 GMT -5
One bad review of the SXSW set from The STrokes. This is from Hitfix.com:
Day two at the South By Southwest Music Conference has finished and I am convinced that, were the truism "you are what you eat" a reality, I'd be a street meat edible of some sort, either a taco or a hot dog.
If I were in a band based on the mish-mash of music I consumed today (March 17), it'd be a mutt of dance-pop, hip-hop and droning guitar rock. Actually, I would have liked to feel more rocked, period, which was a job for The Strokes, who disappointed in many regards.
Free and open to the publc, the show was held away from the strip, and was instead at Auditorium Shore at Austin's Lady Bird Lake and it required a shuttle to get there. Many more than 20,000 people actually made the trek, but the capacity was apparently around that number and many were turned away. The result was hoards of people jumping and crashing the fence, climbing on top of port-o-potties to scale to the other side.
And their wiles were to a mixed end. I'm all for a dry, too-cool detachment from frontman Julian Casablancas, but there are times when that snotty attitude feels like a gift. He clearly was in no mood to be giving anyone anything at all on this warm Thursday night, nor was the rest of the band. Albert Hammond, Jr., would stalk about but only what looked like out of boredom. No thank you, no hey Austin, no funny asides about the sound troubles from the wind.
The setlist still borrowed heavily from The Strokes' first "Is This It," despite that their new album "Angles" is out in Tuesday. They played five of those tracks, including the deceivingly old-school "Under Cover of Darkness" and "You're So Right." And frankly, it's fine that it was that way: those first two records are hard to equal, and to be a fuddy-duddy in advance, I'm non-plussed by "Angles," which is streaming now in full on the band's website. Tracks like that first single were the rock act's winning formula, but those new wave and electro influences that plagued Casablancas' tiresome solo debut last year have segued into this fresh set, and the result is a multiple personality disorder.
Now, this was a first for me, to see more than even 10,000 revelers at a SXSW show, and the Strokes will be playing to arenas and festivals of more than that all summer. Songs like "Take It or Leave It," "Last Nite" and "You Only Live Once" still blaze, but this overall anti-climactic combination of an uneven recorded effort and wet blanketed showmanship aren't good early omens.
Tracks like that first single were the rock act's winning formula, but those new wave and electro influences that plagued Casablancas' tiresome solo debut last year have segued into this fresh set, and the result is a multiple personality disorder.
It's funny to read reviewers still expect anything more than indifference from these guys.
there have been a few things about this album that annoy me, but the indifference is not one of them. the strokes have always been too cool. work hard and say it's easy.
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So is this what we can expect performance-wise at Bonnaroo?
I never got real big into the strokes, and since the lineup dropped I've only just recently started listening to "is this it" and "room on fire" and they've gotten my interest enough to try to check them out.
However, I HATE going to shows where the band just stands there and plays the songs with no energy or stage presence. ex. Kings of Leon. Do you think they'll play like that at bonnaroo?
-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
Post by RadioSpirit on Mar 18, 2011 12:36:14 GMT -5
The Strokes have stage presence and energy. They just use those attributes to reflect how indifferent they are about everything. I would expect nothing less from the guys
First bad review i've heard of the Strokes since they came back last summer. I am not worried in the least.
Yea I just found it interesting that they felt they were so bad.
Everyone should keep in mind that reviews are generally just one person's perspective on something (whether it's an album or a live show). So just because this one person felt this way it doesn't mean that's how you would have felt.
This person didn't like them at SXSW.
Here's another review.....this one's more positive:
“Who are the headliners at South-by?”
People have been asking me the same question for three weeks, and when they are (inevitably) dissatisfied with my answer – a stammering “Uh, well, it doesn't really work like that...” I bring up the Strokes, the British rockers who gave SXSW a major jolt earlier in the month when they announced a free concert tonight at Auditorium Shores Stage. Festival-goers didn't disappoint: an estimated 40,000 people trekked across the Lady Bird Lake reservoir for the show.
Outside of an “SNL” appearance and a Vegas gig earlier this week, Julian Casablancas and crew had never performed any of the songs from their upcoming album “Angles,” out Tuesday. While there was space in the 75-minute set for a handful of new tracks – “Life is Simple In the Moonlight” and first single “Under Cover of Darkness”=_new" sounded particularly well-honed – the group ultimately relied on fan favorites from “Is This It” and “Room On Fire.”
Clad in his standard black leather jacket ensemble, Casablancas gave an inspired frontman performance, his hair blowing in the breeze like some indie-fied L'Oréal commercial. He's grown as a singer, nimbly shifting between lounge croon, arena-rock bombast and unhinged howl. Things reached a fever pitch in the encore, as a cascade of fireworks illuminated the skies over Lady Bird Lake, the last clanging notes of “Last Nite” reverberating across the water and onto downtown Austin.
Post by theshining on Mar 18, 2011 13:50:19 GMT -5
Yea you have to take them for what they are live. It's not like this is the Strokes' first trip around the block. If you like what they are selling then you should have a good time at their set.
I'm not too big into the new album on the whole but I would see them barring conflict. If they are playing while Plant is though I won't be seeing them
This is the first message board I've ever been on, the only reason I joined is because I love Bonnaroo and wanted to read and talk about it all year long.
I finally got the new album and listened to it all the way through. They are still a must-see, but I thought the album was meh. I dug the first single but the album as a whole just sounds a little uninspired or something. Just sounds like they are boredddddddddd.
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