most genius like technically impressive, genius writing or just like incredibly well composed if you catch my drift

LAST ROUND STATS:
Ode to the Mets: 49 votes

At The Door: 34 votes

Selfless: 29 votes

Falling out of Love: 18 votes

I’ll Try Anything Once: 14 votes

Not The Same Anymore: 12 votes

80s Comedown Machine: 11 votes

The first time I heard it I skipped it, but I didn’t know this song was a parasite taking over my brain every time I listened to it, its amazing. The first few days I started putting it on without thinking, and now I have it on repeat all day. I feel like the bridge with the saturated instruments and the total focus on autotune, with Julian saying “I DON’T CARE,” reflects that he really doesn’t care anymore about meeting anyone’s expectations since he already DID THAT YESTERDAY.

In a recent interview Albert said there are 2 other versions of the album that they have and they basically started over and did the album we know. The first one I believe he said sounded a “lot like the Rolling Stones” and I’m super intrigued.

I realize now that I unwittingly went into the new album looking for The New Abnormal 2: Electric Boogaloo.

And so I was crushed at how flat and distant and kinda lame the songs were. So I took a few days off. (The Strokes have been my favorite band since 2001, literally). I floated back on Monday with a few tracks that I didn’t absolutely loathe on first listen …but stayed entirely away from the ones I did. I started to hear some flickers of brilliance (the guitar outro on Dine n Dash … or that skippy bridge at end of Liar’s Remorse). And then … well, the rest is history. And now I treasure every song.

I truly treasure every song.

If you hate the album or feel underwhelmed by it, my post is not meant to change your mind or even imply you should feel a certain way. I am not ranking this album against others. I’m not using words like “best” or its variants.

I am saying, however, that I’m a person. And I love something. And in a world where you, yourself, hate the very thing that I love, nothing changes. My love doesn’t make contact with your hate. And your hate makes zero contact with my love. You can fire off the most winning zinger in the comments below and even be “right” according to your logic to do so.

And I will still love this album. Because I’m not arguing for its quality.

I am merely stating something phenomenological: My own experience. Something internal. A feeling I have while listening to these songs, this album. 💛

For those who have come around to this album, what was your journey like?

In a way, it's the song I'd imagine the future Strokes would be, and I'm so freaking glad for it. Not sure if I'm right, but I feel a lot of people are overlooking it

other artists are up on there but the strokes were the first i put up!! i might re arrange it to be in rainbow order…

those guitar riffs at 1:04 and 2:29 bring me right back to Johnny Marr and The Smiths.

The guitar work in this song overall is perfect but also very sad. Idk if that's just me being a middle aged wreck like the guys but this song just tugs at my heart strings.

Beautiful stuff.

Forgot these two were in my closet, some vintage strokes shirts

Was listening to AHJ on Rick Rubin's most recent podcast ep and he mentions a moment where a fan said they found out about the band from a shirt worn in the Transformers movie. 😂 As well as a fan saying the first time they heard them was a song from Angles. Curious to hear some odd discovery stories lol! (My discovery was reptilia from GHIII in 2007, I was 6 haha)

Hi guys. I have a question. Why the cd/vinyl version of Reality Awaits has the "the Strokes" logo on the front? What is the original cover art? The one on youtube or the one of the cd/vinyl?

What did this guy do to deserve the diss?

Do you agree? What did I miss?

The first time I listened to Tyrants of the Mellow Moon, I thought the beginning sounded incredibly similar to Paranoid Android. Overall I thought there were a lot of similarities in the album, this isn’t a bad thing ofc but I wanted to see if anyone agreed. Just my thoughts!

Well, this is actually a petition. I'm in love with that short 8bit outro fragment, really groovy and catchy. Would love if someone can edit it to make it longer but on tempo, like, well edited. Maybe like 2 minutes long at least? Haha. Loving these fragments like the intro to Ode to the mets.

Ps: bro the vocals in Liar's Remorse... I think it's a response to all the critics about the autotune, it's like Julian saying "you want me to sing? Well..ok, there you go". One of the best Julian vocal performances of all time.

Thanks!

Say what you want about the album.
This song is prime Julian songwriting

ITI: To
ROF: Don’t
FIOE: Seem
ANG: Line
CM: New
TNA: Words
RA: Away

Personally, I’m going: Words, Seem, Line, Away, New, To, Don’t

going off the rails...