i got the new strokes... d/l free inside!

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its up on my webspace

http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gtg263r/

im busy leaking it over at pfms right now, but ill try & get a tracklist up soon (yes this is the real thing)

― Michael Ng (Mike Ng), Friday, 26 September 2003 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

someone googleproof this maybe

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 26 September 2003 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

You are good people.

(Downloading as I listen to "Last Nite," holy shit I forgot how great this song is.)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 26 September 2003 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i gots on soleseak

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 26 September 2003 06:06 (twenty-two years ago)

heres the tracklist:

1. what ever happened
2. reptilia
3. automatic stop
4. 12:51
5. you talk way too much
6. between love & hate
7. meet me in the bathroom
8. under control
9. the end has no end
10. the way it is
11. i cant win

― Michael Ng (Mike Ng), Friday, 26 September 2003 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

ok i dunno how much longer im gonna levae this up (cuz its my schools webspace + upload) & i dont want resnet bitching at me (didnt happen w/ outkast, luda, or bjaxx... but ive prolly been lucky)... anyways. get it while its hot. :D tracklist is now up on my webspace too.

― Michael Ng (Mike Ng), Friday, 26 September 2003 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yea, ill be sharing it on soulseek evne if i take it down from my webspace.

sn: pontiuspilotpen

― Michael Ng (Mike Ng), Friday, 26 September 2003 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)

this has made my morning. thanks loads (esp fot the 500+ k/s d/l..)!

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 26 September 2003 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)

haha. its 3:37 AM where i am. im an insomniac... :[

it pays off though cuz i always get tons ofleaks :D

i remember when rns leaked outkast on sept. 11 (coincidence???) & i was freaking out. it was all that much better cuz later that day i got to see mogwai

― Michael Ng (Mike Ng), Friday, 26 September 2003 06:38 (twenty-two years ago)

thanx! will enjoy this in the weekend i hope! and of course: we'll all be buying this when it comes out, right?

― willem (willem), Friday, 26 September 2003 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yea, big ups to [name deleted by mod at request of poster] hes the guy i got it from on soulseek. he was in the ILM chatroom & told me it was leaked

― Michael Ng (Mike Ng), Friday, 26 September 2003 06:41 (twenty-two years ago)

im ognna sleep now but im taking it down when i wake up

― Michael Ng (Mike Ng), Friday, 26 September 2003 07:07 (twenty-two years ago)

reviewer's gift of a first line: "I wanna be forgotten" (ps. in a good way)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 26 September 2003 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i wish i had broadband! i guess i only have to wait 3 weeks but i want it NOW! this will be down by tonight i guess; didn't even get all the luda tracks. stupid macs and their pysoulseek.

― David. (Cozen), Friday, 26 September 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

is 12:51 going to be the single?
if not it really should be........

― joni, Friday, 26 September 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

david, yr e-mailaddress's not correct is it? if yr. interested, send me an e-mail...

― willem (willem), Friday, 26 September 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

must... resist... aaaa...

No. I'm not going to do it. I am strong.

― kate (kate), Friday, 26 September 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The word I heard is that it is better because there is less Casablancas factor. This can only be an improvement.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 September 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

It was good for a while but now I'm over it.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 26 September 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

what's the casablancas factor?
from what i've gathered from the recent mojo piece in which the journo spend some time with the band during the (final) recording phase of the album, it seemed that casablancas was all over the recordings. i.e. he came across as pretty obsessed with getting every auditory detail right.

― willem (willem), Friday, 26 September 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

It won't be there by the time I get home.

Anywhere else?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 26 September 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

What a waste of hard drive space.
Straight in the bin it goes.

― hmm, Friday, 26 September 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Are people getting stupider?

― ;-) (jdesouza), Friday, 26 September 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I find it rather good... but I think you would have to like the first one to like this.

― jasiska, Friday, 26 September 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Blimey, thanks!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 26 September 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks for the d/l on the d.l. I'm not real excited about it. I suppose more listenings are in order..

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 26 September 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i like it.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 26 September 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

it's v. resigned. i like it. maybe a lot. i'll tell you when i get it onto cd.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 26 September 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah thumbs up from me.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 26 September 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Please have mercy, Mr. Purveyor Man! It's 10:20 AM ova here, and I've only just begun! (And I've got a 56K modem!)

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 26 September 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah leave it up for one more day, so i can get it when I get home!

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 26 September 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry guys. last call... :[

im about to delete them. But just message me on soulseek & ill add you to my list & you can d/l it from me

― Michael Ng (Mike Ng), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

surprisingly dull on first listen... maybe it takes more time

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

tracks gone... sorry guys. IM me on aim (pontiuspilotpen) or soulseek if you still need the tracks

― Michael Ng (Mike Ng), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i like it, it is nearly exactly the same as the first one! i wish they would be slightly less tasteful sometimes but that's the strokes. i knew i would like it.

― minna (minna), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

How can you say that Minna - they do a ballad this time!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

b-b-but the first track is a ballad (just like the last album)!

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm liking this record... but it seems like they're anxious to put out their Panorama without having put out their Candy-O yet.

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I really liked that first track! Sounds more new-vavish to my ears, but yes, very Cars-ish. But his voice is waaay buried in the mix.
The first two songs will have to do for now as a treat. Nice lil' taste of what to expect. I likes, quite obv.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

jbr otm

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 26 September 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I like this better than Is This It. More variety, fewer tracks that sound the same.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 26 September 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

'under control' - i mean, wow. fucking wow.

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 26 September 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i love the ballad tom!

― minna (minna), Friday, 26 September 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

& stevie

― minna (minna), Friday, 26 September 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

how are we getting into this ?
help me please ! it just says 'www prism' and there are no trax there.

!!!!!

― piscesboy, Saturday, 27 September 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I have it. You can get it from me on SoulSeek (MisterSnrub)

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 27 September 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I, too, like this more than their first album. Track for track, the songs are less "faceless" than those on Is This It and Julian's vocals (especially those on "The End Has No End") show a little emotional range.

― Andrew Frye (paul cox), Saturday, 27 September 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Howabout if you have a Mac and can't use solepseak?

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 27 September 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris B. mentioned he was able to get it to work with Mac OS X, so there's a way.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 September 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

also check newsgroups today. It was in:

alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.2000s

I might add that the newsgroups (the usenet part of the Internet) are a goldmine of stuff that apparently the RIAA has not noticed. Yet. Get a good newsreader and check out that group if you can't get one of the P2P thingies to work.

Oh, and I was surprised that this album is pretty good. You have to hand it to the Strokes: they know who they are and don't deviate a whole lot from the playbook. Even though they still sound like someone else's record collection they do it pretty well. I really don't hear a pop song as great as "Last Night" on it though.

And clearly, they still have no fucking relevance to the "classic pop sound of Motown" or whatever the dude in SPIN conjured.

― don weiner, Saturday, 27 September 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

except they do!!

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 27 September 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

It was the "classic pop structure"! You don't have to be an R&B group to follow the classic R&B structure, and there's plenty of rhythm and a different kind of blues in the record anyway

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 27 September 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Like Yanc3y said, "Under Control" sounds like it coulda been a Stones or Sam Cooke song.. With a less guitar oriented arrangement (and maybe a different singer, though I think Julian does a great job here)that much would be very obvious

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 27 September 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

This has nothing to do with R&B (well, it does but it doesn't.)

Maybe I overstated it ("no fucking relevance") but it's so minimal that it's a specious point. Nobody thinks of the Strokes and Motown in the same thought, unless of course they are busy trying to write a credibility-inspiring press release.

Yes, there are some elements of the Strokes sound that stem from that classic pop structure of Motown. But most popular bands share that distinction. Which is exactly why that observation is so contrived. What's more, the more distinguishing characteristics of Motown--the classic R&B elements--is minor to what the Strokes are doing. In that, it's an even more desperate association.

― don weiner, Saturday, 27 September 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree with Don. The Strokes don't sound any more like Motown than any other halfway decent old-school rock band.

Also, every single Motown singer could sing more than three notes in any given song. Fact!

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Saturday, 27 September 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

That's kind of the distinction anyway, Matthew.

I don't think others are suggesting that the Strokes sound like Motown--they're saying that the Strokes utilize classic pop structure that sprung from Motown.

I say, that's a specious argument. It's not distinctively descriptive, for one. It's a bit irrelevant, given that, as you and I point out, it's commonplace for most bands to use "classic pop structure." And even if the Strokes don't sound like a prototypical Motown act, they barely have any especially identifying characteristics in common with what most readers would ascribe to Motown. Were the article in SPIN in anyway an intellectual discussion or assessment of the Strokes music, perhaps I would have let it slide by. But that wasn't the case.

― don weiner, Saturday, 27 September 2003 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

In that SPIN article, Julian says something about ripping off a specific Kim Gordon-sung Sonic Youth song on "12:51"

Now, I'm a huge SY fan. I know all of the albums. I kinda sorta get what he's trying to say. But can anyone please tell me which specific song he's probably talking about? I know that it's going to seem blindingly obvious once I find out, but right now, I'm not sure.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Saturday, 27 September 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I like this more than Is This It too, it sounds a lot more complete and easier to listen to. I can't wait to see it released, I think it'll be a huge hit.

― Patrick Allan, Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:40 (twenty-two years ago)

This has nothing to do with R&B

Or does it?

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf700/f733/f73313ux30i.jpg

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 28 September 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The Strokes don't sound any more like Motown than any other halfway decent old-school rock band.

the strokes = the last half decent old-school rock band !!
I don't want to spend too much time defending that article because a. I haven't read it b. it IS a specious point.. But the article, like a lot of people, approaches them from the indie angle rather than the pop angle, in which case they have a relatively strong motown influence (RELATIVELY), cf Decemberists or whatever indie is big now.. even if it's indirect through the Velvet Underground or the Who or the whoever

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 28 September 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Matthew - he's talking about "Bull in the Heather" from "Experimental Jet Set..."

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Monday, 29 September 2003 06:15 (twenty-two years ago)

it's all over the NME news site that 'various message boards
are now sharing MP3 files of the album'.

run ! hide !!

― piscesboy, Monday, 29 September 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, thank you Ben. I knew it had to be something obvious like that. It's all in the way he sings the numbers.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 29 September 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

now i'm sure that i like it a lot. today's favourite is "automatic stop". for the way he says "important".

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 29 September 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

help!
I just caught on. Can anyone help me? I'm in the fanclub, so I'm obviously going to buy it. PLEASE!
Thank you so much!
EH

― Eric from Bellingham, WA, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm having trouble finding the downloads through soulseek.....guess i'm retarded. can someone tell me where to get the mp3's? Oct. 28th's way too long to wait!

thanks for helping a sister out!

― Lisa, Friday, 3 October 2003 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, this is really good.

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 3 October 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

otm

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 4 October 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

woo, i like this! 'under control' especially.

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 5 October 2003 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Try this link:
www.adnar.com/mp3s/The%20Strokes-Room%20On%20Fire/

― Jon Dionne, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

anyone else got a mirror link for the files? i'm ready to host it on a .com site. Quickie quickie!

― nishi, Friday, 10 October 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Nishis! Dont bother. I got it up on the blog. Check it.

― brendan, Tuesday, 14 October 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Where's that?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

you suck

― stephane wills, Saturday, 31 January 2004 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

josh funk is cool 913 557 4560 call him

― peter griffen, Saturday, 31 January 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

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