"In our heads, we have certain ideals we want to accomplish. But that's all. [It] could be five years."

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Five years.

Show of hands: who among us could easily write, record and mix a Strokes record in an afternoon?

(raises hand. looks around...)

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I could, but I mean that in the same sense that an animal lover couldn't shoot a dog.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, are you suggesting they should hurry up with it? Take your time, boys.

― briania (briania), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I could never understand why musicians could ever possibly take this long to record an album. Regular nobody musicians with day jobs/families/ect. can turn out a full-length once a year and these jokers need five? If I had absolutely NOTHING to do but write music.... oh whatever.

― darin, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Looks like the Strokes could learn a thing or two from their buddy Bob
Pollard, who puts out about 5 albums worth of material a year.

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Five years.

Maybe cuz The Strokes can't actually play and need to piece everything together in Pro Tools? I liked Is This It but the band are, by all accounts, abysmal musicians.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

They play fine onstage. I don't think their slothlike recording pace has to do with lack of musical talent. Though it is a little strange how much time they spend "perfecting" their sound in the studio, given how simple it ends up sounding (on the last album, at least). ("Five years" is also obviously a gross exaggeration.)

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I do wish they were twice as prolific. I figure Julian just takes a long time to write the songs. Bob Pollard, he obviously ain't.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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