the strokes 2nd album might be coming in the fall- too soon?

(why are they doing it? money? do they really want a TRL fanbase?)

I don't think normal standards of indie cred apply to the Strokes.

I'm tempted to say they're being pressured to strike while the iron (and the huge reams [no pun intended given what folks like the NY Press have said] of publicity) is hot, sort of a "we're NOT a fluke we're not we're not we're not!" maneuver because they're supposedly big fashionistas who want to wheel out the new designs in time for Fall '02. Then again the White Stripes were (and might still be) on a one-a-year track and it hasn't hurt them much.

Then again, better what they're doing than what the '90s buzz-band they remind me of the most- Elastica- wound up doing (i.e. record a pretty damn good follow-up five years too late).

maybe they just, you know, want to make a record.*

(*SHOCKING.)

But Herr Jess, didn't you know that every move they make is determined by the Maschine?

I said "I'm tempted to say", and most of that was written tongue-in- cheek anyways. I honestly think that releasing a follow-up so soon probably just means they've got a bunch of new stuff they wanna screw around with in the studio and get recorded for no other reason than they have some great new songs the fans might like.

it'll be about a year between records - about right, isn't it?

if they want to do an oasis/suede it has to be a year. there was a year between 'suede' and 'dog man star', and a year between 'definitely maybe' and 'morning glory' so no. not 2 soon.

get it over with

"if they want to do an oasis/suede" - this is the opposite of their intentions, I'm sure. 'Suede' being synonymous w/ 'hype' in the US (at least until the Strokes came along), and 'Oasis' being synonymous w/ 'followup bust' (at least until the next Strokes LP comes along).

(a) Surely it doesn't take them very long to record.

(b) Surely if you're the Strokes you'd rather throw a solid record out while people still expect you to be around -- rather than slipping off-radar for a year and having your next release be surrounded with a repeat of hype and backlash and fluke-accusations and pressure/scrutiny and on and on: this fall will probably be the best moment yet for a Strokes record to be received at-face, without a ton of "political" mediation.

(c) Judging by the big cache of Strokes live recordings and unused b- sides and such I stumbled over the other day -- most of which were both better and more sophisticated than Is this It, many in a jumpy pop manner that made them seem like various alternate-world versions of "This Charming Man" -- I think they may surprise us by actually having the songs for it.

the white stripes'll have a new record out in the fall too.

They did say in an interview during their last UK tour, that they "refused" to write songs on tour, preferring to write songs about familiar surroundings than "screwing girls and playing gigs" (or something to that effect). They also added that the writing (let alone recording) would take the best part of 12 months AFTER they finished touring.

Don't know how reliable that information is now though...

A song a month? Lazy bastards

like various alternate-world versions of "This Charming Man"

Hurrah, another person agrees with me on this salient point! I was making that comparison the moment I first heard the original "Last Night."

No relation to the thread really, but this question must be asked as often as possible: WHY did they re-record The Modern Age (and Barely Legal, but mostly The Modern Age) for the album? Why, why why why? Never has one micro-detail made a potentially-great record so middling and lumbery. Big sillies.

who was it wanted supermodels? dave q - become a Strokes!
mind you, it's a cute boy thing - not sweaty 'Mojo' man biznizz, more's tha pity