Bonus Song Thursday - The Strokes "Juicebox"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Music, Music Commentary

4.3 • 760 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! Bill and Brian follow up our episode on the Strokes' Is This It by talking about "Juicebox," off the band's third album First Impressions of Earth (2006, RCA). Representative of the turning point in the band's sound, the song is muscular and driving, a stark contrast to their earlier work. Brian and Bill discuss David Kahne's production and career, how the Strokes and the Gaslight Anthem have had the same problem, the Strokes side projects, Brian's discovery of the band, and a tweet that (thankfully) corrected who the characters are in Jack Kerouac's On the Road.

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0:00.0	I'm Bill.
0:27.6	Standing in the light field, waiting for some action,
0:32.6	waiting for some action over.
0:34.6	Why won't you come over here? Why, what's it going to here?
0:40.2	Hey, I'm Bill.
0:41.6	And I'm Brian.
0:42.5	And this is The Great Albums podcast, Bonus Song Thursday.
0:46.9	Welcome to it.
0:48.2	And as you just heard right there, what were we listened to, Brian?
0:51.2	That was a song called Juice Box by the strokes off of their third album, First Impressions of Earth.
0:59.0	And now, why are we talking about the strokes in just one song?
1:02.7	Because we, that's all we do on Thursdays, because we really, you know, we're tired and we did a full album on Monday with the strokes.
1:10.7	And, you know,
1:11.7	Thursday, it's kind of like our little off day where we sort of just half-ass it for like 20 minutes.
1:16.6	Yeah, have a little bit of fun, talk about the music. And I think we chose this song because it's a good
1:23.5	one to do, to compare and contrast with their career a little bit.
1:28.0	Yeah.
1:28.2	But for those that don't know, the other day, we talked about the Stroke's first album,
1:32.6	Is This It, with our friend Cassidy Robinson from Jabber and the Dron podcast,
1:38.4	which is a movie review podcast, but he came on and did some music review with us.
1:42.7	Yeah.
1:43.0	And check out his podcast and our episode with him on it.
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