The Strokes - Is This It (w/ guest Cassidy Robinson)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Music, Music Commentary

4.3 • 760 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2016

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

From the Jabber and the Drone podcast (jabberandthedrone.podbean.com), Cassidy Robinson joins Bill and Brian to discuss the final installment of Debut Album January, the Strokes' Is This It (2001, RCA). Coming together in New York City and first gaining a following in the UK, the Strokes were a breath of fresh air during a period of nu metal, boy bands, and emo. We talk about when Cassidy first discovered the band, listening to them while riding the bus to school, and how it changed his outlook on the aural landscape available to him as a fan of music. Before we get to our track by track review, we discuss the lasting impact the band made even though they were unable to maintain the level of quality on their first few releases. Additionally, we cover the possible reasons for starting an album with a low key song, which song sounds the most like a Velvet Underground song, stabby guitars, the unique production style of Gordon Raphael, which song sounds like the best song Weezer didn't write, the "conversation" between musicians when a song is being arranged, and more!

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0:00.0	I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And today, as you were just listening to right there, we're going to be talking about the strokes and their debut album 2001s. Is this it?
0:42.6	Oh, yeah. If you've never listened to the podcast before, what we do here every week is we take a different album of music, talk about what makes it great. And we're going to do that by talking about our personal relationship
0:54.8	with, you know, the music, how we found it and stuff. And then we're also going to talk a little
0:58.5	bit about the history of the band, the production of the album. And then eventually we're going to get
1:04.4	into a track-by-track review a little later on. But we're not going to do it alone.
1:09.1	Absolutely not, Brian. We actually have someone, once again, for a second week in a row, we're using the magic of Skype to bring in a guest, and we are talking to Cassidy Robinson.
1:20.3	Hey, Cassidy.
1:21.0	Hey, thanks for having me.
1:22.0	No problem.
1:22.7	Thanks for being here.
1:24.0	Yeah, coming in all the way, piping in all the way from Los Angeles via satellite.
1:29.8	Yeah.
1:30.1	Via cup and string.
1:31.2	Yeah.
1:31.3	Yeah, I think that you are actually our furthest guest we've ever had.
1:35.4	Wow.
1:36.0	Okay.
1:36.5	L.A. represent.
1:37.3	Yeah.
1:37.9	Via.
1:39.1	Sorry.
1:40.0	I think that is the furthest distance that you could get from New Jersey is L.A. probably, both in spirit and geographically.
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