Idle Times: If the Strokes Were Poor
With the impending Strokes’ disc due out in the next little bit, it’s worth wondering, not only if it’ll be good, but also if the band wasn’t a buncha rich kids if they’d have made it this far. There aren’t really too many high profile groups capable of issuing so many crap records while holding onto a record contract.
But if that’s the Strokes’ only crime, we should let it go. Is This It? still ranks as an early millennium highlight. And anyone disagreeing with that should probably just go fiddle with their three hundred dollar copy of some live Steve Albini record – aka eat it.
