Is This It

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In 2007, Q included the record at number21 in its editorial staff list of the 21Albums That Changed Music. Arriving on a wave of well-earned hype rooted in tight chops and a confident swagger, the Strokes offer a rock and roll antidote to the plague of boy bands, teen divas, and petulant rap-rock outfits.

But like the similarly lauded Elastica and Supergrass before them, the Strokes don't rehash the sounds that inspire them—they remake them in their own image. Mulholland adds that even the pop stars of that decade who rediscovered disco, electro, and synthpop owe a debt to the record, because its commercial success "made every forgotten art-pop experiment of the late 70s and early 80s instantly hip and ripe for reinvention". Not as good as the OP which is more vivid and jumps at you more, but I had to get this for the cover. BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe suggests that the album moved popular opinion from DJs and pop music to " skinny jeans and guitars", "the template for rock 'n' roll in the modern day". We all know that when a high fidelity recording is remastered / pressed by Music on Vinyl, they deliver a stellar job.Additionally, the album's original cover photo was replaced by a less sexually explicit artwork for the US market. The international cover art of Is This It is by Colin Lane and features a photograph of a woman's rear and hip, with a leather-gloved hand suggestively resting on it. This is an outstanding release filled with trashy pop songs about love, hate, lust and the misunderstandings about growing up.

The US CD version replaces "New York City Cops" with newly written track "When It Started", due to the September 11 attacks.I haven’t taken these out of the plastic sleeve they came in yet, so I’m assuming he’s telling the truth.

Geoff Travis, head of the Strokes' UK label Rough Trade, commented that the Australian continent had "special dispensation" and that an export ban was put in place to ensure no interferences with release plans in the rest of the world. Is This It” bows down before all the trademarks of pre-1977 rock: off-kilter guitar solos, half-buried vocals (à la ”Louie, Louie”), attitude-heavy slurring (by singer Julian Casablancas), primitive tom-tom rhythms (shades of the Velvets’ Moe Tucker), and the raw, muddy sonics of garage-band 45s. Gunn links the success of alternative music in British charts throughout the 2000s to the album, but notes that "the copyists" could never match the attention to detail and heartfelt emotion of the Strokes. Gunn concludes that, while the status of the album as the 2000s' most influential guitar record may be "a double-edged sword" because of poor quality copyists, its status as the decade's best pop album should not be in doubt.Although the two parties developed a rapport, the band were unhappy with the results of preliminary sessions which they thought sounded "too clean" and "too pretentious"; the three songs recorded with Norton were scrapped. The bonus DVD portion of the reissue contains the music videos for the album's three singles and two previously unreleased live performances of the Strokes on MTV2. The Strokes chose to replace the song "New York City Cops" on the CD version of the album with a newly recorded song, " When It Started", after they witnessed the "valiant response" of the city's police department during the tragedy. In a press release, Gentles explained, "They will only carry on if they feel that they are 100% after rehearsing with Matt, as they wouldn't offer anything less to their fans.