Strokes and critics

["Jeff House" <whocasa@hotmail.com>]

From: "Nigel Morton" <nigel@adastey.demon.co.uk>
"Jeff ........ Well, an interesting selection.  Can't say that The Strokes 
have done anything for me.  I saw them at Leeds Festival at the end of the 
summer and thought they were shit."

Nigel,
I've been listening to a Strokes live recording for a few days, trying to 
figure out what all the big talk is about.  I have to say that I think you 
are right.  They are not good.

Rolling Stone's Joe Levy sees them this way "...a rhythmic snarl that draws 
on Seventies punk and New Wave but recalls nothing so much as a bunch of 
British mods - the Yardbirds or the Who, say - tearing through Chuck Berry 
and James Brown covers for the freedom and sense of possibility they found 
there and nowhere else."   I don't hear it.  I think they are lousy 
musicians, playing simple songs in a simple way in a cynical attempt to 
appear cool.

BTW, as I was looking to RollingStone.com for some insight I noticed that 
Quad is at the top of their reader chart this week 
<http://www.rollingstone.com/recordings/default.asp>

Jeff

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