Room on Fire by The Strokes

Pros: Some of the songs are actually kind of enjoyable...
Cons: ...but they're a cheap pleasure. Rolling Stone, be damned!

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Pros: An Excellent Sophomore Album from the Strokes.
Cons: Short and the Song Breaks are Annoying.

When the Strokes came out of their native New York City with their 2001 debut “Is This It”, they became a breath of fresh air with their minimalist, stripped-down approach to post-punk rock. Hailed by the critics, relentlessly, the band of ...

Pros: a few catchy songs, a little bit of experimentation
Cons: see review

In two days, The Strokes will officially release their sophomore effort, Room on Fire, to stores. This of course, has touched off a whole new groundswell of coverage on a band that was covered to death from about September of 2001 all the w ...

Pros: vocals. yes, julian casablancas' voice. i like it. simple rock fun.
Cons: not all tracks are spectacular. short.

Yeah so you know the story. Amongst incredible hype, The Strokes released their debut album I s This It in 2001, I think, and was gobbled up by college kids everywhere. In 2004, they released their sophomore album ...

Pros: First 4 songs are awesome, nothing bad here
Cons: Most of the songs are rather forgettable

For all the overblown hyperbole surrounding the release of The Strokes debut album, I s This It, I don’t actually recall anyone making a fuss over the band’s sophomore record, Room On Fire, to any degree ...

Pros: Follows the Same Successful Formula of Their Debut
Cons: Weak and Uninteresting in Some Spots

The Strokes faced a thunderstorm complete with hail and heavy rails of hype preceding their debut album, Is This It. Hailed by some in the media as the saviors of rock'n'roll and given ridiculous titles such as the best band since the Rolling ...

Pros: Lots of good parts.
Cons: Too many bad parts.

There is a fatal error that guys like me tend to make when it comes to purchasing CDs. Well, it's not really not fatal, but it does a lot of financial damage. We listen to the samples. Now the thing about samples... is that sometimes, on a very special ...

Pros: All 11 tracks are amazing
Cons: The two year wait between albums

Two years ago The Stokes took the World by storm with the release of their debut album Is This It. The band had already built up a big reputation, being moved at Reading from the Radio 1 tent to The Main stage and then returning a year later to headline. ...

Pros: Expands upon "Is This It", different enough to please fans, emotional lyrics
Cons: Some songs are too short, not different enough to win over new fans

Hype is bad. Very bad. Hype can do many things... it can raise expectations to such high levels that the actual product can never meet the demands of the masses. Even more embarassing: it can make total idiots out of amateur critics. All of the media hype ...

Pros: detailed in review
Cons: many detailed in review

"A dead skunk once told me that there's nothing to see here, please move on." Is this It was a guilty pleasure. The disc rendered equal parts Iggy and the Stooges, Television and the Velvet Underground with cockiness and modern ...

Pros: Great album
Cons: They've already done it, so it doesn't seem so great anymore.

The Strokes are an awesome band, the poster child of the new garage rock movement, which includes such greats as The Hives, The Vines, and the not so greats, The White Stripes. I do not understand why these groups are lumped, but they are, and The ...

Pros: Fans of the Strokes have their own following and this album won't change that cult.
Cons: They plant a musical seed & we wait two years to find that nothing's grown.

The lives of the Strokes seem compromised with misery & injustice. Yet interviews from themselves show a world of pain that refuses to materialize. Whatever hint of methadone belongs to junkies near guitarist Nick Valensi's home. Rolling Stone Magazine ...

Pros: pop rock does not come better than this
Cons: might quicken your heart rate

The Strokes stepped onto the scene with indie rock stuck on the atmospheric whale music of Kid A Radiohead and Sigur Ros. Every magazine seemed full of polite English boys strumming acoustic guitars. I guess that's why it was so easy for The Strokes to st ...

Pros: First 3 songs. Guitars!
Cons: Bland middle songs. Overhyped

'room on fire' is the second effort from the apparently cool (though i dont see it) band The Strokes. Their first album 'is this it' was full of fun if not remarkable pop-rock and was a fun listen at least. So i went and bought this album mainly because ...

Pros: Catchy, short pop numbers that sound like The Cars, stoned and wasted.
Cons: Not evolving from the last record. Still no sense of release.

Anyone can listen to The Strokes and discover that they are, essentially, The Cars crashing into The Clash. They are a living, breathing paradox of a band. They hold back, with mere moments of letting go, but just as they take off, they cut the song, or r ...