Welcome to the Modern Age! The Strokes designed their 2001 debut album Is This It to be like a band from the past making an album in the future. Will its live sound and raw energy land its score among the greats? We'll go back to When It Started and learn how the band changed the conversation around post-punk and alternative music with hits like Last Nite and Someday! The Mixtaper will teach us how to keep track of our drummers and we'll discover several regions of 'wegians as we look to make diamonds in the rough. Find out how terrorists and methadone clinics drastically affected the record! With their bold guitars and lo-fi vocals The Strokes will challenge us to Take It Or Leave It.
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0:00 Intro
2:53 About The Strokes
5:34 About Is This It
13:30 Awards & Accolades
13:53 Fact Or Spin
17:07 They Had An X-Rated Tour Poster
20:44 They Left Their Drummer At A Highway Rest Stop
25:34 Their Studio Was Beneath A Methadone Clinic
29:26 Moretti Vs. The Mailbox: A Strokes Story
38:33 Album Art
41:08 Is This It
43:32 The Modern Age
45:51 Soma
47:28 Barely Legal
48:35 Someday
50:28 Alone, Together
51:38 Last Nite
53:44 Hard To Explain
55:12 When It Started
56:59 Trying Your Luck
58:17 Take It Or Leave It
59:10 Final Spin
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