Origin Stories: The Strokes 

I grew up in the 90’s…but I was getting bored with the post-Grunge sound (Godsmack, Creed, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Kid Rock). I still liked some of the nu-Metal like the Deftones. But all in all, a lot of that late era 90’s rock seemed like a relabeled repeating of Alice In Chains, STP/Pearl Jam, Rage against the Machine …etc. Radiohead ruled the late 90’s but they started changing their sound with kid A. Great music but they had abandoned their guitars. I had heard of the white stripes in fact. Hello Operator was my 1st garage Rock revival song that predated the early 2001, “Garage Rock Revival”. But it wasn’t until I heard the Strokes that the whole scene came together (The Yeah Yeah Yeah, Interpol, TV on the Radio) . I like that English bands envied the strokes (the strokes were a billion times bigger in Europe than America). The strokes had a big shadow over the music scene in Europe that they quickly embarrassed what was left of the British rock scene. Because they felt British to the era of rock music. The libertines were strokes groupies for a nano-second. Until they became a band. Even the killers benefited from the strokes with their fake British accents on Mr Brightside. The strokes success and aesthetic gave the world the 2nd wave of the garage rock revival: Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, and eventually the Arctic Monkeys. Just like buddy holly impacted the British music with his influence on the Beatles in the late 50’s. The strokes were an influence on the UK Music scene in the 2000’s.

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Thanks for the comment. Everything changed in the UK after The Strokes for sure!

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They're on my list 🫡

Mad right lol

​@@stannats2637 The hipsters in NY lapped it up. There were many better bands but none with as much smarm and snoot.

they made it big, don't even lie 😭