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The Stroke. " The Stroke " is a song written and recorded by American rock artist Billy Squier. It was released in 1981 as the debut single from his 3× Platinum album Don't Say No . This was Squier's first single to chart, reaching No. 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100. [3]
- "Two Daze Gone"
- 1981
- 3:38
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- Meet Me in The Bathroom
- Drag Queen
- Machu Picchu
- Under Cover of Darkness
- Not The Same Anymore
- Barely Legal
- Juicebox
- Reptilia
- Ask Me Anything
- 12:51
The Strokes rushed their second album, Room on Fire, in the belief that their initial success would soon be over. The result frequently boasted song titles that were better than the songs – such as You Talk Way Too Much, but Meet Me in the Bathroom’s cocktail of lyrical ennui and a suitably wearier take on the sound of Is This It clicks perfectly.
One of the more satisfying results of the group’s quest for a different musical direction, Drag Queen sounds like a homage to New Order, topped off with vocals that suddenly, and entirely unexpectedly, go into warped Auto-Tune overdrive even as they are delivering a despairing political message.
Angles, the band’s fourth album, was the Strokes’ nadir: an album that sounded as if it were made by people who really didn’t want to make an album but had been herded into the studio at gunpoint. Still, it has scattered highlights: Machu Picchu’s interweaving, slightly reggae-influenced guitars have a buoyancy noticeable by its absence elsewhere.
The making of Angles was fraught, but Under Cover Of Darkness sounds like a genuine group effort, highlighting Albert Hammond Jr and Nick Valensi’s guitar interplay: they come up with unexpected little fills that drive the song along, while the brief solo is a lovely miniature take on Thin Lizzy’s harmonic twin guitar sound.
The curiously appealing sound of an older, smarter Strokes, wiser through bitter experience: “I didn’t know, I didn’t care … I fucked up,” sings Julian Casablancas, sounding as if he knows of what he speaks, “I couldn’t change, it’s too late”. The music fits perfectly, recasting their trademark approach to evoke melancholy.
Casablancas later claimed Barely Legal made him “cringe”. But even if you wouldn’t use that title for a song in 2023, its depiction of a sleazy older man hitting on a teenager is grimly realistic, and lent a certain frisson by Casablancas’s model agent father’s documented penchant for teenage partners. It has super-tight guitars and an explosive ch...
Chastened by the lukewarm response to their hurried second album, the Strokes clearly threw themselves into its successor: as a result, First Impressions of Earth was unwieldy. But Juicebox is a moment when its overstuffed approach works: pivoting away from a Peter Gunn-inspired bassline, its melody shoots off in unexpected directions.
In retrospect, the fact that the biggest track from the Strokes’ second album could have fitted perfectly on to their debut was a sign of trouble to come: a worrying suggestion that they might have already said all they had to say. That said, Reptilia is fantastic: urgent staccato guitars darting around a raw-throated vocal.
In the middle of First Impressions of Earth, a song unlike anything the Strokes had tried before: there is nothing but a distorted Mellotron, a light dusting of strings and Casablancas’s vocal, dolefully insisting: “I’ve got nothing to say.” It sounds surprisingly like a less arch Magnetic Fields: sad but very pretty.
After Is This It, the degree of anticipation surrounding the band was, in some quarters at least, demented: the NME ran a news story when they played a solitary new song live. But their first post-Is This It single – poppier, catchier, synthier than before – suggested all would be fine. Erroneously, as it turned out.
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- Alexis Petridis
The Strokes, American rock group credited with having spearheaded a revival of 1960s-style garage rock in the early 21st century. The group’s lean hooks, laconic vocals, and spartan production inspired a wave of followers even before their first album had been released. Learn more about its music.
Nov 28, 2023 · A stroke is a brain attack. It is a sudden interruption of continuous blood flow to the brain and a medical emergency. A stroke occurs when a blood vessel in the brain becomes blocked or narrowed, or when a blood vessel bursts and spills blood into the brain. Just like a heart attack, a stroke requires immediate medical attention.
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