The Modern Age ep [Single]

The Strokes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 22, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single
• Label: Xl Recordings
• ASIN: B00005JSG6
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,701 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Modern Age

2. Last Nite

3. Barely Legal

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rock'n'Roll is Back!!, September 4, 2001

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TexasGirl (Central Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Modern Age ep (Audio CD)

For once the reality lives up to the hype. Friends in Sydney have been raving about these guys for a while and I was fortunate enough to receive an Australian copy of their full-length debut CD (it was released there before anywhere else in the world) and it's been on rotation for weeks. This is R'n'R at its best. There are elements of Velvet Underground, Pavement, Dandy Warhols and mid-'70s CBGBs rock. This LP deserves to be huge in a world saturated with safe, tame music. By the way, buy the UK version on Amazon UK as it has the original cover art, not the wimpy US art (what was the record company thinking?). This CD is the most essential purchase of 2001!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Because it rocks, August 3, 2001

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David Bushell (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Modern Age ep (Audio CD)

Sure, it sounds a bit like something from mid-70's New York. Closer to Iggy than the Velvets (nothing sounds like the Velvets without a viola), and the sound isn't ENTIRELY original.

BUT, with popular music much like it is today, we NEED music like this. To remind of us of the fact that all the good music isn't just from 25 years ago or whatever - that there are people out there still with the balls to put this sort of stuff out there. The only criticisim I've heard of The Strokes is their lack of originality. It's ROCK, for godssake! It isn't meant to be entirely original - it's just meant to kick butt and soundtrack the drinking sessions.

Better than pop.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ONLY BUY IF YOU ALREADY HAVE IS THIS OK, December 18, 2002

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Chris Warne (new zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Modern Age ep (Audio CD)

OK well these are early recordings DIFFERENT TO THE VERSIONS FO THE SONGS ON IS THIS IT. THey are not quite as clean as the versions on is this it, still good though. Defanatly for teh fans. Heres how they difer form the is this it versions.

The modern age - lyrics changes, less of a solo and WAY faster.

Last Night - more lyric changes.

Barely legal - not as catchy as on is this it but there are lots of lyric changes and i dont know why it was taken out for is this it but barely legal here has one mad solo!!! Awsome stuff. Although it doesnt have the little guitar picking bits that happen between verses and before the last chorus on is this it.