The Strokes

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• № 001

  Hard to Explain

  2001 · 00S

  NEW YORK CITY, USA

  The song that made The Strokes famous is about the humiliation of not being able to say what you mean, and it was built to sound like a drum…

• № 002

  Last Nite

  2001 · 00S

  NEW YORK CITY, USA

  The song that relaunched guitar rock in the 2000s is built on a groove the band cheerfully admitted lifting from Tom Petty, and its lyric is…

• № 003

  Reptilia

  2003 · 00S

  NEW YORK CITY, USA

  "Reptilia" sounds like a swaggering rock song about a doomed relationship, but it reads much more convincingly as a cold-eyed confrontation …