yep lawrence, i'll back you up! the strokes ARE kinda shit. in my shop we play a variety of music (i'm supposed to play world music only really, but after listening to some of those albums for over a year you do get a bit fed up with them). the assistant manager is a big b&s fan too, which is good so we both enjoy listening to them. but he's also into the manics, so plays them too, which is not so good. but anyway onto the strokes . . . . i listened to their album twice over the other week and it was boring and droney. television they aint. velvet underground - uh-uh *shakes head violently. about as much fun as listening to gay dad - probably. or maybe these animal men. another band NME decided to make big & then break. no more strokes in my shop. now where did i put my Parliament album . . . ? +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+