NME Video: The Strokes - Top 10 Classic Tracks

[Applause] hard-to-explain was a part of the recordings at a transport around on to a where we did is this it and basically it's just all a vague ball of confusion from that session of just going playing your part and then going to to a and then coming back and finishing and listening and so yeah that's a basically the vibe in the studio at the time was a lot of alcohol and you know just focus which is sounds like it's impossible but it was at the time and uh yeah that's so how hard to explain came about [Applause] okay well juice box was a song that Julian Casablancas wrote the funny thing about that is that we had to clear it with a bunch of people because it reminded too many people of spyhunter I thought that was funny I still I still think it's a pretty good song regardless of its similarities to a video game [Applause] New York City cops I remember we needed I think a full album 11 songs so I remember it was a an intense session in the studio of just kind of getting it done as as good as possible but also as quick as possible on 38th Street where we have our rehearsal space the actual vinyl of the album was released on September 11th on the Tuesday and and so we had a CD coming out two weeks later or I think and we had to take off that track we didn't have to we chose to because it just you know at the time that had happened it just was too kind of sensitive and it's I don't know just seemed wrong to do that because of the lyrics of course and uh and so after that as well we had those two weeks to record another song which was when it started and we switched that on the US version for four New York City cops [Applause] harden a cage let's talk about this for a second ah one of my personal favorite stroke songs I think it's a it's a it's pretty and aggressive at the same time and it was a lot of fun to record and the video for heart in a cage was a lot of fun to make because we got to go downtown and just play in front in front of a bunch of strangers that was it's all kind of one package to me you know I think of the video and the recording I'm kind of slow so I have to save space inside my brain I do remember we had an alternate take which I think is on a single we're doing things about Albert and she can yeah the geeks can go digging that up somewhere in the archives someday oh I have a great story about this staying over Julian's house one night after I I should say after a night of debauchery of hurt me personally I had a crazy headache when I woke up but I woke up to him singing in the bathroom and coming up with like kind of developing the melody for it I always thought that was really awesome I think it's a very pretty melody take it or leave it I mean all these songs were you know we did them so many times live that they kept changing every time we got back into the studio before before actually recording them we would rehearse them and you know for the next live show and they would change again and keep changing until we we finally got a version that we liked I take it or leave it we actually did it also before recording with Gordon we recorded with Gil Martin and some sessions that never never worked out but uh he actually I think helped us cut out a part and it was kind of like wow that works better than you know so just along the way every song took so many different mutations that a final product ended up on is this it [Applause] what is there to be said of Reptilia I don't know I feel like well that was my favorite song off of was the name of the second record room on fire that was my favorite song I like to play that song line I think it was there's a mistake for us not to have that as the first single but that's just me 12:51 was a nick was messing around with the tone on his on his guitar 12:51 he had it this tone that uh was his tones all the way down like low so we had to really put the volume all the way up and I think while we recorded that we blew about you know an app every couple of hours trying to to get that kind of keyboard synthesizer sound on the guitar that's all I remember that the modern age that was the song that I kind of this is a very particular answer but I think that was the first song where Julian and Nick and Albert and Nikolai all kind of looked back at me and said if you're going to be a drummer you might as well hit hard and and I was just like tapping at tapping away tap tap tap tap they're like make this count for Christ's sake and I learned how to try to hit hard at least if anything [Applause] this is it this is it

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Length: 7min 9sec (429 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 19 2008