NME still misses The Strokes (do we all?)

I missed this in the Christmas run-up, but it's worth taking note about NME's love letter the how The Strokes changed our world.

I too have The Strokes on my mind lately - was going through old ticket stubs the other day and found my ticket for the Guided by Voices-The Strokes NYC show on Feb 14 2001 (will have to post it), and seeing Julian hobnobbing his Christmas song on Jimmy Fallon. I guess we all liked that particular clean-edged guitar sound, and we still hear it alot in bands today.

Calling the Strokes debut "Is This It?" its top LP of the decade, NME writes "Some criticised The Strokes for being ‘style over substance’ (perhaps true) or plundering the sounds of the past too much (also fair – as a gloriously shameless plagiarist Julian C was up there with Noel G). But if you were even thinking about what was ‘wrong’ with them, you were missing the point entirely and more importantly, missing out. Certainly, The Strokes were not always perfect: their interviews were often boring as fuck, their second album was flawed." Amen.