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“The Modern Age” by The Strokes
From the album Is This It (2001)
“The Modern Age” by The Strokes appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2001. It was first released in 2001 on the album Is This It. Its best result is #18 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #285 alternative song of 2001.
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"The Modern Age" was already out in the world by January 2001, the song that gave the Strokes' 2001 EP its title, and it turned up again on Is This It, the debut album they made with producer Gordon Raphael at Transporterraum in New York City that March and April. Julian Casablancas wrote the words and music and sings it, with Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond, Jr. on guitars, Nikolai Fraiture on bass and Fabrizio Moretti on drums.
The plan for those sessions was to keep things plain, shaping the songs mostly through live takes with little studio dressing, and this one comes out as a wiry, sneering strut, all nervy tension and downtown slouch. The album around it became a turning point for guitar music after the millennium.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 18 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2001 | 50 |
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