Alex Turner - Why I Love The Strokes' 'Is This It'

As The Strokes' debut album passes its ten year anniversary, Arctic Monkey Alex Turner remembers what it meant for him. "I remember I used to play that first album in college all the time, when our band was first starting. Loads of people were into them, so loads of bands coming out sounded like them. And I remember consciously trying not to sound like The Strokes, deliberately taking bits out of songs that sounded too much like them, but I still loved that album. "As much as they probably ...

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