Elephant song - the strokes

[@drewsmithson1250]

The Strokes in the studio be like "damn, this is one of the best guitar riffs we have. Don't release it."

[@O-bearer-mine]

Sounds like the chord progression of Automatic Stop but I LOVE THIS VERSION so much

[@MegaPotterfreak]

if julian's voice was the only sound i ever heard for the rest of my life i'd be happy. fucking amazing!!!

[@raeleneortiz3888]

This song is sooooo good all of their B sides are I really wish they would have included them on there albums.

[@lynazidane6697]

Can you tell me the name of their other b-sides I couldn't find any

[@raeleneortiz3888]

If you just type in strokes b-sides and demos playlists of them will pop up.

[@lynazidane6697]

rai ny thanks!

[@jesusc9806]

This takes me back to 2010 while in high school. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

[@bedfordbella14]

Still listening to this 13 years later

[@jaredsan9994]

You are not the only one

[@victino34]

Mee tooo =)

[@cesarramirez5638]

7 yrs later 👉👈

[@ashtonism]

Wait when is this from? Only just stumbled upon it.

[@joaofagundes5590]

same

[@John_Hessel]

my favorite band

[@yesyes1766]

Then y do u have a picture of kurt?

[@SonikJesus]

is NIRVANA

[@10pitate]

same

[@yourpainismygain]

their music just brings such great vibes. these guys are something else. i really fucking love them.

[@Asklepios27]

“No drums please Fab”

[@yungvamp6439]

Probably been 10 years since I’ve heard this. Wow. Love The Strokes

[@PCFeverX]

I want an album with just b-sides hahahha that would be amazing

[@abperezm__]

Done

[@alexb713]

I remember discovering this song 15 years ago. Haven't heard it in about 10 years. Brings back awesome memories!! What a classic!! Wish it would come out on there next bside release album.

[@ians3801]

Strokes are such good cool unique music but I don't think what most realize is how fun these songs are to play as a band, if you can find a group capable enough. The interlocking guitar parts

[@dsands12]

i love this messy style of guitar used in this song

[@notanotherjamesmurphy5574]

This is one of those songs that you listen to over and over

[@kaiyalovesmusic]

I love love love The Stokes!!! I think they are the coolest!!! Their music is unique and awesome. And I am only ten and I am in love with The Strokes!

[@crispinmelons3649]

Oh shit, 19 now... damn Music taste still supreme tho

[@enzolovizaro2876]

@@crispinmelons3649 time goes fast

[@monkeyjoe9]

One of the best bands ever. I like almost everyone of their songs. Their songs seemed to be filled with passion and emotion. I love it.

[@benjaminperez6756]

1:56 Man, that's one hell of a riff.

[@dilandelli1288]

Hermanos, cuánta melancolía me da ver ésto 💖😫nuestros bellos Strokes 💖

[@kikigirlnirvana]

Was hoping they’d release this in their singles 😢 we need clear skies and in her prime too

[@olal9904]

hopefully we get a volume 2

[@broasca]

I like that...well put. They're definitely the best band in my world.

[@peterdarker1]

That riff that fades out the song is DOPE and starts at 1:56

[@fryavila8679]

The strokes son los mas chingones!!!

[@carloivanacostamontelongo9160]

The melancholy hits hard

[@jaipullinen7163]

fuuuuuuuuuuuck ive been listening to the strokes all night and i cant get over how fucking amazing they are...they make me so happy

[@veridisquofg]

It's such a shame they didn't include it on any album

[@hiramuse]

good colash of photos

[@EmilyAE19]

One of my favorites by them. I looooove that main riff.

[@paisenpaisen]

it amazes me that only 2 million people have seen this

[@bunz4814]

This has a Beatles - revolver vibe mixed with the classic strokes feel

[@タンタン-g8m]

Julian have good looking hands

[@ElenaEscalanteDelHoyo]

Why is this not on Spotify :(

[@valeriejo4513]

because spotify is the devils syphilis

[@doggypeppers7739]

Even Julian said that he don't like spotify cause you can't really find nothing interesting there, only music that you already know (cause you search it there). Here on youtube is were you can find treasures like this.

[@lucs028]

Because it was never officially released

[@JaAmber03]

Their all gorgeous but ive noticed that fab looks good in every picture ive seen off him, i think

[@moonobsessed]

they are so AWsom

[@notanotherjamesmurphy5574]

This song gives me me goosebumps all over my back

[@mestfender]

albert wrote this as a freshman in high school or college? either way, that's so good for originally being a solo piece.

[@MichelleArcos]

No one cares if they are hot, they play it well, they make music, and just that makes them look hot. Love the Strokes!

[@CoconutCremeGuy]

Michelle Arcos trust me they're fucking hot. coming from a straight guy.

[@ONLYJUSTICE100]

Michelle Arcos they are fucking hot

[@Demonicfuzz]

@@CoconutCremeGuy Are you really?

[@EinerVonDenen]

I guess you're right. It was not on Albert's Album. Don't know then. Maybe a Strokes B-Side, that I don't know. And if it is Jules, his singing style is very different to the other records.

[@xilovepeanutsx]

I hate how in most bands, The singer is in the front of all pictures and gets all the fame! But luckily, In The Strokes, They're always in different positions. Even besides that, Their music is amazing! Which makes The Strokes... Perfect? I think so.

[@jimmysilva12]

I love the strokes listen to then eveyday when i wake up!!!

[@hannahfactor]

great video. strokes for life!!

[@honoluluu]

@APHRODITEEEEEE This is Ryan (michael) Gentles, he was the manager of the Strokes, I don't know if he is always now. You can see him doing his job in the video "The Strokes In Transit" =)

[@atikachadha6423]

this sounds kinda like in transit at the beginning

[@DoneWareSystems]

yeah you're right

[@_KingOfCalifornia]

you're so right

[@nessihoi]

ohhh plz i just wanna hang out with the strokes.

[@romanebloup2897]

thats really very much really beautiful.

[@pandailover99]

BEST....BAND.....EVER!!! all so very talented

[@Soler8]

Wow. This was uploaded on 2006.

[@doctorhue8801]

Sounds Amazing

[@rodriguez140]

aww i love the pic at 2:06

[@StephanieLeMonstre]

@matthewthecoolkid Selling out? In interviews, Julian said that being in a band, there are strict standards that need to pass ALL members to reach a whole understanding. Of course he'd want to do a solo project, something of his, all him. People change and grow, as do their tastes in music, which inspires them. As time passes, people and music go in different directions. Still good, but different. They're aren't who they were ten years ago, so why should their music be the same?

[@monkeyjoe9]

elephant elephant were art thou? good instumentals, I always liked how they do that.

[@Sprinkles12345]

albert is an amazing guitarist

[@yolo1998]

great video :) feel real lucky to be around to witness the career of the most incredible band ever.

[@lucakat9262]

Me too! Nobody does it better!🙂❤

[@comedownmachine4682]

this is the greatest demo ever

[@mixx3242]

KZbin (2006) You just had to be there

[@lorelei2gia]

Best I've heard from them in years.

[@berry89]

it's apparently been delayed even more til about january 2011. the wait is killing me!

[@joannaorta4670]

My first time hearing it, so old

[@ipi223]

@jaijosh you will need a lot of night to get over it!!! lol amazing guys!

[@StellerStar503]

@RadioActiveGoomba Albert Hammond wrote it. He was required to record a song for his Sound 101 class during his freshman year. Later re-recorded it with the band as a fan club giveaway bonus or some shit.

[@ggk1313]

@TheBigHippopotomus , why was he rolling on the floor?? :) I love Julian sooo much :)

[@Max-ri6zr]

Why is it called the elephant song?

[@itsPerception]

For everybody saying phrazes was NOT a sellout album is wrong. Julian said it himself, he regrets making the album because he was, at the time, more worried about popularity than with what he really "wanted" to make. Why do you think it's his most pop-sounding album, by far?

[@velmarg]

1:30 is probably my favorite picture I've ever seen of the band.

[@The1977Punk]

If you like The Strokes, check out Ted Duchamp - Midnight Sun!

[@TD-bl9kv]

Im a newborn baby and I love the strokes

[@thytoe]

This song is so 60's! 😆

[@emiliojavier.8595]

who is here after the B-SIDEs recopilation in 2023 and realizing this isnt in it

[@emillylouise0]

i love them so much i want to cry

[@lyngbyy]

@ladodgerfan22 It's Ryan Gentles aka WIZ KID. Their manager.

[@popsiclesuckers]

that first picture... cowboy strokes? YEE HAW.

[@vals5085]

something about this song seems so profoundly lonely. paired together with that picture of jules on his knees at 1:05 it makes me unexplainably sad

[@saksup1964]

0:35 You know I just wanna have fun, go to the beach, man That's all I am, I'm just a simple guy who talks when You put a microphone in front of him!

the photo at 1:04 is so awesome :) by the way nice song

[@plazmikpond]

truly a hidden gem, here on the Night of august 17th 2022.

[@olal9904]

fake

[@lilacifyable]

Fab and Albert look so alike especially those lucious curls

[@Monia2222]

I love this song! :D

[@ajgchannel45]

Yes thaey have confirmed work on a 4th album!!! YAAAY!!! oh and jesus was resurected or something along those lines....But The Strokes!!!

[@Josev-TV]

i know a lot of girls that look like julian

[@bluemouseten1166]

0:36 gearrr... secend do!!!

[@michellebroombaugh2750]

prob one of my most fav strokes songs. just curious what does this song mean to you guys?

[@ohhthatmikey]

MeShell BroomBie the elephant in the room

[@tinybubblesinhawaii]

@JaAmber03 you think? Fab is gorgeous in pretty much every picture (at least of those I've seen which is plenty) and in the 12:51 and last nite mvs as well. It's almost irritating how attractive they all are especially because it all seems so effortless (which it probably isn't b/c they do work hard).

[@vtchka6727]

i dont like how this was posted before i was born

[@emillylouise0]

perfection

[@charlychichimeca666]

I heard this song while i was high... i fucking loved it!

[@D.Fortesque]

always chill music to listen to :)

[@Cyambao]

are the strokes singing back up?!?!?!?

[@XxRobonessxX]

Nikolai is so adorable

[@laice34]

@philochs going back to the old days of the beatles. dont hold such high expectations of musicians nowadays. but shiiit man, if i was a musician, id be making alot more songs than ones nowadays. takes them like a whole year to release an album!

[@r3dfella]

Wonder when the next album's comng...

[@TrueBunnyLover]

0:31! lmfao 0:42 was only missing jules!! that would of been SWEETER! awesome song! :D

[@Monia2222]

1:40 Julian looks great ! :D What a smile!

[@Pycanco]

very good and original solo....

[@Mzk17jdh]

I was just sitting there Dime in hand I will be the one And it's so easy darling Please take off and I'll be safe He's all alone outside And if you try too hard then you got to let go I had it all worked out And in the end I'll still be alone In your eyes And it is no big surprise Safe here by your side, open up the eeeeEEEEeee I wanted all of this And in the end I'll still be alone Atop your hills your face Pass me down, the look in your eyes And in this big (thing?) You'll be changing just for me Your screaming says that I'm The one in looking out (yours?)

[@edbaron95]

nice song. also, i like the mr. t toy

[@141gabriel]

awesome!!

[@mothafuckajones666]

@ZOMBIESALIEANS Well, Julian wrote all the music for the group originally. Not this particular song, but Is This It was him. And that's the best record they've made (which makes me wonder about the quality of Phrazes... maybe he's just gotten lazy.)

[@11673norley]

happy birthday julian-3

[@1guitarkid]

@TheJohnsonsOfficial it could be the albert or the singer from radiohead coz he did some back up singing for them in early demos of room on fire

[@Lockhannbruh]

So good

[@PatheticTeen]

Can't get it out of my brain So I just get along with it.