The Strokes - Early Hard to Explain

[@albertopascual3267]

Hard to Explain is a rare, perfect song. The false stops just add to it. And the video for it just put this song into the stratosphere.

[@nombreapellido8549]

Its Hard to Explain hehe xd lol kek lmao

[@ians3801]

Even though Fab never shows off with big fills or overly complex rhythm patterns, his ability to hit the snare the same way every time, with the same tone, velocity, and timing, proves it all. Fab's one of the best drummers alive and of the last 25 years in my books

[@silverlink8805]

Part of that is because the drums are way compressed, but it's still impressive

[@crwalston]

the great drummers are the ones you don't really notice ... not flashy, just there at the right time.

[@DeKevers]

Drums please fab

[@Angel-Otk]

He messed up a lot💀idk what you’re talking about

[@dixonanimals2012]

2:01 imagine how blown away you must’ve been back in the year 2000 when you thought the song just ended there

[@rylanruffles7106]

@Elijah Finch you ruin every comment in this comment section, why?

[@imgon714]

@@rylanruffles7106bro how

[@alexwelts2553]

@@imgon714 lol, check out the song Y control by the yeah yeah yeahs🤣. I personally think it all leads back to the RH negative antibodies harvesting

[@y_yk_0]

@@rylanruffles7106chill out bro, hes tryna make it big

[@barbdrake5999]

I like how they're all formal, then there's Julian pulling off a double denim

[@LaFabrizia1983]

So many of us desperately listening to their old stuff hoping the will soon be something new !

[@paveduri]

our prayers have been answered

[@LieutenantDonutman]

Past, Present, Future my friend

[@marxer8665]

I already need something new again

[@pmfnr]

They keep releasing Phoenix albums. Wish they would release an album that has more punk and less supper club. Never cared that they were rich and bored as long as they rocked. Now they actually sound rich and bored.

[@Vaeren222]

true

[@Confessionsovergin]

I know man... I cant even imagine it. This song is so brilliant, it's hard to believe that at one point Julian was some teenager who had no idea how to even come up with a melody, instead of being one of the greatest songwriters of the 21st century who happens to have one of the keenest ears for composing catchy and passionate music. If there was one thing I could wish for, it would probably be his talent for writing amazingly melodic tunes.

[@DontreadPimpBoy]

ikr

[@defoperator7993]

He was twenties when he wrote all the bangers when he was in his teens he was in an Illuminati private school

[@HAL-ge9xq]

@@defoperator7993 🤣lmao

[@HAL-ge9xq]

Hell yea! First two albums! Then super gems like fear of sleep, ize of the world........3rd album cover and its ironic, shows a sliver as if the dream was dimming to a close, and i felt like that was there last album. but when you are in a group, and you all achieve making silver out of iron together. that has its own life span... Billy corgan talks about it poignantly on jre.... Lol! Also people talk so much shit about there wealthy upbringing, as if they were supposed to be some crust punk thrash band. “Love covers a multitude of sins” and if there sin was being rich kids, they all poured there hearts out without reserve, worked hard and gave valuable and powerful art to the world. Besides, they were glamorous, they grew up on grunge like we all did, but didn’t use it as a artistic crutch... America loves the ‘rags to riches’ story, it’s in our d.n.a. But that wasn’t there purpose as a band. They were the changing of the old guard. they brought a dark and tactile vintage dream with luxurious melodic decadence. Built from scratch.

[@pillowboy7995]

@@HAL-ge9xq Fuck you on about? Comedown machine and angles are masterpieces only people that can't handle change don't like them

[@rylanruffles7106]

The crowd going wild in the background after the first false stop is what gets me

[@slayzou]

love the drums

[@chriscollins343]

Band just fills me with joy. They are an unappologetic force.

[@jimmyshelter]

can you imagine watchin some amateur band play a song this good in just some bar. the audience must have been blown away

[@sandyellie2918]

Yeah that would’ve been amazong

[@tdk3654]

Damn they had it cranked up on this version. Top shelf.

[@James-nf9pd]

@Elijah Finch that is absolutely your song you're not fooling anyone, stop self promoting please

[@TheIRiShCaSaNoVa]

i love the quicker tempo to it

[@googplusisawful1922]

I already thought it was crazy fast and then I find this. How the hell did they manage to play this fast

[@giisellegaalvan1996]

+googplus isawful they're fucking rock gods and machines of awesomeness

[@blueflamingo1]

Until you realise they only play down strokes...

[@biscuitbuff1900]

its very tiring the first couple of times you play it but it gets easier.

[@joshuahytrek4178]

no pun intended

[@TheJupiteL]

Albert has some serious forearms strength, so this wouldn't be too surprising.

[@sharla1624]

Love this sound.....

[@dsands12]

this is most definitely the strokes

[@ssyumyum6]

I need a collection or an album of all these rarities!

[@RYDERLOCO889]

you want it, you got it www.mediafire.com/download/ioz6sp11h2h8be0/The+Strokes+-+Lost+Treasures.rar

[@cateiuska]

@@RYDERLOCO889 upload againg pls

[@howtoeataham]

Look up Lost Treasures

[@FerroCordis]

Says "Are you alright?" Shake my head to say "Everything's just great." I just can't remember I just can't remember.

[@sandyellie2918]

Damn

[@imgon714]

@@sandyellie2918i miss the last bus i’ll take the next train

[@oggabob]

Makes more sense than the lyrics that made it into the studio version, not as cool though

[@genifervega3357]

THIS FUCKIN BAND IS SO AWSOME! FAVE FOR ALL TIME.

[@asseater0077]

I love it when julian like growls

[@sandyellie2918]

Yeahhhhhhh, ughhhhh I love him

[@IIMALTEASERII]

Where do people even get these demos and bootlegs?

[@PintsofGuinness]

in 2002 there was a blog called lastnite.org with lots of bootlegs and rare recordings. in the past decade its gone through a few different owners and domain names but now its toxic-radio.org. shesfixingherhair.co.uk is another great site for rare strokes stuff.

[@sush1iii]

+Pints of Guinness yeah but how did they get them?

[@nolanames4525]

Pints of Guinness aye

[@griffinwagner635]

This is my favorite song. It's nice to hear n early version of it.

[@thehumanwiII]

Pints of Guinness these sites are my high school years ❤️ 🎶memories🎶

[@elvergapeluda]

THis is just awesome man. I love this version, right now it's my favorite hard to explain version :D.

[@kawamurae7500]

Albert is looking deep In your soul

[@jonnygutteridge6329]

it's so strange hearing the opening lines that late into the song

[@danielletamanini4694]

Amo a voz do Julian!!! ❤❤❤❤

[@ispyinthenightsky]

Woo I’m from Carolina :) South Carolina anyway

[@lnb29]

I'm guessing you're not like that

[@dolathun]

LNBlack29 we are trying to remind her.

[@AsRiHack3x2]

ispyinthenightsky woohoo, I'm from the North.

[@NiaDawg]

My heart

[@giisellegaalvan1996]

+juju jules I see you everywhere, haha

[@lia-cj1lf]

business dog where can I find your profile picture?

[@Siddhartha10100]

i love how julian sings the first i miss the last bus i ll take the next train. i try but you see. its hard to explain and then he changes to the rythm they have on the album. i thought it was a completly different lyric. but just another rythm. ❤❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@thekillers1stfan]

@DavKatch i'm talking about the version in the Ruff Enuff Stuff session, it's a version that has only 1 guitar, a bass, a drum machine, it has different lyrics, no production value whatsoever and Pete is singing

[@eldiablo369258]

wow julian's voice sounds a lot different. i thought it was like a cover band but then it started to sound like him. nice version

[@pmfnr]

It's nice with the live drums. I understand the drum machine quantizing as a radio friendly unit shifter, but I always thought it would sound better with a proper drum sound. Sounds like a great show!

[@biscuitbuff1900]

its not a drum machine in the studio version

[@aza3ful1]

in the beginning it has to be

[@smimeon2352]

bauerklos music nah, i forget exactly how they did it, but they basically ran fab's playing through a few methods of recording and it ended up sounding like that.

[@aza3ful1]

yeah I read about the albums production a bit ago, it's dope what the producer could do to make the drums sound like that - when it started also sounds a lot like a loop / drum machine or something sequenced. definitely fooled me

[@defoperator7993]

its not a drum machine it was just recorded highly compressed, on a early 2000s era computer instead of a high quality sound board

[@2311weedtoakerz]

Classic Song!

[@lil_pemsiofficial9268]

It sounds so weird without Nikolai’s bass riff at the beginning

[@just.a.bolivian.dude.1390]

Nick y albert debieron tener el brazo derecho echo pomada despues de tocar asi de rapido

[@wepesclassic2461]

googoo g'joob jsjssjjj

[@juanbautistaemilianotorres7038]

Y Fab también

[@anatvip]

slow down boys!!! lol they where good even in the early days. love them.

[@mkington]

best band of all time? i think so

[@olal9904]

I think so!

[@Gaara34]

And that last chorus he switched it up I missed the last bus, I’ll take the next train I try but you see, it’s hard to explain I did the right thing, but act the wrong the way I like it in here, but I cannot stay Forget the wrong thing, I go the wrong the way ‘Cause I am too young, and they are too old This place is a zoo, the joke is on you You’re right it’s true

[@SanderX0]

You are 110% right!

[@maneelatt]

i love this :(

[@randomwigger]

I loved Angles. Why should they keep putting out the same album?

[@natalie20136]

jules singing in this demo totally reminds me of joy remone. like.really

[@spongecak6622]

Hmm I wonder if there’s a band called lonely gimmick with similar vibes lmaoo

[@martinrose6357]

hahaahahah shhhhhhhhhh

[@Confessionsovergin]

R.I.P

[@Gaara34]

Goddamn comment restriction First verse: Says he can’t decide Take the kids inside, what does he desire? Oh, I don’t see it that way; I don’t see it that way We shared some ideas, all obsessed with fame I liked it when it ringed Oh, I just can’t remember; I just can’t remember Raised in Carolina, I’m not like that Put the past behind her, I don’t miss them

[@Transpacity]

Seems like this is a live version.

[@Iemonzinger]

Good observation, I thought the yelling and screaming of multiple people was just Nikolai having fun

[@Siddhartha10100]

smartest comment here. lol

[@imyugioh]

You take the moon and you take the sun

[@Sonike9]

It is definitely The Strokes. It is Julian's voice, obviously.

[@Zvarkov]

Yet coolest

[@DavKatch]

@thekillers1stfan Wow, I never thought about it that way. Yeah I can see it. It definitely has a very similar attitude putting the actual sound aside.

[@LoveRocketsable]

the "I dont see it that way" part, huh?

[@draxlerchronicles5851]

It's weird. It's always puzzled me why fans always cheer at the 2 minute point (the false stop) as though the song is over. Even shows where the Strokes headline and everybody knows the song - they still cheer like noobs!

[@dpaul428]

It’s their chance to be the center of attention

[@mikecondy6010]

@Elijah Finch Will do, my friend!

[@oggabob]

Because it’s a perfect placement of a false stop and people express their happiness of it? As a band you want people to cheer during the song.

[@chocotoxinconcoction]

@Chivas5196 indeed

[@bitamuse6020]

🔥🔥🔥

[@Jesus_A95]

@DeadPixel00 wtf r u talking about? this has the same clearness in voice as boombox. The traditional Julian sings rough bro.

[@diestel123]

so true

[@samuray1000000]

the intro is very fast!

[@Transpacity]

That would be pretty clever

[@StellerStar503]

hahaha seems like a live version? yeahhh they just added a crowd of people cheering at the end for that live feel huh... you so funny dawg

[@elvergapeluda]

Dammit, thanks man, but please try again, what did he say on the beggining ? If she can't decide I forcer her to decide or sth like that ?

[@jamesscott8705]

Standing there singing all fast like some sort of punk...

[@ninjainscrubs]

That's quite clearly Julian singing.

[@MrHomelandsX]

we shared some ideas, all obsessed with fame, likes it when it rains... beautiful.

[@Mariachi94]

fuck yea

[@Confessionsovergin]

Same... Except in my case it was all of Is This It.

[@362AJent]

What lyrics are different in this version there a bunch of slight ones

[@MesecJeSamPlovio]

sounds like Joey Ramone

[@becanshrman]

this record is the baller of ballers

[@elvergapeluda]

Someone could post the complete lyric please ?

[@gillyguy778]

where is this version from?

[@Luis11717]

''I should give the impressions that I'm amazingly talented, truth is, I record EVERYTHING' - Julian Casablancas

[@viceroy_raygun]

@Elijah Finch lol what a loser, did you self promote on every comment of this video?

[@KellyNM21]

Is this Julian voice? sounds... weird hehe

[@Babyhz]

RIP old Strokes

[@elvergapeluda]

Please some english native spaker could post the lyrics, my listening is not really good and I can't pick up somethings. THX.

[@さいもい-y1p]

Where did you get it?

[@aliematrix21]

@Bbyboots27 hahahaha!! So true..

[@Sonike9]

But the question is when was it and where ?

[@moosemoss2645]

Jeremy Leclerc London, Feb 2001

[@thekillers1stfan]

this version sounds a lot like the original version of Boys in the Band by The Libertines

[@defoperator7993]

the libertines got a record deal literally only because they dressed and looked strung out on drugs like the strokes and made rock music ...pete has even admitted this lol

[@natalie20136]

@person181 why sux?

[@Chaabess]

@thegreatcat104 cause he uses a filter :) so demo-ing i doubt he would

[@mcfufley]

download link

[@jackxtrovsky]

I never ever in my life listen this song. i have all the discs and the b sides and i never listen

[@jackxtrovsky]

@Elijah Finch Thanks for the recomendation! I Will listen rigth now!

[@pqibkpq0o917kalj]

I wonder what happened to Jules to turn into what he is today... I’m sad about his changes

[@diegosanchezescobar2159]

Who are and what you did to Julian? The song sounds bad, it got a change for The best.

[@Babyhz]

Not the same, but better than angles.

[@cosmonautbilly]

was he trying be liam gallagher? iiiaaaaaaaaaaaiii LOL

[@randomwigger]

No.

[@randomwigger]

I'm not, and that's the point.

[@Acecutter]

this is hard to explain, but its another band playing it their way. The vocalist doesnt have julian's traditional slur, he sounds to clean throghout the entire song. not bad though