The Strokes Recording 'Room On Fire' | Meet Me in the Bathroom

[@blankpool]

Ive always wanted to see more of this footage of them in the studio during this era, im glad its in the movie

[@SoulSonder26]

What movie is this?

[@vondock]

​@@SoulSonder26 meet me in the bathroom

[@nechadi]

@@vondockno he wants to know what the movie is called you perv

[@alcaldealer8515]

@@vondockthanks 🙏

[@LuminorBeats]

@@vondock weird flirting but ok

[@jehnull]

@3:05 "roll joints, do speed" perfect sound check

[@LucidAnomalies_]

Bucket full of cigarette butts is crazy

[@johnnymancspice]

Yer, no bucket for puke 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@nimitz1739]

That was quite normal in the 90s😂

[@igotagoodfeeling]

Likely 90% full of sand and topped with cigs

[@johnnymancspice]

@@LucidAnomalies_ start of this house tour kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnK7paSjltOJf7Msi=rNJnfQAbG3rffeb6 🤣

[@jack-uv6mt]

Wouldn't rly call it crazy. It's useful when you have a large group of people who all smoke

[@jamesotto011]

Two takeaways: 1) Julian never looks not utterly exhausted. 2) How could Room on Fire ever have been labeled a "failure"?

[@bonefew]

Because is this it was a massive success and everyone expected something even better in their new album so when they heard it in 2003 they just just heard what nick described as "same songs, different arrangements"

[@ricardo_limassol]

hangover always

[@sagefichera3747]

Because "the saviors of rock and roll", when tasked with making something new, made their first album again but slightly worse

[@saintjabroni]

😂🤙🏼 @ #1

[@Antietam92]

@@jamesotto011 heroin

[@Dynamus15]

2:53 "dont wanna let people down" that sentence was extremely honest. props to the interviewer tho

[@DeKevers]

Crazy seeing them playing the songs in the recording studio

[@Maletchy]

The "Tense but confident" response from Nicolai is a nice reference to 12:51 :D

[@nvrndingsmmr]

That's awesome, I didn't catch that! Hahaha

[@sentimentaleducation4112]

I've seen every interview from them ever, but I can never find this one yet can find the article for the photoshoot they shot that day

[@imgon714]

it sure is i was ab to comment sum similar

[@marie-ku1qm]

From here on out, if someone asks me how I feel, I'd say, "Oh, I am tense for sure, but I am confident."

[@cactaceous]

We were tense for sure but we was confident… is a lyric from 12:51

[@scottfreeland3242]

@@cactaceous Dude Nikolai out here creating some deep connections. And also, did you hear? Mans also broke the zoom. #NikolaiBrokeTheZoom

[@nvrndingsmmr]

This part of the movie really got to me. I was a huge Strokes fan in high school and their music has brought me so much joy. To this day I still set all of my watch alarms to 12:51 as an homage. I loved the music video. Watching this in the theater and learning so many years later that the band was straight up not having a good time when they made this stuff was pretty heartbreaking. I had no idea. Julian looks miserable on the set of that music video. :(

[@theanswer2730]

arguably their best record. the end has no end is a flawless rock song

[@LoveStrokeRadio]

This album had a major impact on me. SO RAD seeing this footage.

[@noisebleed1980]

Jules is a mastermind the rest of the band just needed to learn to trust him. I think by album 3 the tension was too high, but I feel that's my favorite album. And then in 2020 they made ''The New Abnormal'' another great album! I'm a big fan and even love all the solo projects.

[@thomashallesy8835]

every album is great. and albert and rhe voids.

[@DrLongSchIong]

@@thomashallesy8835this guy fucks

[@maximthefox]

Had FIOE been 8 or 9 songs in length it'd have been a much bigger hit

[@noisebleed1980]

@@maximthefoxI agree. Even ten songs would make it in my pick. Some parts rushed a bit I felt.

[@nastyladd]

I would definitely trust the guy who wrote all the music and lyrics to “Is this it” and “room on fire”

[@caless8693]

Nick snickering through "this album's gonna be same as the last one...same songs, different arrangements" kills me.

[@SpriteGod0]

in my eyes and many others The strokes will never be let down. My uncle introduced me to the strokes back in 2010 and it was the best thing to ever come in my life. sucks to see that back then people thought they were going to fail, but happy to see they overcame and more people are discovering their amazing music

[@humanbeing5300]

The strokes are such a kick ass band. Nothing too fancy, nothing to complicated, just killer tunes, killer tones, a lot of heart. Seeing this video of the rhythym guitar and those fast downstokes is inspiring. It seems "simple" but that doesn't mean it's easy. It's hard to play simply and keep it grooving and consistent. The Strokes have so much feel.

[@bacaliboy]

this is it

[@kevone-eo6pq]

@@bacaliboy is this it?

[@m.o.n.d.e.g.r.e.e.n]

the REVERB channel's drum breakdown of one of the strokes song is so good and interesting. a bit like the guitar downstrokes where its kinda mechanical but also really human i dunno

[@giantorangerecords]

Exactly, kind of like The Ramones in a way. Simple, but not necessarily easy to play like that start to finish with out missing a down-stroke, if you will. These guys had a huge impact on my formative years. They took us out of the '90s, and between The Strokes and The White Stripes I realized that it was OK to have old music be a major influence. I remember before that in the '90s any music pre-Nirvana was considered (by my friends at the time) bad and outdated, even though I knew music from the '60s and '70s was still better music.

[@Cugelclever]

Work hard and say it's easy...

[@BoogieMan892]

Julian just casually sitting relaxed while singing for the record is crazy

[@youthgonewild]

bro flabbergasted when he finds out Julian wrote everything lmao

[@stefangrant1989]

It always catches people off guard when they realise that singers or front men actually have just as much talent if not more than other members of the band.

[@deathisaprimitiveconcept]

I had no idea, dude is a beast.

[@IntergalacticFool]

@@WaxiesDargle I think he literally did write every part drums, guitars, bass. Otherwise the other strokes would've been credited as writers on ITI and ROF. Though I think AHJ did get credit for automatic stop

[@Pikkle_Sokks]

​@@WaxiesDargle Julian solely wrote the entirety of the first two albums, but the other guys did need to be credited on at least one for the third album. Dewd's a wiz

[@Cugelclever]

@@WaxiesDargle No, Julian really did work out even the guitar leads and the basslines. He wasn't joking.

[@late_metal]

The Strokes inspired me more than any other band to start a music career. To take it seriously. True for a lot of people. I was already far along on the musical path, but discovering them, I mean really getting into them, actually a while after they released their third album, took me over the edge. Then I found out that trying to make a band that started off as friends work can be a lot like this. And neither me nor my friends were one of the Strokes. Some of us didn't even want to be. The music life is a strange one. But obviously still nothing compares to it. Now I'm more like a free agent. Hold on tight to your dream, but give it room to breathe. Or it's the other side of a nightmare.

[@thefrates23]

I absolutely love the strokes and had julian not been the way he was, we wouldve missed out on so much great music but its hard not to cringe at the idea of him dictating everything and not letting his bandmates get involved which ultimately led to them nearly breaking up.

[@andrewknudsen6674]

They didn't have any good ideas and he knew it.

[@lalotime]

Room on Fire wasnt the same as the Is This It. It was way more complex.

[@gmartin167]

America wasn't cool enough in 2003 to appreciate The Strokes. America still isn't cool enough.

[@jaredbond7908]

I'm proud to say that I was the nerdy virgin who was ahead of the curve 😏

[@Drjackdempsey9644]

Well in 2001 The Strokes were huge in America so not sure what you’re talking about.

[@gmartin167]

@@Drjackdempsey9644 Maybe in the suburbs.

[@Drjackdempsey9644]

@@gmartin167 lol. The suburbs? I guess New York City is the suburbs

[@cunningstunt69]

You say that but the strokes are American so? Also they were huge in America as well.

[@nlorens]

THANK YOU

[@Patsoune]

At 2:38 the interviewer don't help them. Thanks for sharing the video 👍 😊

[@jdubmusic3]

"Roll joints, do speed" lol

[@LagmasterB]

“Same as the last one. Same songs, different arrangements.” Understatement of the century. Room on Fire was massive. You could make this argument about First Impressions of Earth. Vision of Division and Fear of Sleep

[@jojomahoy5232]

I liked when he said that 😂

[@nowthen873]

Nick was joking

[@NotAnAstronaut2k]

​@nowthen873 he wasn't though

[@freddiewadling2090]

Shame that they were rushed into doing their 2d record... "Don't wanna let people down..." Man, that's... And even with that stress and time pressure, Room On Fire was a GREAT album. Would probably have been even better if they weren't pressured like that.

[@Ultima2876]

Pressure creates magic sometimes.

[@agustinorellano8266]

@@Ultima2876 EXACLTY. TENSI0NAND DEADLINES MAKES EVERY0NE M0RE F0CUSED

[@nechadi]

@@Ultima2876pressure creates diamonds

[@jonathanfoutz8931]

Room On Fire is probably my favorite album of theirs.

[@M.Studios.]

They set the expectation so high with is this it that maybe everything else after would never be good as the debut. Some bands are meant just to release one great album that will stand the test of time, like the Sex Pistols, stone roses etc

[@nechadi]

Interpol, YYY’s, Santigold, many bands from that era

[@lit3229]

Thanks for putting this up!

[@lepoisson]

It seems like such a drag to be a Stroke

[@trogman43988]

ya seems like Julian was both Lennon & Mccartney and they were all Georges and Ringos

[@litedawg]

@@trogman43988yeah but even George got to write and contribute, these guys were just told what to do by Julian

[@uzumaki6759]

it looks tiring

[@kilakr13]

Dealing with rich kids is a drag

[@PCDisciple]

Such a goated video damn

[@broken_disco_ball]

No one was cooler than early 00s Julian Casablancas

[@jacquin8511]

Lawd but I do love The Strokes - not just the group, but each one of them

[@startervisions]

Thank you!

[@reptili4]

Can you share the Google Drive link? The link from the description doesnt work.thank you great video❤

[@jonathana9236]

Oh these song lasted the test of time 2024 in on !

[@BlueTheChannel]

"There's a lot of pressure on Julian" Omg, like the Blur song?!

[@noodleiswholesome5946]

Crazy

[@Speed_Demonz]

They predicted it 😂

[@starshineraiser6729]

They are so magnificent, it’s quite incredible. When people say they’re overrated, I’m like, that’s impossible. The first two and Comedown Machine are my favorites.

[@buddhawasright]

Queer and greasy, good job boys!

[@franciscogarrido9339]

Does anyone know how to see the full documentary in Europe??

[@felipe01310]

Stremio

[@serialhealer5113]

Julian Casablancas might be the most underrated composer in music. Any guitar player like me learning Strokes songs (Albert and Nicks parts) can see that this guy is a genius.

[@pyxidus_]

12:51 lol

[@doparaaocanada]

Wtf!?!!!!!! 😮

[@mmundle941]

I see what u did there lol

[@Eder5837]

Que forma tan peculiar y genial de cada quien de ser... Esa forma de actuar y verse... Infame y genial.

[@FunnyBoneBob]

Albert has a pretty good solo career now.

[@MoeBlackArctander]

Room on fire is the best album of the last quarter century.

[@trailofdistraction2932]

Charisma through the roof on these guys

[@brettdevlin3441]

Lmao

[@saintjabroni]

@@brettdevlin3441😂🤣🤙🏼

[@hippiecheezburger5457]

12:51 is like The Cars that’s what I always felt

[@ChannelZero1031]

2:38 "Tense but confident..." Pun intended! A head nod to "12:51". Ha!

[@sikqw]

What's the song name playing background right from the start?

[@JohnLeonard5150]

It's called "12:51"

[@sikqw]

@@JohnLeonard5150 nah I mean when they talk at 0:07

[@sikqw]

Communiqué - Cross Your Heart

[@J.F.Sebastian69]

Need that google drive link in the description

[@neillaika]

2:53

[@badkerproductions]

ROOM ON FIRE rulez.

[@jdubmusic3]

Nick at 2:09 😂 luv him

[@SonOfGome]

The "Julian is slowing every one down" comment still holds true to this day

[@Tony-vf9zu]

Every?

[@Tony-vf9zu]

@@AG-ur1lj it's about tempo, not momentum

[@andrewknudsen6674]

How do you second guess a guy who wrote Is this It? Let homie cook.

[@saintjabroni]

😂😂😂😂

[@valentinapereira6939]

I Feel bad for Albert

[@thenaut2111]

same man, it's kinda messed up that Julian didn't let him put any songs on the record

[@garryrptr]

At least they've worked as a team and freely puts their opinion nowadays, i do feel bad for him too.

[@yammark25]

And he has some great songs as well

[@lalotime]

​@thenaut2111 to be fair julian is better at writing songs that do commercially well. Albert can write cool pop songs. Like cooker ship or far away truths. But the rest is kinda bland. No clear structures in his songs

[@hugh-jasole]

​@@lalotimeHis first solo album Yours to Keep is brilliant. I never was a fan of any of his solo stuff beyond that but that album is still solid

[@coleherring2003]

Where can I watch the full video?

[@j.a.mccann9285]

Julian wrote absolutely everything on the first record, not just the songs. All the parts he wrote too, the drums, guitars, all those parts were written by him. it was his vision and, let's be fair, he was good at it. i'd love to know how he did that without appearing like some kind of dictator, but perhaps this was all agreed at a very early stage. My guess is that Julian initially created a band called The Strokes and enlisted the band to play his songs, his way. The band never seemed bitter about this but It must have been difficult for the band in subsequent years to keep going along with that though. Room On Fire would have sold millions had the first single been Reptilia. they have admitted since that they probably chose the wrong lead single.

[@mgmegt5920]

Chills

[@isaiahbraugher9342]

Cool!

[@nogoogleplus]

What’s that song by the Strokes where they play consistent 8th note triads on the guitar? 😁

[@Benadryl_Submarine]

Elitist cringe

[@stupidpuma]

Oh the struggles of rich kids trying to look cool

[@khonsuthecore4788]

Pretty sure Julian had just quit drinking here.

[@arutzuki2491]

Didn't he stop right before writing FIOE?

[@khonsuthecore4788]

@arutzuki2491 not sure, I'm mostly going by what other people have said I'm KZbin comments so I don't have the best sources.

[@chilo8187]

I love this album. Imho it’s better and more mature songwriting than the 1st record

[@CheBellaTelevisione]

For anyone calling room on fire a bad record : you try selling 650000 records

[@mightymightyironhead]

I dont think it was a good idea to spend two years touring right after the first LP. No time for song writing when you are playing international live shows, rehearsing, sleeping and drinking in what little time you have left over in the day. Then when they stopped touring, they just went on holiday, went to bars to drink and fucked around until the record company forced them into the studio to write the second LP, this gave then a few months at most to get enough material for the second LP.

[@caseyjones3522]

this album is every bit as good as Is This It.

[@gypsyfreak6666]

Definitely sounds like it was sung sitting down

[@mrworldwide5933]

Julian was really the coolest man on earth atp

[@josephlambert5413]

I wonder what that song was? If it was In Transit, Room on Fire Would have been better than Is This It.

[@nechadi]

“Why were we Russian?” I dunno, thought you guys were from NYC

[@Iranian_Phrenologist]

Julian always looked awkward and uncomfortable in those interviews

[@tylermarshguitar]

They used to say you don't need drugs to enjoy Pink Floyd, you need Pink Floyd to enjoy drums. Well the opposite is true for this cokehead music

[@tetsuo2195]

These interviewers ask the dumbest questions lol

[@askjrvbjkrfbvhjbdjf]

Adley Rutschman played bass for The Strokes??!!?

[@Inzo42]

When I first saw what these guys looked like, I assumed they sounded like MC5 or The Stooges or something. Then I heard them. Nintendo music. Weird.

[@martinmichalek]

if julian was so good then why did every other album suck...and if the band was so good then why did every other album suck? and if people loved them so much then why did putting out several great albums of the same calibre always get called inferior to such an extent that I can sit here and type "why do the other albums suck?"

[@jaredbond7908]

Julian is good, to me, because over these 20+ years he has pretty consistently come up with music that I considered to be next level. Tho I didn't realize till long after that most people don't like such depressed music. I've just had a horrible life, so it was always eerily autobiographical for me. I remember hearing him on the radio and it was always weird, because I felt like it was my own personal music that people couldn't possibly understand. It never felt right being "mainstream", because it was so much bigger than that. So, I don't really care if people say their albums "sucked". He has disappointed me, many times, but has also surprised me and made me cheer many times. I'd say "First Impressions..." was the biggest "event" album he ever made, it just blew me away, all the way down to the lyrics book. (Except for Juicebox, my most hated JC song! Sadly, a lot of people probably stop listening right there...)

[@rov8055]

Tortured in some kids house

[@sniffableandirresistble]

Forgotten and barely ever known to begin with

[@tijuas]

They peaked with their first album

[@thehairyclevage1645]

JULIAN DID NOT WRITE THE SIGNS. IT WAS JP BAURSTIEN.

[@matthewcrescimone6404]

I have no idea what you're talking about but I'm sure you're wrong

[@arottie4097]

W0W! Boo Hoo!!

[@datkinson1635]

rich kid Julian and rich kid Hammond Jr were ABLE to write little four square rhyming pop songs with cheap production.

[@khoasome]

Someones jealous

[@Antietam92]

Rich kids struggling lol

[@MrSmotPoker1]

#uppereastsideproblems

[@L.C.Sweeney]

Who cares if their parents are wealthy? They wrote some great music and at least they did something with their privilege.

[@mikeofages]

Most artists and certainly art students come from well off backgrounds. Everyone else has to do something guaranteed to make money

[@Antietam92]

@@L.C.Sweeney you sound like a rich kid artist

[@L.C.Sweeney]

@@Antietam92 you sound like an absolute c#nt.

[@thomasminarchickjr.7355]

They made one really good album and then fell apart. Julian’s ego was ridiculous

[@MichaelJoshuaWilliams]

They’ve consistently made great music what the fuck are you on about

[@thomasminarchickjr.7355]

@@MichaelJoshuaWilliams the first album was their best. The 2nd was a steep drop off and most of the rest aren’t even worth a listen. Hyped up boy band with rich parents and industry connections. Without their original producer being in charge, the band became mediocre on their own

[@nechadi]

They shoulda spread out the songs on Is This It over 3-4 albums. They really blew their wad with that one

[@okdillon]

@@thomasminarchickjr.73552nd album is arguably their best what are you on about

[@TheDmonet]

​@thomasminarchickjr.7355 I never got any of it honestly. A bunch of smarmy drugged up rich kids and one of them mumbling through a distorted guitar amp. And then the second album the same vocal sound. Seriously? They were the backstreet boys on heroin.

[@obscurasfantaseas]

so julian is the reason the songs were repetitive

[@olal9904]

wdym repetitive?

[@nopeISdope96]

Been listening since like 2003 since around the time Is This It was released. Stopped listening to their other albums there after and only recently have been going back discovering their earlier work. The New Abnormal was great and showed how that "Julian Sound" still works. The Strokes are a great band and should be definitely revered as a legendary indie rock band. I recommend watching the doc Meet Me in the Bathroom if you haven't already.

[@obscurasfantaseas]

@@nopeISdope96 i was 13 when i first heard julian’s ‘11th dimension’ 24 now. yes i agree not saying anything bad abt The strokes, just facts. i have two album tattoos.

[@Druguaer12345]

Bunch of wannabe posers

[@Kleberfilms]

But u are watching

[@timhall3575]

Worked with a band who were playing Later With Jools Holland (UK TV music show) and the Strokes were on the show as well. Promoting Room On Fire. The atmosphere around them was toxic. The crew around them were miserable and arguing - the band seemed disinterested, stressed and really pissed off. It was a depressing spectacle to behold.

[@agustinorellano8266]

AND EVEN WITH ALL THAT BS THEY WERE THE BIGGEST BAND 0N EARTH AT THAT M0MENT. MASTERS

[@timhall3575]

@@agustinorellano8266 where they though?

[@agustinorellano8266]

@@timhall3575 fuck yeah

[@Ccfatfat8427]

Haha they all look so bummed out like do you people even enjoy what you do?

[@hangarsacto]

What a nothing band….

[@Met_One]

and yet here you are wasting your time just to let everybody know... are you doing ok?

[@peteruchiha1543]

are u stupid or are u deaf? or both?

[@AstroJenkins]

⁠@@Met_OneBiggest Strokes fan you’ll ever meet, but the idea you’re wasting time by being negative is a bit pathetic. Let the mf speak his gay little mind.

[@aaronvasquez7924]

@@AstroJenkins negativity is a waste of time, and energy

[@AstroJenkins]

@@aaronvasquez7924 What if it’s a critique or a protest? Not saying that OP was doing that, but you know.

[@eadanhuntley903]

I've never seen this before, I get the feeling they were managed really poorly, they needed a break and time to figure things out 🫣 Way too much pressure on them, and Room on Fire is a great record, how anyone can call it a failure is unbelievable 😂