Strokes, The - The Modern Age Lyrics

The coolest band in the world

ya know julian is 6'2"..

I love these guys so much, and probably the best sounding live band ever.


But oh my god is their performance boring. You could use cardboard stand-ups and get the same experience.

i will always love this fckin band!!!

The Forum presents The Strokes

darlingggg lettttt meeeee gooooo

So fucking smooth

Ekin Kollama'dan geldim

one of the greatest rock songs

Feel the Bern~!

a tradução é tempos modernos kkkk

70's copy

0:22
Guy on bottom left having a healthy wank while listening this masterpiece :D

TAA dan gelenler buraya

Herkes taa dan gelmiş mk

TAA slm

Taa dan gelenler +1

TAA dan gelen?

TAA'dan Sa

Taa dan gelenleri görelim

Tta da gelenleri görelim

Muy buena

TAA ORDUSUNDAN GELENLER SERİ LİKEEEE

Taa *TR*

The guitars make me cry everytime

TAA`dan gelenler?

Taa dan gelen var mı?

TAA dan gelenler 😂

TAA HERYERDE

TAA dan gelen var mı ?

TAA / SA beyler

TAA DAN GELDİM SA

Taa dan gelenler buradamı?

Taa'dan gelenler belli edin kendinizi 👊

ben de bu videoyu açıp tyorumlara en yeniye alığp böyle bir yorum bekliyordum eyw

geldim de bi boka benzemiyor

come from TAA

Extremely underrated rhythm section.

valensi's legs. man.

ストロークス熱いわ

My bf is ligit obsessed w u guys 😂

VA SE FUDEEEEEEER EU AMO THE STROKES

God: I Give my power to one man for one day.
man: Create this song.

Chequea esto

muy gotto papi ; me las mejores bandas de la decada

I'm ready for the new album to come out in 2020. The Strokes Rock!!!😎🤘🏻

If you look up eargasm in the dictionary this song is shown as a synonym.

I've always loved the Strokes and pretty much every song I've ever heard by them but there's something about this song, something about the rhythm, the guitar... I've dabbled in playing guitar and writing songs and there's some sound in there I was trying to achieve well before I even heard this song. It's like a sound and a feeling mixed. Some kind of weird feeling like about the past when I've been drunk and/or high. One facet of it was like faster drums and slower guitar. Hell I don't know... hard to explain. Also, wasn't one of their dad's like a real famous musician too?

Blalack77 yeah Albert Hammond senior was a famous musician i believe

Talk about lucking into band with a voice like that?

Pretty much over for awhile though

This is after trying your luck from $2 bill concert

Leavin just in tiiiiiime

I swear this is one of the best openings in rock history

Los mejores!!!!

This is a good band for having depression

Audio mix in this version is astonishing. On the album, drums should sound exactly like that

this is on the list of greatest albums ever made?
LMAO!

Why’s it funny

Those drums tho 😭😍

*_We need to get them a gold play button_*

Very lou reed and velvet underground

One of my favorite guitar solos of all time

I wanna know why my boy Julian is wearing a jacket I worked hard for at Marine Corps boot camp😂

STFU boot

Stolen valor

Jose Hernandez yeah that’s what I said

nice background inspired by elvis' 68 comeback special

Love the guitar power

God is present he loves it when I do meth

Was this the same day they played at the 2 dollar bill? They're all wearing the same clothes.

Juliaaaaan 😍😍😍😍 <3

Elvis 68 Special.

Los salvadores del rock

Perfect music

why is this slower?!?

Stoned and drunk

@Fernando Reyes lol maybe. But I'm sure the metronome is predefined.

The vocal performance reminds me of Lou Reed for some reason

Eu amo The Strokes

Maravilhosa impecável,, essa canção..

love it

SURFACE TO AIR - CHEMICAL BROTHERS

lou reed vibe check cool cool

Bro my mind is fucking blown, I’ve listened and watched this video so many fucking times and I think I made the conclusion that he’s doing downstrokes the entire fucking time

O wait nvm

Nikolai? I’m pretty sure the bass is just downstrokes

howtoeataham nah man I meant Nick Valensi

Who would ever thumbs down this song

I love this band but I bet they are elitist douchebags. But, I could be wrong. Anyone here talk to them back then?

That audience is so lucky

x1.25 and it sounds kind of like the album version, just wanted to point that out

I didn't take no shortcuts
I spent the money that I saved up
Oh, Momma running out of luck
Like my sister, don't give a fuck
I wanna steal your innocence
To me, my life, it don't make sense
Those strange manners, I loved 'em so
"Why won't you wear your new trench coat?"
I should've worked much harder
I should've just not bothered
I never show up on weekdays
Something that you learned yesterday
"Drive you to work; you'll be on time
These little problems they're not yours and mine, "
"Come on and listen to what I say
I've got some secrets that'll make you stay"
I just want to turn you down
I just want to turn you around
Oh, you ain't never had nothin' I wanted, but...
I want it all
I just can't figure out...
Nothing
And all together it went well
We made pretend we were best friends
Then she said, "Oh, you're a freak"
"They ordered me to make mistakes"
Together again, like the beginning
It all works somehow in the end
The things we did, the things you hide
For the record it's between you and I
Oh, I didn't take no shortcuts
I spent the money that I saved up
Oh, Momma running out of luck
Like my sister, don't give a fuck
I wanna steal your innocence
To me my life, it just don't make any sense
Those strange manners, I loved 'em so
"Why won't you wear your new trench coat?"
I just want to misbehave
I just want to be your slave
Oh, you ain't never had nothing I wanted, but...
I want it all
I just can't figure out...
Nothin'
And all together it went well
We made pretend we were best friends
Then she said, "Oh, I can wait"
They ordered me to make mistakes
Together again like the beginning
It all works somehow in the end
The things we did, the things you hide
And for the record, it's between you and I

Wrong vid bro lol

Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground reminiscent.

They keep rock and roll alive

“Up on a hill, here’s where we begin/This little story, a long time ago” Maybe New York City isn’t technically a hill and maybe 14 years isn’t so long ago, but, excepting that, the opening line from “The Modern Age” could serve double-duty as the first words in the story of The Strokes. After all, the song was the title track and one of three songs included on the EP the band released in 2001 that set off a bidding war for their services and cranked up the hype machine to deafening levels.


It also is one of the most memorable tracks on the band’s debut album Is This It, an album that somehow managed to exceed that hype. The Strokes’ sound, which combined the ramshackle attitude of garage rock with the arched-eyebrow posturing of art rock in striking fashion, receives a lot of that credit for the band’s success. But that sound wouldn’t have meant quite as much if it weren’t attached to memorable songs courtesy of lead singer Julian Casablancas.


“The Modern Age” is a fine example of this alchemy. Chunky staccato guitars in the intro eventually open up into a buoyant bass line from Nikolai Fraiture and stomping drums from Fabrizio Moretti. Nick Valensi takes off on a searing guitar solo in the middle portion of the song, yet the melody in the chorus balances that out with its melancholic chord changes.


Casablancas’ vocals contain that same kind of variety, as he trades off between dejected monotone and animated braying, like some unholy cross between Ian Curtis and Jim Morrison. The lyrics also can’t decide whether they want rhapsodize about some idealized afternoon in the sun or moan about the peripatetic nature of 21st-century life.


Along the way, Casablancas’ lines, seemingly tossed off and nonchalant, start to draw blood. “Stop to pretend, stop pretending/It seems this game is simply never-ending,” he sings, seeming to reference the chasm between childhood playfulness and adult seriousness that the young-at-heart futilely try to bridge. When he sings, “Work hard and say it’s easy,” it’s an interesting theory for this at-the-time budding rock star to put forth: that the appearance of nonchalance may be crucial to success, but the practice of it is career suicide.
Through the song a loose story about the narrator trying to shake free from a clinging suitor runs, but “The Modern Age” is after bigger fish than that, as evidenced by the song’s title. The pleasures are ephemeral (“No time to feel the breeze”), the coping mechanisms are numbing (“I took too many varieties”), and, when you can’t make it work, it’s best just to bail and try again another day (“Tomorrow may be different/So this Is why I’m leaving.”)


Speaking about his band’s enduring popularity in a 2014 Rolling Stone interview, Casablancas shook off the plaudits. “It feels humbling and validating that you’re doing some things right,” he said. “But it’s the same thing with an actor: If a movie does really well at the box office, they make 10 of those afterward because that’s what they think people like. . . . If something has commercial value, it doesn’t mean it’s good.” False modesty and indifferent cool is all well and good, but many have tried to copy The Strokes formula in the wake of Is This It and have fallen well short. And the story the band started with “The Modern Age” still enthralls.

I am 2019 Brasil

A 3 meses que se acabe el 2019. me encanta esta cancion :)

I could just listen to this all day. From the verses to the chorus to the solo... to that "Woo!" The Strokes have recently become one of my favorite bands, and they have truly gotten me through some things. Incredible incredible stuff.

lol such a nice song

Brasil 2019 alguém ?

Aqui bro, hehe
Ouço todos os dias

@Ruan Carlos tamo junto broder!!

That issue of being on the outside looking in without the whole story

Quién para el corona?

Yooo saludos desde Madrid

mds julian te amo 😔😔

Gives me serious Jim Morrison vibes

I am happy that I have such a good taste in music and therefore like The Strokes!