07/23/2002   English German
  Edition # 38  
San Francisco, 07-23-2002

The CD of the Month
Figure [1]: The album "Is This It?" by The Strokes

Michael Eagerly anticipated, but recently absent: There just haven't been any compelling new records. But today it happened: I bought the album "This Is It" by "The Strokes," which was released half a year ago! I already knew the song "Last Nite" from the radio, but I had no idea that "Hard to Explain" and "SOMA" were also on it -- for both songs, the best way to listen is on a hot day in San Francisco in an 11-year-old Acura Integra without air conditioning, with the windows rolled down, wearing shorts and barefoot, speeding up the hill trio on Church Street between 17th and 22nd Street. Then it sounds as if the music was invented in California, even though it comes from New York City. Buy it immediately and listen to it nonstop! Until we discuss the new one from the "Red Hot Chili Peppers," my favorite band, in the next newsletter.

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