Albert Hammond Jr solo songs were rejected by The Strokes
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So this is a surefire way to get people clambering to buy your first solo album: tell them that some of the songs on it are, essentially, rejects.
Albert Hammond Jr has told NME that certain songs on Yours To Keep were passed on by his nine-to-five outfit, The Strokes.
"I did suggest my songs once or twice and I got turned down," said the guitarist. "The other members didn't like (them). Julian writes the songs and we play them and do our thing with them."
Out on October 9 through Rough Trade, Yours To Keep has been preceded by an iTunes-only single, 'Everyone Gets A Star'. It's out now.
Hammond Jr continued: "I don't think I feel trapped in the band but I'm definitely glad I made this record. It wasn't, 'I wanna get out', just sometimes after all the press and touring with each other sometimes you want something different."
What, so gardening, or hang gliding, or taking up decoupage, wasn't good enough for you? You had to make a solo album? Sheeeesh...
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had listened to Albert. First Impressions... might have ended up quite good. Sigh.
i really like the tracks
on his mypsace. everyones got a star and 101 are great. pop gems. it does just seem a bit like earlier strokes, off room on fire, wouldnt have fit in on first impressions. im excited about hearing the solo album.
why does everyone hate the strokes so much?
they're not hard-fi are they?
they've just lost the excitement factor...
which is largely what made them so commanding in the first place. yes, the tracks sound like the vastly superior strokes' early work, but they're delivered without any of the energy, without any of the originality. shame, really, you just expect something more...
i think
when a naff, average-at-best pub-band with a ripped-off retro sound only gets signed because their parents work in the biz; they never have to go near the toilet circuit; and they do their first tour in a big shiny coach but ape the styles and langauge of hard-working grassroots bands for reflected kudos there is going to be a certain amount of resentment.
Plus, if a band are too cool to get down to their own music, then so am i.
They played
at the lift in Brighton as there first UK gig. That's about as toilet as it gets.
I love the strokes
But when i read his words they translate as "I obv am the ugliest bugger in this band and least stylish...i also dont play the coolest lead guitar parts so i thought i would boost my ego and enhance my status by releasing songs i know are mediocre but im in denial" Musicians eh?
Its probably a great album for all i know i just dont expect it.
exception
that proves the rule. merci.
Au contraire
I'm not gay or owt but I always thought of Albert as the coolest in the band...
I dig his leather jackets & spats...the fact he can be quite animated on stage & his frizzy hair and fucked up 70's cop look. Also he does play lead. Or at least on Last Nite....
and interview suggest
that hes the one who made them dress like they do/did
he solo stuff is quite good.
he should have rephrased to suggest that his songs were too different to the strokes other stuff.
itd be a lie, but youd have to listen to the music to find out, and then you could judge it on its own merits anyway
people
commonly use the phrase 'exception that proves the rule' to refute points made against absolute statements. however, sadly for them, this is a misuse of the phrase; in this context, the word 'prove' is meant in its original meaning; to test (the use of 'prove' in the sense of proving correct is merely a shorter version of saying 'proved correct' ie tested correct. so when we say 'the exception that proves the rule', we are actually saying a phrase coined with the sense of 'the exception that tests the rule', which gives the exactly opposite meaning.
funny isnt it, how little things like that can have a massive effect on peoples view of proof.
i guess so
but i'm just getting to realise just how good 'Room On Fire' is. Maybe it was just the last album that soured the whole thing.
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