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Last Nite

Certain Songs #2525: The Strokes – “Last Nite”

January 9, 2023 by Jim Connelly

Album: Is This It
Year: 2001

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The biggest song on Is This It combined two flavors you wouldn’t think would taste great together and made a cool punk-adjacent hybrid out of them.

The first element was the jangly guitar rock of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, whose initial signature hit, “American Girl” was lifted pretty much wholesale for the opening, the guitars of Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr bouncing against each other as the song builds into its verses, at which point bassist Nikolai Fraiture and drummer Fabrizio Moretti go all Motown on us, just as Julian Casablancas sings the first verse.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Is This It, Last Nite, The Strokes

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  • Certain Songs #2622: Talking Heads – “Once in a Lifetime”
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