You can bet that had UK rockers Razorlight broken out a few years ago, they would have found themselves quickly centered in the crosshairs of such criticisms. Countless bands had to endure such infuriating comparisons in the early ’00s, for varying and often wholly unjustified reasons - the Vines and the Hives because their names sounded similar, Interpol because they were from New York, and Rooney because well, OK, maybe that one was justified. But we also laugh at the alarming readiness of critics and fans alike to lambaste any other up-and-coming acts as second-rate Strokes knockoffs, based on the most incidental of similarities. ![]() ![]() We laugh mostly at the unanimous critical adoration that was leveled at a young band on the basis of one 30-minute LP. ![]() Now that Strokes fever has finally passed, (at least for the moment), we are able to look back with relative objectivity and laugh.
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