This week's playlist is pretty cool. I just power-read the new book Meet Me In The Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman. It's an oral history of rock n' roll in NYC from 2001-2011. It was so good! It mostly covered The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and LCD Soundsystem. The last part of the book covers bands like Vampire Weekend and Grizzly Bear. This book was like Our Band Could Be Your Life, but in the 2000's. Which is cool for someone like me, because while I love the bands in Our Band Could be Your Life, my true loves are the Strokes and Vampire Weekend. So I found Meet In The Bathroom more relatable and relevant to my own life. I remember things that happen in that book from being a fan at the time, like when the Strokes played MSG or Vampire Weekend played SNL. And the internet was a huge part of this book, which is the biggest difference. This book made me so excited about the Strokes again I haven't stop listening to Is This It. An excerpt from the book about the Strokes came out before the book. It was about Albert's heavy drug use. Which made people think it was a book mostly about drugs, because the casually about drugs in that small part is vast and kinda shocking. And this book does have a lot of drugs use in it, a lot, but in the grand scheme of this 500+ page book, this one except is sadly nothing. The Strokes are a band I definitely idolize. I think they are the epitome of cool, like many people do and did. But I don't want to idolize their drugs use when I think that literally everything they did was cool, when doing things like heroine are absolutely not cool. You just need to be careful, in all aspects of putting people on pedestal, and remember that a group of boys is just a group of boys, even if they are the Strokes.
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Anyways, I played a lot of songs I loved. Like the song by Swearin', a lot of stuff mentioned in that book, and some old favs like the Wolf Gang song and the Chrvches song. See you all next week. Also, it funny that Niall Horan now has a song called "Slow Hands". I mean to look up how to renew my license during the show, but instead I wrote about the Strokes. I spend too much time on the Strokes.
