People have often thought that pop music peaked in their youth. If you were born in 1950? Beatlemania. If you were born in 1960? Punk rock. If you were born in 1970? Take your pick.
For those of us born in the early 1990s, though, this trend came to a screeching halt.
In 2001, The Strokes released Is This It — resurrecting guitar music to the loud relief of music journalists across America and Europe. It was a fine album — derivative, yes, but memorable and charismatic.
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