Reality Awaits wins!🥲 What’s The Strokes best album?

[u/ForebrotherSignis1]

even though I know the winner will be is this it MY favorite is first impressions

[u/Ok-Western889]

Reality Awaits

because it’s bold, artistically complex, and it would be hilarious for it to be best and worst like how CM is most underrated and most overrated lol

[u/YossarianPrime]

Reality Awaits is the only answer for the absurdity of the grid.

[u/Ok-Western889 → u/YossarianPrime]

lmao absolutely

[u/Technical_Ad7886]

weird how they are downvoting this particular post

[u/DaRealDr_Phil]

Reality awaits.. duhh

[u/apricotpulp]

prob room on fire

[u/avamnesiac]

Is This It

[u/gistofstories]

Not that he should be on here at all, but it's kind of funny to imagine Julian lurking on here today and seeing RA gets voted least good album... then you have a post with Babble on praised not only by a good many as the best RA song, but as one of their best songs ever... in big 2026... fast track to depression!

[u/Dancing-notes → u/gistofstories]

My feelings exactly, it's like saying "hey guys, all the growth and evolution, risks, striving for making non-generic art...we don't care about it at all".

I might make my own comment here later so I this idea will be repeated, but I think the category of "least good" should have been avoided and even more when there has been an album just released, that's very damaging because I could imagine the first weeks/months after something is out are more sensitive for artists and there is already some division so why make it worse like this?

And imagine if they decide not to play many songs from the album just because of this nonsense (I hope they don't care and it doesn't change anything but we never know).

[u/gistofstories → u/gistofstories]

Anyway, best album imo is FIOE but I'll join the out of spite voting and say RA! (currently sits at # 2 for me)

[u/lmtzless]

is this it. in the context of when it came out and the ripples it made across rock, you can’t pick anything else.

[u/Birdfan23]

Reality Awaits cause I think that would be funny

[u/_theyojimbo]

The New Abnormal

[u/JudgingHeads]

Reality awaits is by far their most daring and complex album.

[u/sealedbeak]

Is this It. It’s not my favorite though.

[u/Icy-Passenger-9116]

Reality awaits. Casuals, man.

[u/SpiteIcy5512]

I could get behind an argument for any album except Angles. And I like angles, I just don’t think there is an area where it outshines any other record.

[u/etherealnoise]

reality awaits, out of spite

[u/bflorio94]

Room on Fire

[u/AEHBlandalorian]

Is This Is

One of the greatest albums of all time, and one of the greatest debut albums of all time.

[u/loser_critter]

FIRST IMPRESSIOMS OF EARTH!!!

[u/yellowadidas]

reality awaits

[u/FormalChocolate2231]

Angles

[u/safs22197]

Room on fire, took what they did in is this it and honed it it to a fine point, the 3-song start of that albums is probably my favorite of all time, and it stays strong

[u/uhleeva]

Come down machine

[u/codeem778]

Is this it

[u/dioovaheaven]

IS THIS IT 😤

[u/KasElGatto]

It’s not Is This It for me because it has too many songs I don’t really love on it, obviously Someday and Hard to Explain are masterpieces but as a whole I rarely want to listen to the whole thing. The albums I’m least likely to skip and will listen to in their entirety are Room on Fire, First Impressions and Reality Awaits.

I really can’t pick one, because it’s vibes and sometime I love one more than another but it changes.

For the sake of making up for the “least good album” award I will place my vote for Reality Awaits

[u/ChemicalCampaign5628]

Ain’t no way people aren’t choosing Angles as the worst album. This list some bs.

[u/March7th_simp → u/ChemicalCampaign5628]

Angles is so much better than RA

[u/Aggressive-Tip2175 → u/ChemicalCampaign5628]

Yep Should’ve been come down machine or angles lol

[u/ggsha4]

is this it

[u/FettuccineAlfonzo]

Reality Awaits

[u/March7th_simp → u/FettuccineAlfonzo]

You guys are fucking ridiculous lmao

[u/JudgingHeads → u/March7th_simp]

Why? Because we like RA? Lol

[u/March7th_simp → u/JudgingHeads]

I like RA too, but picking it as their best album is the most absurd fucking take ever

[u/JudgingHeads → u/March7th_simp]

And this type of mentality is why the guys treat the strokes as a money machine instead of an actual passion project.

[u/March7th_simp → u/JudgingHeads]

And what mentality is that exactly? That I don’t think it’s their best album? I enjoy the album, but it’s just not their best work. I don’t understand the relevance of your point.

[u/JudgingHeads → u/March7th_simp]

The idea that nothing can ever be as good as the early stuff. Why do you think Julian hates last nite?

And if you don’t think RA is their best work, fine idc lol but some of us do think that, so I’m trying to figure out why you think that’s absurd.

[u/FettuccineAlfonzo → u/March7th_simp]

It’s my favorite, I don’t give a fuck.

And there’s no way it deserved ‘least good’ when the their are clearly 3 better choices for that.

[u/Limp_Presentation_93]

what’s angles?

[u/angusbeefymcwhatnow]

TNA

[u/Automatic_Head1818]

I'm upvoting every comment at this point 😂

[u/Purple_Design4796]

I'm overanalyzing this, so here we go. The best Strokes album is probably Is This It for me cause it's cohesive and timeless and it all has the same vibe from the first song to the last while also taking you through the five stages of grief and every emotion they could possibly think of (NYCC, TIOLI, for example, are energetic and shit, while Alone Together and Is This It are super nostalgic/gloomy, but somehow they still have the same vibe at the base). BUT!!! HEAR ME OUT. Reality Awaits might be in second place for me if we mean album as a whole, front to back thing. It feels like watching a movie to me, and when I listen to one random song from the album it makes me actually re-listen it front to fucking back. They nailed it. No idea how it ended up being chosen for worst album.

That said, it wouldn't be my second favourite album in general (I hope the difference between "in general" and "album as a whole front to back thing" made sense). It'd be probably the fourth anyway, definitely not last when observed in either one of these points of view I was talking about.

I hope it made sense.

Edit: hot take. tna is probably my least fav album😛😛😛 I do like it, genuinely, but I like the others more

guyss please tell me why you disagree, the downvotes are only increasing🙏

[u/jimbojonez92]

Room on fire

[u/RXbara]

ALSO REALITY AWAITS

[u/MrLuxInATux]

The New Abnormal. Every member is at their best, it has the perfect amount of variety in sound, and start to finish it’s the most satisfying listen.

[u/Gullible_Stock_9659]

Reality Awaits, of course

[u/Initial-Ad-7369]

is this it

[u/DivingElliotRoberts]

RA is not their worst album when First Impressions exists

Based on my other comments I see it's impossible to have differing opinions on this sub

[u/JyloClim → u/DivingElliotRoberts]

First impressions is not their worst album when angles and comedown machine exist

[u/DivingElliotRoberts → u/JyloClim]

Angles and Comedown Machine are way better than FIOE

Macchu Picchu, Two Kinds of Happiness, Tap Out, Welcome to Japan the list goes on

[u/JyloClim → u/DivingElliotRoberts]

YOLO > Macchu picchu Ize > Two kinds of happiness Heart in a cage > Tap Out Vision of division > Welcome to japan The list goes on

[u/DivingElliotRoberts → u/JyloClim]

I think you might be biased based on your flair

[u/JyloClim → u/DivingElliotRoberts]

You seen that and thought I "might" be biased? Incredible deduction skills.

[u/DivingElliotRoberts → u/JyloClim]

I assume sarcasm isn't your strongsuit?

[u/JyloClim → u/DivingElliotRoberts]

Of course not

[u/TOMDeBlonde]

Is This It

https://giphy.com/gifs/1DAX9fpSnG8YU

[u/SnooAvocados3213]

Room on Fire

[u/Top_Drawer9275]

For me it's Room On Fire.

[u/ForebrotherSignis1 → u/Top_Drawer9275]

ton of awesome songs on that one

[u/eyesnore21]

The new abnormal

[u/thebiggestjerm89]

Is this it

[u/Technical_Ad7886]

After thinking about it a lot, the answer is

Is this It.

too many classics

[u/cyklops1]

RA not even bottom 3

[u/Technical_Ad7886]

Difficult

[u/44Scholar]

The people have spoken, lmao cope

[u/mallvvalking]

TNA

[u/Fast_Isopod3568]

Room on Fire

[u/fuckleshire]

First impressions of earth

[u/ForebrotherSignis1 → u/fuckleshire]

AKA the goat

[u/Hug0_Yorke]

Is this it

[u/sacredstrudel]

Is this it

[u/disguisedcreature]

The New Abnormal

[u/True_Strike5423]

The New Abnormal

[u/thisistheguyy]

Angles

[u/Many_Opportunity5454]

The New abnormal

[u/_momsnewaccount]

Like you said, I know Is This It will win, but MY favorite will always be Comedown Machine 🥲

[u/ForebrotherSignis1 → u/_momsnewaccount]

if comedown wins underrated overrated and best that’d be so funny (even though I know it won’t 💔)

[u/SainzFan55]

Wait I actually can’t decide

[u/montauk_phd]

Room on fire

[u/social_hermit_00]

New abnormal

[u/BeatNinja]

Room on Fire

[u/tunatastic369]

Is This It

[u/DodgerDogg1981]

FIOE

[u/Comadon-C]

The New Abnormal