When a record like this comes along it's like a wake-up call to why you like indie guitar pop music. Well, any kind of rock music. You don't realise how much you miss it until a brilliant record comes along. I remember seeing a Strokes CD on the wall of Mighty Music Machine in Prahran. I was browsing the CD racks for music for the Lizard Lounge. Often klutzy pop hits of the day. I passed on the Modern Age CD then but a few days later it was all over the radio and I went back and got the single. It was Last Night and it got everyone on the dancefloor. Then the album arrived in all its cool glory. (Australia was the first place in the world it was released) So New york. Sounding like a cross between Blondie and Velvet underground. looking like a real band. making it all seem effortless. The look and the sound.
And it opened the floodgates for another bunch of Indie guitar bands that deluged the playlists for the next few years. When I hear this album the first thing that comes to mind is driving down Chapel Street towards the Union Hotel (home of the Lizard) in Windsor vibing up on what a great night it would be. Sadly these great guitar bands like The Strokes, White Stripes and The Hives came as the Lizard was starting to fade. Still for the last few months, we played the hell out of it.
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