“It's funny to hear people ranting about how the Strokes ripped off Lou Reed's vocal affectations, how they bite the Velvet Underground's style, and how horribly inauthentic the whole thing is. Maybe it's because the Strokes only seem to have one influence. (Don't bother the pomo collage known as "influences" on the friendly AMG cheat-sheet, by the way.) But anyone with a cool uncle, or anything be”
