Room on Fire

Infobox Album | Name = Room on Fire
Type = album
Artist = The Strokes


Released = 28 October 2003
Recorded = 2003
Genre = Garage Rock Revival
Post-punk revival
Indie Rock
Length = 33:05
Label = RCA
Producer = Gordon Raphael
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ob6tk65xtkra link]
*"The A.V. Club" (Favourable) [http://avclub.com/content/node/14743 11/4/03]
*"Blender" Rating|3|5 [http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=1359 link]
*"NME" (9/10) [http://www.nme.com/reviews/the-strokes/7169 link]
*"Q" Rating|5|5 [http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/strokes/roomonfire Link]
*Pitchfork (8.0/10) [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22083/Strokes_Room_on_Fire 10/27/03]
*Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau|hm3 [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1951&name=The+Strokes link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/290610 10/30/03]
*"Spin" Rating|4|5 [http://www.spin.com/reviews/strokes-room-fire-rca link]
*"Stylus" (C+) [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=1419 10/28/03] |Last album = "Is This It"
(2001)
This album = "Room on Fire"
(2003)
Next album = "First Impressions of Earth"
(2006)

Misc = Singles
Name = Room on Fire
Type = Studio album
single 1 =
single 1 date = November 4, 2003 (U.S.)
single 2 = Reptilia
single 2 date = February 9, 2004 (U.K.)
single 3 = The End Has No End
single 3 date = November 1, 2004 (U.S.)

"Room On Fire" is the second album by the band The Strokes. Released in October 2003, this album follows up 2001's "Is This It" and includes three singles "", "Reptilia" and "The End Has No End".

Grammy-winning producer Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Travis, Beck) was initially tapped to produce "Room on Fire", but the Strokes felt that he made the songs seem "soulless", and so they went back to "Is This It" producer Gordon Raphael.

Although "Room On Fire" received warm reviews upon release and reached #2 in the UK and debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200, going gold, the album's eventual US sales were significantly less than "Is This It"'s 1 million units, with 597,000 sales and certified gold in the US as of October 2006.

The album's opening track, "What Ever Happened?", was featured on the soundtrack to Sofia Coppola's 2006 film "Marie Antoinette".

In October 2007, the Strokes' song "You Talk Way Too Much" was featured in a Ford Sync commercial.

The song "Reptilia" is a playable song in the 2007 video games Guitar Hero III and Rock Band.

The album title "Room On Fire" was drawn from a line in "Reptilia": "The room is on fire as she's fixing her hair".

Track listing

All songs by Julian Casablancas, except where noted.

#"What Ever Happened?" – 2:54
#"Reptilia" – 3:41
#"Automatic Stop" (Casablancas/Albert Hammond, Jr.) – 3:26
#"" – 2:33
#"You Talk Way Too Much" – 3:04
#"Between Love & Hate" – 3:15
#"Meet Me in the Bathroom" – 2:57
#"Under Control" – 3:06
#"The Way It Is" – 2:22
#"The End Has No End" – 3:07
#"I Can't Win" – 2:34

The UK edition of the album reverses the order of "The Way It Is" and "The End Has No End".

ingles

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Personnel

*Greg Calbi - Mastering
*Julian Casablancas - Vocals
*Steve Fallone - Mastering
*Nikolai Fraiture - Bass
*Albert Hammond, Jr. - Guitar
*William Kelly - Engineering
*Brett Kilroe - Art Direction
*Colin Lane - Photography
*Richard Martin - Session Drums
*Fabrizio Moretti - Drums
*Peter Phillips - Paintings
*Steve Ralbovsky - A&R
*Gordon Raphael - Producer
*The Strokes - Arranger
*Nick Valensi - Guitar
*Toshikazu Yoshioka - Engineering
*Aaron Wilkinson - Dedicated to his memory