Room on Fire
Album by The Strokes
Released	28 October 2003
Recorded	2003
Genre	Garage Rock, Post-punk revival
Length	33:05
Label	RCA
Producer(s)	Gordon Raphael
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (hon. men. 3/3) link The Music Box link The A.V. Club (Favourable) link Pitchfork Media (8/10) 10/27/03 PopMatters (Favourable) 10/23/03 Rolling Stone RS 934 Stylus Magazine (B+) 10/28/03 Stylus Magazine (C+) 10/28/03 Village Voice (Favourable) 10/24/03
The Strokes chronology
Is This It (2001)	Room on Fire (2003)	First Impressions of Earth (2006)

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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 again. Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... Nigel Godrich Nigel Godrich (born 1971 in England) is a Grammy Award-winning recording engineer and record producer. ... Radiohead are an English rock band from Oxfordshire. ... Travis are a British alternative rock band from Glasgow, Scotland, comprising of Fran Healy, Dougie Payne, Andy Dunlop and Neil Primrose. ... For other uses, see Beck (disambiguation). ... Gordon Raphael is a record producer and musician from Seattle, Washington. ...

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 in the US as of October 2006. The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. ...

Track listing

All songs by Julian Casablancas, except where noted. Image:Filter 5. ...

1. "What Ever Happened?" – 2:49
2. "Reptilia" – 3:35
3. "Automatic Stop" (Casablancas/Albert Hammond Jr) – 3:20
4. " – 12:51" – 2:26
5. "You Talk Way Too Much" – 3:00
6. "Between Love & Hate" – 3:11
7. "Meet Me In The Bathroom" – 2:52
8. "Under Control" – 3:02
9. "The Way It Is" – 2:17
10. "The End Has No End" – 3:00
11. "I Can't Win" – 2:30

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Samples

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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
• 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