Room on Fire

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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 "12:51", "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 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 track 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.

  1. "What Ever Happened?" – 2:54
  2. "Reptilia" – 3:41
  3. "Automatic Stop" (Casablancas/Albert Hammond, Jr.) – 3:26
  4. "12:51" – 2:33
  5. "You Talk Way Too Much" – 3:04
  6. "Between Love & Hate" – 3:15
  7. "Meet Me in the Bathroom" – 2:57
  8. "Under Control" – 3:06
  9. "The Way It Is" – 2:22
  10. "The End Has No End" – 3:07
  11. "I Can't Win" – 2:34

Singles

Information
"12:51"
"Reptilia"
"The End Has No End"

Samples

"The End Has No End"
"The End Has No End" by The Strokes
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Personnel

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