Why Does The Strokes' 'Is This It' Have Two Covers?

The Strokes released Is This It in 2001. With Last Nite, Someday, and Hard To Explain it was a certified good album. La la la. Hey, have you heard The New Abnormal? That's a good one. Julian Casablancas, Albert Hammond Jr, Nick Valensi, Fabrizio Moretti, and Nikolai Fraiture really put a lot into these huh?

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[AnastasiaEfremova-bkkg]

Julian randomly changing his mind ans screaming THAT ONE like a little child is so on brand

[Laelaps_]

the fact that i was wondering about this the past few days, but was too lazy to actually look it up💀 So thanks dude.

[chan_martin]

The atoms colliding feels just as iconic. Plus with the color choices it adds to the cool warm, summery vibe of the record. I consider the New Abnormal cover to be a small homage to this album with how similar the color pallets are.

[jose.a.a.a]

It's not atoms colliding. It's a bubble chamber, which just shows the trajectory of charged particles in a magnetic field.

[thFurno]

In Canada where I live, on CDs and (most) vinyl it’s the atom cover. And streaming has the ass. Also, I thought that was a knee for way too long.

[rarrar]

Indonesia has a huge cassette business that makes albums looking different than any other version of the cassettes. That’s why it has that cover.
There’s a similar thing with “punk in drublic” by NOFX as the Indonesian cassette is red, but mostly everywhere else is green.

[Christ-follower]

I saw them live once, pretty amazing experience

[JakeRanney]

I always thought it was a "Smell the Glove" type situation

[crw]

Gotta be honest the american one looks cooler

[blucats]

Interesting. I heard it was because the song New York City Cops was not popular after the September 11th attacks. So it was pulled from the record and a new cover was issued.

[maxresdefault_]

Honestly I love both images. The butt is infinitely iconic, but that atoms colliding image is very cool

[Derekfan]

This is wild I literally saw the world wide cover at this record store today

[backpack_buddies]

I love the original cover. Things sometimes happen like this, in the most unexpected way. My best friend said "sometimes the stars align" and in this time one of the most sensual and elegant covers emerges.
👏 👏 👏

[electricfox]

The other difference between the two albums is the exclusion of the song New York City Cops from the U.S version as it was released post 9/11 and having a song not in support of the police was seen as very un-patriotic. Which after the events of 9/11 was seen as worse than anything.

[jamesdevine]

To someone who knows so little about the band that I thought these were separate albums (i.e. me), this is very amusing.

[KelInSomWer]

even though the yellow and blue one looks way cooler, the butt one fits better the album

[dimitrijejovanovich]

Dude, from reading the title I thought he meant that they covered two SONGS in the album lol

[mirnasimmi]

Nice to see YouTube algorithm putting The Strokes on my feed.

[andrewhedstrom]

I live in Sweden. a couple months ago I went to listen to the strokes for the first time. I looked for the swirly album cover because I thought it was the most famous one. it didn't show up on my spotify so I had to google it very confused 😂

[rainbz]

Idk how thrilled id be if i were the ex knowing not only that this dude had my full ass in his potfolio, but that its now a whole album cover