ROOM ON FIRE

'''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 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''.

Contents

Track listing

Singles

Samples

Personnel

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".

Singles

Cover	Information
	'""' ★ Released: October 6 2003 ★ Chart positions: #7 (UK Singles Chart) #15 (US Modern Rock)
	'"Reptilia"' ★ Released: February 9 2004 ★ Chart positions: #17 (UK Singles Chart) #19 (US Modern Rock)
	'"The End Has No End"' ★ Released: November 1 2004 ★ Chart positions: #27 (UK Singles Chart) #35 (US Modern Rock)

Samples

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