The Strokes - Ode To The Mets (Official Video)

"Drums please, Fab?" And the whole world changes forever.

"What do you want for Christmas?"
"Drums please, dad"

"drums please, fab?"
*color has been activated*

i cannot describe the feeling this song gives me. Julian seems to painfully feel every word until he reaches the emotional climax on the last verse, and then the song ends with a vague sense of hope. this man is truly a living legend, an icon of our times.

And, on the seventh day, God said : "drums, please, Fab".

Psychologist: How would you define your sentimental situation?
Me: Drums, please, Fab...

My best friend died in a tragic motorcycle accident three days ago and this was the last song he asked me to listen to. Now I'm here drowning in tears in every line and thinking that maybe it was his way of saying goodbye, repeating a thousand times, I needed you there, I needed you there but I didn't know, I didn't know😢

I think it’s fair enough to say that this is the best song from this band and probably one of the best rock songs of the last decade.

why does this feel like the most depressing disney ride ever

Julian: *"Drums please, fab"* 2020 : 📈

4:18 you’re never ready for an ending this beautiful

Lyrics:
Up on his horse, up on his horse
Not gonna wake up here anymore
Listen one time, it's not the truth
It's just a story, I tell to you
Easy to say, easy to do
But it's not easy, well, maybe for you
Hope that you find it, hope that it's good
Hope that you read it, think that you should
Cuts you some slack as he sits back
Sizes you up, plans his attack
Ah-da-da
Drums please, Fab
And I got it all, I got it all
Waiting for me down on the street
But now you gotta do somethin' special for me
I'm gonna say what's on my mind
Then I'll walk out, then I'll feel fine
Yeah, I'm under his thumb, I'm on his back
I will not show my teeth too quick
I needed you there, I needed you there
But I didn't know, I didn't know
Go alone
I'll go alone
We'll go alone
I'll go alone
Back from his trip, he's at the door
When he gets back, he's on the phone
Innocent eye, innocent heart
No, it's not wrong, but it's not right
Innocent time out on his own
Not got gonna do that, I'm out of control
I was just bored playin' the guitar
Learned all your tricks, wasn't too hard
It's the last one now, I can promise you that
I'm gonna find out the truth when I get back
Gone now are the old times
Forgotten, time to hold on the railing
The Rubik's cube isn't solving for us
Old friends, long forgotten
The old ways at the bottom
Of the ocean now has swallowed
The only thing that's left
Is us, so pardon the silence
That you're hearing is turning
Into a deafening, painful, shameful roar

I feel like Julian really put his heart out in this album. The whole band did. The ending of this song is so beautiful, he sings it with some sort of a heartbroken, but hopeful feeling.

im glad other people find comfort in “drums please, fab” too

why is this one of the best songs I’ve heard and I just found it a few days ago 😭 where has this been all my life

Wow. This song got so popular they named a baseball team after it.

Yeah, “the adults are talking is cool”, but have ever heard this song in a thunderstorm while crying?

I don’t wanna live in a world where The Strokes don’t exist

I remembering 19yrs old when I first discovered The Strokes...now I'm almost 41 and it doesn't seem possible

This song is about Julian's relationship with his father. His dad died in 2013, shortly after the release of "Comedown Machine," so the material on this album is first stuff Julian would have released with The Strokes since his father's death. His dad was a pretty big deal in the modeling world and likely cast a long shadow. He probably traveled all the time and was not very present while he was home. This is a common story for people (like myself) who grew up rich in NYC. Something that is unique to rich NYC culture is that life does not revolve around children the way it does in the suburbs. Kids like Julian grow up fast and jaded in NYC and they have the freedom of 20 something yuppies when they are 15. It's a bit of a head trip, because on the one hand your parents have given you this amazing life that everyone wants, but on the other hand they are never around and it's pretty clear that spending time with you is not their priority. Julian's early music really captured the thrill and pain of growing up like that, and it's great to see him reflecting back as an older man, and finally getting his Grammy in the process.

I can’t believe 20 years later The Strokes are putting out this kind of quality. The album is amazing and the visuals have been stunning. As a lifelong fan it’s like a dream come true.

I can't imagine a better way to finish "The New Abnormal", definitely one of the best songs on the album. The Strokes saved 2020

This is my favorite strokes song. It’s gorgeous. And makes me feel my feelings so hard.

"Drums, please Fab?" Aquí es donde todos lloramos

Julian, we all know the world is ending... But man, why did you have to make it seem like it would be this beautiful?

One of the best written songs of all time.

It might not be about the Mets, but its a hell of an ode to someone you love, who also disappoints you

Possibly one of the best songs The Strokes have ever written.

Julian pouring his heart out on those last lines of the song is heart wrenchingly beautiful

I can’t believe the world shut down 3 years ago and they decided to drop this masterpiece. This entire album gave me strength😢

Lyrically, I consider the climax of the song to be a 'call to arm' for our generation. A truly painful, beautiful and inspirational wake up call to let go of our nostalgic past and collectively navigate our way through this time together.

"Drums please Fab" will forever be iconic I tell you

Glorious!

Masterpiece. Those 6 minutes went by so fast and so nicely. And the video is top class. Well done for this wonderful comeback guys.

I was introduced to this song when my daughter was playing her music in the car. I fell in love with it. Julian's voice is so amazing. I had to find out who belonged to that voice! Now I'm discovering all their other songs. The band is very talented and their music has a great sound.

"Writen & Directed by Warren Fu"
"Music by The Strokes"
*match made in heaven*

animator: how many styles of animation do you want?
the strokes: yes

One of best bands to ever do it! Thank you for this art 🫡
Revisiting in 2024

This album has to be the best produced music of all time. So crisp with that classic strokes compressed feel. Unbelievable.

The Strokes is the only thing that's keeping me sane in 2020

the comments:
1%= Jesus christ
99%= Drums please Fab

This song just can’t stop playing it

Julian's getting me through some sad, lonely times. I'm thankful the strokes exist.

5% I love The Strokes
5% This is very good
90% Drums please Fab

The Strokes were oringinally going to change the name of the song but fab told them not to, saying both the Mets and the song evoke “something that you set your heart to and that you love unconditionally but that continues to disappoint you” and that convinced them to keep it.

Saw the Strokes in Berlin in February 2020. They played Adults are talking for the first time and it blew me away. The whole concert was great. Shortly after corona came and concerts were no more. When the album finally came out I was immediately hooked on Ode to the meets, to a point where I would autistically listen to that song on repeat. For months. On my way to work and back home... just this song... Corona made the subways empty and the streets eerie. Ode To The Mets was my loyal companion in those weird weird times.

The Strokes somehow keeps improving I don’t know how they do this all the time

Just came to see how they handle the "DRUMS PLEASE, FAB"

this is how you close an album PERFECTLY

I think this is a song about Jules Dad. And how he needed him when he was a little boy. And he probably just wanted to spend time with him and go with him to a Mets game. That's my interpretation. This song breaks my heart. Made me actually teary eyed, which is not easy to do. Great great song. ❤️

feels like the whole universe gets in my head

“Into a deafening, shameful, painful ROARRRR”

when I saw the picture frame of the young strokes at 4:44 and he sings old friends long forgotten, that hit me pretty hard

This is the kind of song that is so good that you have to listen to it three times on repeat until you feel satisfied and move on to the next one.

WOW. This is easily on par with their first albums, but the emotional punch is something else. Beautiful!!!

"Drums please, Fab?"

"The Strokes win best rock album 2021 at Grammy awards! A word maybe, Julian?" ==> "Drums please Fab..."

I love this song with all my heart

I can't find the comment anymore, but once I read here that this song was about loving someone who keeps disappoints you, and I'm really feeling it right now

alex turner is probably freaking out that the strokes are on the moon

La frase más destacada de la canción es "drums please, Fab" jajaj

Díganme que no soy el único que se le enchina la piel con cada segundo que avanza este hermoso tema

I just travelled back home from 4 years abroad to attend my father’s funeral. He spent more than a decade fighting for his health, and I didn’t make it to have any last words. On the way to the cemetery, I played this song and sang along as the last farewell to my late father. You had an amazing but painful life, please rest in peace (1965-2022).

wow...it's like christmas morning

The Strokes became something more than just a band we like.

This is a masterpiece. i feel his pain so much. i had a similar relationship with my Dad. Very painful. this song is very cathartic for me. Thank you

yep

I'm still waiting for the official video for "Why are sundays so depressing?"

I personally think that this song, Selfless, and “Why are Sunday’s so depressing?”, are some of the best alternative rock songs I’ve ever heard in my life. That being said, Adults are talking and Brooklyn Bridge are also next level songs too! Incredible album as a whole, one of the best I’ve heard for the alternative rock genre in many years.

God i wish my vocal range was just a bit higher so i could belt out that last chorus the way I want to and the way it deserves. Such catharsis. I fucking love this album.

In my top 3 best songs of all time.
BELIEVE IN MIRACLES. Restart.❤

Julian is such a good writer that his literature teacher had to take classes from him.

jules: “drums pls fab”
fab: ✨✨✨

19 years after their debut album and they still release music like this . Ode to THE STROKES …

The only bad thing about this song is that it ends.

“Not gonna wake up here anymore” that shet hits

2001: Someday they'll miss the good old days, someday... someday.
2020: Gone now are the old times, forgotten(...) Old friends long forgotten, the old ways at the bottom of the ocean.

This song is an actual emotional roller coaster I always end up over stimulated. 2nd to selfless this song feels like I lost 10 yrs of my life but it’s so beautiful 😭

I'm ABSOLUTELY SURE this is the song I am going to hear when my life ends... and I will be completely satisfied.

It’s been a horrible year but this song makes me happy to be alive.

I never get tired of saying it, this is one of the best songs ever

Everyone goes into their critical thinking of their brain when hearing this song. This song was my most played song in 2022. Liking or even loving this song is still an under appreciation of what this song does to one soul. For the longest time I wanted to put into words of what this song puts you in and still I cannot find a solid answer. This song is what makes me believe magic is real. The true beauty of life and death. The strokes really put themselves as GOATs with this. All I can say is that when I’m chilling with homies vibing and this song goes on, it’s as if we all have a moment of silence to truly enjoy the music. Not a sound to come out from us. Countless times people have came over to my place and thanked me with their kind hearts for hearing this song. I cannot take credit for I was not the one who made the song. Many people don’t even go into this genre of music. But something about this masterpiece is something more special. It shows a story of your own life as if you are listening to your life story unfold in front of your face. Not many songs can do this type of this sorcery. Ode to the Mets will always have a special place in my heart. The journey is still yet to be completed!

Goodness this song is so much better than I remembered after hearing it the first time.

Alex Turner has probably replayed this video more than 1000 times

how the hell did they make this masterpiece

This songs led me to create a new playlist named - Absolute best

This song saved me

This song hurts in the best way possible

I found this song by pure luck and now I’m crying at my work desk.

Soy mexicano y The Strokes es la agonía de las bandas de rock tal cual es esa cultura; fuimos de la mano, crecimos con ellos y sus discos alocados con guitarrazos, baterías desenfrenadas, letras alusivas al alcohol, al sexo a tomar la vida como venga, ahora estamos en el punto donde envejecemos junto con ellos, sus letras ya no son las mismas, se nota la maduración musical y me atrevería a decir que están en el pináculo de su carrera con melodías más melancólicas que ahora nos acomoda mejor, ya no somos tan jóvenes (yo tengo 31) y aunque el rock de sus inicios aún me gusta no podrán negar que The New Abnormal y su estilo melancólico nos acomoda de una manera muy pocas veces vista por que también nosotros vamos madurando. Somos la generación que está viendo morir al rock tal cual es y es un gusto saber que somos parte de estas etapa donde creces, vives y mueres escuchando a tus bandas favoritas. The Strokes es de las ultimas bandas a mi parecer que se reinventa cada cierto tiempo para seguir gustando

The saddest part about this song is that it's such a good closer that I'm sure that they'd want to end their discography with this masterpiece.

when you realize the stuff you used to imagine in your head when you were a kid and had that thought of "this could be a nice movie" but gave up thinking some adult probably have a better idea going on and when you realize you're the adult who gave up on your dreams then suddenly ode to the mets videoclip is the realistic version of literally all of your dreams and everything you had in mind that you didn't know how to put it out not even the feeling of it.
thanks whoever is involved for knowing me better than i know myself.

discovered them a few years ago then inevitably fell into the julian casablancas rabbit hole. this is one of those songs that i go back to every once in a while. even if it's not the best song to listen to when you're feeling blue, i find myself going back to this (& human sadness) a lot. it's just so devastatingly beautiful and touching and so... human. thats not something you can always achieve in music.
anyway, this is just an excuse to say how much i treasure this band and how i cant remember my life before knowing them (& julian esp)

I've listened to this song so many times that surely it is a part of my soul

ahahahahahah the lyrics in the description are wrong!

The saddest Strokes song. I didn't realize just how sad it was till I looked up the lyrics. Jesus...

You know It's a masterpiece album, when the both starting and ending tracks are insanely good and memorable.

Esta canción me hace llorar de tristeza y felicidad, me recuerda que mi vida ha sido linda porque tengo cosas que extrañar.

Since "The New Abnormal" came out in April, I've probably listened to it 20-30 times. I think this is their most "complete" album so far. I can hear how they have grown musically, thou they still retained their signature sound (like in "Bad Decisions"). I love how they left in Julian's comments made during the recording ("Drums, please, Fab..." "False...break..." etc.). Rick Rubin's influence is clearly felt on this album, but in a sense that he gave the guys courage to experiment, like with "At the Door" (the song has no drums for the first 3 minutes or so, but has some of Julian's best singing ever, with an ominous keyboard hum throughout). Also, making it their first video from the album takes some balls, when they could have gone with much safer "Eternal Summer", which is such a great tune. So great in fact, that even the fade out ending sounds so good, it could have been a hit song all on it's own. For me, it's a mix of waiting so long for their new stuff, and that what they recorded seems to be exactly the music I needed to hear at this stage of my life, that makes this album so good. Also, I'm the same age as them, so I guess that too is one of the reasons the music sounds as if it was custom tailored for me. In case you missed it from reading my comment, I REALLY LOVE THIS ALBUM from start to finish! Now all I have to do is to wait for this pandemic to pass, and then hear them live...(maybe in 2021).

the strokes really deserved the grammy for this album. it's the most well produced and consistent album they've released since room on fire.