‘Last Nite by the Strokes is dead to me’: Julian Casablancas’s honest playlist

The indie star clears dancefloors with funereal classical music and does Frank Sinatra at karaoke, but what is his unlikely bedroom soundtrack?

The first song I remember hearing
Sad Songs (Say So Much) by Elton John. I was maybe five. It was the first time that I felt that weird, deep, powerful feeling from music.

The first song I fell in love with
Yellow Ledbetter by Pearl Jam. My best friend’s older brother’s friend made this mixtape and it was off of that. I remember it sounded really decrepit because the tape had been recorded over so many times with different mixes that it sounded like it had melted.

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