There's something admirably – if not always successfully  – contrarian about the new Strokes single, as if the former fresh princes of Nu Yawk rock would rather jump in front of the L Train than party like it’s 12:51 ever again. "One Way Trigger" is busy, nerf-y synth-rock with an A-ha melody and Julian Casablancas’ voice wafting out of falsetto hell like Kenneth Parcell trying to sing Al Green at the TGS "Farewell Staff!" karaoke party – in symbolic terms, the equivalent of a Connecticut Muffin opening where your favorite Lower East Side dive bar used be. But then The Voice drops down into that New Wave vampire croon, the razor-boy guitars start nosing their way to the front of the dink-bomb mix, the bass gets all subterranean leery and you start to wonder if maybe that that old black leather jacket magic might find a way to come creeping back to life, or even just life support. We'll have to wait and see.

“Everyday People”

"Everyday People" managed to trailblaze in two different ways -- it was one of the first pop hits to deal with the subject of racial harmony, and it utilized Larry Graham's "slap" technique on the bass guitar, which would soon be copied by countless other bassists. Graham once said about his pulsating style, "I'd never done that before … that's where the freedom of creativity came in for the band, that we'd be allowed to do that." In 1978, the song's line "Different strokes for different folks" would be borrowed for the title of the hit television show Diff'rent Strokes.