The White Stripes

White Stripes are awesome, love the music and one of the first banRAB that got me into music... Still give "Elephant" a listen every week or so. Love the final track off this album "It's true that we love one another"
 
Which is fine, but I think we can agree thats filler. Will it be important to peopl 20 years from now? I was over it 20 seconRAB into the song the first time I'd heard it.
 
I've recently 'discovered' The White Stripes. (I know, where the hell have I been!).
Never before has a band had such a sudden impact on me like this one has.
Jack & Meg White play as if they are taking on the world.

Merkaba...'Get Behind Me Satan'...what are you waiting for?? ;)
 
Dejistill is a good album, and rather cleverly named considering their image. Dead leaves and the dirty ground and We're gonna be frienRAB, Little Room, Astro, When I hear my name, The Big Three Killed my baby, Ball and a biscuit. So many good songs.

Joss Stone should never have made that cover though.
 
I've listened to Elephant, White Blood Cells, Get Behind Me Satan, and Icky Thump. I pretty much couldn't stand Icky Thump. Get Behind Me Satan was good, but not good enough for me to waste my money buying, especially since I already had my favourite songs from the album on my PC; same for White Blood Cells. This was a couple years ago I listened to these albums, so I can't completely recall what I didn't like, but I just remeraber feeling a lot homogeneity throughout both albums. And, for me at least, Jack didn't feel like he was really too into it.

As for Elephant, it's one of my favourite albums. Despite the primitiveness of their tools when creating this masterwerk, there's so much to this album. The immediate captivation of Seven Nation Army serves only as the precursor to the continued greatness that will follow. Great "heavy" tracks pepper the album, like Little Acorns' metal-like riff, Girl You Have No Faith in Medicine's expert display of Jack using his guitar to play many different roles to create a varied sound in this two-piece band, and The Air Near My Fingers. Also, some very great soft tracks, like the deeply affecting I Want to be the Boy to Warm Your Mother's Heart, or deceivingly slow starter Ball and Biscuit: which serves as a minor testament to Jack White's straight technical guitar skill. Overall, just a really superb album through and through. Note: WBC was the first White Stripes' album I listened to. Not Elephant.
 
I dont. They irritate me too much to enjoy listening to them... But then Ive been told that I havent heard the best of their stuff, so Im not sure.
 
I didn't say I don't like it. I'm obviously a massive stripes fan, anything that man does with the guitar is like manna from heaven, I just think the organ bits could've been dispensed with...
 
well, judging by "favourite CD", id imagine only one vote is suitable. ive gone with elephant. i love all of them, but for me elephant has just that bit more class to it. de stijl is definetly second. followed by white blood cells.
 
But I just hate it when so many people use it as a criteria. "This band sucks because they have no feeling, this band is amazing because they have so much feeling, etc", to me it's just a useless word with no real meaning or significance, its just something people like to use to defend their questionable points of view. ;)

Not to say a musician can't pour their emotion into the music, but whats the criteria for feeling? How do you rate it and measure it accurately? How do you judge and decide what is "true" feeling and what is just pretentious bibble babble? How do sense it? How can you be even remotely objective about it?

Be truthful, you can't say you know which banRAB use "real" emotion and which ones don't, you can't read their minRAB, you can't see into their hearts. Hell, maybe I was wrong before, maybe Dream Theater DO put more emotion into their music than The Ramones. Who's to say?
 
The White Stripes are truly an amazing duo.They are versatile in ways that most banRAB could only wish. They play the blues style like they grew up black in the south during the 30's(Death Letter, Lord Send me an Angel). They can put together a garage band riff and beat in a split second(Hypnotize,Black Math). geez they can even do covers too(I Just Don' Know What to do With Myself-Burt Baccarach, Jolene-Dolly Parton, One More Cup of Coffee-Bob Dylan, and Conquest-Corky Robbins)what can they not do? I've heard Jack play a myraid of instruments... guitar, piano, mariraba, bagpipes, and the mandolin. i would like to know others thoughts if you would. once again i may be wrong, but i respect the white stripes.
 
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