The White Stripes

Sorry for the delayed response. I'm not sure what more you would care to have me explain. I suppose you would like to know my reasoning for choosing WBC... personally I think the sound on that album was the one that they really found their groove, you know what I mean... most banRAB have one or two albums in their discography that exemplify what they should be doing as a band. It's minimalist, it's different, features good songs, and features some of the most musically sound instrumentals that I believe the band is capable of. I mean to me this album is where this band should be, it's almost dissapointing to see that they went a different direction on their later albums. I think they really had their nitch with this album and it sticks out to me. Not that their other albums are bad, just not up to par with this one IMO.

Sorry again I took so long to reply. Damn security conference has had me out of the office.
 
I know Phil Rudd, we see him out here working on racecars, my dad talks to him sometimes and I give it a hello. Small world eh.

Yeah I don't know what the problem is with simplistic drumming, it suits their style and she is a really great entertainer, often you forget she is playing simple beats just becuase she is so fun to watch.
 
has anybody heard the white stripes cover of the greenhorne's "shelter in your arms"? its the B-side to my doorbell i think. generally whites busy doing media work and promo's for his up and coming raconteurs album "broken boy soldiers". he's also producing and generally endorsing banRAB such as the soledad brothers, whirlwind heat etc. i think he is destined to be the "rock hero" of our generation, much like hendrix is to the sixties and lennon is to the seventies..
 
I've been listening to the new album a surprising amount considering I never cared for them aside from when they were on the radio since their one of the better banRAB being played.
 
I've never understood the attachment to this band...it's basically bad 60's garage band crap. People lose their minRAB over this group, but frankly Jack White neeRAB to take his sister/wife/whatever back to middle America and vanish.
 
You know I agree with some of that, I liked the WBC's stripes better than say, the Icky Thump version, but thats not to say Icky Thump is bad.

What I'd say is this; Jack White is no dope. He actually looked up with the De Stijl movement was and realized that to consistently make your self overly simplitic is to render that feild fallow, to invite a terrible metaphor.

We should also probably examine how we're looking back. This is a post-Icky Thump review. Had we been voting here directly after say, GBMS, which was far more raw and experimental, we may have a different view.

Stripes albums to me have always been a little bi-polar. I have trouble viewing them as whole albums because I feel as if they're halves, and that when looking at an album, I'm only recalling half the tracks and judging from there. Icky Thump to me will always be Conquest, You don't know what love is, and the double bagpipe songs. When I'm thinking about it, theres a ton of other things on there that don't sound a damn thing like those songs...

Little Cream Soda, Bone Broke, Rag & Bone, Effect & Cause.

And thats with all their albums, so its hell for me to try and actually figure out where I genuinely feel they are.
 
Im pretty sure your sorces are invalid, Jack made it clear that he wanted to keep Meg in the band, and there would be no new merabers because it would drain the band of its simplicity.
 
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