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View Poll Results: What is your favorite of The White Stripes' CDs? | |||
The White Stripes. | 13 | 10.66% | |
De Stijl | 9 | 7.38% | |
White Blood Cells | 38 | 31.15% | |
Elephant | 41 | 33.61% | |
Get Behind Me Satan | 8 | 6.56% | |
Icky Thump | 13 | 10.66% | |
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05-02-2009, 10:46 AM | #501 (permalink) |
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It's my favourite because i think it strikes the best balance between variance in music and brilliant rock tunes (the singles taken off it are the best out of all the albums i'd say). I also think Jack White is at his most romantic here, there's a strong love concept throughout the album and songs like Dead Leaves and I Can't Wait are some of his most heartfelt.
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05-02-2009, 02:51 PM | #502 (permalink) |
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Well, the first albums I got from them were White Blood Cells and Elephant. I could never understand why Elephant was the highest regarded of the two. Every track on WBC is brilliant; so raw and stripped down Jack's guitar, and (no matter what people say) Meg's drumming, is perfect. It's interesting, other drummers in the garage rock revival play the same style, yet only Meg gets the ****. People just get scared if the drummer doesn't have a ****. Anyway, I must've listened through WBC 20 timies, pure awesomeness.
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05-02-2009, 02:58 PM | #503 (permalink) |
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That sounds more realistic.
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05-06-2009, 10:39 AM | #504 (permalink) |
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White Stripes are awesome, love the music and one of the first bands 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"
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05-08-2009, 01:27 PM | #505 (permalink) | |
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05-11-2009, 08:45 AM | #506 (permalink) | |
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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.
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06-25-2009, 08:37 AM | #508 (permalink) | |
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GBMS had some of the more enduring songs in the cataloge, no? Doorbell, Denial Twist?
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07-10-2009, 01:19 AM | #509 (permalink) |
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Best White Stripes Album?
What is the best White Stripes album in your opinion?
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07-10-2009, 11:31 AM | #510 (permalink) |
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White Blood Cells for me. But I'm quite burned out on them.
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