What? Are you talking to me or r-t?

to anyone who will listen lol

Of course not. :)

And thank God, or it would mean these boards were populated by the endless droids that listen to the dross that passes for music that saturate the charts.
cody's comment was, I think, directed at the seemingly majority of people that enjoy bubble gum for the ears.

i'm yet to hear a bad album, get behind me satan was really cool.

I never said it was bad

Just not to my tastes.

i didnt say that you thought it was bad, im just adding to what you said, and replying to the people who said it was a lesser album

I don't understand all the hype surrounding the white stripes. I understand they mixed blues and other forms of root music with rock (now thats original) and made it catchy but so what? It seems like with every new stripes album critics jump all over them and go on about it being the greatest rock record of the year and the greatest album of their career. From the NME to SPIN to every amazon review/forum it seems like everyone loved this record and thought it was so great and blah blah blah. To me it just sounded like a standard White Stripes album. They mixed hard rock blues, country and other things, not too adventurous or original.. I don't hate this or love this, like every other Stripes album I'm pretty indifferent towards it, but all the people who hype them death bug me because they're really not all that.

I've expressed my views on this album before, but to expand on the current discussion: I think the best that can be said of this album is that it's very competent. I can listen to it as a whole and enjoy it, in spite of the lack of sonic cohesion. But a masterpiece it is not. And I do find it, to say the least, weird, that any reviewer could have taken it as such.

With that said, to be fair, the overwhelming response seemed to be that it was a sorta 4 star deal. Though personally I think 3.5 is more accurate.

This album, to me, is just another White Stripes album. Everything good about it can be said about their other records, and the places they try to do something new (like the bagpipe tracks) get on my nerves.

It's really quite different to previous Stripes' albums in its range and diversity.