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    Posted: November 22 2006 at 12:05
Appearently there's been a lot of previous controversy on this band. What do you really think about this band? Do you hate their guts and want them to die? Do you respect their music and/or originality?
 
I personally think this band is very good, an escape from the OTHER popular music of the day, in fact, their one of my favorite bands of today.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 22 2006 at 12:27
Love their drum machine.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 22 2006 at 12:38
Oh, crap. If bad consists only of two instruments, how can it be good. Unless they are outstanding technicians.

If the band members are only able to play chak-poom chak-poom, they MUST be boring.

The only chance that two-members band could be possibly good is if the songwriters are one of those rare talented people capable to write simple but good songs.

Even in that case, their crativity will be exhausted in a matter of 3 albums or less.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 22 2006 at 12:59
Prefer the two man Black Keys, but even their 4th album, just released, is sounding a bit samey.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 22 2006 at 14:32
This is the band that pretty much got me in to music. I'll listen to them forever Thumbs Up
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 22 2006 at 14:48
Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

Oh, crap. If bad consists only of two instruments, how can it be good. Unless they are outstanding technicians.

If the band members are only able to play chak-poom chak-poom, they MUST be boring.

The only chance that two-members band could be possibly good is if the songwriters are one of those rare talented people capable to write simple but good songs.

Even in that case, their crativity will be exhausted in a matter of 3 albums or less.


We can only come to the simple conclusion that you have never heard The White Stripes.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 22 2006 at 18:26

They're a pretty amazing band. I dig them.

 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 22 2006 at 21:28
They're probably my favorite guilty pleasure.
 
And Get Behind Me Satan is actually their most intriguing album.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2006 at 00:26
i liked the experimental stuff done when Timbo & The Neptunes collaborated & produced for them. EG: White Spaceship :)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2006 at 11:34
Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

Oh, crap. If bad consists only of two instruments, how can it be good. Unless they are outstanding technicians.

If the band members are only able to play chak-poom chak-poom, they MUST be boring.

The only chance that two-members band could be possibly good is if the songwriters are one of those rare talented people capable to write simple but good songs.

Even in that case, their crativity will be exhausted in a matter of 3 albums or less.
The inference I' making is that you hate them, yet never even heard them and are bashing them.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2006 at 13:31
If you dig the White Stripes, check out the Black Keys.  I think they're a lot better.  They have a similar simple rock sound, but with a lot more heavy blues influence.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2006 at 14:39
oh, and another one I just remembered.... Death from Above 1979 is another good White Stripes alternative.  They're mostly just bass guitar and drums, but they're pretty innovative and their songs are catchy.  Check out "You're a Woman, I'm a Machine".  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2006 at 23:38
I find them somewhat annoying.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 26 2006 at 03:03
The STRIPES were the most important band in modern rock. Only the good die young.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 26 2006 at 05:22
I used to hate the White Stripes, but I appeciate them for what they are now. Some of the tracks are great, but I agree with the poster who said they'd run out of creativity quickly. I don't think that has happened yet, but I can see it coming.

The thing I don't like about the Stripes isn't their music; it's the effect that music has had on other bands. If you can do the garage thing well, fine. But too many bands are copying the formula. One of the worst offenders is Spiritualized, which released its worst (in my opinion) album, "Amazing Grace," while trying to be more "stripped-down."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 26 2006 at 10:29
I've heard the song Blue Orchid by them, but nothing more than that. I like it a lot though, and I might check them out some time.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2006 at 09:34
Originally posted by Logos Logos wrote:

Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

Oh, crap. If bad consists only of two instruments, how can it be good. Unless they are outstanding technicians.

If the band members are only able to play chak-poom chak-poom, they MUST be boring.

The only chance that two-members band could be possibly good is if the songwriters are one of those rare talented people capable to write simple but good songs.

Even in that case, their crativity will be exhausted in a matter of 3 albums or less.


We can only come to the simple conclusion that you have never heard The White Stripes.


And I am not intending to, unless you prove me that I should.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2006 at 09:50
The guitar player is somehow talented, but the girl in the drums plays the same crap every single song, its so monotonous it makes me laughLOL. The band is not bad, but not good either IMO
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2006 at 16:36
Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

Originally posted by Logos Logos wrote:

Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

Oh, crap. If bad consists only of two instruments, how can it be good. Unless they are outstanding technicians.

If the band members are only able to play chak-poom chak-poom, they MUST be boring.

The only chance that two-members band could be possibly good is if the songwriters are one of those rare talented people capable to write simple but good songs.

Even in that case, their crativity will be exhausted in a matter of 3 albums or less.


We can only come to the simple conclusion that you have never heard The White Stripes.


And I am not intending to, unless you prove me that I should.


Now why would I do that?

Oh, by the way. Making negative comments about a band you've never heard is incredibly stupid.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2006 at 16:52
Originally posted by Logos Logos wrote:



Oh, by the way. Making negative comments about a band you've never heard is incredibly stupid.


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