The White Stripes
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Topic: The White Stripes
Posted By: Zepology101
Subject: The White Stripes
Date Posted: November 22 2006 at 12:05
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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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Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: November 22 2006 at 12:27
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Love their drum machine. ------------- sig |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: November 22 2006 at 12:38
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: November 22 2006 at 12:59
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Prefer the two man Black Keys, but even their 4th album, just released, is sounding a bit samey. ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date 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  -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: November 22 2006 at 14:48
We can only come to the simple conclusion that you have never heard The White Stripes. |
clarke2001 wrote:Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: November 22 2006 at 18:26
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They're a pretty amazing band. I dig them. -------------  
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: November 22 2006 at 21:28
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They're probably my favorite guilty pleasure.
And Get Behind Me Satan is actually their most intriguing album.
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Posted By: aijuswanaseing
Date Posted: November 23 2006 at 00:26
| i liked the experimental stuff done when Timbo & The Neptunes collaborated & produced for them. EG: White Spaceship :) |
Posted By: Zepology101
Date Posted: November 25 2006 at 11:34
The inference I' making is that you hate them, yet never even heard them and are bashing them. -------------
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Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: November 25 2006 at 13:31
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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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Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: November 25 2006 at 14:39
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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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Posted By: Ghandi 2
Date Posted: November 25 2006 at 23:38
| I find them somewhat annoying. |
Posted By: Witchwoodhermit
Date Posted: November 26 2006 at 03:03
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The STRIPES were the most important band in modern rock. Only the good die young. ------------- Here I'm shadowed by a dragon fig tree's fan ringed by ants and musing over man. |
Posted By: oregonbri
Date Posted: November 26 2006 at 05:22
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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." |
Posted By: Philéas
Date 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. |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: November 29 2006 at 09:34
And I am not intending to, unless you prove me that I should. ------------- |
Posted By: martinn
Date 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 laugh . The band is not bad, but not good either IMO
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Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: November 29 2006 at 16:36
Now why would I do that? Oh, by the way. Making negative comments about a band you've never heard is incredibly stupid. |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: November 29 2006 at 16:52
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Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: November 29 2006 at 16:54
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I like them quite a bit. Jack is very inventive, and does a good blues as well. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: November 29 2006 at 18:47
I agree. But, my comment was about band's line-up in general, and how possibly guitar/drum duet could make good music. I covered all possible parameters, and still I think my argument is valid. I haven't been digging deeply into their discography, but I actually heard a few of WS' tunes. I used to work in a huge record store and they were played on and on and on... Not bad overall, but not so terribly good either. Two basic rock tunes with bluesy-popish riffs, and one with a piano. If you think they are good, fine, but my comment on their period of creativity will prove itself with time. ------------- |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: November 30 2006 at 05:26
The duo Black Keys always surprises me by sounding like a 3 or 4 piece, but there are so many effect available to fill-out the bands' sound. Having said that, the trio Groundhogs back in the early 70's (time of the classic Split) were using octave-splitters to do that very same thing. But as to prejudice against two piece blues bands - the whole history of blues has included masterful two man or women bands, e.g. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee. ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: Wutu Banale
Date Posted: December 02 2006 at 18:43
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I don't like this band at all. End of story. ------------- Käsittämättömän käsittämätöntä Suurta ja arvostettavaa. |
Posted By: Falling Flower
Date Posted: December 02 2006 at 18:50
I like them, I saw them life 3 years ago on a festival when they weren't very known here yet. Sadly I only could watch them 5 minutes because I fainted. I enjoy hearing their music, I wouldn't buy a cd of them, but they're worthy to download. ------------- 
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: December 02 2006 at 18:51
How did you faint? |
Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: December 02 2006 at 18:51
| I think I just like the seven nation army song. I prefer Black Keys to these guys though. |
Posted By: Falling Flower
Date Posted: December 02 2006 at 18:54
I got agorafobia. -------------
Tool makes the butterflies in my tumybox go woooooooosh |
Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: December 02 2006 at 18:55
Uh, what is agorafobia? |
Posted By: Falling Flower
Date Posted: December 02 2006 at 19:15
I ment agoraphobia, sorry.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agoraphobia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agoraphobia -------------
Tool makes the butterflies in my tumybox go woooooooosh |
Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: December 02 2006 at 19:17
Could you explain it better? |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 02 2006 at 19:25
| Don't mean to speak for FF, but essentially agoraphobia involves a fear of being in public. Or a fear of soft, fluffy sweaters, not sure which. |
Posted By: Falling Flower
Date Posted: December 02 2006 at 19:27
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Well, this isn't a thread about agoraphobia, so I'll talk about it in the Velvet Room. -------------
Tool makes the butterflies in my tumybox go woooooooosh |
(sorry for getting this off topicPosted By: Rosescar
Date Posted: December 03 2006 at 15:53
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Don't like them too much, haven't heard a lot though.
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Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: December 03 2006 at 17:44
| I like them. Inventive despite the simplicity. Good, but not as good as most critics say they are. |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: December 03 2006 at 19:35
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Great music, love them live
some nice footage:
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: December 04 2006 at 21:03
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Never understood the big deal about these guys. The music in monotonous and boring...as well are the vocals. If they vanished off the face of the earth, then I wouldn't be the least bit upset.
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Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: December 04 2006 at 21:58
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pretty awful band...ehm, "band" -------------  "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: Howe Protege
Date Posted: December 06 2006 at 23:40
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I've got to say as far as two man(or woman) teams go, Death From Above 1979 are much better than The White Stripes. ------------- My favorite pasty faced British pal. 
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