What's this all about? I have to admit, I was a HUGE fan of De Stijl and I really liked White Blood Cells, and I was anticipating their next release. Amazon says Maximum was released this December, but availability is 5-7 days, nobody's reviewed it, there's no picture, and the sales rank is only 4,209. What's the dealy-yo, yo?
This (http://www.rathergood.com/punk_kittens/) is the extent of my knowledge of White Stripes. (http://www.rathergood.com/punk_kittens/)
spooooooooon guaaaaarrrddd
edit: what's with bbcode not accepting strikethrough. strikethrough is a must have
Well, I don't see it here (http://xixax.com/phpBB2/faq.php?mode=bbcode), so I think you're out of luck. Ugh, and that was, like, your signature! Ugh.
Usually CDs titled Maximum are just interview CDs with the band with a booklet with pictures. Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead and other larger group have Maximum CDs out.
Quote from: JeremyBlackmanWell, I don't see it here (http://xixax.com/phpBB2/faq.php?mode=bbcode), so I think you're out of luck. Ugh, and that was, like, your signature! Ugh.
Try it with HTML. I think it'll work now.
Speaking of The White Stripes...there's so many good bands comong out of Detroit, I've just started getting into The Dirtbombs and Detroit Cobras. They both sound like older bands of the sixtys maybe, but modernized into a blend of punk n soul flavor... but basically its all kick ass rock n roll....... The Soledad Brothers and Von Bondies kick ass too. (to name a few). Also Jack White is producing a band called Whirlwind Heat...I believe he called them the new Devo...havent heared anything from them yet.
White Stripes are coming out with an album this spring, I believe. It is called White Elephant (or maybe just Elephant). Meg sings on one of the songs too.
i'd like to take this opportunity to say that i feel the song "Fell in Love with a Girl" sucks lollies.
thank you.
Quote from: SHAFTRWhite Stripes are coming out with an album this spring, I believe. It is called White Elephant (or maybe just Elephant). Meg sings on one of the songs too.
That entire album is now on the internet after it has leaked. And it's gonna be called just "Elephant" and will have six different covers for the album for different areas of the world.
What's with the hype? I saw The White Stripes live once and they were close to terrible!
Over-fucking-rated.
love the white stripes.
we used to play them all the time on my college radio station, but not anymore since they were on mtv (we are huge snobs, quintessential college radio) so technically I guess i'm not supposed to like them anymore.
I dig the new song, 7 nation army.
I love the White Stripes so much man, the energy just leaps out at you, and not in a brainless way. Simple but not brainless.
I fucking love The White Stripes. I have all their albums and love each one...Elephant is amazing. Jack White is a genius. And I think I'm in love Meg. I have to see them live one day.
Quote from: TenseAndSoberI fucking love The White Stripes. I have all their albums and love each one...Elephant is amazing. Jack White is a genius. And I think I'm in love Meg. I have to see them live one day.
I don't think they're anything
genius but it's some fresh groovy diggable music. Elephant is great, it really is.
Meg will be my wife. Will be my wife. Will be my wife. Will be my....oh, wait, isn't she married or something? lol
No, but she was married to Jack at one time
Quote from: tremoloslothNo, but she was married to Jack at one time
:shock: gossiping gossiping!
That isn't exactly a secret, it's just that Jack and Meg have never confirmed it and probably never will (despite the marriage license being found)
i think they're brother and sister
Quote from: Tiffi think they're brother and sister
Quote from: tremoloslothThat isn't exactly a secret, it's just that Jack and Meg have never confirmed it and probably never will (despite the marriage license being found)
my friends got backstage passes to a white stripes show and went back to tell the two that it was great and all that crap after the show was done. These guys dress like (i'm reluctant to say it but) "punks" and Jack just looks at them and goes "get your fucking lame wannabe punk asses out of here. why the fuck are you here assholes." he calls the security guard and tells the guard to kick these guys out and beat the shit out of them. the guard comes over and is just like, whatever, leave them alone and my friend asks if he could have one of the bottles of coke that's just lying around. the guard is like, yeah, but jack sees this and continues his screaming, "put down the fucking coke asshole and get out! i thought i told you to beat the shit out of these assholes!" etc.
what a dick, right?
The Dirtbombs PWN! Mick Collins is God!
Quote from: Pedro the WombatQuote from: Tiffi think they're brother and sister
Quote from: tremoloslothThat isn't exactly a secret, it's just that Jack and Meg have never confirmed it and probably never will (despite the marriage license being found)
they look exactly alike.
i'm pretty sure they came clean about being brother/sister.
brother and sister = no
once married = yes
that's probably why they won't admit they're brother and sister...if ya get my drift :?
Maybe we were both wrong about the sister/ex-wife thing...
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I'm sure you've all heard by now about Jack's car accident that led to his broken finger. And the most important thing is that Jack heals properly. But he's also out of action for 6-8 weeks which means that several tour dates have been postponed until Fall including the July 29 Nashville show that I have tickets to. What can I say, shit happens. Anyone else have their show postponed?
Quote from: European SonI'm sure you've all heard by now about Jack's car accident that led to his broken finger. And the most important thing is that Jack heals properly. But he's also out of action for 6-8 weeks which means that several tour dates have been postponed until Fall including the July 29 Nashville show that I have tickets to. What can I say, shit happens. Anyone else have their show postponed?
That means my August 8th show is affected. Damn...
NEW YORK, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The White Stripes vocalist and guitarist
Jack White has injured his hand in a car accident, which took place in Detroit
at 1 pm on Wednesday the 9th of July. White suffered a compound fracture to
his left index finger.
All White Stripes shows through August 10th have been postponed. Dates
affected include: 7/19 -- Providence, 7/20 -- Boston, 7/21- 7/23 -- New York,
7/25 -- Philadelphia, 7/26 -- Washington DC, 7/27 -- Norfolk, 8/29 --
Nashville, 7/30 -- Indianapolis, 8/1 -- Pittsburgh, 8/2 -- Cincinnati,
8/3 -- Columbus, 8/4 -- Cleveland, 8/5 -- Toronto, 8/6 -- Montreal,
8/9 -- Milwaukee, and 8/10 -- Detroit. Every effort if being made to
reschedule these shows as soon as possible.
The White Stripes deeply value the relationship they have with their fans
and regret any inconvenience caused by these current events and are thankful
for their patience and understanding.
SOURCE V2 Records
that's actually really good for me. my friend had tickets and i would be out of town when they were playing. now i can get the tickets if they have a rain date, but my friend will be at school... too bad for him...
http://www.whitestripes.com/finger.html
You can see video of the finger operation he had to have
Bah, the Nashville show has been flat out cancelled. No rescheduling. What a tease.
Watch the video for Hardest Button to Button:
http://www.whitestripes.com/hardestbutton.html
How would you have like to be a PA on this? Great video.
Yeah that's damn cool, and how about the video for I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself (directed by Sofia Coppola)
that one was sweet
I saw them in concert, they are truly beautiful. I mean, Meg may not be the best drummer, but I love her anyway. She has style, she has grace, and Jack White is just soooo talented. (I saw them when they were in Detroit)
I'm seeing them in concert on Nov 13, rescheduled from their Aug show. Should be great as I'll be front row. :-D
Quote from: CinephileI'm seeing them in concert on Nov 13, rescheduled from their Aug show. Should be great as I'll be front row. :-D
Front row? What the fuck is this shit, seats? Seats?!
Quote from: RaikusWatch the video for Hardest Button to Button:
http://www.whitestripes.com/hardestbutton.html
How would you have like to be a PA on this? Great video.
That is one bad ass vid.
Quote from: tremoloslothQuote from: CinephileI'm seeing them in concert on Nov 13, rescheduled from their Aug show. Should be great as I'll be front row. :-D
Front row? What the fuck is this shit, seats? Seats?!
I mean that its general admission so I'll be there several, several hours in advance to get right up close instead of being hundreds of people back on the floor.
JACK WHITE TO QUIT MUSIC?
Rocker JACK WHITE is so smitten with making movies, he's considering giving up his musical career for Hollywood stardom.
The Detroit guitarist has won critics over with his performance in COLD MOUNTAIN, while director ANTHONY MINGHELLA called him a "tremendous talent". But his success in the JUDE LAW/NICOLE KIDMAN film may have put his acclaimed band THE WHITE STRIPES in jeopardy.
One friend says, "He loved working on the film and he won a lot of praise for it.
"Now it looks like he's looking into going to auditions, which means the band could be under threat."
that's the worst news i've heard in a long time. there's no way he's more talented as an actor than a musician. what a sell out.
And if acting doesn't work out he can always pursue boxing:
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Police investigating clash between Jack White, another singer
Monday, December 15, 2003
BY BEN SCHMITT
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Wayne County Prosecutors and Detroit Police are investigating a brawl over the weekend involving White Stripes lead singer Jack White and the singer of another local band.
White, 28, of Detroit, allegedly punched Von Bondies lead singer Jason Stollsteimer seven times in the face, according to a police report. The fight broke out at 11:50 p.m. at the Majestic Theatre Center on Woodward.
Two officers from the 13th (Woodward) Precinct responded to the scene and found a bloodied Stollsteimer, who gave them a statement, before he was treated and released from Detroit Receiving Hospital.
Police reported that Stollsteimer's right eye was bruised and swollen and that he was bleeding from his nose.
White alse gave police a statement after walking into the 7th (Mack) Precinct at 12:30 a.m. Sunday. In that report, he said he struck Stollsteimer, 25, in self defense.
White told police he wanted to prosecute.
Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Marcus Connor said his office is still waiting for police to finish their investigation.
``We will review this matter and make a determination as to whether any charges will be issued,'' he said Monday. ``The prosecutor's office is also awaiting paperwork from the 13th Precinct regarding these cross complaints.''
Stollsteimer's manager, Rick Canny, said of the incident, ``this was not a fight, this was an attack.''
White's Spokeswoman Alison Zero declined to comment on the matter Monday.
Connor said police have already taken statements from Stollsteimer, a Detroiter, and his wife.
He had it coming!!
jack's crazy. i saw him at irving sometime last month and he was screaming at the audience members who were crowd surfing and calling them "stupid fraternity fucks!" it was great. meg got up and sang in the cold cold night while her tight tight pants rode up her veej and her hair was all tussled up like she'd just had wild sex beforehand. meg rocks.
i was inspired to replace my stolen copy of elephant the next day and got it on VINYL. it's awesome. one record is clear red, the other is white.
if jack quits music i'll kill him in his sleep.
Wait, seven punches and all the guy had was a bruised eye and bloody nose?
White Stripes Singer Charged With Assault
DETROIT - White Stripes lead singer Jack White was charged Monday with aggravated assault after a fight with the lead singer of another band.
White went to a police precinct early Sunday morning and gave a statement saying he struck Von Bondies lead singer Jason Stollsteimer in self defense.
The Dec. 13 fight between White and Stollsteimer began shortly before midnight at the Majestic Theatre Center, where both men were in the audience for another concert.
Stollsteimer, 25, told police that White had punched him seven times in the face. Police said Stollsteimer's right eye was bruised and swollen and he was bleeding from his nose. He was taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital, where he was treated and released.
White, 28, faces anywhere from no jail time to a maximum of one year in prison if convicted.
Wayne County Prosecutor Mike Duggan said Monday that the two had an ongoing disagreement that began after Stollsteimer criticized White's role in producing the Von Bondies' first album.
"It seems that far too often celebrities think that the law does not apply to them," Duggan said at a Monday news conference.
I hope they give him the chair. I hate the White Stripes soooooo much. He should have the shit beat out of him.
Quote from: taz.her tight tight pants rode up her veej.
doncha just love it when hot chicks' pants do this?!!!
nothing like a friendly camel-toe saying hello to make your day...
Quote from: SoNowThenQuote from: taz.her tight tight pants rode up her veej.
doncha just love it when hot chicks' pants do this?!!!
nothing like a friendly camel-toe saying hello to make your day...
The only other time I've ever heard the expression "camel toe" is when Jerri Blank said it on
Strangers with Candy.
Oh, I like The White Stripes. I'm going to see
Cold Mountain tonight, and much as I love Kidman and find Law extra-easy on the eyes, what I'm really fascinated to see is Jack White.
Quote from: godardianThe only other time I've ever heard the expression "camel toe" is when Jerri Blank said it on Strangers with Candy..
u need to get out more.
Quote from: PQuote from: godardianThe only other time I've ever heard the expression "camel toe" is when Jerri Blank said it on Strangers with Candy..
u need to get out more.
I know... my life is simply anemic without knowing the latest vaginal slang, end of story.
it's been around for years. there's even a song about it. several in fact.
it's a common expression.
Quote from: Pit's been around for years. there's even a song about it. several in fact.
it's a common expression.
I thought I was common... I guess I was wrong! Take
that, commoners!
Come to think of it, I believe I vaguely remember that song... some trashy fifth-rate Salt-N-Pepa ripoff group of girls, wasn't it?
*(tears well up as mod realizes he spent 14 years of his life writing that very song for the some trashy fifth-rate Salt-N-Pepa ripoff group of girls group to sing>)
Amazing how a thread can go from capital punishment to vaginal wedgies in one post.
Quote from: MacGuffinAmazing how a thread can go from capital punishment to vaginal wedgies in one post.
only at xixax.
White Stripes Lead Singer Pleads Innocent
DETROIT - White Stripes lead singer Jack White, who's accused of repeatedly punching the lead singer of another band in the face, pleaded innocent Wednesday to a misdemeanor aggravated assault charge.
White was ordered to stand trial on March 9.
The Dec. 13 fight between White and Von Bondies lead singer Jason Stollsteimer began shortly before midnight at the Majestic Theater Center, where both men were in the audience for another concert.
Stollsteimer, 25, of Detroit, told police that White punched him seven times in the face. Police said Stollsteimer's right eye was bruised and swollen, and he was bleeding from his nose.
White, also of Detroit, went to the police after the fight and gave a statement saying he struck Stollsteimer in self-defense.
White's attorney, Wally Piszczatowski, said he was satisfied with the hearing. "The court allowed Jack to travel for business purposes, obviously recognizing he is not a flight risk, or a danger to the community in any way," he said.
White faces punishment ranging from no jail time to a maximum of a year in prison and a $1,000 fine if convicted.
Ohhhhhhh man, send him to jail! I love him and all, but think about the music he'll make when he gets out
White Stripes Lead Singer Pleads Guilty
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DETROIT - White Stripes lead singer Jack White pleaded guilty to assault and battery Tuesday for a fight with the lead singer of another band.
White was accused of repeatedly punching Von Bondies lead singer Jason Stollsteimer and originally was charged with misdemeanor aggravated assault. He could have faced up to a year in jail, but will avoid jail time under the plea deal.
White must pay a $500 fine, plus $250 in court fees, and Judge Paula G. Humphries ordered him to attend anger management classes. She also told him not to contact Stollsteimer.
The Dec. 13 fight between White and Stollsteimer began shortly before midnight at the Majestic Theater Center, where both men were in the audience for another concert.
Stollsteimer, of Detroit, told police that White punched him seven times in the face. Police said Stollsteimer's right eye was bruised and swollen, and he was bleeding from his nose. He was taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital, where he was treated and released.
White, of Detroit, went to police after the fight and gave a statement saying he struck Stollsteimer in self-defense.
In court Tuesday, White gave his account of what led to the fight. He said he hadn't seen Stollsteimer in a long time but had heard that he had made some allegations against him in the press and to mutual acquaintances.
"I went up to ask him to say it to me face to face," White said.
He said Stollsteimer ignored him so White spit at him and they started fighting. He said Stollsteimer landed on his hand, which he had recently injured in a car accident. White said he then punched Stollsteimer in the face a couple of times.
Outside the courtroom, White told reporters he regretted the incident.
White's lawyer, Walter Piszczatowski, said White had put the incident behind him.
Prosecutors said earlier the two men had a long-standing disagreement over White's role in producing the Von Bondies' first album.
He looks like a middle aged woman on that picture
Quote from: Pas RapportHe looks like a middle aged woman on that picture
his lawyer is a blurry looking fella.
Quote from: mogwaiQuote from: Pas RapportHe looks like a middle aged woman on that picture
his lawyer is a blurry looking fella.
I know ! He looks like that woman who plays with John Travolta in that movie where babies and dogs think loudly. Kirstie Alley or something like that. That's not even true.
Quote from: Pas RapportHe looks like a middle aged woman on that picture
Creepily enough, he looks like my mother
STRIPES ALBUM FINISHED
Source: NME
WHITE STRIPES have finished recording their new album inside two weeks – and it could be released in time for GLASTONBURY.
The duo have been at Jack White’s Detroit home working on songs for the follow-up to ‘Elephant’. Much like the recording of their classic fourth album, which was done in ten days at Toe Rag studios in London, recording of the as-yet-untitled new longplayer came quickly, with the pair recording on average a song a day.
Speaking in the middle of last week, a friend of Jack White’s told NME.COM: “They only started about a week and a half ago and they were aiming to finish the recording on Friday (March 18 ). There’s still things to do though, like mixing and mastering. They’re working at their usual pace, but to finish an album in this time is impressive nonetheless.”
Speaking recently, singer Jack White predicted that although they had a lengthy break after touring ‘Elephant’ around the world, getting the record wrapped up wouldn’t be a problem.
He said: “I’m going home to record and it should be done pretty quick. I've done it [this way] for a long time, in my attic and out of my house, making 45s for bands. When bands would come to town, they'd stay at my house and we'd cut an album.
"I've been doing it for as long as I've been writing, and for as long as I've had bands, I've been recording. I never knew too much about the technical side, I just wanted to get things on tape that were soulful. And that's the same thing with (Loretta Lynn’s ’Van Lear Rose’). It was on 8-track, and we did it in 12 days."
NME.COM understands that the album, like those before it has been recorded on analogue equipment. A spokesperson for the band told NME.COM that the record does not have a confirmed release date. However, it is hoped that the record will be released in time for Glastonbury.
White Stripes Set Release Date for Forthcoming LP
Source: Pitchfork Media
What's it been, like five weeks since we reported that creepily-pale blues exploders Jack and Meg White had just begun recording duties for their fifth studio album? Well, you can reset your egg timer, as according to an email from the band's label, V2 Records, the latest LP from the White Stripes has been given a release date of June 14.
The album, which was produced by singer/guitarist/thespian Jack White, doesn't seem to have an album title or tracklist yet, but their PR company notes that unlike the Stripes' previous release, 2003's Elephant, no guest artists appear on the disc. And considering Jack's recent crossover success with Loretta Lynn's Van Lear Rose, you know our good friend Kenny Rogers is somewhere sulking in his chicken bucket right now.
And what of potential tour dates in support of the album with no name? According to V2, "The band will tour South America and Eastern Europe first, no U.S. tour dates are confirmed." A handful of summer concerts have been committed to as of this writing, however, and include a trio of Mexican shows this May, followed by a set at the 2005 Music Midtown Festival in Atlanta on June 10. Also on the roster for the annual summer fest are Pixies, Lou Reed, Bloc Party, Coheed and Cambria, the Killers, Keane, Louis XIV, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Southern accents:
05-11 Monterrey, Mexico - Fundidora Amphitheatre de Coca Cola
05-13 Guadalajara, Mexico - Foro Alterno
05-14 Mexico City, Mexico - Palacio De Los Deportes
06-10 Atlanta, GA - Music Midtown Festival
they should release them really fast too
White Stripes Get Behind Satan!
Source: Pitchfork Media
Slowly but surely, the White Stripes are letting out the details on their new album. First they told us it was finished, then they told us when it was coming out, then they dropped the name of the first single, and now, finally, we have a title. Are you ready? Here it is: Get Behind Me Satan.
The album will be released on June 6 in the UK and June 7 Stateside. The first single, "Blue Orchid", will be released one week earlier. While some tour dates have already been announced, Jack White has told the LA Times that he and Meg plan to play "events" rather than traditional concerts in initial support of the album. He went on to say, "First we're going to play where we are not well known. Then if we have time, we will play New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Frankly, we are waiting for technology to advance in the United States before we attempt to perform this record live there."
i love me some white stripes, but Jack White is making this album sound like moving pictures. Its a dude with a guitar and a broad on drums, not too technologically advanced. Leak it already, I wanna download it.
Quote from: themodernage02Get Behind Me Satan.
interesting. do u think it's like "get on my team, satan" or "move over lucifer, i'm more ruthless huh" or, like the elephant thing, will i hav to get high to know what this is about..
i thought it was like, 'here i'll protect you from all this other shit out here', so get behind me.
Here, in all its glory, is the tracklist for Get Behind Me Satan:
01 Blue Orchid
02 The Nurse
03 My Doorbell
04 Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)
05 Little Ghost
06 The Denial Twist
07 White Moon
08 Instinct Blues
09 Passive Manipulation
10 Take, Take, Take
11 As Ugly As I Seem
12 Red Rain
13 I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)
new single Blue Orchid leak here: http://automatiksounds.blogspot.com/2005/04/white-stripes-blue-orchid.html
Jack White doing his best Timberlake impression. On first listen this is garbage.
i was thinking more Beck falsetto.
the song is now available for legal download through iTunes.
This is definitly j white, trying to sound like, j timberlake trying to sound like michael j
Which is fucking awesome.
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Quote from: StefenJack White doing his best Timberlake impression. On first listen this is garbage.
This has started to grow on me.
Whatever that means.
Quote from: PubrickQuote from: themodernage02Get Behind Me Satan.
interesting. do u think it's like "get on my team, satan"
Quote from: themodernage02i thought it was like, 'here i'll protect you from all this other shit out here', so get behind me.
looks like we were both right. tho i still like my biggie smalls reference.
has it leaked ?
Quote from: cronopiohas it leaked ?
yep.
Post it mod!! you're our only hope!! sczzazazazaz.
these might go down. its been popping up and closing down like crazy because of the volume of downloads. if it does i'll try to find another one...
part one: http://rapidshare.de/files/1884783/weugh9rJimi.rar.html
part two: http://rapidshare.de/files/1884919/4q3qghDuet2.rar.html
part three: http://rapidshare.de/files/1884933/CaeFer32.rar.html
pass=dub
its from a vinyl rip btw.
Awesome, thank you. How is it?
i just got finished listening to it, and i am not happy.
To me, it sounds like left over stuff from the last two albums. Some highlights are the mostly acoustic "Little Ghost", "The Denial Twist", which could have easily been on White Blood Cells, and the piano ballad album closer "I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)".
the rest of the tracks seem like tracks that were not put on their earlier records for a reason. "Blue Orchid" sounds too much like "Seven Nation Army" to me, "The Nurse" starts off promising, with guitar jabs hinting at something big about to happen, but nothing does.
i'm going to give it another listen, but to me, this is def a step down. and i think jack white is obsessed with shakers and tamborines. almost every song has them
EDIT: "My Doorbell" is growing on me, still not up there with their best though
Is this a for real album? Or are they just messing around? Jack White doesn't even play guitar anymore, he just shakes shit.
yes, my first impression is: CAREER SUICIDE.
Quote from: meatwadTo me, it sounds like left over stuff from the last two albums... "Blue Orchid" sounds too much like "Seven Nation Army" to me...
That's part of their shtick, isn't it? One of the reasons I wasn't thrilled with Elephant was because it sounded too much like White Blood Cells. There's No Home For You Here was basically Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground Part II. A friend of mine who is a big fan said that he read somewhere that they did that on purpose to show connections between songs on the albums or some shit; I personally don't buy it. I think it's kind of lazy.
But I'll listen to any album that someone has labeled as "career suicide."
Quote from: hacksparrow
That's part of their shtick, isn't it? One of the reasons I wasn't thrilled with Elephant was because it sounded too much like White Blood Cells. There's No Home For You Here was basically Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground Part II.
i don't really think
Elephant sounded that much like
White Blood Cells, or enough that it made me mad. I think
Elephant has a lot less filler on it then
White Blood Cells.
and here is a link to the video for "Blue Orchid"
http://stream.qtv.apple.com/qtv/v2music/05232005/orchid_ref.mov
Quote from: meatwad
i don't really think Elephant sounded that much like White Blood Cells, or enough that it made me mad. I think Elephant has a lot less filler on it then White Blood Cells.
Yeah, Elephant had less filler, but its songs didn't hold up to the ones from WBC, in my opinion. Seven Nation Army was good... Cold, Cold Night was ok...
Get Behind Me Satan is absolutely great. Similar to their previous master albums but, if you can imagine it, more tropical. Which is to say, marimbas are used beautifully. And there's one song, 'Red Rain', that I think actually uses a bicycle bell, unless it's just some drumming equpiment that sounds like one. I forsee yet more praise and accolades for The White Stripes.
wow, i guess i feel differently. i'll be curious to hear how everyone else feels then. i think its okay but kind of a step backwards or sideways or just not as damn good as the others. maybe some more listens, but so far i really dont even like it that much and they're like one of my favorite bands. :shock:
Quote from: themodernage02so far i really dont even like it that much and they're like one of my favorite bands. :shock:
Maybe you just expected more or something different than what you got from one of your favorite bands. Mayhaps it'll grow on you.
Quote from: Walrus Esq.Quote from: themodernage02so far i really dont even like it that much and they're like one of my favorite bands. :shock:
Maybe you just expected more or something different than what you got from one of your favorite bands. Mayhaps it'll grow on you.
yeah, that's exactly what he just said.
Quote from: PubrickQuote from: Walrus Esq.Quote from: themodernage02so far i really dont even like it that much and they're like one of my favorite bands. :shock:
Maybe you just expected more or something different than what you got from one of your favorite bands. Mayhaps it'll grow on you.
yeah, that's exactly what he just said.
/sarcasm
the whites have done it again. this album is great! like their fist album, self titled, this one seems pretty shitty on the first spin, but really grows on you after a couple of listens. it doesnt quite have the sweep of white blood cells or elephant... in fact, its probably their weakest effort since their debut album, but its still fucking great. Forever For Her is one of their best songs, ever.
Stop trying to be unique. This album sucks and now you do too. Aside from Lullabies To Paralyze, there has not been any GREAT albums yet this year.
I heard one of the songs a while back, and it didn't make me want to kill myself. So that's a start.
Stefen, I'd say France the Mute was stellar.
I thought so too Jamie, but I have a hard time listening to ftm now. I loved it for a few months but now I just can't listen to it. There is only so much I can take, ya know?
Rocker Jack White, Model Karen Elson Marry
NEW YORK - Clearly, Jack White isn't brokenhearted over the recent marriage of ex-girlfriend Renee Zellweger. The White Stripes singer wed model Karen Elson on Wednesday in a canoe in the Amazon River in Brazil.
Chloe Walsh, a publicist for White, 29, confirmed Thursday that the singer-guitarist married Elson, a 25-year-old who has modeled for Prada and Banana Republic. She is also featured in the band's latest video, "Blue Orchid," a surreal clip which features snakes slithering over Elson.
The marriage and details regarding it were first reported by Us Weekly, though the story was not in its latest issue.
The service was conducted by a Shaman priest on a canoe in the Amazon basin. It was followed by a blessing by a Catholic priest at a cathedral in Manaus, Brazil.
Meg White, the drummer for the White Stripes, a blues-rock duo from Detroit, served as maid of honor. Though she and White have claimed to be siblings, court records have suggested they were married for four years before divorcing in 2000.
Whether it's White's first marriage or not, it is the first for Elson.
White and Zellweger met during the filming of the 2003 movie "Cold Mountain" and dated until late 2004. The actress married country music star Kenny Chesney May 9 in a Caribbean island ceremony.
White won a Grammy earlier this year for best country collaboration with country legend Loretta Lynn. He produced her 2004 album, "Van Lear Rose," which also won for best country album.
White's marriage comes as the White Stripes release their fifth full-length, "Get Behind Me Satan," on Tuesday.
Quote from: Stefen Posts DrunkerStop trying to be unique. This album sucks and now you do too. Aside from Lullabies To Paralyze, there has not been any GREAT albums yet this year.
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Ben Folds - Sons for Silverman
Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Those are just the first that come to mind as GREAT albums that came out this year.
I'm sure people may disagree with me, but this seems like a good year for music.
Little White truths
Inspired and determined, Jack White gets personal, crafting a White Stripes CD so surprising it recalls the Beatles' creative leap on 'Rubber Soul.' Here's how. By Robert Hilburn, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
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The White Stripes' Jack White is ready for a break as he slips behind the wheel of his vintage four-seat Thunderbird and switches on the ignition. White has been working feverishly on a new album, and he is just days away from starting a grueling world tour.
The CD, "Get Behind Me Satan," is a a daring creative advance in which he and drummer Meg White have added layers of imagination and depth to what was an already thrilling sound.
Despite all the gloom surrounding the record industry about the way bottom-line consciousness at major labels is stifling creativity, White shows how a fiercely independent artist can still make music that is both cutting-edge and commercial. The Stripes' last album, 2003's "Elephant," sold 4 million copies worldwide and won an album of the year nomination in the Grammys.
In "Satan," which will be released Tuesday on Third Man/V2 Records, White sets aside his signature blistering guitar lines on most of the tracks. Marimbas dominate one song, grand piano and/or drums highlight others, and he mixes them in dazzlingly original ways.
The subject matter is more personal — anxious, even desperate looks at conflicts between innocence and morality on one side and compromise and betrayal on the other. Even in some of the album's gentlest moments, a guitar suddenly cuts through like a knife through a curtain. "It's probably the most cathartic record I've ever made," White says.
The creative leap in "Satan" is, in its way, reminiscent of the breakthrough the Beatles made in "Rubber Soul," the album that not only introduced more adult themes to the Beatles' compositions (the disarming vulnerability of "In My Life") but also new instrumental textures (mysterious sitar touches in the sophisticated "Norwegian Wood").
For all the assurance of the new album, however, the "Satan" recording sessions left even the normally workaholic White drained.
"It was the first album that was really hard to make," the singer-songwriter says. "It wasn't because we needed inspiration or help creatively. I was writing songs every day, which is unusual for me. I probably have 35 done. The problem was outside things."
The tape machine kept breaking, microphones often went on the blink, water dripped from the ceiling. You can even hear part of Meg's drum kit tumble over at the end of one song. "Torture," White sums it up. "It got to the point where I was almost feeling, 'Let's forget it. I can't take it anymore.' "
Despite the frustrations, the Stripes recorded the album in just over a week in March for under $10,000. (It's not uncommon for major label bands to take months and spend $1 million in the process.)
And White hasn't let up. He's worked nonstop on every detail of the album's launch, including planning a tour that would take the duo to Mexico, Chile, Russia, Poland and Greece before the U.S. leg, which includes Aug. 15-18 dates at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.
That's why a ride in the Thunderbird must seem especially inviting on this rainy afternoon. He wants a couple of double cheeseburgers and onion rings from his favorite bar, about 45 minutes away in Dearborn.
Everything about his car, from the upholstery to the tinny radio, is original — except for the supercharged engine features that make the car's roar as loud as a jet as White pulls into the street.
By the time he hits the freeway, the noise from under the hood makes the car feel as if it's going 120 miles an hour, though the speedometer reads a prudent 65.
The car skids noticeably when he encounters a sudden traffic tie-up on the wet streets.
"Sorry about that," he says, smiling. "I should have told you, this car's got '90s power and '50s brakes. "
The same could be said about Jack White.
A state of readiness
"I've been working all night on the artwork for the album," White, 29, says by way of greeting as he walks down the stairs of his elegant turn-of-the-last-century home.
On stage, he plays guitar and sings with an immediacy that makes him seem dangerously near imploding. And even at home, his mind seems amped up, as if he's about to excuse himself at any minute and race back to his home studio to put his latest thoughts on tape.
The house documents his endless fascinations. The main floor spills over with a crazy quilt of passions and projects — from religious statues (he thought of studying for the priesthood as a teenager) to pinball machines, animal heads on the wall and a drum kit in the hall.
White leads a guest to a back room where the Stripes recorded "Satan." The room is so crowded that White can barely make his way past the guitar cases and microphone cords to show where he did his vocals.
"A formal studio would have killed this record," the 6-foot-2 musician says. "People didn't used to have enough money to do more than one or two takes, so they would put everything into each one.
"That's what created the urgency in so many of those records. It felt like the singer's life was on the line. Now you have millions of dollars of technology to help you in the studio, but it doesn't help at all."
What does help are things like an obsession with a former film star.
White makes his way back to the living room and sits in a chair next to a photo of Rita Hayworth.
"I've been fascinated with her for years," he says. "I used to have a picture of her in my van when I had my upholstery shop. When I was making this record, I had so many images flying through my head, I had to get centered on something. I needed an anchor, and she became it.
"She was a metaphor for everything I could think of. She was a beauty, a love goddess. The red hair, the innocence, the fact she lost all her memory with Alzheimer's. She was a pinup, but I heard she never cared about any of the photos she took."
Hayworth is one of the central characters in "Take, Take, Take," a centerpiece of the new album. It's a playful but telling story set in a seedy bar where a star-struck fan meets the seductive actress. The fan keeps asking more of Hayworth — a better look, an autograph, a photo — declaring each time, "That's all that I needed."
Nothing, of course, is enough for the fan — reflecting both the emptiness of pursuing false values and the way fame can seem like a cage for the one being pursued.
For years, White insisted he was writing about other people. His own life, he said again and again, was too boring.
He can't make that claim now.
There was a childlike innocence to much of the Stripes' music and even their red-and-white peppermint outfits. But the new songs are more complex, more wary, more revealing — as White struggles, sometimes with biblical imagery, over classic matters of integrity, honor and temptation. "I don't need any of your pity," he snarls in one tune. "I've got plenty of my own."
Elsewhere in "Satan," White sings, either in a frenzied falsetto or wounded whisper, about spoiled innocence, in the exotic, guitar-driven "Blue Orchid"; the bruising battlefield of romance, in the achingly beautiful "Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)"; and dangerous options, in the bittersweet "I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)."
In singing about betrayal and rejection, he's not exempting himself from guilt. There are times in the album when he could be alluding to his own misdeeds as easily as someone else's.
New looks come with this new terrain. On the album cover, he, especially, could be a jaded actor from costume dramas of '40s or '50s movies. Tyrone Power meets Hayworth?
"Everything we do, from Meg's hairdo down to my guitar strap, is just an attempt to get you to listen to the story in the songs, even if it takes a while to understand the story," he says.
"You might listen to 'My Doorbell,' for instance, because it's catchy, then six months later something may happen to you where you feel like the character in the song and relate to it in a different way.
"When I started singing it, the song was kind of lighthearted — 'I'm thinking about my doorbell, when you gonna ring it, when you gonna ring it?' — but then it became something more. You can tell a lot about people by when they come around and when they don't. Is it out of friendship or do they want something?"
A transfer of tension
White talks about the new album with the intensity of the music itself. You sense that the turmoil and complexities in the songs didn't end when he wrote them down. The tension is in the music because the tension is in him.
As White puts more of himself into his music, though, he's taking himself further from the record marketing machine. He plans to do only three formal interviews to promote the new album.
"I'm not sure the record company is happy about that," he says. "The theory is that if you do 700 interviews rather than 10, you will sell more records, and the more time you spend at radio stations, the more they will play your record. Maybe, but maybe not. Maybe it's best to just use all that time to make better records."
Though the Stripes were on the cover of virtually every rock magazine on the planet after the success of "Elephant" in 2003, White has kept a low profile since. Even while dating Oscar-winning actress Renée Zellweger, whom he met on the set of "Cold Mountain," he avoided joining the parade of celebrity regulars in People and Us Weekly.
"I hate that celebrity stuff," he says. "It trivializes everything."
Born John Gillis, White is so quiet about his personal life that fans long thought Meg was his sister — until reporters in Detroit learned that, although now divorced, the couple had been married for a while in the '90s and he had adopted Meg's last name.
The bond between them is obvious from the way they speak of each other during the interview.
Meg's so shy that it's probably a relief that he does all the talking. She does, however, respond quickly when asked if she remembers the first time she saw White perform in a club.
"The thing that struck me the most was that he was fearless," she says softly, sitting across from him in the living room. "He wasn't trying to be whoever was popular at the time on the radio. He was unique, and that's what he wanted to be. And he's never changed."
Meg is an elementary drummer, but her basic approach adds a warmth that balances nicely the torrential fury that White often injects.
"I hated it when we started getting popular and there was this round of 'Meg sucks' or that she was a 'horrible drummer,' " he says, looking over at her. "Those people couldn't be more ignorant. She brings a childlike quality to the music, an innocence, which is perfect for what we do."
White is so driven that he produced last year's acclaimed Loretta Lynn album and he has been dividing his time lately between the Stripes and another band he has formed with fellow Detroit singer-songwriter Brendan Benson. "Brendan is a lot more song craftsman," he says toward the end of the interview. "I'm more emotional and from the hip. It's an interesting contrast."
Rumors of that other band have led to speculation that "Satan" would be the final White Stripes album, but there is something about the partnership with Meg that White seems to prize too much to let it go.
"I don't know," he says of the future. "On one hand, I'd be shocked if we were still making records in 10 years. In a lot of ways, rock 'n' roll is for the young. There's also so many other things going through my head — bluegrass, blues, country. Then again I see the Stones and I am really impressed they are expressing their rock 'n' roll attitudes at their age. That's not easy to do."
Whatever his musical path, White is unlikely to temper his vision, which is rooted in the blues and country musicians who laid the foundation for rock 'n' roll in the '40s and '50s. In recordings by artists as varied as Blind Willie McTell and Hank Williams, White, who was raised in a lower-middle-class area of Detroit, found a raw emotional honesty that was far more vital than the commercial trends of his youth. The music gave him not only a sense of self-identity but also a confidence in his own future. He guards that rawness and purity fiercely.
"Anytime I have any question about what decision to make," he says, "I just ask myself, 'Why am I doing this? Why did I want to start making music?'
"The answer was the music gave me a reason to hold my head high at a time little else did, and that's important. Any time you forget that principle is important in what you do, just turn on MTV and see all the things that can go wrong with a band and its music. Nothing, whether it's more sales or getting your picture in more magazines, is worth more than being able to hold your head high."
I've been listening to the new album alot lately and it's really really growing on me. Each new listen is better than the last. I take back everything I said earlier, this album is really fantastic and getting better.
i absolutely love Get Behind Me Satan. i don't really think it's a step backward or sideways or even forward. it's more like a jump upward. the use of all the various tropical instuments (conga drums, marimbas, etc) gives a nice feel and a new sound, yet the same old sound all at once. this quote from amazon.com is the perfect example of the misunderstanding, or misconception rather, of what makes this record so great, and the reason why people that aren't into the whole mainstream (if you can call it mainstream) side of the white stripes can listen to and enjoy this more experimental, in the most poppiest sense, record, whose trail started with the hintingly eclectic Elephant.
"I bought the album today after I read Rolling Stone's rave review. I also admire their music. After nearly listening to the entire album, I shut it off. I was very disappointed in their latest effort. It sounds more of an experimental album than the tunes that made them huge."
for one, and as a white stripes fan, i enjoy this record immensely and i've only heard four songs so far. a folky little song like "As Ugly as I Seem", with its reminiscence to Bert Jansch, surprises me with a little jig of a acoustic guitar riff. and a song like "Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)" which left me smiling by 28 seconds in. this is the record a person who doesn't like the white stripes, who has more of a generally eclectic taste, would love. it's a simple little album, full of so many little pockets and sounds.
multiple listens might just be mandatory, if not only to get you to open your eyes (and ears) wider.
-mg
fine i'll steal it.
Quote from: Pubrickfine i'll steal it.
PU-brick! how COULD you?!
on a recent brendan benson kick, i came across this article. an article mac posted a while back references it, this gives the project a little more shape. i really should just grow some balls and give brendan his own thread, but i don't think enough of you listen to him. even though you really should. like, now.
Jack White and Brendan Benson band together
Detroit musicians blend their dissimilar styles to create sound of the Raconteurs.
By Adam Graham / The Detroit News
Jack White and Brendan Benson might not be Jay-Z and R. Kelly. But for Detroit rock fans, their coming together represents the best of both worlds.
White is the stripped down, minimalist blues guy, while Benson is the polished, pop-rock troubadour, and if there's a middle ground between the former's run-and-gun spontaneity and the latter's tendency to strive for perfection, they've found it in the Raconteurs, their new side project.
While fans eagerly anticipate hearing what they sound like, Benson - who opens up for the Stripes on Saturday at the Masonic Temple - says they sound, well, exactly how you'd think they'd sound.
"It was a blast, and it sounds really cool," says Benson, who recorded the Raconteurs record with White in June in the studio inside his home on Detroit's east side. "It's pretty much what you'd think, two styles coming together. I'm proud of it."
Benson says he considers the record, which will likely be released next summer, a "little bit more than just a side-project." He says he doesn't know if they'll make more records, but he says he and White have plans to go on the road in support of the album. "We know we want to go on tour, but beyond that, I don't know," says Benson, speaking by phone from near the Canadian border while traveling to a Boston tour stop.
Benson says he and White had long talked about making music together. "It was just a matter of when," he says. "We're both so busy doing our own thing, we never really found the time." They finally started hashing out plans earlier this year, and when they finally came together, they had a few songs written and "made up the rest" while recording over the course of a week.
Benson and White share vocal duties on the album, which Benson says will likely be released by V2, the label for both artists. Benson, who is accustomed to working by himself - he played nearly every instrument on his most recent album, March's "The Alternative to Love" - says he "anticipated the worst" in working with White, expecting to butt heads with the White Stripes frontman.
"But it didn't happen," he says. "I think we each have a lot of respect for one another, enough so that it was never a problem. I think we were both equally as excited to be working with the other person, so the last thing we wanted to do was impede that or step on each other's toes. It was cool. It went really smoothly."
Benson's solo career is going pretty smoothly as well. His "Alternative to Love" was released earlier this year to critical kudos, and he's been on the road with the album for the better part of the year.
He says the time on the road has helped him sharpen his chops and gain from people what he wants most out of his career - respect.
"All I want is esteem from people and acknowledgement and recognition," Benson says. "If I sell 10,000 records, I'm stoked. Everything more is just a bonus."
i've seen benson twice open for people and neither time has done much for me. but maybe i'd have to listen to his albums first to appreciate.
White Stripes prep 'Ghost' EP, live blitz
NEW YORK (Billboard) - The White Stripes will on December 6 release the EP "Walking With a Ghost," featuring a cover of Tegan & Sara's title song as well as previously unreleased live versions of four tunes.
The V2 Records release will debut November 14 via Apple's iTunes Music Store. The four live tracks are "Same Boy You've Always Known," "As Ugly As I Seem," "The Denial Twist" and "Screwdriver."
Meanwhile, the duo is also planning to sell a live download of "The Denial Twist" from every show on its current U.K. tour via the Web site (http://www.xlrecordings.com/denialtwist/) for XL Recordings, its U.K. label. At each show, fans can pick a blank CD to burn the tracks as well as artwork specific to the performance.
The studio version of "The Denial Twist," taken from the group's latest album, "Get Behind Me Satan," will be released next week as a single in the United Kingdom, backed by a cover of the Greenhornes' "Shelter of Your Arms."
On Wednesday, the Stripes will also play a private show for 35 fans at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios in London. The group's U.K. tour will run through November 17 in Manchester, and extended with a November 20 gig in Reykjavik.
After a holiday break, the band will be back on the road beginning January 12 in Tokyo, leading up to their run on the annual Big Day Out festival tour of Australia and New Zealand later that month.
"Get Behind Me Satan" debuted at No. 3 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 591,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
on the daily show right now...they're playing two songs.
Quote from: abuck1220 on December 01, 2005, 10:26:35 PM
on the daily show right now...they're playing two songs.
how embarrassing. and jacks all like "sorry, my drummer started playing the wrong song!" and next thing you know he'll be blaming it on some acid reflux.
Why was it embarrassing?
White Stripes sued by co-producer
A producer who worked on the first two White Stripes albums claims he deserves a share of the royalties, saying he played a pivotal role in creating the band's signature sound. Jim Diamond, who is listed as co-producer on the band's self-titled first album, released in 1999, has sued the White Stripes in U.S. District Court. He is listed as sound mixer on "De Stijl," released in 2000. "It's not just about fun and games," Diamond said. "I understand this is a business." A June 12 trial date was set. "It is a meritless case which will be defended with vigor," said Bert Deixler, the Los-Angeles based attorney representing the White Stripes, the rock duo of singer-guitarist Jack White and drummer Meg White. The White Stripes deny that Diamond helped create the band's style. The band said in court documents that they paid him $35 an hour for time at his Ghetto Recorders studio, which he started in 1996.
Quote from: modage on December 01, 2005, 10:35:15 PM
Quote from: abuck1220 on December 01, 2005, 10:26:35 PM
on the daily show right now...they're playing two songs.
how embarrassing. and jacks all like "sorry, my drummer started playing the wrong song!" and next thing you know he'll be blaming it on some acid reflux.
Quote from: Gamblour le flambeur on December 02, 2005, 02:12:19 PM
Why was it embarrassing?
:rofl:
HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!
I don't know how I missed this. That's what I get for not reading every single thread.
Jack White's New Coca-Cola TV Advertisement Is Red, White And Weird
Jack White may currently front two bands, have a supermodel wife and a baby on the way, but that doesn't mean he hasn't found time to add another hat to his stringy haired dome: soft-drink pitchman.
Late Monday, the long-rumored collaboration between White and Coca-Cola finally reached these shores (or was posted on YouTube, at least). It's a bizarre minute-long commercial featuring a mod-ish girl in a red wig, a guy in a tracksuit with an impressive afro, a precocious tyke, a homeless guy and a bird-feeding senior citizen, perambulating to the strains of a sing-songy, '60s-inflected White-penned song that insists, "Love is the truth/ It's the right thing to do."
On Tuesday (April 18), a spokesperson for Coca-Cola confirmed that the commercial is authentic and that it does, in fact, feature a song White wrote exclusively for the company, though he would not elaborate on just how the partnership came to be.
"We've worked with him over the last few months," Coke spokesperson Andras Kallos told MTV News. "I can't speak about the collaboration, but I can tell you that the commercial made its worldwide debut earlier this month on Australian TV during the [MTV Australia Video Music Awards]."
Kallos said he has no idea if the commercial will air in the U.S., or if it will only make the rounds in international markets.
If it doesn't appear here in the States, it'd be a bummer, because, man, is this thing strange. Filmed in a herky-jerky stop-motion style (vaguely similar to the White Stripes' "The Hardest Button to Button" video), the commercial opens with a red-headed girl swigging a Coke in her house. As she steps outside, she hands the bottle to the massively afro-ed man, who then leaps into the air and grabs a can of Coke to give to the tyke, who is standing in a park. The kid — decked out in overalls and rocking a "gee whiz" look on his face — then passes what appears to be an apple to a homeless man, who is so inspired by the random act of kindness that he hands his umbrella to an elderly woman sitting on a bench. The spot ends with a blue bird landing on the shoulder of the redhead.
The whole thing plays over White's song, a nice little loud/soft, characteristically White Stripes tune (but with horns added during the chorus). The love-obsessed lyrics include White yelping, "Love is as good as it gets/ And you'll get more if you give it/ It's the right thing to do, and you know it/ It's inside of you, so just show it" and "In the arms of a mother and father/ In the eyes of a son and a daughter/ It's everywhere, you just have to care."
At press time, calls to White's spokesperson for comment about the commercial had not been returned.
Jack White's Coca-Cola Ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWoLu_Hvbbw&search=jack%20white
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Quote from: modage on December 01, 2005, 10:35:15 PM
Quote from: abuck1220 on December 01, 2005, 10:26:35 PM
on the daily show right now...they're playing two songs.
how embarrassing. and jacks all like "sorry, my drummer started playing the wrong song!" and next thing you know he'll be blaming it on some acid reflux.
Quote from: Gamblour le flambeur on December 02, 2005, 02:12:19 PM
Why was it embarrassing?
:rofl:
HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!
I don't know how I missed this. That's what I get for not reading every single thread.
I don't know what I'm more confused about: why I seem to have been a complete idiot or why it's so funny (not in an indignant way, but seriously, the narrative logic here is very confusing)
Quote from: Gamblour le flambeur on May 05, 2006, 09:29:46 AM
Quote from: polkablues on April 18, 2006, 01:39:27 AM
Quote from: modage on December 01, 2005, 10:35:15 PM
Quote from: abuck1220 on December 01, 2005, 10:26:35 PM
on the daily show right now...they're playing two songs.
how embarrassing. and jacks all like "sorry, my drummer started playing the wrong song!" and next thing you know he'll be blaming it on some acid reflux.
Quote from: Gamblour le flambeur on December 02, 2005, 02:12:19 PM
Why was it embarrassing?
:rofl:
HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!
I don't know how I missed this. That's what I get for not reading every single thread.
I don't know what I'm more confused about: why I seem to have been a complete idiot or why it's so funny (not in an indignant way, but seriously, the narrative logic here is very confusing)
2 words: "Ashlee Simpson".
White Stripes Win Lawsuit Over Royalties
DETROIT (AP) -- A federal jury ruled Thursday that the White Stripes don't have to share royalties with a producer who worked on the rock band's first two albums and claimed he played a pivotal role in creating its signature sound.
The eight-member panel deliberated about 20 minutes before returning its verdict in U.S. District Court, rejecting claims by Jim Diamond, who is listed as co-producer on the band's self-titled first album, released in 1999.
Diamond also is listed as sound mixer on "De Stijl," released in 2000, but the White Stripes denied that he helped create their style. The band said it had paid him $35 an hour for time at his Ghetto Recorders studio.
Jack White, singer and guitarist for the two-member band, told The Detroit News outside court he was pleased with the verdict, noting: "You never know what's going to happen in a trial."
A message seeking comment was left Thursday afternoon for Stephen Wasinger, a lawyer for Diamond.
The lawsuit trial before U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn started Monday.
Earlier Thursday, with Jack White and White Stripes drummer Meg White looking on, lawyer Bert Deixler argued that Diamond's engineering work on the records did not meet the standard for authorship.
"None of that constitutes originating an original work or causing it to come into being," Deixler said.
Wasinger, arguing for Diamond, cited liner notes from the 1999 album in which the band gave Diamond co-producer credit.
"Mr. Diamond at that time, in that place, was equally talented," Wasinger told the jury.
White Stripes Reveal Icky New Album Details
Band says sixth album will be out 'as soon as corporately possible.'
Source: MTV
It's sometimes hard to tell when the White Stripes are messing with your head. So when the candy-striped duo announced Wednesday on their Web site that the follow-up to 2005's Get Behind Me Satan is done and will be called Icky Thump, you'll forgive us if we were a bit skeptical.
Then again, this is the same band that once named a song "You're Pretty Good Looking [For a Girl]," so who knows? What we do know from the missive is that the album is done and mixed and that it will be the first Stripes release to feature a title track. And from what we can tell, "Icky Thump" is the name of a BattleBots team from Iowa, but the more U.K.-friendly spelling "Ecky Thump" is a bastardization of the word "eck" or "heck" and it's a way of saying "what the hell?" Which makes a bit more sense.
While it doesn't appear to be a Nine Inch Nails-style cryptic reference to some global conspiracy, a Web search for "ecky thump" also pulled up an episode of the British comedy "The Goodies" from 1975 called "Kung Fu Kapers" — alternately known as the "Ecky-Thump" episode — in which one of the lead characters, Bill, is revealed to be a master of a heretofore unknown Lancashire, England, martial-arts style known as, you guessed it, the "Ecky-Thump," in which unsuspecting saps are hit with black pudding.
The Stripes copped to the "Kapers" lift in the posting, saying, "though some residents of Northern England might almost recognize the title, The Stripes stress they are spelling it wrong intentionally just for 'kicks' and 'metaphors.' "
Odd title aside, what we do know for sure is that the album was tracked at Blackbird Studio in Jack White's adopted hometown of Nashville, and among the songs to be included are "Catch Hell Blues," "Little Cream Soda," "Rag and Bone" and "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)." We're not quite sure what to make of word that the song "Monkeys Have It Easy" has been "discarded" or that "Clicky Bump" was "retitled into something pleasant." Oh, right, we get it.
But they tell us that it was "the longest time the delightful duo have ever spent in the studio, totaling almost three weeks. Jack and Meg were said to have been looking like they were 'into it almost.' And even Meg herself was quoted while leaving a local Nashville laundromat saying that the record was, in her best estimate, 'finished,' 'musical in nature' and lastly, though slightly muffled, 'good.' "
The Stripes, who recently relocated to Warner Bros. records after their former label home, V2, was shuttered, will be announcing the album's release date soon, according to the lengthy Web post, which was attributed to Moscow Bugle reporter Kitayna Ireyna Tatanya Kerenska Alisof. "We are doing our best (whatever that is) to release the album as soon as corporately possible. And though we are tired, worn, weary, hungry, cold and left without an ounce of nutrition amongst ourselves, we are in the midst of planning performance type shows around the world."
After their trip into marimba-land on Satan, what will the new album sound like? They aren't saying that either, but a brief clip of the band in the studio working on an early version of the song "I'm Slowly Turning Into You" reveals a familiar spooky, keyboard-heavy, bashing-drums-and-Led-Zeppelin-stomp sort of vibe, with Jack White urgently singing the lines, "I'm slowly turning into you/ But you don't know this/ [unintelligible] but true/you say I'm lying and I never really tell you the truth." Why is Meg White dancing around in a full-on skeleton costume behind Jack in the video? We have no idea.
why does this sound like an article from the onion?
icky thump:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1OjTspCqvk8&mode=related&search= (http://youtube.com/watch?v=1OjTspCqvk8&mode=related&search=)
Wanna link me to the last video made on their last album while you're at it?
The whole albums out there, a crappy radio rip that isn't even worth hearing. Also, Jack White went on the rampage when the radio station played the album. Got lawyers involved and everything.
I was gonna download it anyway, but now I'm gonna burn copies for all my friends who were going to buy it.
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the album leaked in pretty good quality, but it hasn't really grabbed me yet.
Jack White -- Mr. Productive
Although a fall tour was canceled, the White Stripes are recording and otherwise keeping busy.
By Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times
NASHVILLE -- JACK WHITE resembles one of those improbable characters from a Coen brothers movie as he leans against his late-'50s Ford Thunderbird, dressed in red and black and holding a hard-shell camera case.
Like a mysterious, gaudy courier, he walks across the steakhouse parking lot in the bright autumn sun. He leaves his thin cigar on a low wall and steps into the restaurant's bar, at ease among the midafternoon regulars even though he stands out like a toucan in a chicken coop.
In a corner booth, the White Stripes' singer and guitarist orders a Glenfiddich on the rocks and opens the case.
"You seen this? . . . This is my camera. . . ." He extracts accessories one after another and lays them on the table -- boxes of peppermint-pattern filters, a fisheye lens, a roll of 120 film, a manual with a camera-headed monkey on the cover. And the centerpiece, a customized White Stripes model of the cheap plastic '80s-vintage Holga camera, in red and white with "JACK . . . The White Stripes" printed on the top.
There's a Meg camera too, for Stripes drummer Meg White. Both models are packaged in boxes designed by the Stripes' visual collaborator Rob Jones and sold through their website and at photo retailers, in a limited edition of 3,000 each. They're part of the Austria-based photo subculture known as lomography, which encourages members to document their worlds by shooting fast and furiously.
It's kind of the garage rock of the photography world, with a "cheaper-simpler" philosophy that appeals strongly to White, 32. A card-carrying member of the National Geographic Society, he intensely monitors the world's vanishing traditions, from indigenous tribal languages to plastic film cameras.
The White Stripes, of course, led the charge of so-called garage rock into rock prominence during the past decade, but right now the band's future is cloudy following an abrupt cancellation of its tour amid concerns over Meg's health.
The duo has found ways to fill the gap, most notably by recording some songs in collaboration with Beck. But today Jack seems more excited about the camera.
"On mine you can also change the flash to red," he says as he inserts two AA batteries in the Holga, then attaches it to an instant camera back, which blocks the viewfinder. "They're completely unpredictable things, that's the whole beauty of them. It's completely unpredictable what kind of light leakage you'll get and what kind of results you're going to get. . . ."
It's not much of a stretch to connect White's enthusiasm for his Holga with his approach to music, and to creativity in general.
"Yeah, for sure. Give me a broken tape machine, give me a guitar when it's out of tune. This camera's perfect."
He holds up a picture of the waitress that he took a few minutes earlier. "You have no idea what that was going to turn out like. Was I even aiming it right? We cut off the top of her head here, but we got the drinks, so good things are coming out of that. If we had a brand-new digital camera, you instantly see it. It's a different world. It's got its pluses too, no doubt. But I like the idea of pushing yourself, not making it easier on yourself. This is not making it easier on yourself, this is making you work, and when you work, something good is going to happen."
Quickly and eagerly
EVEN sitting with a Scotch on a quiet afternoon, White, who moved here from his hometown of Detroit a couple of years ago, doesn't strike you as a man of leisure. Restless and animated, he answers questions quickly and eagerly, the way he fires off guitar flurries in response to Meg's prodding, inquiring drum patterns on stage.
That's where he expected to be these past few months, touring the world after the June release of "Icky Thump," the White Stripes' sixth album. While it wasn't selling like their 2001 commercial breakthrough, "White Blood Cells," or 2003's "Elephant," their pinnacle at 2 million, it was widely acclaimed as an assured return to the band's raw basics (albeit with some bagpipes and mariachi horns thrown in).
But in September came the unusually forthright announcement that their monthlong U.S. concert tour was being called off because Meg, Jack's former wife and his White Stripes comrade since the beginning in Detroit in 1997, was suffering from acute anxiety and could not travel.
That might have seemed like devastating news for a band that so values its live shows as a theater of cathartic spontaneity. The tour had also looked like a good opportunity for the duo to reassert its prominence in the rock world as it tested the major-label experience -- "Icky Thump" was released on their own Third Man imprint through Warner Bros. Records -- after a career on independents small and large. And though it's all but impossible to measure the numerical impact of the tour in the changing music business climate, the album's sales would certainly have been higher than its current figure of around 645,000.
But as a connoisseur of the unexpected, White was fairly unfazed. To say the least.
"If you sit down and say, 'Well, this is how my year is going to be -- in March I'm going to do this, in April I'm going do this,' you'll definitely be disappointed. It's not like a 9-to-5 job. You do it the best you can. The good thing is if something doesn't happen, it wasn't meant to be.
"Half of me was glad because I have three other records I'm working on and I didn't have any time to work on them, and I was really getting worried that I might have to not do these things I wanted to do because of the touring."
White says that he's not at liberty to name his current projects, but he's not talking about the long-rumored solo album ("I don't know, I haven't gotten there yet"), nor about the Raconteurs, his successful band with singer Brendan Benson, whose second album is half finished and should come out next year, with a tour to follow.
So while he might not have been playing to packed arenas this fall, he was able to help get the Jack camera into circulation, build things in his home workshop, help with his growing family (he and his wife, model Karen Elson, had their second child in August), appear as Elvis in the John C. Reilly comedy "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," and work on those music projects.
And the White Stripes were not forgotten. About a month ago he and Meg went to record a few songs in the living room of one of her Los Angeles neighbors, a fellow named Beck.
"We had some songs that were kind of lingering around," said White. "Meg and I had never really played them, we just kind of learned them in Beck's living room. His studio wasn't ready to go, so he just set it up in his living room."
Like his two guests, Beck is known as a sort of musical junk collector, forging scraps from different styles and eras into a new vision, so it was a no-brainer to have him co-produce the sessions as well as play and sing.
"He was probably just as happy to let us fly, but I'm not going to be so ignorant as to not take advantage of Beck's input," White says. "He's inspiring to us because of the way he looks at folk music. It's different from the way we look at folk music. . . .
"You're looking for people to push you. Sometimes you're in a situation where you just need people to get out of your way; sometimes you need a situation where you can push each other. So this was obviously to take advantage of the idea of pushing each other."
'I'm going to buy a saw today'
THE room is getting noisier as more locals drift in and start talking loudly about SEC football. White, his expression alert and inquisitive under the brim of his black hat, glances at the bar as he begins disassembling the camera.
"I really like the idea of collaborating, you really get something out of it. . . . I'm sure our conversation would be different if we were the only people in this room. These people right here are inadvertently pushing us to react to one another differently and say things differently, and the volume we're speaking at is determined by these people here and nobody even knows it."
He smiles. "You have to read the room when you're performing. It's one of the most important things."
The Stripes' new songs will come out on three 7-inch vinyl discs Dec. 18, two of them paired with the "Icky Thump" track "Conquest" and the third with an acoustic version of that mariachi-flavored remake of the '50s-era Patti Page hit. A digital package with all five tracks will also be released.
"It's My Fault for Being Famous," "Cash Grab Complications on the Matter" and "Honey, We Can't Afford to Look This Cheap" touch on the Stripes' country/folk side rather than their aggressive garage-rock identity, but it will come as a reassuring sign of life for White Stripes fans unsure about the band's future.
"Maybe working at Beck's house was something we needed to do to remind ourselves that touring is only one component of what we do," White says. "Taking a break from shows isn't going to stop it.
"If it came to a point where Meg said, 'I don't want to be in this band anymore, it doesn't fulfill me in any way,' then it would be a different story. But she's not saying that."
At this point, White can't predict how long the Stripes' break will be or whether it will ever end. "I don't know. It's a good question," he says. "I guess it's up to her. . . . She seems to be lively. She was really invigorating working together on this 'Conquest' record. I was wondering if she was interested, and she was completely -- very, very involved. And it was nice of Beck to give us that forum, help us re-understand what it is we're doing."
What they're doing doesn't depend on playing to crowds, stresses White, who almost seems to be priming himself for the challenge of remaining a viable band while making records but staying away from the road.
"Well, the Beatles did it," he says with a loud laugh. "I'm joking, but if we didn't ever tour again it doesn't matter to me. . . . There's so many different aspects to being creative that it doesn't matter if one component is changed. Because it's been changing all the time since the band started. . . .
"And if something isn't working for you and it's detrimental to you, then you have to figure out a new way to attack it, a new way to look at it. I think that's what Meg's doing. . . . We'll find our spots, we'll find our moments. We already talked about other songs we're working on."
White's glass is empty, the camera is back in its box. He's sitting still but seems to be humming with energy, like a gyroscope that stays upright by perpetually spinning. The motion might be a little erratic, but it's better than stopping and falling over.
"I'm not going to look back at the end of my life and see 50 years of sitting in front of a television set," White says. "I don't care if all the things I'm doing aren't going anywhere, if they're going totally in the ground, falling on deaf ears or whatever it is. It doesn't matter. As long as I keep pushing myself really hard, then once in a while something will click and the things will align and something interesting will happen.
"I get myself involved in situations not to take it easy. . . . I get involved in situations to push myself harder. That goes across the board from my personal life to the creative world to whatever kind of tools I buy for my shop. . . . I'm going to buy a saw today, that's why I got to go, because I'm meeting somebody. We're going to buy a saw, and I have to get the right one that's going to push me harder."
:yabbse-sad:
http://whitestripes.com/ (http://whitestripes.com/)
:cry: :salute:
The way that is worded is that they will no longer make new recordings AS OF 2-2-11, so it does (whether intentional or not) leave the window open for a new album that could have been recorded the day before. It would not surprise me if they recorded a new album in a day long session the day before.
I kinda hope so because for me Icky Thump wasn't too great of a swan song.
Quote from: bigideas on February 03, 2011, 03:05:09 PM
It would not surprise me if they recorded a new album in a day long session the day before.
naah that's a long shot. I think their fuse was blown out, and Meg simply wasn't putting into it what Jack was from the beginning. The best we can hope for is some sort of reunion in the middle of nowhere ( just watching Under Great Northern Lights makes me think of this ) or possibly... POSSIBLY recording a one off EP a few years down the road together, but I don't think they'd go back on their word.
Quote from: bigideas on February 03, 2011, 03:05:09 PM
I kinda hope so because for me Icky Thump wasn't too great of a swan song.
and that's just not true. Listen to it again, it's all we got left.
Quote from: Reelist on February 03, 2011, 06:58:03 PM
Meg simply wasn't putting into it what Jack was from the beginning.
Seems kinda speculative. The dynamic between the two (creatively, intellectually, emotionally) always seemed exactly right. At least, from the spectator's vantage. I don't think it would have worked as well if either member put in any less or more than they did.
If I were to speculate, I'd just assume that they (or, at least, Jack) had accomplished everything they'd wanted with the band. Bigger albums, bigger audiences - any of that - would change what make those albums so perfect and so good.
I think Bigideas is right - Icky Thump isn't that great of a swan song. Because, stylistically, it's almost too adventurous. It tries things that, while admirable, don't seem to fit into the White Stripes cannon and aesthetic.
Of course, my idea of the White Stripes aesthetic is an entirely speculative/personal one, as well. Someone ask Jim Jarmusch - outside of Jack and Meg - that motherfucker seems to provide the most accurate, and succinct, assessment of what makes them so great and why.
I'm just glad I got to see them a handful of times before they were gone. The first time I saw them, they were touring for De Stijl - I'd heard a few of their songs, but nothing had wholly one me over.... until I saw them. The intimacy between the two of them, the simplicity and spontaneity in what they do, and the beauty in their interaction totally one me over. Add to that, the stunning difference in Jack White's voice on record compared to on stage and I suddenly had a band that I considered unmissable.
They rock. They did/they do.
They're one of those bands like The Who... as long as there are teenagers, there will be White Stripes fans. And, unlike The Who, they stopped before they got embarrassing/lost the narrative thread. Save that shit for The Dead Weather.
I'm still baffled that people give that much of a shit about this. It's not like Jack White is quitting music.
I'm sure if he wants to continue to record great music, he can find another chubby drummer. She added tits and that's about it.
I don't really think people do give much of a shit about this, either. It's a headline on blogs that will be buried under other inconsequential news soon enough.... maybe Colin Meloy will collaborate on something boring with someone markedly more talented than himself!
But, I will argue that Meg was more than just chubby/tits.
Not that I can even wholly articulate what "good" drumming is, I just know what I like... and I liked her drumming way more than drummers that are technically way more competent than her.
So, if my last post seemed like too many words over too inconsequential a subject - it wasn't my intention... same goes with this post.
Really, this break-up is just a nice excuse to dig out Elephant/GBMS again and be reminded how fucking good those albums are.
everyone's knows it was Meg's fault. Now we can feast on the palpable nostalgia.
Quote from: Reelist on February 04, 2011, 06:18:46 PM
everyone's knows it was Meg's fault. Now we can feast on the palpable nostalgia.
Because she refused to have double bass drums? Come on! :yabbse-wink:
Jack White Produces New Insane Clown Posse
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One word: Wow. Jack White is producing the new release from fellow Detroit natives Insane Clown Posse -- yes, the duo in face paint rapping about murdering people with hatchets -- and Nashville rockers JEFF the Brotherhood have joined the project as the backing band. Do collaborations get weirder than that?
The record will be their interpretation of a lesser known Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart piece from 1782 called "Leck Mich Im Arsch," which is literally translated as "Lick me in the arse." Listen below.
According to a press release, the 2011 version of "Leck Mich Im Arsch" marries "Mozart's melody and lyrics sung in operatic German with ICP's poignant lyrical addition in English and Jeff the B's monster-riffs." The B-side of the single is "Mountain Girl," an original composition, which has ICP's Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope dropping verses about country life -- shotgun weddings, meth addiction, and moonshine.
The 7-inch single and iTunes download of "Leck Mich Im Arsch" will be available on September 13, and 100 tri-color vinyl copies of the single will be sold at the Third Man Rolling Record Store starting September 17 at the MI Fest in Brooklyn, Michigan, where the Raconteurs will be performing. Another 50 tri-color vinyls will be randomly inserted into mail orders dispatched by Third Man Records.
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great. I have listen to ICP now?