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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 01:26 AM
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Surely someone else than I likes the White Stripes?


Why do so many people hate this band?
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DoveTurnedHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 01:28 AM
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1. Saw Them in Concert Last Week
At the Hollywood Bowl. Their stage presence was quite good, although I couldn't help but notice that she was a very mediocre drummer and singer, IMO.

DTH
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 01:30 AM
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2. I'm going to have to say "contrived"
they just so perfectly fit into Moe Syzlac's definition of postmodernism... "weird for the sake of being weird".

Their quirkiness seems so...manufactured to me, I guess.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 01:37 AM
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4. deep dark....and that's just the makeup
I really don't like it if it's put on...which so much gith type bullshit is based on.
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 01:40 AM
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5. I only heard of them about two months ago.
I'd never heard of them before. For the last 2 years I've been out of "radio" contact. But something hit me just "right" when I heard the WS for the first time....I have to admit they're my favorite band of the moment.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 01:32 AM
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3. People hate them?
Hmm, I think they're all right... wannabees but at least the music is somewhat tolerable.
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dani Donating Member (640 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 01:52 AM
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6. I think they're OK
But I don't understand why so many people are going nuts over them.
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 02:07 AM
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7. Part of it to me is that they sound like they're enjoying
making music and that it's not just some joe-job like it is for corp hacks.
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trigz Donating Member (679 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 02:30 AM
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8. I love the White Stripes, well some of their stuff, anyway (n/t)
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 02:47 AM
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9. And I love you just like a little brother
;-)
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trigz Donating Member (679 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 08:40 AM
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11. Well that's awfully nice of you dear chap (n/t)
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scucci Donating Member (280 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 02:52 AM
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10. This is old & I really don't know anything else by the WS
but the stage diving kitten about kills me.

http://www.rathergood.com/punk_kittens/
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 08:49 AM
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12. they're okay.
I don't mind them. I like quirky bands. My teenage daughter and her friends are huge fans. They met Jack and Meg at a festival about a month ago and went nuts. Meg was quite nice to them and talked to them for quite a while. I thought that was pretty cool for her to spend time talking to a bunch of starstruck teens like that.
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 08:58 AM
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14. Meg's a real sweetie...
I met her a couple of years ago in Cleveland. And Jack's a hell of a guitar player, if you're into that open-E blues stuff, which I am. I don't really like the new album, though -- I prefer the first two records. Especially "De Stijl."

Nonetheless, if you wanna talk one guitarist/one drummer minimalist bands, I prefer the Bassholes.
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 09:16 AM
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19. Meg and Jack Stripe
That's what I call them around my daughter. Drives her crazy.
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 08:54 AM
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13. I liked them the first time...
...when they were called The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion!

Just kidding. I like the WS. :hi:
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 09:00 AM
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16. Jon Spencer learned everything he knows...
from the couple of years he spent in Jeff Evans' and Don Howland's apprenticeship in the Gibson Bros.
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 09:08 AM
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17. Hmm. I didn't know that.
Interesting. I remember doing sound for Pussy Galore back in '89. Now that was a band...
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 09:27 AM
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22. That was around the same time...
Spencer was in Memphis with the Gibsons. Pussy Galore was a FANTASTIC band, and I think my high esteem for them (and the Gibsons) may have artificially lowered my opinion of JSBX.
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 10:50 AM
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30. How do you feel about Boss Hog?
I have one of their records. It's pretty damn cool.
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 11:01 AM
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32. I like 'em okay...
If you dig Hollis Queens, check out Lo-Hi.
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 08:59 AM
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15. Basically --
It's the old it's cool to hate them syndrome. The Stripes were anointed the next thing by the press, so this is the natural reaction.

In truth, they are quite good, especially in terms of the music that hits the airwaves these days.
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 09:14 AM
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18. Khep
If you like them (and I knew you would) you're really gonna like the Black Rebel Motercycle Club.

Check them out too.

:)
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AWD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 09:18 AM
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20. BRMC is great....
....and the White Stripes give me hope for alternative music.

So do the Strokes, the Vines, the Hives, and Tenacious D.
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 09:21 AM
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21. lol
I have all of those albums. They're all good bands.

1. White Stripes
2. The Hives
3. The Strokes
4. The Vines
5. Tenacious D (not really alternative because they kinda lampoon arena rock).

:hi:
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AWD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 09:46 AM
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26. Response to both you and Vince....
....I should add Bowling For Soup. Guilty pleasure of mine. The music's not bad, but their hook is their lyrics. A very fun band.

Anybody who writes a line "Her CD changer's full of singers that are mad at their dads" has GOT to be worth listening to.

Check out the song "Punk Rock 101" to hear a real good cross-section of their music.
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 09:32 AM
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23. I laughed my ass off...
When I heard the Hives on the radio. I had heard that song (Hate to Say I Told You So) two years earlier on a comp. tape my buddy made me, and I was utterly perplexed as to why mainstream rock radio was playing Scandinavian "Nuggets"-addicts. The next song was "Fell in Love with a Girl" by the WS, and I nearly drove off the road.

All I could think was "don't they have some Backstreet Boys or something to play? Rock and roll isn't played on the radio any more!"
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 09:38 AM
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24. I like 'em!
What I've heard, anyway.
I have also been out of radio/mtv contact for several years.

But I love the minimalist concept. I loved the Flat Duo Jets, anyone remember them? Anyone??? Oh well......
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 09:42 AM
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25. Flat Duo Jets ROCK!
Dexter and Crow put on one of the best shows I've ever seen.

And tell me "Apple Blossom Time" isn't the most beautiful song ever.
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 09:50 AM
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27. cool!
:yourock:
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 10:51 AM
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31. I think Dexter Romwebber is INSANE
No, really!
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Redbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 09:59 AM
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28. White Stripes are great.
I dig them for the exact reason you stated. It really is about the music. That really hit home with me when I saw them in concert in Austin.

Sleater-Kinney is still the best though.
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youngred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 10:05 AM
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29. I like them a lot
some people have to hate everything I guess
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 12:00 PM
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33. The White Stripes rock
n/t
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 12:19 PM
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34. to really understand them you have to know Detroit Rock
Mitch Ryder, MC5, The Fruit, Tackle Box, The Dogs, The Stooges, The Bob Seeger System, Alice Cooper, and others.
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 12:28 PM
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35. Scott Morgan's various bands, the Gories...
Detroit rock & roll has a great history from the bands alfredo mentioned in the '60s and '70s (any MC5 fan MUST check out Sonic's Rendevous Band) through the '80s and '90s (the mighty Gories, Bantam Rooster) to today (White Stripes, Paybacks, Detroit Cobras).

Additionally, Jack White was in a band several years ago called Two Star Tabernacle, who backed up Detroit soul legend Andre Williams ("Jailbait") on a fantastic single.
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