White Stripes

Eagerly awaiting the protracted legal battle over who gets the red stripes and who gets the white ones.

Bummer. Great band.

Kind of sad, but it seems right. Any subsequent albums would've just felt like kicking a dead horse.

figured they've been over since they bowed out of that last tour.

best rock band of the 00s, but I'm okay with them hanging it up, seems like the idea ran its course

agree, they'd played out their sound -- great first 3 albums, went epic/zep stylee on Elephant, then pushed the boundaries a bit on the last couple w/ diminishing returns. good time to call it quits imo

lol @ the official statement

"The reason is not due to [...] lack of wanting to continue"

yeah that makes sense guys, good line

R.I.P. real good band IMO

great first 3 albums, went epic/zep stylee on Elephant, then pushed the boundaries a bit on the last couple w/ diminishing returns. good time to call it quits imo

^^sounds about right to me

i really hated '00s garage rock in general (no time for any of that strokes, hives, vines bullshit) but these guys did it right.

well, strokes and vines weren't really garage rock, so

I enjoy "Hate To Say I Told You So" more than any White Stripes tunes (and I like the White Stripes).

indie garage rock revival, or whatever u wanna call it then xp

their last album is great.

btw, might as well cue the white stripes 2018 reunion & sold out world tour now

^I doubt they'll wait that long. What't the optimum split time now? Four years, maybe five? Jack is already eyeing that reunion coin I bet.

heard they were playing coachella 2012

This reminds me, was there any confirmation that Meg had a baby? I remember some speculation when they were on the last "Late Night" Conan* and it looked like she was hiding something w/her guitar.

*Which I guess was the bands last performance ever--until the reunion.

it looked like she was hiding something w/her guitar.

uhhhh..... she plays DRUMS? (wtf)

She joined Jack on an electric for the show:

http://img.youtube.com/vi/NiuGrOCOjMM/0.jpg

oh cool

did u know meg white plays drums?

No she doesn't

*rimshot*

The band may end, but the bad drummer lines last a lifetime.

Get Behind Me Satan is awesome!!!!!!!!!!

Pleased at this news.

^ ban this dude

meg's gonna drop sprawling triple album a la All Things Must Pass later this year

Now that they're gone, let's praise the shrewd marketing (maybe their greatest talent?) for hiding the fact that they were an occasionally excellent minor band.

4th side taken up entirely by 25-minute long drum solo

xp

yeah it's already leaked. here's the first video btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN1jC6KpcMY

All Breasts Must Sag

this kid is Ginger Baker by comparison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nByWAVeYhhI

http://achewood.com/comic.php?date=12042006

I was just going to write " now that she's retired, I hope she'll have more time for sex tapes".

Meg is a great drummer fuiud

i always wonder if meg haters wished that carmine appice had joined velvet underground instead

I said this on some other thread not long ago, but if The White Stripes had a standard "good" drummer, we wouldn't be talking about them right now. Her style is an ESSENTIAL component of the band.

Elephant was one of my favorite albums during college. I played the hell out of that album. Even though I didn't like Jack's opinion on music, I respected his musicianship. Also, Meg was a great drummer for the sound they were going for. I thought ilxor frowned upon the conventional, rockist approach to playing an instrument.

Anyway, here is hoping they do a Jay-Z and get back together in two years. Haha.

i like minimal stuff. and the kinda minimal approach here (guitar + drums) w/ big riffs and simple drums and not much else works pretty well for this stuff. plus, i was in lolcollege when White Blood Cells and Elephant came out and who didn't love those albums as a late teen early 20s budding record collector??

i was in lolcollege when White Blood Cells and Elephant came out and who didn't love those albums as a late teen early 20s budding record collector??

I guess I fit the stereotype. haha!!!

:(

i remember thinking it would be cool if i wore a white tshirt and red cords to school. i'm glad i never acted on that.

i always wonder if meg haters wished that carmine appice had joined velvet underground instead

― basedketball (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, February 2, 2011 3:36 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This couldnt have hurt.

Meg is a great drummer fuiud

― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 2, 2011 3:29 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No, fuck you.

Hines Ward has got you all worked up, dude.

let's hope jack and neil peart join forces to create the great white stripes

you mean Meg White and David Coverdale

no wait I meant Jack Russell

argh joke ruined

had no use for them, but rip

people who get all hung up on meg white not being a technical enough drummer are one step away from demanding slap bass on white blood cells ie not getting it

"man i love that part in hotel yorba where flea totally hammers down the funk jam yeahhhhh!!"

gosh i never thought the jon 2.0/bill magill breakup would be uglier than jack white/meg white but here we are!

Hah, that would have meant that I at some point liked/respected the dude.

Anyway, enough of him, back on topic. I sort of have a feeling that they won't ever reunite. I think Jack will remain stubborn for a few years and then it will reach a point where Meg won't want to bother. I guess it depends on how well she stockpiled her cash from their peak.

yeah both should be pretty financially secure I would think. and Jack's got plenty to keep him busy

I'll probably be proven wrong at like, Coachella 2016, but I feel like their only "reunions" will be like some sort of Live8 telethon type of thing in 15 years.

I am really sad that I never got to see them live though.

Hah, that would have meant that I at some point liked/respected the dude.

^it's mutual, trust me. See you behind the school

Let it go, christ.

DON'T RESPOND TO HIM

so are you guys brother & sister, or once married??? the world wants to know!!

can't believe bill and jon finally split ;_;

not helping

okay okay back to stripes

I played a show once where we got a terrible review and they compared my drumming to Meg White. I took it as a huge compliment!

The 00s' most boring, overrated band have split up, and have done so by posting - as someone noted upthread - an incoherent, doubtless narcotics-fuelled load of gibberish as a farewell message on their website.

lol

never got the sense these guys indulged in many drugs

if any

yeah wtf Freedom

I was surprised this was still a "thing" tbh.

what, quotation marks?

mostly i think it's wack that the #1 rock band of the 2000s (and i wouldn't dispute that they are in most senses) dealt so comfortably with dull blues-isms

Some of us like the blues-isms. And think that the way blues-isms were essentially made verboten in the late 70's was a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and are glad that the #1 rock band of the 2000s felt comfortable to indulge them rather than stick to no-arse, unswung, straight 8th, Julie Andrews major-key plod. And like the way the White Stripes went back to the source, skipping the Claptonisms and covering Son House, and the appealing way the backdoor man mythology of the blues contrasted with a guy who was "finding it harder to be a gentleman everday" and "wants to be the boy who warms your mother's heart". Some of us anyway.

sorta interested in this, had no idea they covered so many dylan songs: musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com/2011/02/white-stripes-bob-dylan-white-album.html
would be cool if they worked on an album together.

ooh "I Threw It All Away"!!!

d/ling that shit

I never minded them, but I haven't bought any of their records either. They've always seemed to me to be the last band that will get inducted into the RNR Hall of Fame before the doors are shuttered forever on that place in 2023.

kind of imagine dylan would be white's ultimate white whale, in terms of producing an album. he's even baiting dylan by having wanda jackson cover "thunder on the mountain."

eh "I Threw It All Away" is just a couple verses tacked onto the beginning of "I Ain't That Lonely Yet"

meh

i have more stripes records (lots of singles) than i thought i did. still think most of their ballady/gentler stuff is generally their weakest (even the stuff like got her in your pocket, jack sounds like hes trying too hard to be earnest/tender) but i give him some respect for being one of the few mainstream rockers to say something about immigration (even if it did sound like a bad prince lyric).

I love all six albums. "the nurse" is the only song that gets skipped often.

fare thee well, my beloved bombastic stomp

And so, on to immortality:

http://deadspin.com/5875933/how-the-song-seven-nation-army-conquered-the-sports-world

Not wanting to derail the thead but seems relevant to above. Ned, are you aware of Depeche Mode's 'Just Can't Get Enough' 'conquering' the football terraces?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msk1B1HrVKE

Hahah nice.

I love the White Stripes, and I hate to be that guy but they have so many better songs.

https://vine.co/v/O3l3rI5I0YX

https://third-man-records.imgix.net/7221db89-20e2-420f-912c-25816987e030/TMR_700_TheWhiteStripes_GreatestHits_FRONT.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg

Official track listing

Let's Shake Hands
The Big Three Killed My Baby
Fell in Love with a Girl
Hello Operator
I'm Slowly Turning Into You
The Hardest Button to Button
The Nurse
Screwdriver
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Death Letter
We're Going to Be Friends
The Denial Twist
I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself
Astro
Conquest
Jolene
Hotel Yorba
Apple Blossom
Blue Orchid
Ball and Biscuit
I Fought Piranhas
I Think I Smell a Rat
Icky Thump
My Doorbell
You're Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)
Seven Nation Army