no...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c24Wp4N34oA
― scott seward, Friday, 23 March 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
i got nothing
― Cambridge Metallica (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 March 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
Well he made get behind me satan
― tinnitus the night (Ross), Friday, 23 March 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
he made incest cool again
― playing in his high school band “The Velvet Pickle” (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 March 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
some of the early White Stripes songs were quite reasonable until he turned into Blind Willy White
― Cambridge Metallica (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 March 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
FUCK YOU JACK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzWBUtnqJ4I
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 March 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
Fairly hard to defend him as a person but the stripes are far from indefensible
― tinnitus the night (Ross), Friday, 23 March 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
He was a good role player in Meg White's project The White Stripe
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 23 March 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
s
OTM. In the early-00s he was pretty much alone among retro rock revivalist frontmen as the guy who got the importance of stardom, of a distinctive image, of having a voice that's unmistakably yours from the moment you sing the first syllable. Now he's pretty much the most boring Mojo-friendly third-on-the-bill-at-Glastonbury artist imaginable.
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 March 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
a good role player? what, he was larping the whole time?
― playing in his high school band “The Velvet Pickle” (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 March 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
i think the White Stripes albums run the gamut from very good to completely classic but then again they've been finished for ten-plus years. i like a couple of Dead Weather songs. the video for Treat Me Like Your Mother is peak Jonathan Glazer and *might* not get made today. that's not really a Jack White thing exactly, though. I haven't heard his solo stuff.
― omar little, Friday, 23 March 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
but wow, does the cover of the new album look really cheap
― omar little, Friday, 23 March 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
it was cool when he punched that dude from the von bondies and it became the one thing the von bondies are remembered for in 2018
― playing in his high school band “The Velvet Pickle” (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 March 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
his parts in 'it might get loud' doc are ludicrous and not in a good way
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 23 March 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
From Billy Childish to Childish Gambino: The Jack White Story
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 23 March 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
The Von Bondies singer told police that White had tried to speak with him in the club, which was hosting a record release party for alt-country rockers Blanche, and that when he refused, the Stripes frontman angrily threw him to the ground and punched him seven times in his right eye.
if Jack White never went to prison it's because a jury didn't believe that the lead singer of the Von Bondies would be too cool to talk to the lead singer of the White Stripes.
― omar little, Friday, 23 March 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
Matt you should maybe listen to the linked track because it's so much worse than "Mojo-friendly third-on-the-bill-at-Glastonbury"
― ufo, Friday, 23 March 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
i stand with UMS
― call all destroyer, Friday, 23 March 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
I'm told he has a sense of humor (difficult though that may be to believe).
Also, I find a certain value in characters like White and Billy Corgan - these ludicrous rock guys who are fun to talk about, roll your eyes at, etc.
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
he's just boring and lame, he's not even weird celeb lame like corgan
― brimstead, Friday, 23 March 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
Yeah but he releases stuff like this, which is non-boring and makes for fun "o_O"s:
Here's the complete list of features on the Ultra LP, which the Third Man website says will be the standard version of the vinyl format of Lazaretto:
- 180 gram vinyl- 2 vinyl-only hidden tracks hidden beneath the center labels- 1 hidden track plays at 78 RPM, one plays at 45 RPM, making this a 3-speed record - Side A plays from the inside out- Dual-groove technology: plays an electric or acoustic intro for "Just One Drink" depending on where needle is dropped. The grooves meet for the body of the song.- Matte finish on Side B, giving the appearance of an un-played 78 RPM record- Both sides end with locked grooves- Vinyl pressed in seldom-used flat-edged format- Dead wax area on Side A contains a hand-etched hologram by Tristan Duke of Infinity Light Science, the first of its kind on a vinyl record- Absolutely zero compression used during recording, mixing and mastering- Different running order from the CD/digital version- LP utilizes some mixes different from those used on CD and digital version
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
(NB - I have zero interest in his actual music)
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
why do you hate this song scott there's some cool triplets and a theremin i thought you would like that
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 23 March 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
it's funny to me that both Jack White and Julian Casablancas, garage rock revival darlings, are now having proggy excess phases in their solo careers
― ufo, Friday, 23 March 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
The White Stripes were great at least up through Elephant, he's done good to not-so-good work since, and he was awful cute back in the day.
More defensible than most, tbh.
― will work for cultural capital (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
his personal low point for me is still when he defended compressing icky thump to hell despite being an avowed analog fetishist
― lowercase (eric), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
He produced an album and a Netflix special for comedian Rory Scovel, and you can see him in an interstitial bit in the trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uftuhKxMxhY
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
"but wow, does the cover of the new album look really cheap"
yeah no fuck, that is the worst cover art I've seen since YYY's "mosquito".
I still like the White Stripes albums but everything he's done solo has been terrible at best to god-fucking-awful, meaning Meg was clearly the genius in the band.
― akm, Saturday, 24 March 2018 04:13 (six years ago) link
hey that Silkworm song is pretty rad!
― niels, Saturday, 24 March 2018 08:58 (six years ago) link
jw produced/promoted that loretta lynn record
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 March 2018 18:56 (six years ago) link
He’s keeping the porkpie hat industry afloat.
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Saturday, 24 March 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
He opened a pressing plant.
― sueñx latinx (naus), Saturday, 24 March 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
xpost glad you like it niels they are a great super underrated band imo
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 March 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
He really needs to become more mysterious and fucking just disappear
― brimstead, Saturday, 24 March 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link
someone on this thread must have bought a har mar superstar album at some point in the past. every generation gets the dorks it deserves.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 March 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
Still love the first 3 White Stripes albums, plus a bunch of songs from the next 3.
Show in 2001 was an all-time experience.
I'm sure they're in my top 20 Bands.
It's 2018 now.
― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 25 March 2018 04:41 (six years ago) link
oops, my last post on here was actually supposed to be for that hobo johnson thread. my apologies to mr. white.
― scott seward, Sunday, 25 March 2018 12:14 (six years ago) link
okay, my last sentence in that post can actually stay...
― scott seward, Sunday, 25 March 2018 12:15 (six years ago) link
I like the latest cover art - bit unexpected and intriguing for him.
― nashwan, Sunday, 25 March 2018 12:57 (six years ago) link
It always bummed me out that the feverishly creative talents of Michel Gondry were wasted on this "back to basics rawk" doofus.
― Soundslike, Sunday, 25 March 2018 13:21 (six years ago) link
im mostly annoyed with the gimmick of making everything blue. wake me up after his next band has everything in yellow and he's covered all three primary colors.
at any rate it definitely seems like he spends more time comparing swatches than he does writing songs
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 25 March 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
He put out a good Wolf Eyes record
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 25 March 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
http://variety.com/2018/music/news/jack-white-to-auction-off-bizarre-items-from-his-career-on-discogs-com-video-1202736754/
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 01:53 (six years ago) link
Classic up thru Elephant in 2003. Classic for "Black Math" alone. That record is really great. I like the ones before it a lot too. Everything since = DUD
Just got the RS with him on the cover in the mail today.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 01:58 (six years ago) link
idk why beyonce felt lemonade needed an appearance from him, but if *she* likes him, then
gave holly golightly her biggest exposure
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
tbh I think every white stripes album is at least fine. they were a cool band.
haven't found any of the solo records or other projects at all interesting until the over-the-top horribleness of that new album
― Simon H., Tuesday, 27 March 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link
Icky Thump is a remarkably weird album for what was, at the time, a pretty damn huge band
― Simon H., Tuesday, 27 March 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
i think get behind me satan is the best white stripes record, the arrangements are occasionally v inventive in their attempt to expand beyond the rim of the v narrow concept of "the white stripes." some of the raconteurs singles are pretty good. i love "don't hurt yourself" but beyoncé really sells everything about it. his liner notes have always been super obnoxious. but i think this guy is obv very talented but as soon as the white stripes dissolved his songwriting got aimless probably bc it wasn't shadowed by the parentheses of a concept
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
Would have loved to have been in the room for the Stripes' Peel sessions -- they're great. (Speaking of John Peel, I always thought it was fitting when Liverpool supporters sang Javier Mascherano's name to the "Seven Nation Army" bassline...)
― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
If I remember right, Berman was palling around with one of the Black Keys and that was his nickname for White.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 22 June 2024 19:42 (two months ago) link
Good zing Berman
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 22 June 2024 21:10 (two months ago) link
Great zing, but I would take one middling Jack White song over the entire Black Keys catalog.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 23 June 2024 02:56 (two months ago) link
The worst White Stripes song over the entire Black Keys catalog maybe but the Raconteurs and solo White aren't even sports bar jukebox-worthy.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 23 June 2024 03:11 (two months ago) link
I wouldn’t know. I’ve never heard anything after the Reconteurs’ debut single. Thanks for the warning.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 23 June 2024 12:13 (two months ago) link
the second raconteurs album is really really good. great rhythm section in that band too
― ivy., Sunday, 23 June 2024 13:31 (two months ago) link
WTFThe dude dropped a great record out of nowhere
― nostormo, Tuesday, 23 July 2024 21:40 (one month ago) link
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgNdTRU5xLbJZXvhYjSfFovo0MS1sOga2&si=bPnG4T_aiztaNgqx
― nostormo, Tuesday, 23 July 2024 21:48 (one month ago) link
not a JW fan normally, but i am really enjoying this.suspect it's easy to grab now, but i can drop a link to my google drive for it in 320 if anyone is interested ..
― mark e, Thursday, 25 July 2024 16:24 (one month ago) link
Official release soon https://www.reddit.com/r/jackwhite/s/nxNuNpzTAH
I hope they wont ruin the raw, compressed mix that bnefir the songs a lot
― nostormo, Sunday, 28 July 2024 17:05 (one month ago) link
I’m halfway through this album and fuck me if it’s not the best thing I’ve heard from him since Elephant… though I actually haven’t bothered with his solo albums after the first one.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 02:01 (one month ago) link
I'll have to give this a good listen. Love the White Stripes and love his first solo album, Blunderbuss, but I've had mixed feelings about everything he's put out since - outside of what he'll play at a show, haven't really returned to any of them.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 30 July 2024 04:02 (one month ago) link
It's better than anything WS everdid imo. Yes, it is THAT good.
― nostormo, Tuesday, 30 July 2024 04:04 (one month ago) link
about a minute into the first song after his vocals kicked i tuned out. the guitar work was great otherwise.
jack white may be a billy corgan.
need to immediately create the corgan standard as a person musically you can respect, but vocally/lyrically you have to turn a blind eye one, two, way too many blind eyes.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 30 July 2024 05:52 (one month ago) link
*shrug* same deal as White Stripes vocally. The guitar work rips and the songs are pretty wild-eyed, which is all I ask of JW III.
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 06:04 (one month ago) link
This is on Spotify now
― nate woolls, Thursday, 1 August 2024 23:40 (one month ago) link
Definitely feels like his most inspired solo album.
― Mr. Manicotti, Saturday, 3 August 2024 13:16 (one month ago) link
This is ao much better than the Stripes (and of course the rest of his solo output): sharp, loud from beginning to end, no unnecessary ballads, not trying too hard and notcommercialized. A masterpiece.
― nostormo, Saturday, 3 August 2024 18:56 (one month ago) link
Damn it, you guys are going to make me try this out.
You know how with some bands/musicians, you need a lot of data points before you can start to wrap your head around them? Like, you can’t hear one Ween album and really appreciate Ween.
Jack White and his music are the opposite. The more data points, the less I appreciate it and even the earlier stuff that I liked a lot starts to fall apart. So much of it is posturing and play acting, but I guess a lot of music is like that.
I was listening to an old mix cd yesterday that had Ball and Biscuit on it. Initially I was excited, then I started noticing how slight the song is, and then some sweet gnarly solos shut me up.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 3 August 2024 19:05 (one month ago) link
does anyone still listen to jon spencer anymore? seems like another case of "the more you hear the less you want to hear". and obviously they are similar artists.
though i will say that jack white has some memorable songs and outside of pussy galore jon spencer does not.
as someone who has been watching the friggin' olympics for 8 days "memorable" is putting it mildly.
― scott seward, Saturday, 3 August 2024 19:36 (one month ago) link
I agree that JW is probably a better songwriter than JS, but I would much rather listen to JS. I still like the White Stripes and have held on to my CDs/LPs, but I'm much more likely to listen to the Blues Explosion, or Royal Trux.
All of those guys deal in artifice and projecting grimy Stones vibes to some extent, but White doesn't seem to do as much with it. He comes across as more sincere than those other bands, but he doesn't have anything more to say so he feels slighter.
I dunno, he's still got a lot of good jams. I haven't heard Seven Nation Army in a while but if it came on I'd turn it up.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 3 August 2024 19:57 (one month ago) link
I still listen to Pussy Galore all the time — Dial 'M' For Motherfucker is a masterpiece — but the Blues Explosion never seemed to have any songs, it all sounded like rehearsal tapes of three dudes throwing ideas around hoping something would congeal.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 3 August 2024 19:59 (one month ago) link
i don't really listen to pussy galore anymore but i loved them at the time. i bought all the records. i love trash can rock. i got rid of anything i bought after PG that was PG-related. boss hogg. JSBE. i don't think i ever bought a Bewitched record. i was never a royal trux fan. much to the chagrin of 95% of the indie people i know. i think PG just tapped into something groovy and by themselves they were never as strong. i might enjoy Orange if i heard it. that had the most real songs on it i think.
i was a huge gun club fan. and i probably always compared jack white and WS unfavorably (and probably unfairly) to gun club. jack white to me was the pale ghost of gun club, pixies, flat duo jets. but he outsold all of them by 59585853% so good for him. good going fella!
― scott seward, Saturday, 3 August 2024 21:26 (one month ago) link
i'll listen to some of the new one on my big speakers though. i'm open-minded!
― scott seward, Saturday, 3 August 2024 21:27 (one month ago) link
i just listened to my first jon spencer album last week (cleaning out some cd's left behind 20 years ago by an ex), and the irony has not aged well. at least jack white committed fully to the bit, and didn't have to keep reassuring you that he was in on the joke.
based on the early reviews here, i'm actually excited to listen to the new one, which hasn't been true since elephant.
― enochroot, Saturday, 3 August 2024 23:06 (one month ago) link
Big fan of RTX and JSBE, but I've never heard Pussy Galore. I should probably rectify that. Where's the best place to start?
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 3 August 2024 23:08 (one month ago) link
They have two full-length albums, Right Now! and Dial 'M' for Motherfucker, that are great. Both are on Spotify, but not on Tidal for some reason. They also recorded a track-by-track cover of the Rolling Stones' Exile On Main St. which is more entertaining to contemplate than to listen to (they clearly lose interest in the project pretty quickly but slog it out all the way to the end). That's streaming, too.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 3 August 2024 23:35 (one month ago) link
O
― brimstead, Sunday, 4 August 2024 00:40 (one month ago) link
whoopspussy galore’s music is pretty terrible but they looked cool as hell!imagine releasing that yuck yuck blues explosion shit in 2024!
― brimstead, Sunday, 4 August 2024 00:43 (one month ago) link
i love the sugarshitsharp EP. one side is just an einsturzende neubaten cover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL4nPZWKlHU
― scott seward, Sunday, 4 August 2024 01:00 (one month ago) link
"neubauten"
― scott seward, Sunday, 4 August 2024 01:02 (one month ago) link
their last album is kinda the beginning of royal trux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clkj8P3X6Po
― scott seward, Sunday, 4 August 2024 01:06 (one month ago) link
i came on board in a big way in 1986 with the Groovy Hate Fuck release. what can i say, i was a fan of the jesus & mary chain and richard kern and sonic youth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK_ICQhRaeE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKNHEU6OCy4
― scott seward, Sunday, 4 August 2024 01:09 (one month ago) link
but the two albums that unperson highlighted are their most sustained efforts. album as album experiences. they're a lot of fun. if you like noise rock with kitchen utensil percussion.
― scott seward, Sunday, 4 August 2024 01:10 (one month ago) link
jack white should cover this one for a b-side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IK9pBpOFpk
― scott seward, Sunday, 4 August 2024 01:14 (one month ago) link
Still taking this one in.
I love all 6 white stripes albums, and the ratio of stripes songs I like to all the other projects' songs I like is probably 2 to 1.
"Bless Yourself" could have easily fit on Elephant or Icky Thump. It's the kind of stomp I enjoy most from White.
My least favorite White stuff is where he's trying to figure out failed relationships. We're all just fumbling about, Jack.
― nicky lo-fi, Monday, 5 August 2024 14:04 (one month ago) link
Since we’ve sidetracked into talking about Pussy Galore I’d say Groovy Hate Fuck and Right Now are absolute must listens…two of my alltime favorites…but pretty much everything they did was great including the live album. Agree that JSBE is mostly skippable though.
― Slim is an Alien, Monday, 5 August 2024 16:28 (one month ago) link
The Blues Explosion live album, Controversial Negro, is OK. It feels like one long song, which captures their jabbering, string-a-bunch-of-shit-together-for-an-hour thing pretty well.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 5 August 2024 16:42 (one month ago) link
The 18 seconds Blues Hammer plays in Ghost World pretty much destroyed JSBE for me, what with the pretty frontman and the plausible legacy opening act. I know that's not really where Spencer was coming from, but it made the silliness of the Explosion seem somehow less fun than the absurdist misanthropy of PG.
― Theracane Gratifaction (bendy), Monday, 5 August 2024 18:47 (one month ago) link
i'd rather just listen to 90s noise-rock. jesus lizard. the cows? i don't really listen to the cows. but amrep/T&G has always been my standard for lo-fi scuzz. i'm not a big retro/nu-garage/nu-rockabilly band kinda person. i've never had a pompadour. the hives were fun for a minute. same with rocket from the crypt. i'm so glad ILM turned me on to A Frames. maybe Matos? that's the stuff! goth doom garage goodness. or just any crazy kid indie punk band from australia. they make a new one every week down there! and they always sound cool! i don't know how they do it.
― scott seward, Monday, 5 August 2024 20:39 (one month ago) link
A Frames were so greatI don't listen to JSBX on the regular but I'm fond of them and goddamn at their peak they could absolutely destroy a club, one of the great live bands also I mean, it was meant to be a bit silly and funny is how I always took it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 August 2024 20:42 (one month ago) link
stuff like this is fun to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O_E_siN2rU
― scott seward, Monday, 5 August 2024 20:43 (one month ago) link
there was definitely a time and moment in the zeitgeist for JSBX for sure.
i really did love pussy galore so i don't want to diss the guy too much. he just went in a direction that wasn't really my bag.
― scott seward, Monday, 5 August 2024 20:44 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeW-mOXdkvU
^ always puts me in a good mood
― fpsa, Monday, 5 August 2024 21:15 (one month ago) link
i'm not a big retro/nu-garage/nu-rockabilly band kinda person. i've never had a pompadour.
The A-Bones were a fucking blast live. I was at their "farewell" show at Maxwell's and it was just a preposterously drunken rock 'n' roll party. I saw Reverend Horton Heat pretty early on, too, maybe on the tour for his second album. That was a good show.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 5 August 2024 21:40 (one month ago) link
I’ve still never really heard anything like Rocket From The Crypt’s Circa Now, it’s like if Wire worked at Boll Weevil and ate a bunch of glue
― brimstead, Monday, 5 August 2024 23:12 (one month ago) link
wire/pixies idk weird album
A Frames rule, yes
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 5 August 2024 23:46 (one month ago) link
I'm really surprised at how much I love this record. Now I'm suddenly a Jack White fan again.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 7 August 2024 04:51 (one month ago) link