Bit of a problem this; in these times of Stripular critical polarization (i.e. on one side, they are the best thing since, well, ever, and on the other side actually there is no other side) how do you say: "the single's not actually that amazing," without sounding like a mardy old bastard? Perhaps by sensibly pointing out that, whilst it marries some nice edge-of-your-seat lyrical grit with a nice whammy-bar-slide-guitar line, it doesn't quite match up to a 'Hotel Yorba' or a 'Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground'.
There's certainly a nice fat wedge of drama in there, and when Jack promises that "I'm gonna work this song/make the sweat drip from every pore", he means it, and you can see why the man is currently eyeing up Hollywood for his next career step. Regardless, blanket critical appreciation means that any Jack n' Meg doubters will need to look over their shoulder for a while longer when they utter words of dissent.
"Everybody knows about it/From the Queen of England to the hounds Of
hell". Quite, and that's probably half the problem.
White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
and not chicagoans?
maybe im just stoopid and missing summat here
just thought id mention it though
peep
Re: White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Re: White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Re: White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Re: White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Is that an actual *bass* on Seven Nation Army or just an effects pedal?
Re: White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
...still just the Emperor's new clothes
Re: ...still just the Emperor's new clothes
Re: ...still just the Emperor's new clothes
see them live, at arms length from your face, jack tearing into utterly electric blues riffs with a mind of their own...i truly never expected him to be *that* good, seriously
+ "girls can't drum"?!? yeah, really brought the velvets down, that...and (for wont another more current e.g., off the top of my head..) Erase Errata's is tight as fuck. Just cos whatshername from seafood's never been able to hit those beats at the start of "gun trip" with any precision live...
there's a difference between simple drumming (meg, moe tucker) and shit drumming. I saw one band the other day who's drummer was truly godawful, 1 neanderthal beat regardless of teh song he was accompanying, it may have been Kenesis but i might just be getting them mixed up as they're plain godawful anyway..
Re: ...still just the Emperor's new clothes
Re: ...still just the Emperor's new clothes
anyway, y'know i only come on the board here to hate on things and argue the fuck about stuff in a highly arsey fashion, adie! ;) it's the insomniaaaaaaaa......
Re: ...still just the Emperor's new clothes
Re: ...still just the Emperor's new clothes
Re: ...still just the Emperor's new clothes
but back to the point - i'd like to see you go lick-for-lick [ugh....thats a horrible word but i can't think of owt more appropriate, 'riff' isnt right..] with jack though - and i'm not talking about what he plays on record, i'm talking about the way he rips apart his on-record riffs and just flies into another electrified blues realm that stays true to the original aesthetic of the early early blues records jack adores so. wank wank wank. oops.
nov '01? was that in somewhere you could see right in front of you how jack was playing, then; or in slightly more cavarnously sized theatre venue, where, uh, you can't to that degree whatsoever unless yr in the front row? much as i abhor pomposity and selfrighteousness in people's posts and never would allow myself to be so...*deep breath*....yr comment re: jack's live guitar [it was live i was talking about so i assume you were too] is just drivel. yeah, every slightly-above-novice level guitarist can play like that, silly me for my astoundment..
ho hum..
thinking back to that other argument though....they really seem to polarise opinions, as this shows i spose..it all reached an utter impasse there too and blood was shed.... i did laugh [in an innocent rather than superior way] when someone compared them to the sultans of ping at one stage there tho.
So i'm happy to leave it, really..the meg issue is v open to attacks anyway, but thats my stance on it ;)
then again Dizzee Rascal's album's gonna be sooo better than 'elephant' [still havent bettered de stijl, imho zzz] so what do i fucking care :)
mmmm. i think you can tell i'm bored and narked this afternoon....
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Re: The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
this song ruins the image of girl drummers...
it sucks SOOOOOOOOO bad!