The White Stripes
Elephant

I agree.

Yes.

But then how many times have you been told by every magazine or paper you read that such and such an album is going to change the way we listen to music, only to find that it's content is simply a cold and uninspired retread of previous endeavours?

The day this records was released my housemate purchased his copy from MVC as soon as he'd finished lectures. He said "maybe one day, I can look back and tell my grandchildren that I bought this first." Sgt. Pepper's this is not.

Fuck that. I thought it was shit too.

That is absolute rubbish.

There is very little in the way of editorial constraints on Drowned in Sound writers. People are free to write what they want to write, that is the "joy" of this site.

Reason it was late was cus the album promo's weren't sent out 'til the day of release cus of a security fear of it leaking to the net?!?! It was available 2months befoe release wasn't it?

The only reason articles don't go up is if they are poorly written or don't justify what they are saying i.e. blind hatred, obsessive love of a band with no backing up with whats and whys.

Sean

Jack White could fart into a jar and you'd probably still like it.

That isn't Meg singing on the last track, GOD i hate misinformed music journos. Did you not read the back of the CD?!? Obviously too much investigation required. And "There's No Home For You Here" is an intentional reworking, it doesn't just happen to sound like it.

But nah, I didn't think it was much cop either. So despite the inaccuracies, I guess the point was about right. "De Stijl" still to be bettered.

but hang on... Meg *does* sing on the last track (along with that Holly Golightly), and anyway nothing was said in the review about who was singing anyway, on that particular track.
I mean, misinformed music journos are unforgiveable scum - but what about misinformed messageboard post-ers? huh?

It did say that. The review has been changed i'm afraid

hmmm... your user number is 666.
*fear*

If any other band did the same fucking thing for four fucking albums, they'd have been told to go a long, long time ago. Everything from their dress code to the 'nothing pre-196whatever' to be used in making the record (they had fucking CDs int he 1960s didn't they?)stinks of blind novelty.

Musically though, it's average. The White Stripes have come pop because they've had a few decent pop tunes, but Elephant lacks these. It even shamelessly rehashes old tunes (the first vynil blatantly rips 'Dead Leaves...' somewhere. If the entire music press wasn't dicking them, then this would be an issue.

If you're ignorant to these facts that your either deaf, stupid or you have you cock in Jack White's fat arse too.

If two piece bands are so fucking good, then why is no one going on about all the other decent acts that were doing this at the same time as the Stripes started? Bands like Modey Lemon who drop with any novelty, but have easily as much soul?

Things get half-marks when they're average, and right now, open a dictionary, look up 'average' and you'll see a big hairy elephant shitting all over the page. There.

You moron !!!! You have no taste!!! The white stripes freakin saved rock music from its downfall in noisy and meaningless songs about killing people!!! I'd like to see what you listen to!!! You probably dance in your room to Britney Spears!!! If you're not even able to talk properly without using curse words then u're probably too stupid to appreciate what good music really sounds like, I pity you !!!

I like The White Stripes...I really do. I like the rough sound, the two-piece thing, the 8-track thing, the rock they crawled out from under...all of it, but I don't get "Elephant". "White Blood Cells" was pretty good, not great, but pretty good (especially considering all the other junk in the music world that you get to pick from),so when I heard all the great news about "Elephant" I had to get it. I don't get it.
Everybody, I mean everybody is giving "Elephant" God-like praise and rating it best album-of-the-year an so on. It's terrible. It is such an awful album. I'm not going to get into whether the drums are bad or the lyrics are bad or anything like that. A lot of great Rock and Roll is made by people who aren't great "Writers" or "Musicians". I would even argue that those things get in the way of the big picture, the big picture being the songs and the sounds. If I wanted important words I'd read a book. If I wanted good chops I'd listen to classical. So it seems, at least to me, The White Stripes have the right stuff to get the job done and apparently everybody, except me, thinks they did. I just don't understand. I feel like I'm in an episode of The Twilight Zone.
I know what people say about critics; they criticize because they can't do. That's not the case here and that's what bothers me so much. To prove it, my friend Tommy and I recorded some songs on a Tascam Porta-One 4-track recorder. Tommy played drums, I played guitar, and we both did vocals. Two people, half the tracks, and none of the money. Judge for yourself. Do it yourself. http://www.videocentral.org/the_white_stripes/

White Stripes "Elephant" is definitely one of my all-time favorites. I instantly fell in love with the album since the first time I listened to it. Hope their next one blows elephant out of the water!

I love the white stripes. I think they are kings among insects. I really do. Love. Black . Sick

same here