White Stripes

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cramps = lower fi and better sound

I know I'm not making much sense, but can anyone relate? Or do they have a personal band that makes them feel calm and collected?

SPLIT

say what?

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".

Fuck off and die please.

What's fuiud anyway? Tried googling, nowt.

jon/via/chi: wow. chill out.

Yep, let's all defend the troll again.

"fuck
U
if
U
don't"

But I guess if I have to clarify that I wasn't being 100% serious when I posted "fuck off and die", then I've got bigger problems with my entire posting style.

Take it down a notch, man. Jeez.

But I guess if I have to clarify that I wasn't being 100% serious when I posted "fuck off and die", then I've got bigger problems with my entire posting style.

― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, February 3, 2011 11:37 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You've got much bigger problems than your posting style, apparently.

Did you just not read my last post? It wasn't a serious thing dude. I am seriously annoyed by your tendency to pop into threads only to toss in an insult, without any real attempt at engaging, but whatevs.

Dude? Who isn't letting it go now?

I propose settling this with a knife fight behind the gym after school

"I am seriously annoyed by your tendency to pop into threads only to toss in an insult"

I dont think that I do this, and i certainly dont go out of my way to be insulting, but hopefully your mommy taught you that sometimes not everybody's going to agree with you, and you're not always going to get your way. You're the one calling me a troll and telling me to die and being a fucking baby. I'm already over it.

propose settling this with a knife fight behind the gym after school

― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, February 3, 2011 11:53 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

I'm in

You apparently are "over" it. One facetious comment versus calling me names in like three consecutive posts? Buy one clue please.

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

Not reading the Daily Heil, I missed this, but wtf. Will Self’s comments that there’s a big difference between public interest and what the public are interested in came to mind.

Daily Mail accused of stalking woman mistaken as White Stripes drummer Meg White

i hate it when people who refuse to talk to scum journalists get labeled "reclusive," fuck off guardian

yeah i'm sure she's a lonely old cat lady with no friends .... give me a fucking break