Not only does my friend think Contortions cover of "I Can't Stand Myself" is similar to White Stripes "Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine", but he thinks it's totally obvious and refuses to hear otherwise! I have no fucking idea what my friend is talking about.
Please help me settle this debate. Are these songs similar? Similar enough for it to be obvious? To me this is completely ridiculous.
Perhaps there could be a few similarities, but if so they should be very tenuous.
He has given explanations like:
"both employ grungy, twisted sounding feedback and minimal structured music (other than the simple cords the white stripes like so much)"
"the white stripes take a cord or two and play it over and over again throughout a song"
"and other than that, there's guitar feedback and messing about"
"and the heavy feedback and messing about is what makes the two similar"
― Laszlo Kovacs (Laszlo Kovacs), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)
Play him some gotdamned Yardbirds (starting point: "Train Kept A Rollin'". Or "Stroll On"; it's the same fucking song but the latter is cooler because it was in
Blow Up). It'll blow his mind.
And out of tangential curiosity, does said friend buy into the inane and misguided "The Strokes sound just like VU" myth that refuses to die a far too belated death?
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)
No, this friend doesn't like Strokes or VU, so I doubt he even would say that.
― Laszlo Kovacs (Laszlo Kovacs), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)