#41

4/5

Live Under Blackpool Lights is one of the greatest concert films of all time

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#42

Always loved this performance.

The sound they get from the two of them is incredible.

4 for me because I love the highs.

edit: also I’m basically knocking a point off because Jack White’s ‘solos’ got pretty fucking boring and irritating very quickly.

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#43

They were fine. Enjoyed them a lot when they headlined Reading, thought their onestage chemistry was great, much less so at Glastonbury a year or so later. Heard their albums quite a lot when I was at uni, as everyone seemed to have them and Spotify wasn’t a thing. 3

#44

Came in here to post this video. Good work.

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#45

Loved them at the time but rarely listen to them at all now. Like the noisier garage rock tracks but find the twee ballads a bit cringe-worthy. For me, I don’t think the Stripes albums have aged as well as say the Strokes. No idea why this is though.

#46

a strong 2

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#47

Like many others I rarely listen to them now but it’s a 5 if nothing else for one of my favourite ever live shows:

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-white-stripes/2001/dingwalls-london-england-bde319e.html

I think all the albums have something to recommend them, but I think they took the limited template to its natural conclusion. If I do want to listen to them I usually go for their Peel session, which I have a bootleg of. But see it’s been rereleased by 3rd Man:

The July ‘01 session (Recorded 5 days after the Dingwalls show) in particular is as close as I’ve heard them get to capturing the live show. Blistering:

#48

That Doorbell song is embarrassingly shit.

Jack White seems a thundercunt

2/5

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#49

How have you decided on the tracklist for each band because one of the Fleetwood Mac tracks only got two votes. Or is it based on tracks you like. I love the playlist by the way. Just wondering.

#50

This is interesting with alphabet of music - W coming up.

#51

Given them 4/5 not cos I was ever that into them but cos my eldest was and it was her first musical awakening.

When she was about 2 and a half she would sit perfectly still on her little stool with headphones that were massively too big for her on, listening to Elephant from beginning to end. You could tell where one track would end cos she would kick her feet and shout MORE MUSIC! and then the next track would start and she would grin and clap her hands over the massive cans. It was pretty much the only way of keeping her engaged in something without her wandering off or jiffling about, it worked way better than cbeebies. She had no interest at all in any other white stripes album, the only other thing that kept her attention in the same way was Fever To Tell by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

So thank you white stripes for being my daughter’s first musical love and for giving my wife and me some moments of peace in our toddler rearing days.

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#52

No matter how hard I try I will never get The Strokes

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#53

got a couple tunes but i find them generally extremely irritating

2/5

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#54

Feel like their star has fallen to a suitable degree 3 star band. Solid, kistebabke, defo enjoy a couple of their records but most unremarkable

#55

big 5, love them. Have a strong bias as Elephant was I think the first album I decided to go and buy from a shop without my older brother nudging me to. One of the few I got heavily into then which I’d happily stick on now. And then good memories of yelling Hello Operator, Icky Thump, FILWAG etc along with all time doogs at parties and stuff. Obviously the rockier stuff is a storming good time, but I also like the slightly creepy edge that the quirkier stuff has, stops it being too twee.

Wish I’d seen them live, closest I got was falling asleep/passing out in front of the large screen in the middle of Reading Festival while Raconteurs were on. JW was doing one of his squealy solos and I’d just eaten the remnants of a giant filled Yorkshire pudding which I’d found discarded somewhere.

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#56

3 I think. They’re one of those bands I heard a lot of because my friends were into them but didn’t really click with until Get Behind Me Satan, which I listened to so much that the CD broke so I bought another copy. Blue Orchid, The Nurse and Red Rain are still my favourites of theirs.

Points docked because every one of their albums has at least five tracks of filler and because Jack White is the absolute worst.

#57

All the comments here griping about Jack White being terrible because he’s a grumpy weirdo or whatever definitely make me really glad I skipped, say, the whole Led Zeppelin thread

#58

Saw the Raconteurs at Glastonbury, felt like it was nothing but a long JW squealy solo. Gave up halfway and saw Jeremy Hardy instead.

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#59

4 for the music and at their best an incredible live band. Minus a point for Jack Whote threatening Lauren Laverne.

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#60

Top 3 singles and 2 either chosen by me from being mentioned in the thread or picked by a special guest, like for FM.

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