Man much as I canāt deny how gifted a drummer Barker is I absolutely detest what he did to a whole generation of young drummers. #teamScott
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Just want to add my name to the, āJack White appears to be a terrible terrible prick,ā column.
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#teamlauren
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He also went ball and biscuit at Lauren Laverne in her dressing room.
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Woah, thatās mad. Do we know for sure it was him or is it just an assumption?
Thereās something about female drummers that seems to wind up bellends. Theyāre like kryptonite to them
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Yeah my love for the WS coincided with my teenage guitar playing phase - I got tab books by loads of bands (so fucking expensive lol) and weirdly I could never play anything that sounded like Guns n Roses or Radiohead BUT even with a shitty guitar and beginner amp I could make a racket that sounds like Jack White.
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exactly this, except I was 20ā¦Had a tab book for the Bends, could just about manage High and Dry but even that sounded shit. I could pick almost any WS song and find a tab and it would sound 99% there on my Ā£50 spanish acoustic
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Abstain - donāt know enough about them apart from 7 nation army and fell in love with a girl
really liked them at the time and thought they were fucking great live.
I was going out with a girl at the time who was a classical musician and i took her to see the white stripes live, her first rick n roll gig if you will. Anyway at the end of the gig she turned to me and said āwow, that was fucking incredible, i should come to more of these gigs with youā
Like a few others have said i almost never go back and listen to their records but when i hear one of the radio of in a pub and iām happy to hear it.
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Yeah it was him. I asked when that was published
and thereās a Daily Mail article link in there where she is explicit.
EDIT: obvious TW for visiting the old site - I havenāt read through that so there could be huge amounts of misogyny etc.
itās weird to think just how big they were around the time of White Blood Cells. Like, they were fucking everywhere, all the time. Was mad. I had a mate at college who was well into them, and despite me not really liking them at first, he lent me the earlier stuff which I thought was really good. Was excited when Elephant came out, and then when it did I remember thinking āis this it?ā After that, I just couldnāt be arsed with it all, and it seems neither could they - took the thing to its logical conclusion, so fair enough.
However, Jack White seems like a deeply unpleasant person, and all his solo/ side projects have been quite crap, so there you go. Oh, and he beat up that guy from the Von Bondies too didnāt he? They actually seemed like the better band at one point as well.
A very exciting live band and their albums always have at least 3/4 decent tunes on.
4/5.
White Blood Cells was so exciting when it came out.
Along with The Strokes, timing I guess
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Mmmm, atd-I are too weird for that role though, Jimmy Eat World were the proper emo crossover innit.
I wonder what the link for āgarage rockā (lol) almost entirely from New York City exploding was, however. It kind of set the precedent for the rest of the decade but I canāt think what directly came before it to set it off, people being pissed that Radiohead went electronic perhaps? Like itās wild to me that White Blood Cells and Is This It? Is only a year after Kid A and White Pony.
Itās like the year 2000 was the culmination of 90s music and then 2001 came along and hit the reset button
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Ugh and I just realised all these albums I mentioned are about to hit their 20th anniversaries fuuuuuuuuck
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Youāve pretty much got exactly my lived experience with them. Recorded them off the radio when they first did their Peel session so was very into the first 3 LPs. Elephant, for me, seemed a bit lazy. Beyond that I enjoyed the odd single. Canāt much stand any Jack White solo stuff.
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This is exactly it. Apart from Black Math which is fucking brilliant.
Football chants genuinely played a big part in this.
Seven Nation Army was inescapable at the match.
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I always read it more as a response to Nu-Metal being the dominant āalternativeā music for 4-5 years beforehand. There was a huge appetite for something that wasnāt self-pitying butt-rock and the ānew rockā thing was what filled it.