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June 6th 2007 04:33
The White Stripes
Red is the new black
Loud and obnoxious the Detroit rock duo of Jack and Meg White, known as the White Stripes amplify raw, thumping instrumentals with economic lyrics. Their sound is a witches brew of classic country, blues and rock.
Just good friends
Claiming to be brother and sister it turns out that Jack and Meg were infact once married. Hitting the music scene in 1997 with their first live shows, their self titled debut Album was released 2 years later.
Cover of the album
Their second effort De Stijil (a Dutch artistic flavour that defined their image) was released in 2000 and was recorded in 8 track analog. It wasn’t until 2001 that they finally garnered critical and public attention with the studio work on White Blood Cells.
De Stijl cover art
The single “Fell In Love With a Girl” became the now famous lego themed music video Directed by Michael Gondry.
It was in 2003 that the band hit new commercial heights with the best selling, grammy awarded album Elephant. Including the singles “Seven Nation Army”, “I just don’t know what to do with myself”, “The Hardest Button to Button” and the effortless cool of “Ball and a Biscuit”.
Elephant
Around this time Jack was voted 17th in Rolling Stone magazines “100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time” and him and Meg appeared in Jim Jaramusch’s film Coffee and Cigarette’s. They also released the concert film, Under Blackpool Lights.
Their is an element of trust to any great band
2005 saw the arrival of Get Behind Me Satan and further praise was heaped on the band, the singles “Blue Orchid”, “My Doorbell” and “The Denial Twist” all becoming hits.
Conan had them on every night for a week
Touring endlessly since day one, in 2006 Jack also joined another band called The Raconteurs. Several EP’s were also released by the White Stripes over the years the most recent consisting of avante-garde orchesteral compositions.
Livin Live and loud
Their next Album titled Icky Thump is due for release on June 2007 and promises more high quality, minimally produced guitar licks and incisive observations about love, relationships and morality.
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Comment by Cibbuano
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I liked the White Stripes/Eric B. and Rakim mashup though!
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Comment by Tyronne
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The White Stripes do what they do so proficiently that it is hard to resist is you dig on strong riffs and rockin power.
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Hi Charliesgirl,
I love "I don't know what to do with myself" alot too. Happy to encourage further saturation of white stripes noise.
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