BCB 100 - The White Stripes
- geoffcowgill
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BCB 100 - The White Stripes
All gimmickry aside, they've put out some pretty fun music. Elephant is my favorite at this point, but I don't have the first and third albums. For bluesy bombast, I'll take "Hello Operator", but my absolute favorite of theirs is the gorgeous McCartney-fronts-The Faces piece of heaven that is "I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart". "I'm inclined to go finish high school/Just to let her notice that I'm around". Great line.
Favorite Album - Elephant
Favorite Song - "I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart"
Favorite Album - Elephant
Favorite Song - "I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart"
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They're just getting started, so I hope they can some day come close to it again, but for my money, nothing they've done has come close to comparing with Elephant. It's just so far and away the most musical, the best produced, the best songs, the best singing. It all really came together. In 50 years, especially if they don't approach it again, they'll still be talking about this one. In fact on other records, I find Jack's voice quite annoying, the songs unoriginal, the primitivism exaggerated. The new one's decent, but it's still a step backwards.
Album - Elephant, by several fathoms.
Song - The Hardest Button to Button
Album - Elephant, by several fathoms.
Song - The Hardest Button to Button
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I only own the latest album so I'm not best placed to comment on those. Fell In Love With A Girl was my favourite song but now it's been knocked off the pedestal now by The Denial Twist. Very cool and sexy track. I get lost in the music and never manage to follow the lyric but the opening four lines are just great and the delivery impeccable. Cool and cocky.
If you think that a kiss is all in the lips
C'mon, you got it all wrong, man
And if you think that our dance was all in the hips
Oh well, then do the twist
If you think that a kiss is all in the lips
C'mon, you got it all wrong, man
And if you think that our dance was all in the hips
Oh well, then do the twist
I can just about handle you driving like a pissed up crackhead and treating women like beanbags but I'm gonna say this once and once only Gene, stay out of Camberwick Green!
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Well, I've not heard the whole of Elephant, or Get Thee Behind Me Satan, but:
Album - DeStijl
Song - "Seven Nation Army"
Album - DeStijl
Song - "Seven Nation Army"
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White Blood Cells for me too. It's the first one I heard and I sw them around then too. Brilliant stuff really. I love the fact that Jack decided to deliberatley not make another blues LP, just to make it difficult for himself.
Fave song: Well, there are loads, but I really like "We're Going To Be Friends"
Fave song: Well, there are loads, but I really like "We're Going To Be Friends"
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Guys, Elephant is the worst album....
Album: De Stijl (just beating Get Behind Me Satan)
Song: Apple Blossom
Album: De Stijl (just beating Get Behind Me Satan)
Song: Apple Blossom
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Sir John Coan wrote:Somebody put 'Astro' in their BCB Cup list, and it quickly became a big favourite. Great song, good band.
That was me.
Album - The White Stripes
Song - Astro
I'm with Maxwell and the others who say Elephant is their worst album, by some distance in my opinion. I was ready for giving up on them after Elephant and was delighted they tried something a bit different for .....Satan.