defend the indefensible: jack white

Also, the pic at the top of that Billboard link made me straight LOL for like 20 secs. straight.

He looks like he's starring in a biopic about Johnny Depp

#teddyperkins

Nicki's eyes are like, "!!!?"

...having just listened to the initial track posted by Seward....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDGlN6mluGA

He has an attachment to the number three,[40][146] stemming from seeing three staples in the back of a Vladimir Kagan couch he helped to upholster as an apprentice.[54] His business ventures frequently feature "three" in the title and he typically appends "III" to the end of his name.[31] During the White Stripes 2005 tour in the UK, White began referring to himself as "Three Quid"—"quid" being British slang for pound sterling.[147]

I loved the stripes, seeing them in 2004 was all time classic, still great few times after but I hated doorbell and the icky thump single. Not heard this recent solo album but the other two are lyrically interesting but hes become way too maximalist, he repeats several obv musical themes, and I feel like hes really trying a bit too hard now to show hes open minded and up to date, not closed off to hip hop or other post-blues/rnr black genres (or for that matter, violins and brass, grrr) and I guess he knows rap has the popular edge but sometimes it looks a bit false, or like he is biting his tongue, like in that nikki interview. Though I did lol to see that he had included rakims dont sweat the technique in a live session. Also his production or just the sound of his first two solo records was kinda flat and boring.

Blunderbuss and lazaretto IIRC were incredibly samey too, as if they were a delayed double album.

yeah it's sad he's not more publicly racist

Um ok.

I'd love it if he produced Gary Clark or cody chestnut tbh. A song with Jay z (I think he was trying to do one), not so much. But if doing that keeps his pressing plant alive, then who cares really. Hes become a kind of one man industry since the stripes really. Living the vinyl dream.

song in the OP is the most entertaining thing I've heard from him I'll give him that

Black Math

i liked those first few stripes albums up through elephant, which felt like a peak but at the same time it felt clear that he had kind of reached the limits of his ideas, that he just had a couple basic moves that he could only rearrange different version of

new single feat. Q-Tip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPA67w3J_g0

idk what to make of it yet but bassline reminds me of Shivaree’s “Goodnight Moon”

There are few musicians I find as consistently annoying across pretty much all planes. Solo, bands, collaborations, guest, producer, fashion sense ...

this is almost defensible, but after the fourth idea gets plopped into the mix, it becomes like some 2004 Soulwax mashup and loses the plot.

I was so resistant to the White Stripes at first, it was actually My Doorbell's ridiculous jive talking that caught me off guard and let me enjoy them on their own terms, shortly before the well ran dry. Continuing on the classic rock trajectory, he's well into his wilderness years, awaiting some future Rick Rubin or Alison Kraus to reel it in for him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpNj60awEiM

I thought for sure this revive would be for the above… if one believes that the demand for vinyl records will continue for decades, then indeed it would make a lot of sense for, not necessarily the three majors, but a number of individuals with the resources and will to recognize an opportunity and establish some factories…not only do you have to assemble/manufacture the equipment, but find people with the know how, or train them… my understanding is that many folks who operated at various levels manufacturing vinyl records before 1987 are reluctant to go through the enormous expense again, having moved on 30-35 years ago, when it is not at all clear that possibly five years from now that the people who are presently into, ahem, vinyls will still be into it…

Is there a sensible compromise? Something that can help ease the backlog and likely demand going forward, but something that can likely stay operational for decades? I don't think the vinyl "boom" will last, but I don't think demand will shrink down to what it was 20 or 30 years ago.

Holy shit, that video is like a villain beaming in to a Batman movie. Albeit a very reasonable villain.

Fear of the Dawn almost gives me of Montreal vibes

Meg needs to come out of retirement so Jack can stop making background music for bad coffee shops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJUDoB0errI

i dig the guitar on the train song! i can't help it! it just sounds bitchinwickedcool to me. there, JACK WHITE, you are DEFENDED.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiCkdG67axI

jesus, what have i become...

actually two different guitars that he plays on the train song. i like the first one best.

all the boomers in your store are contagious

(i like jack white a modest amount, its like if i went to costco and tried the jack white sample id be like hey is this p good and then costco is like do you wanna pay $17 for a bigass bag of jack white and then i'd be like noooo that's too much thank you, but i will get another sample next time im here)

yah, a little goes a very long way.

“Sir Edward Scissor Blues” never fails to crack me up, and it’s what pops into my head whenever JW is mentioned.

this white stripes “conquest” video and song is just like the worst, lamest, most embarrassing shit ever. Jesus.

“Sir Edward Scissor Blues” never fails to crack me up, and it’s what pops into my head whenever JW is mentioned.

that is hilarious but where is it from? This thread is the only google hit for it.

If I remember right, Berman was palling around with one of the Black Keys and that was his nickname for White.

Good zing Berman

Great zing, but I would take one middling Jack White song over the entire Black Keys catalog.

The worst White Stripes song over the entire Black Keys catalog maybe but the Raconteurs and solo White aren't even sports bar jukebox-worthy.

I wouldn’t know. I’ve never heard anything after the Reconteurs’ debut single. Thanks for the warning.

the second raconteurs album is really really good. great rhythm section in that band too

WTF
The dude dropped a great record out of nowhere

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgNdTRU5xLbJZXvhYjSfFovo0MS1sOga2&si=bPnG4T_aiztaNgqx

not a JW fan normally, but i am really enjoying this.
suspect it's easy to grab now, but i can drop a link to my google drive for it in 320 if anyone is interested ..

Official release soon
https://www.reddit.com/r/jackwhite/s/nxNuNpzTAH

I hope they wont ruin the raw, compressed mix that bnefir the songs a lot

I’m halfway through this album and fuck me if it’s not the best thing I’ve heard from him since Elephant… though I actually haven’t bothered with his solo albums after the first one.

I'll have to give this a good listen. Love the White Stripes and love his first solo album, Blunderbuss, but I've had mixed feelings about everything he's put out since - outside of what he'll play at a show, haven't really returned to any of them.

It's better than anything WS everdid imo.
Yes, it is THAT good.

about a minute into the first song after his vocals kicked i tuned out. the guitar work was great otherwise.

jack white may be a billy corgan.

need to immediately create the corgan standard as a person musically you can respect, but vocally/lyrically you have to turn a blind eye one, two, way too many blind eyes.

*shrug* same deal as White Stripes vocally. The guitar work rips and the songs are pretty wild-eyed, which is all I ask of JW III.

This is on Spotify now

Definitely feels like his most inspired solo album.

This is ao much better than the Stripes (and of course the rest of his solo output):
sharp, loud from beginning to end, no unnecessary ballads, not trying too hard and notcommercialized. A masterpiece.