Word on the street is that after 30 years of innovative, pioneering, unique sounding music; The White Stripes are finally calling it a day. They say they're doing it to preserve "what is good" about their music. And I'd like to think that their fans would respect them for that rather than whine about how much it sucks they won't make any more albums. It is better to go out on a high after all.
So rather than review the most popular songs like "Hardest Button to Button" or "Fell in love with a girl"; i've decided to go right back to the beginning, to where it all started. This track is called "Broken Bricks" and it's from the bands very first album, self titled "The White Stripes".
This track really embodies that bluesy, soulful, rock sound that the white stripes would later become famous for. It composes of Jack's notorious fast paced guitar strumming, with meg white's iconic heavy footed, and cymbal splashy style of drumming! You can't really hear the lyrics very clearly because they're drowned out by the drums. This is probably due to the 'Do It Yourself' style of recording that the white stripes continuously employed to make their albums. But to be honest, you don't need to hear the words in order to enjoy this song. Jack's famous high pitched, whiny, voice rather lends itself to the music, giving it that certain "je ne sais quoi" that it was missing.
Overall, this song is by no means the best song that the White Stripes ever made, in fact, unless your a die hard 'stripes' fan, the album isn't really that good; but this was where it started 30 years ago; and it was from this point that the band developed their sound and gave us some of the music that will live on forever in our Mp3 Players, car stereos, and in our hearts! So, raise your headphones and join me in saying, Thank you White Stripes, thank you for the music! (no ABBA reference inteded, i hate ABBA, but thats for another day!).
amen!
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