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The White Stripes
De Stijl
(Sympathy For The Record Industry, 2000)
A musical volcano erupts in Detroit; world still experiencing aftershocks...
2002 would be the year rock’n’roll came riding back into town – the year The Stokes’ Is This It and The White Stripes’ White Blood Cells washed away all that nu-metal silliness and the dingy moan of Embrace and their ilk. However, Jack White’s living room in 1999 was another time, another place. Having made few waves with their debut album and with a certain John Gillis still occupying himself as lead guitarist of Detroit group The Go, The White Stripes were still a hobby band when, at the request of his ‘Big Sister’ Meg, they set about recording De Stijl on an 8-track analogue tape-recorder. Everything that we now know and love about the White Stripes tumbled out. Jumble Jumble has Jack desperately preaching to us, not of impending apocalypse but of the perils of an unclean house, while his guitar spits and snarls like a rabid animal; meanwhile, Meg hits the drums like an excited kid watching a classmate doing something he shouldn’t. Upright sentiment (Sister Do You Know My Name?) and weird humour (You’re Pretty Good Looking) mix, while the Son House cover, Death Letter, shakes the Mississippi delta, with a dash of punk and a new genre is born (or, at the least, popularised). Not only was the content of their songs a breath of fresh air, but the religious fervour with which they were proclaimed and played created a world in which we could believe, regardless of their contrived sartorial code and their ‘brother, sister, husband, wife’ shenanigans. We would never hear the band so intimately again – they didn’t expect anyone to be listening. Luckily we were and have been ever since.
Dom Millard
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 9:49 AM GMT 27/05/2008
Further Listening
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells (XL, 2001)
The Black Keys – Thickfreakness (Fat Possum, 2005)
The Troggs – From Nowhere (Fontana, 1966)
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what a crap review. Jesus.
Posted by Pim Pong at 4:14 PM GMT 28/05/2008 Report Abuse
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is that bloke above actually called Jesus. What a knobber. Great Article I reckon.
Posted by Glen Eagle at 4:18 PM GMT 28/05/2008 Report Abuse
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RE: Pim Pong
I find it hard to believe that anyone listens to such rubbish as The White Stripes-they are devoid of any discernible songs,talent or musicianship. They are barely competent at their craft. Emperor's New Clothes syndrome writ large.
Posted by Bes du-Cille at 12:37 PM GMT 11/07/2008 Report Abuse
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Nice review, thank you. DeStijl is a hard one to describe, very visceral recording, IMO the Stripes at their best. This record is at times quirky and curious and intimate while still holding the command to touch something inside the listener. It is a snapshot of a band hungry for success and laying themselves bare in the process. A simply perfect record.
Posted by Joelle at 1:02 PM GMT 11/10/2008 Report Abuse
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