Jack White-Lazaretto

[LemonMelon]

1. Elephant
2. De Stijl
3. Get Behind Me Satan
4. White Blood Cells
5. Self-titled
6. Icky Thump

1. Consolers of the Lonely

2. Sea of Cowards
3. Blunderbuss
4. Horehound
5. Lazaretto

I haven't heard Broken Boy Soldiers for some reason. I'll fix that.

 

[cobl04]

Songs I Know By The White Stripes

1. Seven Nation Army
2. The Hardest Button to Button

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Reasons To Murder Cobbler:

1. Countless

 

[u2popmofo]

1. Friggin'
2. Australian
3. Donkey suit
4. White Stripes
5. New Pornographers
6. Still Australian
7. Buys DJ Koze album but doesn't listen to it
8. Various others

 

[cobl04]

 

[martha]

1. Second White Stripes show
2. First White Stripes show
3. First Dead Weather show
4. Second Dead Weather show
5. Raconteurs show






6. Jack White solo show last tour

 

[david]

I got my vinyl copy today. Gimmicks aside, the album is great. I would love a regular vinyl edition however.

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[lazarus]

Also, Laz, why the fuck do you still use other people's opinions in arguments? Who gives a fuck? It's fucking pathetic. Especially Pitchfork. So stupid, and so weird from you when you're clearly very smart and an exceptional thinker. Most of the time.

I quoted Pitchfork because my statement about Satan being hastily done was questioned.

I don't dislike the album, just don't get as much pleasure out of it as I do with the others. I appreciate the experimentation but the tunes just aren't there for me. It has higher peaks than the self-titled but the latter is probably more consistent.

Not sure why Icky Thump gets so much shit. Because it doesn't do anything new? It's a hell of a lot of fun and has a considerable number of standout tracks.

 

[LemonMelon]

Why I was disappointed by Icky Thump:

-Lack of identity
-Horrible mastering and uncomplimentary production
-Overly wordy lyrics that don't allow the instrumentation to breathe (this is something U2 has suffered from over the past decade)

Really, it was a good place for them to end. Not a bad album, but I don't hear the magic and wonder of the early stuff, which took blues rock and made it sound completely fresh.

 

[david]

There's a rare mono mastering of the Icky Thump vinyl that was mastered by Steve Hoffman and was released as a vault only release many years ago. I'd love to hear it.

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[bono_man2002]

Songs I Know By The White Stripes

1. Seven Nation Army
2. The Hardest Button to Button

Reasons Cobbler needs to go to JB HiFi

1. The White Stripes
2. De Stijl
3. White Blood Cells
4. Elephant
5. Get Behind Me Satan
6. Icky Thump

 

[corianderstem]

First listen - I like it quite a bit.

 

[feedthetree]

I can tell a lot of these songs are quite personal. Which makes me think, Jack has three women? One in California (blonde Renee Zellweger), brunette in Detroit (Meg White) and in Nashville (red head ex wife Karen Elson).

I like it. Pretty raw.

 

[mikal]

Years on from all of the initial releases, the only one that doesn't really sit perfectly in my mind is Icky Thump. I think it's probably their worst, although I do love a number of the tracks on it.

The rest, yeah, are pretty perfect in my mind. Classics. I adore them. Especially WBC and Elephant.

Fuck it, I'll start off the stupid chain of people posting their rankings:

1. White Blood Cells
2. Elephant
3. Satan
4. De Stijl
5. Self-titled
6. Icky Thump

Ranking the Jack White non-Stripes albums:

1. Consolers of the Lonely
2. Broken Boy Soldiers
3. Lazaretto
4. Blunderbuss
5. Horehound
6. Sea of Cowards

^ None of the six above are on par with any of the six Stripes albums, by the way.

Also, Laz, why the fuck do you still use other people's opinions in arguments? Who gives a fuck? It's fucking pathetic. Especially Pitchfork. So stupid, and so weird from you when you're clearly very smart and an exceptional thinker. Most of the time.

Speaking of your first non White Stripes albums, Carolina Drama is one of my favorite songs in the last 10 years.

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[Danny Boy]

New Jack White single out today.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/connected-by-love-single/1331218953

Decent on first listen. The b-side is experimental and all over the place but more interesting.

ETA: The intro to the single reminds me of SLABT.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

What the hell is SLABT?

 

[Joey788]

Sleep Like A Baby Tonight

I really like "Connected By Love." That organ solo absolutely crushes.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Ahhh. I honestly didn't make that connection and I'm usually pretty good with the U2 acronyms.

Yeah these new songs are really good. This is probably the 2018 album I'm most excited about (as far as albums that have been officially announced).

 

[lazarus]

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/track...ommander/?mbid=homepage-more-latest-and-video

oof.

 

[Joey788]

So is Jack White over now too? Does he join Arcade Fire in the Pitchfork doghouse?

Funnily enough, as someone who's generally lukewarm on Jack White, I think both of these songs are excellent.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Yeah, the vocal melody in Connected by Love is huge. Fuck Pitchfork.

 

[lazarus]

I haven't listened myself. For someone who loved the White Stripes through their final album, I really haven't been interested in his post-band output. Nothing I've heard since grabs me in the same way.

 

[Danny Boy]

Just scored 2 GA's in the presale for the Seattle show.

 

[martha]

Are the TM Verified Fan presale codes 7 digits? I just randomly got two seven-digit codes on my phone. I didin't think I'd completed the registration, but maybe I did.


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[Danny Boy]

I used the Vault presale code. It was only 5 digits.

 

[martha]

Thanks. I have no idea what these codes are for.


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[martha]

There are still somewhat crappy bench seats for the show in San Diego in August. And so far, there's no LA date. And of the times I've seen him, the show for whichever solo album it was was the least compelling of the times I've seen him.

So. Wait? Go? Forget the whole damn thing?


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