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Anyone familiar with "White Stripes" ???

I keep hearing one of their tunes on the radio ( Fell in love with a girl ). It does not sound like the typical "alterna-metali-pap*" that some of the local stations typically play. As such, it did not seem to blend in that well and really caught my ear.

As soon as it started, i instantly pictured the Davies brothers ( aka The Kinks ) going of on one of their high energy rampages like back in "da old days". If someone would have told me that it was an old Kinks tune, i would have had no problem believing them.

With that in mind, does anybody know anything about this band ? Where are they from, how many albums, how is the rest of the album that this song came from, etc... ??? Are they worth checking out ??? Sean
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*simplification for the generic new music that blends alternative, metal, pop and rap all into one mish-mash that lacks creativity and individuality. You know the stuff, you hear it on the radio and MTV every day i.e. modern music "bullshit"...
sean
fujindemon
134 posts
 
just spotted the white stripes 'red blood cells' in the best buy sunday cicular for $7.99, how could you go wrong?
go and buy this right now...
btw, in the most polite of terms and sentiment, screw those indie rock hipster critics making you feel as though they are leading you by the nose toward the stripes with their recent pouring of accolades and attention drawing reviews. the stripes did not just land on the music scene, they've been here awhile and i've been enjoying their take on rock for some time. i think the same thing happened with a band called nirvana...
fujindemon
134 posts
 
before anyone hammers me, i was not trying to equate the white stripes and nirvana, just trying to emphasize that 'sub-popers' were quite familar with nirvana before rolling stone and mtv declared them the reluctant alternative saviors of a terribly stagnant popular music scene
sean OP
6,231 posts
 
Fujindemon, thanks for pointing out that Best Buy had this on sale. Picked it up and it's okay. Kind of old school stripped down rock and roll garage band material played with a somewhat "punk" attitude. I can hear quite a bit of "old fogey" influence ( Kink's and even Bob Dylan in some ways ) along with a million newer "garage-core" type bands. This is probably due to the minimalist recording and instrumentation. Kind of blends the best of the old and the new with a good dose of rocking attitude. Just don't expect anything fancy. Sean
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