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Originally posted by Sparklehorse
I'm not sure if any of the music junkies are here today but I've been listening to the new White Stripes for a few weeks now. It is amusing, no doubt, but hardly earth shatteringly good. What's all the fuss about? Is it just the dearth of music that hasn't been American Idolized or hip hopped? (Distressed that Lucinda Williams makes a lame attempt at a rap poetry thing on her latest.)
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Its their simplicity that makes the Stripes great. Sure, they're now a packaged and marketed commodity (like every other moderately talented group the filthy greedheaded fucks who run the music biz can get their hands on), but the record is better than 99.9% of anything else on the radio these days.
That the Stripes pass for genius is a commentray on how bad the folks in the record business and at Clear Channel have made things.
Of course, the greatest bands of all time kept it simple, so maybe the Stripes are genius.
