9. The Hardest Button To Button
Another mystery to me, but it's a great song with a pounding drum beat...
10. Little Acorns
This one starts out silly. The first 57 seconds are nothing more than a lame NPR-esque monologue about a squirrel. Then the fierce music comes into play, and the lyrics are a derivative of the aforementioned monologue...
11. Hypnotise
Decent album filler...
12. The Air Near My Fingers
Decent album filler...
13. Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine
Less-than-decent album filler...
14. It's True That We Love One Another
A corny little ditty with sarcastic remarks between two lovers...
Out of 5 stars, this easily gets 4. The only negatives are the album's fairly weak final 4 songs, and the horrid singing of Meg White (of which there is thankfully little). Jack White, on the other hand, is all-powerful...
Article comments
1 - Douglas Mays
Good review. I agree. The last few songs you thought were weak? Yeah, maybe so. But it is cool that Meg got to sing. It shows reaching out and always looking for more. Good to see that in an artist. I think White Stripes will be around for a while. The Loretta Lynn works show that desire also.
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2 - RJ
"The last few songs you thought were weak?"
Upon further review, tracks 11 and 12 are pretty good, and surely better than "filler." But 13 is no bueno, hombre...
3 - Lono
I agree, there is more than a filler or two. The album though is a tour de force reinvention of rock and roll. I hate how they were lumped together with the Hives and the Vines, who do nothing for me. I am also a bit frustrated that they haven't released anything in a few years. I saw them on this tour and they were amazing.
An interesting note about the first song. A couple of years ago I saw audioslave open for Jane's Addiction (I think it was a new Lolla). Audioslave covered Seven Nation Army and it was very cool. What really stood out to me though was that I have seen hundreds of rock shows and it was the first time I saw a band cover a current song still in rotation. That says a tremendous amount to me about the quality of the song, and how influential the Stripes were.
It seems like they have been busy in England, and I think they have a DVD out. Unless you are Boston though, you can't do 10 years between each album.
4 - The Theory
it hasn't even been 2 years since "Elephant" released... and of their four cds, the first one released in 1999... four cds, five years... that's not bad at all.