GA: Does this mean our "people's committee" is accepting advice and consent from the blog community?
LM: Anyone can join the movement, but the movement waits on consent from no man, blogger, or primate. You can't stop the movement. Viva Democracy! And long live El Presidente-to-be, Jack White, and his filthy assistant, Meg White (with apologies to Warren Ellis and the inimitable Transmetropolitan).
Without further ado, the leaders of the political movement--
Al: Junta.
LM: Okay, Al, whatever you say. The people's committee presents White Stripes Nation, an examination of a carefully chosen list of songs by said duo. Pure White Stripes, and a look at the influences what built them, the ways in which they connect to other songs and albums, and all the reasons you need to start loving the band right now. "Seven Nation Army" is only the first of perhaps two dozen songs for your consideration in establishing Meg and Jack's fitness to rule.
Manifesto II: "Jimmy the Exploder"
Manifesto III: "Sugar Never Tasted So Good"
Manifesto IV: "You're Pretty Good Looking"
Manifesto V: "Hello Operator"
Manifesto VI: "Apple Blossom"
Manifesto VII: "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"
Manifesto VIII: "We're Going to Be Friends"
Manifesto IX: "Fell in Love With a Girl"
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LegendaryMonkey Alisha Karabinus provides the inner voice of sweet reason for evolved primates at Sudden Nothing.
Al Barger plots the overthrow of the government and his continuing crusade for Moorish dignity at More Things.
Published: CMP
Article comments
1 - Aaman
Good stuff - quite diabolical
2 - michelle
as a black girl the white stripes to me are the best band out there i love jack white i never see him doing any interview on live tv
3 - LegendaryMonkey
Diabolical! I love it.
I hardly ever see a live interview, either... and oh, would I love to have 10-12 on video just hanging around for me to soak up on rainy Saturday afternoons. There can never be enough White Stripes.
4 - Joe Battista
They're okay. Creative presentation though!
5 - MAF
Hey Al, I am a Jack White disciple
myself. The White stripes do rule.
You have good taste (somewhat). Now
all you need to do in order to be
perfect in my eyes is to learn more
about black people.
I like your
style El Presidente!!! You were
born to write. I would buy a book
by you anyday. Back to Jacky boy,
what he did for Loretta Lynn was
truly amazing. I never really took
him seriously until after that.
As a African
boy who has a soft spot for any
kind of music that appeals to me
I appreciate your music reviews
6 - LegendaryMonkey
You wait, Joe... in a week, we'll have you singing a different tune.
Al -- I sense the sweet smell of potential converts in the air! We'd better get to work!
7 - Generalissimo Alberto
MAF, thank you so much for your kind comments. Also, I hasten to add that White Stripes Nation is a post-colonial, post-racial land of union and harmony, open to people of all races, nations and creeds.
8 - dr. frued / brain doc
You must be a very lonely guy....sad fer yu...
why not go outside away from yer computer and see what the day brings?
You are too young to be this way.
dr. freud...
9 - Reported
I don't really care if this is a joke or satire. This type of talk makes me sick. Yeah, I know the lines before you say them "The White House doesn't care hahahaha!"
Well, I guess we'll all be sitting in our chairs waiting to see if they do care, and come bust your doors down, and drag you fags out in pink P.J.'s.
I don't really think this administration cares if this is joke or satire. Lets just hope they don't kill you for Treason.
10 - Generalissimo Alberto
Yee-haw, there, Reported. Come and get me, coppers!
Also, if'n anybody wants to shoot me for treason, they'll have to get past by evil one-eyed coon dog first.
And Jack's seven nation army.
Also, a fair warning to the feds: I do NOT have pink PJs. I sleep in the nude. Consider yourselves warned!
11 - OnlySmartPerson
The White Stripes suck...I pity myself for even responding to a stupid post like this but thought you should know that white stripes are gay and besides wouldn't Green day be a better choice for you faggots.
The final solutions is banning all laws and recycling all guns to return us to a mideval rennaisance so i could kill all of you with heavy metal....Whos with me?
12 - Rodney Welch
I ove the White Stripes and I love T. Rex, but that sentence about Elephant leading off with "a classic 70s glam slam that Marc Bolan would have been proud to claim for T Rex" has me totally befuddled. What in the world is "glam" about "Seven Nation Army"? The song and the album have virtually nothing to do with that world in sound or sensibility.
13 - william pertublum
That "OmlySMartPerson" was right! green day is better and the whole part about returning to the mideival ages was just...magical. I agree completely, we should change our government into a fuedal system.
14 - DJRadiohead
Green Day's crowning achievement seems to have been recording an album's worth of punkpop Springsteen ripoffs.
15 - mark talula
Yep green day is that bad but they are still better than the white stripes, sadly.
16 - Naio
Whitestripes are wife and husband... so how can they be gay?? I also thinik they are with the few still making some good rock music instead of commercial shit!