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Springsteen is a consummate showman and I have been to a fair number of shows and never seen anyone work as hard as he does to entertain his audience right here and now. I've seen both of them live, for what it's worth. It feels like blasphemy to label Springsteen a showman Posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 6:03 PM on January 11, 2013 Springsteen and His disciples seek to uplift everybody, so they're less cool in the short term but have more staying power. The 'rock stars' in the Jack White mode (Jim Jones, Jon Spencer) have a shorter shelf life because they're almost pop carictures, 'rock star' as guide to the imitated. Jack White preaches damnation with a wink. He's not committed to 'rock and roll' as an abstract force, though - he works with rappers and models. He's 'rock star' in quotation marks, building a supernatural mythology of armies and sex and blood. Jack White is the bluesy shaman, the swivel hipped showman with the Baron Semedi hat. You can see this in his acolytes and collaborators: serious young romantics like Brian Fallon and populists like Dropkick Murphys. He's a religious and political leader, an activist and a poet. They're both showmen, in a way, but it feels like blasphemy to label Springsteen a showman. From how both The Boss and Jack White revitalize rock's future while plundering its past? About how 'Jack White' revels in artificiality while The Boss trades on authenticity? I feel like I could write a whole book about these two statements, or at least an essay, but I'm barely sure where to start. *chuckles, recalls when this label was applied to The Boss thirty years back* I just don't know what to do with myself (originally burt bacharach)Īnd then just for fun raconteurs - many shades of black and then adele - many shades of black

One more cup of coffee (originally bob dylan) You don't know what love is (you just do as your told) Some songs i like in no particular order: i love both albums, but i probably like 'consolers of the lonely' more. You might also consider getting back to the white stripes through the raconteurs.

your best bet might be just putting all the tracks in winamp and hitting randomize (that's how i do it). today i'd say next would probably be 'get behind me satan', followed by 'elephant', followed by 'white blood cells', followed by 'icky thump', and finally 'the white stripes' - but if you asked me tomorrow, i might switch the order all up. Pxe2000 - as a big fan, my favorite has always been 'de stijl'. Posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 8:34 PM on Janu But if he didn't exist maybe the media would seize on Jon Spencer or Jim Jones or the guy from the Supersuckers or something (who all deserve it too). We want an outsized personality to represent this perhaps dying art-form, and Jack White wrote some great songs and had the right image to capitalize on it. I think that Jack White fulfills a need, a role, that music journalists and rock fans like me have for a Savior of Rock and Roll.

So I find the transition over the years fascinating. There was nothing electrifying about him at all, at the time.

Jack white serious jibber jabber tv#

Point is, to this day it's just odd to see this guy on TV or in videos because he was just some dude I saw around. Like I said it's a pretty dull connection. I think we chatted a few times and I saw the band perform in Detroit a couple times when first starting out. So I knew Jack White a bit back in the day - nothing exciting, we had a mutual friend and we'd cross paths at parties on occasion.