Elephant by The White Stripes

Pros: rock music the way it was thirty years ago-the way it should still be
Cons: "Cons" are bad things, of which there are none on this album

It's the elusive dream that pervades the music business. So many artists and bands out there want to make it big, while staying true to the original vision they had back in the early days. Too often, widespread success comes with the backing of a major...

Pros: Amazing songs, incredible hooks, coherent vision
Cons: NOTHING

I have found true love in the most musical sense of the word. Elephant entered my heart ...

Pros: Damn near everything
Cons: Might not be for everyone

On their latest album Elephant, the White Stripes walk a lot of fine lines but somehow manage to stay on the right side of all of them. The result is one of the best rock albums of the year thus far. Their music is stripped down and ...

Pros: it's not as blaring as i expected
Cons: some of it is just not for me

I remember not so long ago when all of the bands with “The” in the title were emerging – hailed as t ...

Pros: Amazing percussion, distinctive sound, nice lyrics
Cons: Musically Repetitive

It is a rare thing that I have access to cable television. I travel quite a bit and that is usually the only time I get that particular indulgence. To be honest, though, I have a thing for music videos. It's probably better I don't have cable, as I ...

Pros: rocktastic.
Cons: not immediately recognizable as the best album of the year

God knows this site doesn’t need yet another glowing review of the latest offering from The White Stripes – and I had every intention of keeping my mouth shut about it. But the album just wouldn’t leave me alone, refusing to get out of my...

Pros: The drums and guitars, Sometimes Jack's voice sounds good
Cons: Some lame lyrics, Sometimes Jack's voice is irritating, I just can't "get into" it

Yes, you could say that I jumped onto the bandwagon if you wish, but tis’ true, I finally purchased Elephant by The White Stripes. "The Hardest Button to Button" is what really drew me in, plus I think the whole red, white, and ...

Pros: A Brilliant, Diverse Masterpiece from the White Stripes.
Cons: None.

When the new wave of garage rock bands emerged in the year 2002, there was no band that was as cool or as powerful as the White Stripes when they broke with their 2001 release “White Blood Cells” to rave reviews and media attention that broke the...

Pros: Jack's guitar, fun and rhythmic, a lot of good songs
Cons: Meg's drumming is mediocre and doesn't match Jack's guitar

The first song I heard by The White Stripes was the amazing hit Seven Nation Army and I knew that I needed to buy it, but I was sort of hesitant because I didn’t want that to be the only good song on the album. Well, I thought that if I read some ...

Pros: Five of these songs could have made the best EP in history
Cons: Often too self-referential, and in the end, self-conscious.

There’s a story, likely apocryphal, that when Buddy Holly & the Crickets showed up for a live performance at a radio station that was playing one of their records, the programmer asked where the rest of the band was. He couldn’t believe so much...

Pros: catchy and brilliant
Cons: a few tracks that aren't great

I only heard the White Stripes recently, feeling uncertain after having heard pretentiously minimalistic "neo-garage" bands like the Strokes. I suppose I should have heard it earlier, but I always get interested in these things a little too late. ...

Pros: Thankfully, doesn't sound like zillions of other bands on the radio
Cons: Jumps around a bit

This past Wednesday, I received an e-mail notifying me that I was now a Top Reviewer in the music ca ...

Pros: rocking, bluesy, and decidedly retro, in a good way
Cons: none

Thanks to 2002, my faith in new bands making interesting and arresting rock music dwindled down to oh, about, 1/100th of what it once was. In the beginning of the year, I had Creed, Nickelback and Linkin Park crammed down my throat....

Pros: Original voice from an original band
Cons: None

Role Model Jack White is my role model. He is the perfect example of what I aspire to become. He is original in his work and grabs hold of the past. Knowing the true value of the past he makes sure to have that as his canvas in which he ...

Pros: fun fun fun until daddy takes the sears bargain amp away!
Cons: "Black Math"... heck is that crap, anyway?

For the duration of "Seven Nation Army," the restless, exciting opener to the White Stripes' fourth album, you'll begin to wish that Jack and Meg White would just give up the ghost and bottom out their sound a bit with a proper rhythm section--- you...