The White Stripes

[loseyourname]

The Stripes are a lot rawer than most of what you hear out of Zeppelin. I can see a lot of similarity between their Elephant album and Led Zeppelin II, especially in Ball and Biscuit. When I first heard the main riff in that song, I thought I was hearing unreleased Zeppelin. Incidentally, that was early enough in Zeppelin's career that their music was still very heavily influenced by the blues.

All in all, The Stripes are a revival band. They aren't trying to do anything new. Their whole schtick is to bring rock and roll back to its roots, closer to the blues and with less production and orchestration. Some bands move forward, some move backward, and some stay in exactly the same place as everyone else. As long as they're making good music, what's the cause for complaint?

[angelik22]

poopie some of these so called punk bands arent even truely punk anymore- theyre all about the "dinero" ca-ching now a days-- but yea i see a great decline in the quality of rock and punk music- some bands are cool- u hear their first few songs and immediately start liking them- but after the first album they start sucking badly... i kinda stopped listening to these new bands like hoobastank and stuff- they have some good songs- but not as good as classic rock and some of the original stuff- theyre not considered rock anymore- theyre more like "pop"- aka popular music- u gotta have that certain something that distingueshes the band/and thier music from all these poopty peupty songs that are played 24/7 on kroq~ they need more of the real stuff!!

[Thai-Samurai]

Anonymouse really does know how to get a thread started. Even though their pointless!

[cerrenus]

poopie some of these so called punk bands arent even truely punk anymore- theyre all about the "dinero" ca-ching now a days-- but yea i see a great decline in the quality of rock and punk music- some bands are cool- u hear their first few songs and immediately start liking them- but after the first album they start sucking badly... i kinda stopped listening to these new bands like hoobastank and stuff- they have some good songs- but not as good as classic rock and some of the original stuff- theyre not considered rock anymore- theyre more like "pop"- aka popular music- u gotta have that certain something that distingueshes the band/and thier music from all these poopty peupty songs that are played 24/7 on kroq~ they need more of the real stuff!!

Yes, KROQ sucks. The only rock station I know that not only plays crappy rock music, but also rap.

[loseyourname]

the point is... they're not good!
they're a worse version.
ahh how I RACE to change the station as soon as they're on.

Maybe that was your point, but it wasn't the point I was responding to. My point was to judge music on whether or not it's good, not on whether or not it's derivative. We seem to be in agreement about that.

[loseyourname]

By the way, you could have just asked Admin to change the name of your old account. You didn't need to start a new one.