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[Diablos]

1. Death Letter - Easily their best. Hendrix would be jealous.
2. Little Bird - Close second.

3. Ball and Biscuit
4. Offend in Every Way
5. Fell in Love With a Girl

 

[Dujour]

1) Little Acorns
2) Fell In Love With a Girl
3) Seven Nation Army
4) Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground

can't remember the names of the others

 

[Matlock]

1) Little Acorns
2) Fell In Love With a Girl
3) Seven Nation Army
4) You're Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)
5. Jolene

 

[Flizzzipper]

1.) Jimmy The Exploder
2.) Dead Leaves
3.) Cannon
4.) Apple Blossom
5.) Truth Doesn't Make A Noise

Live --
Death Letter
Let's Shake Hands
When I Hear My Name

 

[Diablos]

Funny you should mention Death Letter live. I downloaded a live performance of the song, and it's quite sloppy. Jack's tuning is pretty bland, doesn't sound nearly as Hendrix-ish as the album version. Less intense. And Meg is really off with the drumming. What date is the one you've heard? Perhaps I just got a bad performance.

I think the Stripes would benefit from having a bassist...

 

[Flizzzipper]

7-25-01 Peel Session is the reason steel slide guitar was invented. I can hook you up if you want to hear it.

 

[Matlock]

I'd much appreciate it if you could, Fliz.

 

[Gribbix]

1. I Fought Piranhas
2. Big Three Killed My Baby
3. Do
4. Truth Doesn't Make a Noise
5. Candy Cane Children

I'm not including covers or live versions. If I was, I'd probably include Let's Shake Hands, Death Letter, Lord Send Me an Angel, and a number of others I'm sure I've forgotten.

 

[ghostface]

They have more than one song?????

 

[Star Power]

1. Little Bird
2. Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
3. Hypnotize
4. Hello Operator
5. Fell In Love With A Girl


Nice to see some "Little Bird" love.

 

[Foreign Jackass]

1. Ball and Biscuit
2. The Air Beneath My Fingers
3. Hello Operator
4. Death Letter (it's a cover, by the way)
5. Offend in every way

Where the hell is the Ball and Biscuit love??

 

[pxleyes]

The inevitable 2 cents.

1) Silence
2) Silence
3) The sound of their CD hitting the garbage can
4) Silence
5) Silence

 

[Flizzzipper]

I'd much appreciate it if you could, Fliz.

Check your PM.

1. I Fought Piranhas

WS best slide guitar song.

 

[swoon]

1, Hotel Yorba
2. Hardest Button To Button
3. Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
4. Hello Operator
5. Union Forever

worst

1. Stop Breaking Down (why on earth do people feel the need to cover Johnson)
2. Astro
3. Pretty Good Looking
4. It's True
5. Big 3 Killed My Baby

 

[Foreign Jackass]

The inevitable 2 cents.

1) Silence
2) Silence
3) The sound of their CD hitting the garbage can
4) Silence
5) Silence

This should be bannable. TROLL.

 

[pxleyes]

This should be bannable. TROLL.

Someone is bitter over a personal opinion.

 

[Foreign Jackass]

Someone is bitter over a personal opinion.

What's the thread title? Your top 5 white stripes song. Why on earth would a non-WS fan come here, except to troll? The title isn't ARE THE WHITE STRIPES OVERRATED?. The title is post your 5 white stripes favorites, or get the fuck out.

 

[pxleyes]

What's the thread title? Your top 5 white stripes song. Why on earth would a non-WS fan come here, except to troll? The title isn't ARE THE WHITE STRIPES OVERRATED?. The title is post your 5 white stripes favorites, or get the fuck out.

And my top 5 songs by them are not having them on at all. Thats my opinion on the subject. I'm sorry you dont agree.

 

[Matlock]

Where the hell is the Ball and Biscuit love??

Used to love it, but it's...I dunno. I can't pin down exactly why I haven't listened to it in a long time, but I think it has to do with the length.

 

[Triumph]

1. Ball and Biscuit
2. Fell in Love with a Girl
3. We're Going to be Friends
4. The Hardest Button to Button
5. There's no Home for you Here

 

[Diablos]

1. Ball and Biscuit
2. The Air Beneath My Fingers
3. Hello Operator
4. Death Letter (it's a cover, by the way)
5. Offend in every way

Where the hell is the Ball and Biscuit love??

Aww, it figures that it's a cover. Who was it by?

Flizzzipper: I sent you a PM.

 

[swoon]

good god. it's a son house song.

you should be reading my blog, prewarblues.blogspot.com

 

[Diablos]

I must hear the original. There's no way I'll like it as much.

 

[swoon]

the white stripes really just do a note by note cover of it, just louder and less skilled. house's verison from 65 is might impressive, because his guitar playing while sloppy is amazing (he was like 80 years old) and his voice is this booming instrument that just shakes everything to the floor. most of the white stripes covers are like that, Rated X and Jolene are the ones i like the most. Stop Breaking Down is awful and Southern Can Is Mine is only slightly better. they also cover a bob dylan song (i only have the first album on lp) on the first album (cd only) and a few other songs, but they are pretty tame and boring compared to their original work.

death letter was oringally part of My Black Mama (pt1 and 2) from house's first recording session in 1930. there is also a female take on the track by Ida Cox.

 

[Dilbert]

1, Hotel Yorba
2. Hardest Button To Button
3. Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
4. Hello Operator
5. Union Forever

You, sir, have GREAT taste.

 

[Foreign Jackass]

The Rolling Stones version of Stop Breaking Down is better than the White stripes one. Never heard the original.

 

[Diablos]

Not sure WTF I was thinking, but Ball and Biscuit is so much better than Black Math. The attitude, the solos. Perfect.

It's quite possible that I'm your third man girl
But it's a fact that I'm the seventh son
And right now you could care less about me
But soon enough you will care, by the time I'm done

Let's have a ball and a biscuit sugar
And take our sweet little time about it
Let's have a ball girl
And take our sweet little time about it
Tell everyone in the place just to get out
We'll get clean together
And I'll find a soapbox where I can shout it

You read it in the newspaper
Ask your girlfriends and see if they know
That my strength is ten fold girl
And I'll let you see if you want to before you go

It's quite possible that I'm your third man
But it's a fact that I'm the seventh son
It was the other two which/was made me your third
But it was my mother who made me the seventh son
And right now you could care less about me
But soon enough you will care by the time I'm done

That just owns.