GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA: After the forced closure of her aquarium store, a girl gets high and goes to a 24-hour Wal-Mart with a permanent marker. When he goes to pee and service his coifed mane, he hears the kitchen staff jamming on "I Think I Smell a Rat." Blasting from the Pathfinder the whole time: the Stripes' "Expecting."ĪLBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO: Taking his cue from a canny jukebox selection of the treacly "We're Going to Be Friends," a well-meaning mouth-breather out on the town seduces a tat-dappled Zippo-grrl with his knowledge of the White Stripes. The Thads park, exit, and dry-gulch one of the group's males, who will require stitches. SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA: Two nervy fellas with hopes of being Jerry Bruckheimer's production assistants become the it-boys of their apartment building's pool when they pump White Blood Cells their Aiwa boombox's shuffle feature begins fortuitously with "Fell In Love with a Girl."ĬHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA: A group of conscientious dropouts walking home from a coffeehouse drumming circle are hooted at by some ballcapping Thads in a Pathfinder. This week's highlights:īLOOMINGTON, INDIANA: An undergrad Design major turns in her final project- a giant, circular red-and-white UPC symbol, inspired by the White Stripes' peppermint motif. Their charm is so bullying that their fans have become like hog-tied soldiers in the days of impressment, and their sudden crossover ubiquity threatens to vault them into a saturation-backlash a la the Spice Girls. You probably weren't given the choice of not admiring this fine pair. The end! Anyone still Stripe-hungry, read on: These albums contained thunderous, honky-soulful, lacerating pop at various stages of evolution. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jack and Meg White's first two raucous platters are coming back at you in the biggest redistribution by a major label of still-available albums by fake-sibling bands beginning with the letter W since Elektra fancified Gene and Dean Ween's early catalog! For you efficient readers resistant to some patented Pitchfork scaffolding because you spent the night deciding which Gargamel quote to use in your chat profile, here's the quick review: once upon a time, the White Stripes were the half-mortal, half-Godzilla missionaries sent to lead rock to its promised land, and their rekkerds measured up to the hype.
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