4/25/07, 12:22 pm EST
Today we learned that Jack White and his band of dapper marauders the Raconteurs are actively working on their new album. Since last year’s (absurdly awesome) Broken Boy Soldiers was basically just the band’s interpretation of mid- to late-’70s classic rock, we’re wondering what musical era they’re borrowing from this time. You are DJing the band’s post-recording drinking sessions, what albums do you put on hoping to influence the direction of album number two?
JeremyTheJollyJew | 4/25/2007, 12:41 pm EST
White Blood Cells and Lapalco simultaneously
someone | 4/25/2007, 1:18 pm EST
Bluesy punk banter
Morgan | 4/25/2007, 1:41 pm EST
Hi poll girl! You look hot today! How about an album with a musical style harkening back to the heavy synthisiser-laden days of the mid 80’s, (think of Prince; The Time; just about everthing else) It’d be an awesomely bad album for that awesomely bad period. Fun huh?
beckafella | 4/25/2007, 1:57 pm EST
How about Jack and the boys taking on something Beatles-esque. Btw, does RS take down posts with profanity when they swear in their own magazine?
banana hammock | 4/25/2007, 2:38 pm EST
to beckafella:
pretty sure they do. it’d be nice if they would post on their own wall with an explanation like the far superiod stereogum does.
banana hammock | 4/25/2007, 2:38 pm EST
*superior
Mike | 4/25/2007, 2:50 pm EST
Hopefully they stretch out and let loose. Jack White is the baddest gunslinger in music today…so put it down on record. I have one of their authorized bootlegs from their Fall ‘06 U.K. tour…and it’s vastly superior to the studio recordings. Their cover of Nancy Sinatra’s “Bang Bang” is sick.
Put on some Zeppelin or Mick Taylor-era Stones. I know they traveled down that road on the last album…but it ain’t a bad road. Nobody is going to complain if Jack is allowed some self indulgence. Hopefully they rock some 5, 6, 7, minute odes to the guitar.
Tim | 4/25/2007, 2:51 pm EST
Stevie Wonder, Chuck Berry, and James Brown.
Tattoo U | 4/25/2007, 4:01 pm EST
Blues standards. Delta blues, tin can singing, knee slapping blues.
T. Rex | 4/25/2007, 4:12 pm EST
mid- to late-’70s classic rock
El Fuego Phallus | 4/25/2007, 4:30 pm EST
How about Jack and the boys tackle some late 60s/early 70s punk, stuff like the MC5, the stooges, and Iggy’s solo stuff (specifically Lust for Life)?
wetchabs | 4/25/2007, 5:07 pm EST
Jack White needs some more room to play some of his stellar leads that have graced their live shows and previous Stripes albums. The Raconteaurs are much better live and I think that needs to be showcased more on the new album.
JimmyOsterberg | 4/26/2007, 1:48 am EST
Toto played backwards
david | 4/26/2007, 3:22 am EST
gram parsons, the band, and a little stooges for fun
Cory | 4/26/2007, 10:41 am EST
They need to stay the course. Just add some more bravado to the songs, and make the album a lot longer than the 37 minutes or so that Broken Boy Soldiers was.
cheesecrop | 4/26/2007, 12:46 pm EST
Surf music. Try Jack White in a full on collision w/ Dick Dale. Be different and strange. Also well worth it.
Nikkidoo | 4/26/2007, 1:02 pm EST
Neil Diamond
poster | 4/26/2007, 2:10 pm EST
roseanne barr
detroit rock city | 5/2/2007, 11:58 pm EST
Led Zeppelin
nirvana
sublime
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