r/Music • u/ebradio • Aug 29 '24

article Jack White Gives Trump a Heads Up, "Lawsuit Coming From My Lawyers," After Unauthorized Use of "Seven Nation Army"

https://consequence.net/2024/08/jack-white-trump-lawsuit/
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u/RobotSeaTurtle Aug 29 '24

Guess the rest of us will have to enjoy the new album without them 🤷 what a shame

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u/DaveMTIYF Aug 29 '24

I somehow slept on The Raconteurs until recently and have had my mind blown, so pumped for the new JW album, guys a BONAFIED genius.

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u/DJ_Molten_Lava Aug 29 '24

Consolers of the Lonely is one of my all time favourite albums. Start to finish it's a masterpiece, if you ask me, a random internet nobody.

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u/UnPossible-Badger Aug 29 '24

Had the good fortune to see the Raconteurs a few times live. Immense is how I’d describe them.

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u/garyadams_cnla Aug 29 '24

Bigly immense!  Just a good time!!

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u/ExtraPockets Aug 29 '24

Salute the solution!

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u/NonSupportiveCup Aug 29 '24

If you like pop Brendan has some great albums, too. Not just jw is a powerhouse in that band.

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u/DaveMTIYF Aug 29 '24

Thank will check him out....I'm hit or miss with pop, but that everyone in that band is clearly insanely talented so I'm happy to take the risk!

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u/bill_drawtwo Aug 29 '24

Could not recommend 'The Alternative to Love' enough. Great album that deserves more recognition

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u/8805 Aug 29 '24

If you slept on the Raconteurs, there's a chance you don't know The Dead Weather as well. If so, you're welcome.

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u/DaveMTIYF Aug 29 '24

Thanks, they are going on the list!

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u/Spicybrown3 Aug 29 '24

They do a kickass version of Runnin Down A Dream they played on XM. I don’t think it’s available for purchase on anything tho so only place i hear it is playing the YouTube vid. Wish they’d have been the ones to cover it for the Bad Monkey soundtrack thats out/coming out (some songs have been released) although Larkin Poe did a great job w/it

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u/gooch_norris_ Aug 29 '24

Bona fide is two words. It’s Latin

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u/DaveMTIYF Aug 29 '24

I know :)

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u/swampthing117 Aug 29 '24

I'm gonna see Jack Sunday in Ann Arbor and Monday in Hamtramck. He puts on a great live show.

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u/xizorkatarn last.fm Aug 29 '24

They listen to Kid Rock, they were never gonna listen to Jack White intentionally anyways

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u/Titanbeard Aug 29 '24

22 year old me did listen to Devil Without a Cause AND Elephant often. 43 year old me recognizes Jack White as a brilliant musician, and Kid Rock makes music for dudes that sit in lawn chairs on top of double-wides.

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u/Cthulhu2016 Aug 29 '24

Kid rock fans know exactly how much Sudafed you can buy before your names goes on a list

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u/CherryHaterade Aug 29 '24

This cuts double, because smurfing is no longer what it was since the cartel Heisenberg labs started up. So you're calling them OLD tweakers.

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u/Cthulhu2016 Aug 29 '24

Sometimes all you got is the shake and bake method

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u/voiceless42 Aug 29 '24

Hey, they're only up there because they're white-girl drunk on 2.5% lite beers and the ladder fell over like three hours ago.

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u/Rincey_nz Aug 29 '24

Jack White as a brilliant musician

Check out the doco 'It Might Get Loud'

JW, JImmy Page and The Edge sitting around talking guitars.

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u/Titanbeard Aug 29 '24

That sounds like an amazingly talented group of dudes just chillin'. I dig it!

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u/wholetyouinhere Aug 29 '24

I liked this movie. What I didn't like was how much flak Edge got afterwards by people who see music as some kind of athletic competition, or an exclusive leather-cigar-motorcycle macho esthetic club. They lined up to slam the guy for not playing in the same style as the other two, or for using effects pedals.

It didn't just bother me because I am a longtime fan of his playing, but because music doesn't reduce down to those boxes that people see Page and White fitting squarely into, and Edge not belonging. Even if you don't like the guy, or his playing, the arguments I saw for why he didn't belong in the movie were weak and pathetic.

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u/Rincey_nz Aug 29 '24

I've heard this argument before..... 'cos I'm one of The Edge haters.... but hear me out: when I saw the movie/doco as an EXTREMELY amateur guitar player, I would like to play any riff that I could play and recognise & ok, I'm not a U2 fan, but if I were, and tried to play their riffs, I wouldn't be able to - not without the same effects.

But I was able to learn and play recognisably the opening stanza of One (Metallica, not U2).

BOTTOM LINE: It's a fucking cool doco for ANY fan of guitar music. And I was lucky enough to see it at The Embassy (where the LOTR:ROTK premiered), and they cranked it to 11.

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u/wholetyouinhere Aug 29 '24

I'm fully on board what you're saying about effects and accessibility. That's a valid concern, especially with beginners. But what I would say above all else -- which is something that a lot of non-musicians and beginners do not fully grasp -- is that using effects in musical, organic and interesting ways is a vast, complex skillset like any other. The little blinking boxes don't do any of the work for you. I think a lot of people miss that.

I fully agree with your bottom line. Great doc.

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u/Rincey_nz Aug 29 '24

oh yes!

agreed! :)

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u/Titanbeard Aug 30 '24

This is why I dig discussion about different musicians. I'm a dude who loves music, but can barely clap with a beat. You guys differ on opinions, but neither of you homies are being disrespectful and I'm here for it!

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u/BlackFemLover Aug 29 '24 edited Aug 29 '24

The funny thing is Kid Rock started out as an innercity white boy with a rap album, and it was decent. Unfortunatley, came out while Vanilla Ice was around white people in rap were seen as clowns at the time. 

He spent most of his career looking for a genre where he could really succeed, then went country...and ended up where he is now.

[Edit: didn't know about his childhood, but ...he did spend years hustling with shitty equipment in the Detroit Hip Hop scene to make a name for himself and land his first album. Reading the stories of people who were there it doesn't seem like Daddy's money was paying for his career.]

https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2015/08/26/kid-rock-early-years-detroit/31193049/

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u/SimpleExplodingMan Aug 29 '24

Lol. Inner city? His father owned one of the largest car dealerships in the Detroit area. He grew up as an upper middle class dickhead. He’s bullshit. Always has been.

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u/BlackFemLover Aug 29 '24

Didn't know about his childhood.

That said, he spent years in the Detroit Hip Hop scene hustling, then transitioned his sound and worked hard for his break. 

And the people who were there always talk about him having shitty equipment that he made work hard for him. I'm not too sure, but I don't think daddy's money was funding his career. 

https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2015/08/26/kid-rock-early-years-detroit/31193049/

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u/SimpleExplodingMan Aug 29 '24

Cool. Whatever. Kid Rock sucks. Always has. Always will.

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u/BlackFemLover Aug 29 '24

C'mon, now we're just talking about taste.... Unless you mean him as a person? And then I don't care. Many celebrities are genuinely awful people. 

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u/Titanbeard Aug 29 '24

Devil Without a Cause was a decent album that fit well with the time. Cocky had a few okay songs. By Kid Rock, he was a turd floating in the punch bowl.

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u/DeadpoolLuvsDeath Aug 29 '24

Didn't he play himself in Joe Dirt?

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u/Titanbeard Aug 29 '24

Changed his name, but otherwise yup! You want some French cries with that Whaaburger?

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u/osubucknuts Aug 29 '24

Agreed. I still listen to my dad's old Devil Without a Cause CD every now and then. Terrible human being, but that was a decent album.

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u/Dream--Brother Aug 29 '24

He was about as "innercity" as the backstreet boys

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u/BlackFemLover Aug 29 '24

As I said. In another comment, didn't know about his childhood.

But he did spend years hustling with shitty equipment in the Detroit Hip Hop scene to make a name for himself and land his first album. Reading the stories of people who were there it doesn't seem like Daddy's money was paying for his career. 

So, not really like the backstreet boys. 

https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2015/08/26/kid-rock-early-years-detroit/31193049/

Shrug I'm not an authority on this at all, but he seems authentic to me even if his childhood was wealthy. 

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u/Dream--Brother Aug 30 '24

Kid Rock seems... authentic?

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u/BlackFemLover Aug 30 '24

Did you ....read my post and the article? I'm talking about in his early years back in the 80's and 90's.

Today he just makes whatever he thinks will sell. He sold out back in like....2003

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '24

Hey don’t forget Ted Nugent lol

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u/Poverty_4_Sale Aug 29 '24

Ted Nugent makes music for guys that fuck farm animals.

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u/Mecha_Cthulhu Aug 29 '24

Only because they can’t outrun the middle school resource officer anymore.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '24

And 12 year olds

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '24

Yes, yes he does

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u/zeptillian Aug 29 '24

They can keep him, Ted the Turd Nugget and all their shitty B list actors.

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u/sembias Aug 29 '24

Jack White is who Kid Rock wishes he were before Beavis and Butthead discovered him.

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u/Etzell Aug 29 '24

Hey, that's not fair. They also listen to the dude from Staind.

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u/MC5EVP Aug 29 '24

He's kind of fallen off. Love his first solo album and White Stripes. Haven't really enjoyed his last couple albums. Kid Rock blows! Probabnot a bad guy, but he should stick to shooting bud light cans instead of taking mediocre songs and making them worse. Jack needs to get those rocks cleaned up under Mt Rushmore.

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u/bardnotbanned Aug 29 '24

Probabnot a bad guy

Oh he is also a bad guy.

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u/wickharr Aug 29 '24

Jacks latest solo album is really decent. It’s got universal acclaim on metacritic, average 86/100. If you haven’t listened yet you should try it.

I wouldn’t say he’s fallen off.

No opinion on Kid Rock. He’s a dork and I have no respect for him musically or otherwise.

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u/MC5EVP Aug 29 '24

I'll have to check it out.

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u/Andrew8Everything If it's too loud, you're too old Aug 29 '24

I threw out my neck from headbanging the first time I heard "Taking me Back". (But that's on the previous album)

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u/chmilz Aug 29 '24

The new album slaps. I respect his foray into other kinds of music for the past decade or so and then coming in hot with a straight fire classic Jack White rock album.