The White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan

Okay okay, maybe this is not what the White Stripes fans expected. So what? They tried, at least. At first, I tought: "What the hell is this!!???" I listened to Get behind me Satan about 3 times before I bought it. My advice would be to take the time to get used to the surprise.

This cd has nothing in common with Elephant, which is not a bad thing in fact. The music is just a little bit more relaxed and Jack doesn't scream that much. But that doesn't mean it's not good, the music is excellent.

(Excuse my English, usually I speak French)

The White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan - I'm pretty disappointed with this offering from the White Stripes. Where White Blood Cells was spontaneous and energetic, Get Behind Me Satan just feels shambolic, rushed and uninspired. The opening track, "Blue Orchid" is awful, '70's hard rock and things only improve marginally from there. While some of the songs, notably the softer, more country-style numbers, are good enough, the rockier tracks should be locked in a stadium full of hairy bikers somewhere and left to rot. And as for Meg White's singing - it was funny when she covered Silent Night for the Christmas single and John Peel played it. It was marginally amusing to hear her butchering "In the Cold Cold Night" on Elephant as it's a good song , but now the joke has worn thin. She can't sing - AT ALL - it's painful to hear and if she insists on doing so the least she could do is get some lessons so listening to her tracks is not like having your eardrums surgically pierced by a gorilla with Parkinson's wielding a buzzsaw.

It's sad to see, but this is a great indie/blues band that is slowly becoming a very mediocre MOR rock band.