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cgod · 3200 days ago · link · · parent · post: Unpopular Opinion: Jack White Is the Worst Thing to Ever Happen to Rock & Roll | L.A. Weekly
I loved the White Stripes first album, played it over and over one summer. I have never fallen in love with another, liked some tracks but felt like much of it was overworked when it was original sounding and sometimes overly derivative. There is no way they are the worst thing to happen to Rock and Roll. I think they were a good thing. When they came out Rock was fettered by a a bunch of shitty bands. Third Eye Blind, Sublime, Green Day and Pearl Jam were touch stones for a generation and they were just fucking horrible. The Stripes shook that shit up a lot. Way better to have crunch aggressive blues rock than what ever it is that you call the generation of rock that was out before them.