Review -- "De Stijl" by The White Stripes
Jan. 6th, 2007 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nathaliaYou’re Pretty Good Looking (For A Girl): I like this song. At first, I didn’t give a damn about it, but now, listening to it the second time, I like it. The lyrics are cool, pretty interesting, actually. The song itself is a bit short though.
Hello Operator: This one’s weak. It has Jack Black sing / speak a few words, then there are a few beats, then he sings / speaks again, with a long music solo somewhere. I know the goal of this EP was to have very simple songs, but this one is too simplistic.
Little Bird: The melody in the beginning is very catchy, but it is played in a loop, the same over and over again, so it gets a bit boring, but the melody still is good. The lyrics (what little there is of them) aren’t the most sophisticated. Apple Blossom: This one is cool. The melody actually differs enough from the first few songs so that you can definitely tell that this is a different song. And it is cool, the lyrics are good, enjoyable. This is the second song on the CD really worth listening to (I can’t settle on if Little Bird is one of them).
I’m Bound To Pack It Up: This one it quite beautiful, a semi-sad love song that unlike the first few songs makes me feel something. It isn’t the perfect specimen of the semi-sad love song, but it isn’t bad, I like it very much, it is sad but not as sad as many others, it deals with some very simple issues but does a good job with them. Apple Blossom and this one have a distinctive feeling that make them good songs. This could be the CD’s best song.
Death Letter: The song disappoints. After the last two gave the impression that there was a whole deal of good songs to come, this one chases all the hopes away.
Sister, Do You Know My Name?: This one lives up to the expectations (that weren’t too high after the first few songs). This one makes you feel, this one is a song you really want to listen to. It deals with loneliness, it is a cute one, one worth listening to. The beats of the instruments that seem to be in every single song are pretty annoying in one or two instances.
Trust Doesn’t Make A Noise: This could be the highlight of the CD. The music is totally different, the melody, the instruments, this could be above average, this could be a hit. The lyrics rock, they really make you feel, they are some you can really care about, you are worth listening to. This is the best song of the CD by far.
A Boy’s Best Friend: The loud instruments overshadow the lyrics that could have been good. This song could have been a very good one if it hadn’t been for the unbearable electronic instruments that hurt this song more than they hurt most of the others.
Let’s Build A Home: The beginning with a kid talking was annoying and although the lyrics sound different, the melody, it still isn’t something you’d love to listen to. It just makes you shrug, you don’t care. Honestly, who wants to listen to a song with this name? This isn’t even good or catchy enough to be Bob the Builder’s theme song.
Jumble, Jumble: I couldn’t even hear a new song had started. And the fact that the first few lines of the song mention a house don’t really help. The instruments are more annoying than in most other songs. And the lyrics seem to be just some words that make no sense at all sung one after another. Jumble, jumble; crumble, crumble; rumble, rumble. Who wants to listen to this?
Why Can’t You Be Nicer To Me?: This one starts with the same or a very similar melody as the last few. And this time, the lyrics don’t help at all. The last three songs have sucked, not one good word to say about them. Your Southern Can Is Mine: This one is very different, you actually have the feeling that it doesn’t belong on this album, it was probably added so that not everything is the same.. Meg singing takes away from it because she can’t sing, but the melody is different, so this one is actually good and it isn’t mainly about annoying instruments. The last few seconds, some voice clip sucked though.
OVERALL:
The CD suffers from not being able to make you feel what they sing about, there is no emotional connection that really makes music become important to us. It doesn’t help that the melody feels the same in many songs. It suffers from the lack of instrumentality, it doesn’t give each song a distinctive feeling.
“Truth Doesn’t Make A Noise”, the best song on this, above average, isn’t enough to compensate the not so good songs that are very dominant and made up by the same instruments, the same melody, the lack of good lyrics you can empathize with.
“A Boy’s Best Friend” has a lot of potential but this has been squandered, destroyed by the annoying instruments.
“Why Can’t You Be Nicer To Me?” raises a good question that I can answer without having to think much about it: Because this song and most of the others suck so much that they aren’t worth praising.
The attempt to make this CD’s songs as simplistic as possible, taking away the complexness it could have had, hurt what could possibly have been a very good CD as some of the lyrics could have made great songs if they hadn’t been overshadowed by instruments that sound exactly the same in almost every song, making them boring. In their attempt to make everything more simple, they should have focused less on the electronic instruments and more on the lyrics’ quality, having slow, almost a capella songs that really make you feel, make you want to listen to it over and over again (like the Snow Patrol EP). It needs to be catchier, if they want to go with instruments and stuff, they should let the Arctic Monkeys inspire them or just find some song writer who can come up with more than two melodies the whole album is based on.
2 out of 5 stars.
Maybe, very possibly even less. Yeah, let's settle on 2 stars for them actually having found someone to record this shit.
Hello Operator: This one’s weak. It has Jack Black sing / speak a few words, then there are a few beats, then he sings / speaks again, with a long music solo somewhere. I know the goal of this EP was to have very simple songs, but this one is too simplistic.
Little Bird: The melody in the beginning is very catchy, but it is played in a loop, the same over and over again, so it gets a bit boring, but the melody still is good. The lyrics (what little there is of them) aren’t the most sophisticated. Apple Blossom: This one is cool. The melody actually differs enough from the first few songs so that you can definitely tell that this is a different song. And it is cool, the lyrics are good, enjoyable. This is the second song on the CD really worth listening to (I can’t settle on if Little Bird is one of them).
I’m Bound To Pack It Up: This one it quite beautiful, a semi-sad love song that unlike the first few songs makes me feel something. It isn’t the perfect specimen of the semi-sad love song, but it isn’t bad, I like it very much, it is sad but not as sad as many others, it deals with some very simple issues but does a good job with them. Apple Blossom and this one have a distinctive feeling that make them good songs. This could be the CD’s best song.
Death Letter: The song disappoints. After the last two gave the impression that there was a whole deal of good songs to come, this one chases all the hopes away.
Sister, Do You Know My Name?: This one lives up to the expectations (that weren’t too high after the first few songs). This one makes you feel, this one is a song you really want to listen to. It deals with loneliness, it is a cute one, one worth listening to. The beats of the instruments that seem to be in every single song are pretty annoying in one or two instances.
Trust Doesn’t Make A Noise: This could be the highlight of the CD. The music is totally different, the melody, the instruments, this could be above average, this could be a hit. The lyrics rock, they really make you feel, they are some you can really care about, you are worth listening to. This is the best song of the CD by far.
A Boy’s Best Friend: The loud instruments overshadow the lyrics that could have been good. This song could have been a very good one if it hadn’t been for the unbearable electronic instruments that hurt this song more than they hurt most of the others.
Let’s Build A Home: The beginning with a kid talking was annoying and although the lyrics sound different, the melody, it still isn’t something you’d love to listen to. It just makes you shrug, you don’t care. Honestly, who wants to listen to a song with this name? This isn’t even good or catchy enough to be Bob the Builder’s theme song.
Jumble, Jumble: I couldn’t even hear a new song had started. And the fact that the first few lines of the song mention a house don’t really help. The instruments are more annoying than in most other songs. And the lyrics seem to be just some words that make no sense at all sung one after another. Jumble, jumble; crumble, crumble; rumble, rumble. Who wants to listen to this?
Why Can’t You Be Nicer To Me?: This one starts with the same or a very similar melody as the last few. And this time, the lyrics don’t help at all. The last three songs have sucked, not one good word to say about them. Your Southern Can Is Mine: This one is very different, you actually have the feeling that it doesn’t belong on this album, it was probably added so that not everything is the same.. Meg singing takes away from it because she can’t sing, but the melody is different, so this one is actually good and it isn’t mainly about annoying instruments. The last few seconds, some voice clip sucked though.
OVERALL:
The CD suffers from not being able to make you feel what they sing about, there is no emotional connection that really makes music become important to us. It doesn’t help that the melody feels the same in many songs. It suffers from the lack of instrumentality, it doesn’t give each song a distinctive feeling.
“Truth Doesn’t Make A Noise”, the best song on this, above average, isn’t enough to compensate the not so good songs that are very dominant and made up by the same instruments, the same melody, the lack of good lyrics you can empathize with.
“A Boy’s Best Friend” has a lot of potential but this has been squandered, destroyed by the annoying instruments.
“Why Can’t You Be Nicer To Me?” raises a good question that I can answer without having to think much about it: Because this song and most of the others suck so much that they aren’t worth praising.
The attempt to make this CD’s songs as simplistic as possible, taking away the complexness it could have had, hurt what could possibly have been a very good CD as some of the lyrics could have made great songs if they hadn’t been overshadowed by instruments that sound exactly the same in almost every song, making them boring. In their attempt to make everything more simple, they should have focused less on the electronic instruments and more on the lyrics’ quality, having slow, almost a capella songs that really make you feel, make you want to listen to it over and over again (like the Snow Patrol EP). It needs to be catchier, if they want to go with instruments and stuff, they should let the Arctic Monkeys inspire them or just find some song writer who can come up with more than two melodies the whole album is based on.
2 out of 5 stars.
Maybe, very possibly even less. Yeah, let's settle on 2 stars for them actually having found someone to record this shit.
