Red Mosquito

VinylGuy wrote:Im listening right now...so this is a collection of re-recorded songs?

Strat wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Im listening right now...so this is a collection of re-recorded songs?

No

Fuzzcharger wrote:

Strat wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Im listening right now...so this is a collection of re-recorded songs?

No

Repackaged is a better description.

theplatypus wrote:It's like a Greatest Hits?

Fuzzcharger wrote:

theplatypus wrote:It's like a Greatest Hits?

Without the hits. It's just a collection of mostly previously released album tracks from White Stripes, Raconteurs and solo featuring only acoustic instruments. It's more like a Spotify playlist.

evenslow wrote:

Fuzzcharger wrote:

theplatypus wrote:It's like a Greatest Hits?

Without the hits. It's just a collection of mostly previously released album tracks from White Stripes, Raconteurs and solo featuring only acoustic instruments. It's more like a Spotify playlist.

Or like Unplugged basically?

Fuzzcharger wrote:

evenslow wrote:

Fuzzcharger wrote:

theplatypus wrote:It's like a Greatest Hits?

Without the hits. It's just a collection of mostly previously released album tracks from White Stripes, Raconteurs and solo featuring only acoustic instruments. It's more like a Spotify playlist.

Or like Unplugged basically?

In theory, just without the new performances.

theplatypus wrote:So like... a themed Spotify playlist

There’s nothing wrong with enjoying Jack White’s music on a surface level. You know, simply because you might be a “blues rock fan” or because his tunes are often uncannily catchy. But that approach discounts the fact that nothing he creates — whether it’s the six albums with The White Stripes, the three with The Dead Weather, the two with The Raconteurs, or the two he released under his own name — is ever obvious or without some ounce of complexity. Traditionally, there’s some sort of subliminal concept in everything he’s produced. Don’t believe me? Go dust off a Stripes album and flip through the liner notes, specifically the poetic, often rant-like passages. Or maybe try to explain why he’s gone on record saying that both “Effect and Cause” and “Want and Able” are part of an incomplete song trilogy, only to leave everyone in the dark as to what that said trilogy might amount to, or when (and with what band) the final tune should arrive … if ever.

Rest assured, he’s a pretty complex dude.

That said, a double LP’s worth of acoustic tunes – aptly titled, Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 – might appear to defy that notion. At 26 tracks, clocking in at just under 90 minutes, the collection could easily be mis-interpreted by passersby as a bloated cash grab, a cheaply contrived in-between-albums release that will keep public interest alive; Lord knows the super-fans and ardent record collectors will snatch it up to keep their catalogue complete. After all, despite featuring a couple of previously unreleased songs (e.g. “City Lights” and “Love is the Truth” aired once in a Coca-Cola commercial), more than half the album’s tracks are lifted from their respective records as-is, without so much as a remix to accentuate their acoustic-ness. But examine the details of this collection, and you might find that, yet again, White seeks to reveal some deep-seated aspect of his artistic identity by way of hints through minute details.

Don’t believe me? Go dust off a Stripes album and flip through the liner notes, specifically the poetic, often rant-like passages.

BurtReynolds wrote:I said I was disappointed in Jack White's solo show, but the Dead Weather show was fantastic.

VinylGuy wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:I said I was disappointed in Jack White's solo show, but the Dead Weather show was fantastic.

I saw both of them and they were amazing.