Recommendations of the editorial team
Nerd and stylist, power man and entrepreneur, philanthropic and owl. Above all, Jack White is a passionate fan and maker. After driving the garage revival with White Blood Cells, he fired with his bands, projects and the label Third man A stately number of albums in the rock world. An overview.
Jack White: You have to have that
White Blood Cells (2001)
The third plate of the duo, with MEG and Jack White grew from the insider tip to the Superact. More than a million albums sold alone in the USA, with Hotel Yorba and Fell in Love with a girl two hitsingles. White Blood Cells leads the garage revival to pop in 2001.
If the 90s were attempted to keep rock music wake up through perfection and volume, at the beginning of the nuller years Jack and Meg clasp themselves in their hearts: Dead Leaves and The Dirty Ground is the first piece of the record, for many it becomes first contact with Jack White. The song sounds as dirty as it is called, the reef is ancient, the energy is still unused – and the melody is great.
★★★★★
Elephant (2003)
One LP later Jack White reaches the summit. Seven Nation Army is the last rock song that becomes folklore worldwide, and millions of football fans have to thank him forever. Starting from the obvious hit, the plate is hiding: Black Math has a reference to the proto-metal of Black Sabbath in the title. Burt Bacharach’s I just don’t know what to do with myself-an as casual and casual version that emphasizes the hidden slacker element of the song.
And yet it becomes apparent how Jack White knows how to deal with the template as a singer and guitarist. Please never forget one thing: Without MEG White’s personality as a drummer, Elephant would be at most worth half. Nobody drums like her.
★★★★★
Broken Boy Soldiers (2006)
From 2003, Jack White forced his imposing network, and his old buddy Brendan Benson from Detroit plays a central part. He and Jack White have known each other for a long time, Benson starts an initially promising career as a power popper in the 1990s, which, however, threatens to silence a decade later.
Together with Jack White, he wrote the Song Steady, as She Goes in 2005, which the two find so successful that they found a new band on its base: the raconters are born. The first album complements the Jack White-typical garage rock with psychological and power pop elements from Benson’s Songbook. Broken Boy Soldiers has a number of real paradesongs such as the galloping title song, intimate Secretary with its clear McCartney influence or Call IT a Day, which in its relaxation reminds the British Slacker Badly Drawn Boy-and of course also of the Beatles.
★★★★ ☆
Back catalog
De Stijl (2000)
The reference to the album title applies to a Dutch art and architecture movement of the 20s, which produced its design through a radical reduction of shape and color. The cover provides a good indication of the aesthetics of de Stijl. However, the music does not correspond to this rigor: Jack White opens on his second plate, now also plays pop and folk. You’re Pretty Good Looking (for a Girl) sounds like a piece of the kinks, the text offers a short homage to the 60s folk rock hit in the year 2525 by Zager and Evans, according to legend Meg should first sing the track, which gives the title and text another twist. Truth does not make a noise is a masterful baroque pop-LED-Zeppelin song. Is there a parallel world in which Jack White has developed into a sophisticated popper?
★★★★ ☆
HORHOUND (2009)
In this band, Jack White is the drummer, the Lead Vocals takes over Alison Mosshart from the Kills. She also throws the show, and White shows a great interest in supporting it in the best possible way in this role. This succeeds on all three albums of the band. The first record Horehound has the greatest density and the most impressive sound. A piece like I cut like a Buffalo is a force. Jack White not only plays damn well, but also creates a grand drum sound as a producer.
★★★★ ☆
Blunderbuss (2012)
Whites three solo albums are what engineers call a specification: The technically thinking musician discloses the variety of requirements that he places on a rock’n’roll album in the 10s … and then fulfills them all. Blunderbuss has the greatest heart and most humor from his three solo braces so far. As he takes the pianomotive from Take Five in Take me with you when you go to the grave, there is crazy fun. How he then resurrected the song as a soul metal suite in the spirit of Elton John and Queen, even more.
★★★★ ☆
Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 (2016)
Well -known pieces such as Apple Blossom and Hotel Yorba. Alternative acoustic versions of songs from all phases. Until then unpublished sketches: The double album puts together the non-electrified side of the songwriter Jack White. In the past, the MTV Unplugged series would have been a suitable stage for this format. In combination with pictures in the candlelight, we would have had the romantic Jack White in mind. Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 remains a high pleasure with a certain distance.
★★★★ ☆
Jack White – you don’t need that:
Icky Thump (2007)
Together with Get Behind Me Satan, Icky Thump forms the problematic finale. The duo concept had exhausted Jack and Meg with elephant. The following two plates look like a sock drawer, into which you can also stuff the underwear. The glue opens, everything looks out, the charging no longer closes. There are grandiose moments. However, at the end of the 13 pieces you don’t feel refreshed, but tired and matt.
★★ ressed
Lazaretto (2014)
Nothing against Boarding House Reach. Jack White’s third and last solo leap from 2018 is a great adventure that makes access difficult, but does not make it impossible. On the other hand, Lazaretto ignores the fact that music not only has to be played but also heard. The title piece sounds as if a physics professor explains the quantum theory in three and a half minutes: Way Too Much.
★★ ressed
Jack White’s record company Third Man Records
White founded his own label in the signature colors black and yellow in Detroit in 2001. The company has been based in Nashville since 2009. In addition to the office, there is a shop and a studio area that White uses for productions. In 2015 he opened a second seat in Detroit, to which Company divided its own press unit in 2017. The main focus of Third Man is on vinyl productions.