2 posts tagged “jack white”
It's not often that I look forward to an album release so much that I intend to rush out on its release date and buy it. However, being of the opinion that Jack White can do little to no wrong, the upcoming release of his latest faction--"Horehound" by The Dead Weather--this Tuesday has had me all atwitter for over a month now.
Friday, I made one of my tri-yearly pilgrimages to the mall (which I abhor). Our local music store allows CD trades for store credit, and as music has become more and more digitally oriented, I find this to be rather brilliant--I can buy those few albums that I can't find for download (I'm anti-iTunes, but that's another rant for another time), rip them, and then trade them. While I may only end up with $20 worth of store credit for five CDs, hey--that's 20 bucks off some new tunage.
But I digress. I wandered around this FYE for a good 30 minutes, unable to find anything I wanted. I wasn't all that jazzed about seeing a new live Nightwish release since I haven't listened to any track samples, I have damn near every Tom Waits album ever recorded, they didn't have the frapping Easy Rider soundtrack (which I have on vinyl, but seriously, WTF?), they only had one Kamelot album that I already own, they didn't have the one Dwight Yoakam album I give a damn about owning, they did have Volume II of the Duane Allman anthology--for about $15 more than it was on Amazon.com...I mean, I was just screwed.
The manager who works there--who never remembers my name, which doesn't bother me because I don't remember his, either--looked a few things up for me with the same response, "Well, we can order it." Dude, no offense, but I can order it my damn self. So I just happened to say, "And The Dead Weather album is released on Tuesday, right?"
His response literally made me do a happy dance: "Yeah, but I'll sell it to you now."
Thank you, Karma, for allowing me to rock out all weekend to a not-yet-released album. :)
Tom Waits. Not originally from Earth. This man makes and records some of the strangest auditory occurances ever to emanate on earth...and if he can't find a sound strange enough, he just goes and creates an "instrument" that will emit the sound that his warped mind is after. What's he building in there?
Iggy Pop. At first glance this strange critter seems to have originated somewhere in the Rockstars-Used-To-Do-Lots-Of-Drugs galaxy...but give him a few minutes and it's clearly apparent that he came from somewhere infintiely more far-out than that.
Jack White. He's actually tough to identify, because it's possible that instead of not being an original Earthling, he started out here but experienced an abduction phenomenon at an extraordinarily tender age. I suspect this because he can force himself to behave in a normal manner--just watch Cold Mountain. Generally I'm of the opinion that those other-worldly critters couldn't appear to be normal for any reason whatsoever. In addition, his brilliance can be appreciated in not-horribly-abstract terms...
...quite unlike Tom Waits, who would require terms more abstract than those that lived in the warped brain of Salvador Dali.
And Great Googly Moogly, let us not forget Frank Zappa. Without fail, this is the mental image conjured in my brain when I hear Zappa mentioned:
In addition, this image is presented not as the cover of a CD, but the cover of a vinyl album. Now if that isn't unimitigated audacity, I don't know what is.
I'd describe my theory of what far-reaching galaxy had the unmitigated audacity to produce a Zappa...but in truth, I wouldn't even know where to begin. The image should speak for itself.
