Emily: This album is just plain cool. The guitar-and-drums sound is minimalist, but that makes it powerful. Their style is so unique, a mix of garage rock, alternative, and hard rock that sounds like no other band. Jack and Meg both play with a lot of passion, and that translates into the intensity of every song. The simple throbbing guitar riff of Seven Nation Army is enough to get anyone pumped up. (the Temple marching band played it last year for a few football games and it was awesome. Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOTemZdLuxc)
Favorite Tracks: Seven Nation Army, The Hardest Button to Button, I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Zack: I'm a fan of all three of Jack White's bands and each is very unique. What makes The White Stripes so unique from either The Raconteurs (or The Saboteurs if you're one of our mates from Down Under) or The Dead Weather is the minimalism that defines their sound. Jack White throws the bass out the window and makes sure you won't miss it on every song on this album. The distortion effects he uses have helped him earn his place in the Hall of Guitar Gods (if you think I'm making an outlandish claim check out Rolling Stone magazines 100 Greatest Guitarists and see with your own eyes that he cracks the top twenty). Every song is an elegant combination of simplicity in instrumentation with complex sounds that merge garage rock, punk, alternative, and blues.
Favorite Tracks: Seven Nation Army, Ball and Biscuit, The Hardest Button to Button
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