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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
My favorite 2 member band (and it is bass and drums) is Death From Above 1979. I think they took it to such a full sound so energetic, no attempt to "blues it up". They straight RAWKED it Fucking love them.
Black Keys sounds to me like generic blues rock.
The White Stripes took that same tack but their heavily distorted and gain up to 11 guitar sound made it sound fresh and new, plus Jack White seemed to experiment more with song structure and tension in White Stripes as opposed to his terminally dull solo and raconteur stuff.
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I have literally never heard Death From Above 1979, and I don't know why. Their s/t album is, like, a classic now. Yet I've never even thought to listen.
I think it's because I was a big DFA fan and DFA sued their asses long ago. Am I remembering that correctly even? I was sure that had happened. Anyway even if it didn't happen I thought it did, and just thought "Fuckers" and that probably primed me for a DFA1979 free existence.
Jesus I think they even played a festival I attended! How did I not hear or see them? That's some funny shit. Some dweeb momma's boy pitchfork writer wrote a biased piece about it or something- or maybe just phrased it in a certain way- and I wrote them off without even knowing it. Ha. Ah, the priming effect and negativity bias, Ho! Psychology, la la la.