In Defense Of My Music

I'm getting more and more into the White Stripes and the Raconteurs. Both are great bands to me and give off the vibe of classic rock. Especially the Raconteurs.

Unlike classic rock though, I don't get bored listening to it. I doubt this has anything to do with the lyrics because I can connect the same way to both the Raconteurs and any classic rock band (save the song Broken Boy Soldier) which is very little. But the music itself is very classic rock-ish just with a little more urgency and garage feel to it.

In the song Broken Boy Soldier there is this buzz going throughout almost the entire song and man, it bugs me. And a lot of the time I feel like I'm listening to something just a step above a demo.

But what a GREAT demo! The songs are cool and that urgency is appreciated. Whereas a lot of classic rock bands seemed to strive for perfection and in the process lose the soul of it (my opinion), the Raconteurs attack it a little differently.

Now, I know nothing about them, but will say that it certainly SEEMS like they write a song, run through it MAYBE two times and then press record and what they record is what's on the album.

I think this would be a GREAT way to tackle things too. Artists are always saying that the recorded version isn't the be all end all version of the song and you need to come hear it live. Well, if the album sounded so rough then can you imagine how great it's going to sound like after the band has been playing show after show of it? They'd be a well oiled machine and you would see progress like you wouldn't believe.

OR you would see a band that is just as raw onstage and that's not really so bad either.

Basically what I'm saying is that you could go either way and be fine with me. Not so great production, but a stellar show, or not so great production and an equal show, where there's just raw energy to it all. Either situation is more than fine with me.

I think the only way you could fail at this would be to record an album and process it to the point of perfection where the ONLY option is to go DOWN in live quality, not up or even level.

Now, all that being said, I'm not interested in hearing ridiculously rough albums from anyone. The White Stripes and Raconteurs get away with it because there's obvious skill there and while the production value SEEMS to be limited, I can still hear what's going on.