White Stripes - I think I smell a rat - the Steven Shane McDonald version.
White Blood Cells is a damn good album, right? Right.
Well, awhile ago - 2002 - Steven Shane McDonald, the Redd Kross bassist, came up with the idea of making this album sound even better, by adding a bass line to it. He called it Redd Blood Cells - oh, the pun.
A very thoughtful thought indeed, except the album worked very well without a bass (having been composed as such). At times the bass really adds something, makes the sound a bit fuller, but most of the times it just pops up in the frame waving at its mother. It's way too obvious. "Little Room" was absolutely murdered in my opinion. Other songs became casualties as well, because Steven gets creative from time to time ("The Union Forever" , "Offend in Every Way"), he's one inch away from a full-fledged bass-solo. Dude, there's no easy way to say this: it's not your album.
The album was successful on the internet, it got over 60.000 downloads until Jack White caught the sniff of it and respectfully asked Steven to stop fucking around with his music.
Well, awhile ago - 2002 - Steven Shane McDonald, the Redd Kross bassist, came up with the idea of making this album sound even better, by adding a bass line to it. He called it Redd Blood Cells - oh, the pun.
A very thoughtful thought indeed, except the album worked very well without a bass (having been composed as such). At times the bass really adds something, makes the sound a bit fuller, but most of the times it just pops up in the frame waving at its mother. It's way too obvious. "Little Room" was absolutely murdered in my opinion. Other songs became casualties as well, because Steven gets creative from time to time ("The Union Forever" , "Offend in Every Way"), he's one inch away from a full-fledged bass-solo. Dude, there's no easy way to say this: it's not your album.
The album was successful on the internet, it got over 60.000 downloads until Jack White caught the sniff of it and respectfully asked Steven to stop fucking around with his music.
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Everytime I hear this song, it reminds me of the fact that no one seems to know (or acknowledge) that much of this song is a rip off from Earth and Fire's 'Seasons'.
It's not mentioned anywhere, as far as I know, yet it's plain obvious. No ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpp4mJz3QZQ
Yeah, I see what you mean. It's not identical, but very similar.
But you have to understand, my child, when an artist reaches a certain degree of respectability and credibility, he doesn't do "rip-offs" any more, no no no. He does 'tributes', 'nods', 'quotes', 'hints' and sometimes even 'covers'. Just look at Manson. :))
There's always the freak chance that this may be a coincidence, the subconscious at work. Same thing happened when Ween wrote "Japanese Cowboy", if you're familiar with that. After weeks and months of hard work, they realized they've just rewritten "Chariots of Fire". It happens.
it happens..okay..
still, got a tiny but dark and brown suspicion, this is not what happened here.
Musically, I like both versions equally just as much though.
And as for Ween...I believe them in an instant, they're Ween :-)
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