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The White Stripes: Under Blackpool Lights DVD (Third Man/V2)

Steven R Rosen, Harp, March 2005

EXCUSE MY misperception. I’d always considered the White Stripes as a modernist garage-rock band-hip to the melody of catchy songs like 'You’re Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)' and 'Seven Nation Army' but with a taste for underpinning it with raw, direct and powerfully rhythmic guitar and drums.

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