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- Summary: Jack White plays drums and produced this album for the band headed by The Kills' Alison Mosshart, which also includes The Raconteurs' Jack Lawrence and Queens of the Stone Age's Dean Fertita.
- Record Label: WEA/Reprise
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Top Track
Treat Me Like Your Mother | |
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Don't act like you can't act i know i seen you do it you better learn to shake hands and treat me like your mother Don't act like you can't... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 29
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Mixed: 9 out of 29
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Negative: 0 out of 29
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There's no joke here--just mountains of chest-rattling primal rock designed to reassert the elemental power of the four-piece rock group. Mission accomplished.
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With Raconteurs bassist Jack Lawrence and guitarist-organist Dean Fertita helping out, the pair cut Horehound in three weeks, but these are all top-notch songs, rooted in Seventies dirtbag rock.
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Alternative PressThere's no denying the quartet know how to work a mighty groove as well as set up atmospheres similar to bands remanded to the faded pages of old record-collecting magazines. [July 2009, p.126]
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It’s a maiden voyage with a few kinks that need to be worked out. One promising aspect is White’s new pet project, The Kills singer Alison Mosshart.
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Given the fact that the Dead Weather formed on a whim and recorded these songs in a matter of weeks, Horehound is a compelling album, and one that shows that the band's members bring out the best in each other, albeit in unexpected ways.
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Despite the speed at which it came together, the album sounds as polished. But sometimes you wish he would reach beyond his grab-bag of influences and push out something with shocks-a-mighty.
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The Dead Weather makes smegma rock. It’s a squirming, nauseating label no doubt, but so is Horehound, convinced that skuzzed-up guitars and swamp blues roots demand sleaze, humidity, and grime.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 20
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Mixed: 0 out of 20
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Negative: 2 out of 20
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JordanSJul 25, 2009Simply one of the best albums of 2009. No doubt.
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drewpJul 30, 2009
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NathanS.Jul 16, 2009
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CzarAug 3, 2009
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JimJul 16, 2009A terrific cd that goes back to rock's bluesy roots. One of the best this year.
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Nov 22, 2011
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NeilP.Jul 17, 2009Definitely sounds like it was cut in 3 weeks. Jack White needs to slow down and take a break.
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