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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic
the white stripes made it cool and comercially viable to play garage rock (and while we're at it, it was the hype the strokes got that started the whole 'look at the white stripes' thing), they did not bring it back, it was brewing from several bands. it's not like they just said "i'm playing garage rock" and then people were like "wow!! that hasn't been done since the 60's"
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Well, yeah, it kind of is like that.
Sure, other bands were playing similar stuff, but my point, which you pretty much reiterated, is that they made it cool and commercially viable. A 'resurgence,' if you like, of that style was in part facilitated by the emergence of the White Stripes, regardless of the fact that they weren't without predecessors.
I'm starting to sound like I'm obsessed with the White Stripes. I was really just using them as an example.
And I don't mean to speak for Toilet & Bowls, but it sounds like we're all making a similar point, just with skewed perspectives.
You're bringing up the genre classification issue again, but I repeat, it's not about that. Was Neil Young rock or folk? Doesn't matter, the guy's a kickass musician. Is SY rock, grunge, experimental, etc.? Again, doesn't matter - whatever category they fall under, they were pioneers of their age, and whether you think they rock or suck, they are UNDENIABLY influential figures in the history of music in general.
You claim I am too obsessed with genres, so I'm confused - I'm taking them out of the equation, and you're factoring them in.
My brain hurts (not because of you Everyneurotic) so I'm going to think about cartoons for a while instead.