Detesto o 1º Álbum de White Stripes

Porquê? Porque não nasci no fim dos anos 70, nem acredito que o rock se recicla ciclicamente, com resultados de inabalável repetição num reiterado desejo de retro-rock, em que o passado é revisitado sem novas roupagens. Claro que há pessoas que calcorreiam estantes da Fnac no desejo de comprar um número mínimo de álbuns por mês/semana, numa de "isto são as tendências, há que estar up-to-date por mais irrelevantes que sejam".

Aqui aprofunda-se a questão:

MAYBE it's time to retire the term "retro-rock." Not because it doesn't fit but because it fits too much too well - it's becoming redundant. These days, rock tends to be retro by default, whether on the pop charts or on MP3 blogs. The million-selling Las Vegas band the Killers became a mainstream sensation by reviving the sound of 1980's new wave, while the beloved Scottish cult band Bloc Party became an underground sensation by . . . well, by reviving a different strand of 1980's new wave. From Gap commercials (where you can find the 18-year-old Joss Stone belting out the half-century-old "Night Time Is the Right Time") to indie record shops, rock 'n' roll nostalgia is everywhere. A young listener might well wonder what other kind of rock 'n' roll there is, and an older one might find that a surprisingly difficult question to answer.

Only a few years ago, it was a mild shock to hear so many young bands sounding so old-fashioned. In 2001, when the Strokes released their galvanizing debut album, the garage-rock boom seemed like a sharp (and sometimes shrill) reaction to a mutating musical world. The Strokes' retro juggernaut was a strike against turntables and keyboards, rap-rock and electronica. And if the band sounded a bit like their favorite late-1970's punk forebears, that was part of the point: they were digging in their heels.