The White Stripes' 2000 album 'De Stijl' is the kind of art you make for yourself, assured few will hear it, writes Lizzy Goodman. It was the last time they'd have that luxury, but they never forgot the lesson.
," which has no real chorus and features a string of quirky, surrealist lyrics like"Carry my obituary / My coffin doesn't have a phone," while the B-side was a deliciously melodramatic cover of Dolly Parton's"Jolene." Jack produced the record himself, and the band put it out on the niche West Coast indie Sympathy for the Record Industry. They titled it, after the obscure-ish midcentury Dutch art movement devoted to the pleasures of austerity.
Youth, sex and rage for certain. But as importantly, timing and circumstance. Scene-building is partially about literal shared geography, but it's also about audiences in search of a narrative. What these artists truly had in common was a sense of connection to the visceral, analog, IRL aesthetic of punk rock, and the frustration of making really good music you are told no one will ever care about.
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