The Raconteurs-Consolers of the Lonely

Okay, I don't know what to even call this thing anymore. Let's just call a music source, with articles and reviews. (God, I really need a new hobby and a smaller vocabulary.) If you couldn't read in between the lines (if anyone is reading this at all) I'm back with another review, and this is of Consolers of the Lonely by the Raconteurs.

Again, little background information. Formed in 2005, the Raconteurs consist of Brendan Benson, Patrick Keeler, Jack Lawrence, and the legendary Jack White (who I still hold as my generation's Jimi Hendrix.) And, they're not bad, but can't touch the original workings of Jack and Meg White as The White Strips, where most of the classic music of my generation actually has come from.

Now, this record started off with a big band that kind of left you wanting more after the first song of Consoler of the Lonely. Then, it goes into Track 2 on the record Salute Your Solution, which still isn't a bad song, but no where near the magnitude of the primary track of the record.

I will give them one thing, the guitar through out the entire record is strong, and that is also a key point to why this record doesn't completely suck. It just takes a while to get into, and after about five or six songs, you just start to get bored of everything, and go find something else to do.

It's not even that the remaining songs on the record suck. It's just that they're so repetitive, and it just all sounds like it's one, long, never-ending song. It just drags on and on, until you get to Track 12, which is my favorite on the record (Rich Kid Blues). I mean, I like the 1st, and the 12th track? That's not what a good, solid record is supposed to be like. That part of it, is mediocre at best.

I honestly do think that Jack White makes much better and lasting and stronger music when he plays with Meg White as the White Stripes. I think he is just better as a solo act with drums, because when you mix him in with a rhythm guitarist, then you just take away from that man's God-given talent of being able to absolutely destroy a guitar. So, I give three and a half stars.