The Black Keys: History of the Rock Band

[@TheBunberry]

MY FAVORITE BAND! THEY ARE THE BEST!

[@tronkatt6571]

God i fucking love them

[@aspengarrido2785]

My all time favorite band! they are freakin awesome!!!

[@ice9planet]

Goddamn Magic Potion never leaves my head. Brilliant album. Yes, their fan base has grown and some of their soun has changed but I'm cool with it as long as they continue to make great music. They work well because they don';t make the same album twice. The same formula helped Pearl Jam survive for 20 years and these guys will do the same.

[@evillink1]

Magic Potion is my favorite album.

[@Rubberfooted]

Yes! Same!

[@marklanzarotta2577]

The setting sun of rock and roll lights up this last lonely band in its glare. Now comes the Long Night. We won’t live to see another dawn. Rock is almost done. Goodbye.

[@theelephantines2128]

Playing the studio version over the live, no no no no

[@dabigdawg58]

Thickfreakness is awesome

[@booboogamecocklover3149]

It always interest me how bands get there starts in this industry. It proves what they are made of.

[@StevenDinan]

That holds true with many artists but I think it's best to be happy for the band's success.

[@NosajKnows]

I Got Mine is just such a tune

[@Wuddymaters13]

i've been on board with the keys pretty much since they got their start. They aren't sellouts but they changed their sound quite a bit. for people that were into them during the time of the first 3 cds it's almost a different band now. so it is a bit frustrating for those of us that were loyal when nobody else was loyal. at their shows now, if they play something old, people in the audiences don't even know the songs. i want them having success. but many of the fans came late to the party.

[@lonecrows2546]

about 3:16, Ol' Dirty Bastard left earth on a Drug ride to the afterlife in 2004. Other members of Wu-Tang were on BlakRoc, but definitely not him.

[@MrLanzie]

'coochie' featuring ludacris and ODB

[@vladimircrotchlickmeoff6225]

Idk fam I've listened to most of there albums all the way through except for like 2 and my favorite is turn blue I liked brothers but I kept listening to turn blue and fell in love with it and attack and release is pretty good too but like turn blue

[@fareezfarouk9385]

BEST BLUES ROCK OF ALL TIME

[@nunovilhena9267]

rubber factory ,brothers and thickfreakness are my favourite albuns...the last two just don´t have that black keys sound. People who just started to listen to them in the last 3 years just don´t know what the black keys sound is all about ...recently there is a lack of blues in their sound and that was what made them different ...that blues mixed with garage rock was absolutely beautiful

[@emilbang1051]

Well, I think that their last two albums are just as much holding the "Black Keys-sound", 'cause you know, they are the Black Keys, and they know far better than anyone else what their sound is like...

[@dominicpontrelli1496]

Bands change. They have to to stay relevant imo. If a band produces the same sounding music for a decade it can get stale. I personally love their older stuff like Rubber Factory and Thickfreakness, but their new sound is pretty good too. I personally think El Camino and Brothers were their best albums right up there with Rubber Factory even though they don't quite have that grit.

[@lawrencejohn8541]

Yeah I'm one of those latecomers. So I've started looking up their albums before Magic Potion to be true to them.

[@maxwrangler5788]

I love El Camino

[@Beingtherain]

Did they just call mos def ol dirty bastard...? Old dirty passed away in 2004 .

[@thebargainbin6020]

+Daniel Garcia dumb as hell.

[@bowdownORbringthawar]

Goddamn it WMOJO.

[@dragonflies4090]

No, Mos Def AND ODB were on the album. Just no video of him, because he had died by then. But, they did miss the fact ODB was part of WuTang.

[@indielox49]

Can you please do The Strokes?

[@JuggSniper]

The Black Keys are my all time favorite blues band. The Big Come Up, Thickfreakness, The Rubber Factory, and Chulahoma were in my opinion their greatest albums. They started off as a rocking garage blues, dirty blues duo, and sadly they've changed in appeasement to this new hipster age. They used to go hard in their live concerts back when they were touring nonstop when they formed the band. Now it seems like they have gone away from their blues roots, and while I'm happy for their success, I hate that they changed so much. Their newer albums have been crap. Magic Potion and Attack and Release were their last good albums, but Brothers is okay. They had live shows where the audience would sing along to Thickfreakness and Hard Row. Man those were the good times. I hope that one day they will release a blues album like their earlier works of art, with just Pat and Dan.

[@NotDingse]

They're doing exactly what they want to. You sound a lot like the stereotypical hipster though...

[@NotDingse]

I can't see the amazement of the old albums though, so we're probably even ;)

[@JuggSniper]

Definitely Not Dingse! I'm happy for their success, and I know that they are doing what they wan't to. Their music changed because their taste changed and their life progressed. They can't keep playing the same things, they experimented. I just don't like that they changed so much to a sound so overproduced compared to their older albums. Their older albums were raw and they did it with very little recording equipment. I still love The black Keys, but I don't like their newer sound. They rocked harder when it was just the two of them.(Opinion)

[@NotDingse]

Nermin Meskovic That sounds in no way wrong, but I listened to their older stuff and apart from The Big Come Up, nothing was outstanding. It sounded roughly the same and was a bit too muddy to me.

[@JuggSniper]

Definitely Not Dingse! Everyone has their own tastes. I like their earlier albums more than their newer ones, but there are a couple of songs that I like in El Camino and Brothers.

[@TheNickLeez]

You guys should do a history of The Presidents of The United States of America

[@legendofFranktheTank]

do the strokes and vampire weekend

[@PaulNylund]

i think their new stuff is better, but i like their old stuff as well.

[@nothing-b2n]

Yep

[@WaxMall]

there's nothing in this video that couldn't be gleaned from a quick look at wikipedia. Why not splice in some interview bits or something?

[@elduderino3995]

WaxMall ikr

[@samjoshwilliams4713]

Fun Fact: The band almost got sued by The Killing Joke, because they stole this riff from the song 'Eighties'

[@gotgt500]

does anyone know if they are working on new stuff now?

[@theelephantines2128]

***** Yea, I was hoping and waiting for the album to come out soon, Im going to guess they're touring got in the way.

[@MR2Di4]

New album Turn Blue coming out on May 13th. A single "Fever" is on their KZbin channel. The Black Keys have been a favorite a mine ever since I heard them, one or more of their albums is always on my playlist...

[@tovar737]

What guitar does he use for Your Touch and amp it looks like an SG

[@remodrummer99]

tovar737 it's an Ibanez lawsuit sg

[@fenomozo9108]

The Big Come Up: Nice Thickfreakness: Kind of average. Rubber Factory: Fucking Awesome. Chulahoma: Fucking Awesome. Magic Potion: Good Album. Attack and Release: This shit is nice, but are some songs that i dont like very much. Brothers: A little overrated, but its an impressive album. El Camino: Fucking Awesome. Turn Blue: Really good album, has some epic tunes and others that are just boring.

[@DudeOfDiamonds]

Feno Mozo All albums: Kickass

[@SANTAMU3RTE]

big come up and thickfreakness are amazing

[@elduderino3995]

i think thickfreakness and magic potion are their best albums. I know el Camino was good but C'mon.... "fucking awesome"? thats the farthest they strayed from their original sound as a band till turn blue, which was also great..

[@JustSomeBoredGamer]

Black Keys >>>>>> Jack White. I used to love the White Stripes. Naaa. Black Keys kick them out of the yard!

[@Harvester236]

I don't understand why Jack White slated them for 'copying' him despite the fact they're all just playing Blues music. It doesn't belong to anybody. Anyway I won't compare both bands because I like all their music.

[@SummersPep]

Have you checked out #Lazaretto ?? It's easy to JUST LOVE JW & DA BOTH... It's not a sin my friends!!

[@Diax1324]

***** I think he was just writing in a bit of a rage. It seems to me White has a small anger problem (not being facetious) which gets the better of him in intense situations sometimes.

[@MaxMG-xi2ub]

I think The Black Keys is a combination of the Rancounters and The White Stripes

[@kmasonsos]

JustSomeBoredGamer fuck nah bruh

[@TheREALforeverone]

@SilentBladeX Because some people have no taste.

[@MyPotatoAim]

whats wrong with "selling out?" its how they make money, if you could earn it all, you would too.

[@TheWoWadicted]

But it's missing bass! Where's the bass? Don't they know that bass and drums are the 2nd most important thing in rock (after vocals)???

[@Diax1324]

White Stripes already disproved that.

[@TheWoWadicted]

Well, no? Black keyes understood that they needed bass and hired a bass player. Having no bass guitar is like having only half an engine... It's not going to work. I'm going give props to Jack White for his creaativity in making his guitar sound as fat as possible, but I can feel the absance of the bass. The sound is just too flat and rough. In the only song anyone really knows of them (Seven Nation Army), you could almost believe that Jack is playing a bass, because he has so many effects on it.

[@DudeOfDiamonds]

White Stripes are dead compared to The Black Keys. But they still have some pretty great songs and sounds though.

[@NotDingse]

I know a few songs from white stripes, and they never needed bass.

[@lectorua8585]

early --JUNIOR KIMBROUGH---now- FAKE-music

[@sebastianaguilar4464]

History of gorillaz

[@davidjmcd11]

They didnt collaborate with ODB, hes been dead for like 7 years, duh. Pre-recorded, unreleased verses

[@yasuhitosaito8443]

and then there was turn blue

[@bfox502]

I actually like the album, they broke some of their own barriers. They grew.

[@missmaroon44]

And jake ish took your girl?

[@undershock94]

that's not selling out, that succeeding or would you like to be stucked in bars forever?

[@SilentBladeX]

Why is there an immediate dislike =/

[@sora120592]

Magic Potion and Rubber Factory are the two only good albums. The rest are just alright. And i say this as a longtime fan.

[@LegoMocs1]

Longtime fan doesn’t make you credible. Opinions are opinions, and while we are sharing them, Brothers and El Camino are their best albums.

[@deVon30241]

Anyone else here think the White Stripes are severely superior?

[@cheasepriest]

jack white is an amazing musician and a genius in his own right (just a shame he sucks as a human being). But he was a different kind of thing to the keys. white stripes were very based on the aesthetics and limiting themselves in ways to make them try and expand their palette through necessity and the colour scheme was taken to extreme to try and make people interested. It was always more about jack showing off. the keys are pure loud dirty garage rock.

[@cheasepriest]

Very much so

[@deVon30241]

NotNotKenny that's fair. He certainly has a voice that isn't for everyone's ears.

[@NotNotKenny]

Now that was a quick response!I think i accidently deleted my comment.It took seeing them live for it really to get to me but the music was great.

[@deVon30241]

+NotNotKenny haha I got my notifications turned on :p but man you're lucky, im just a bit too young to have seen the white stripes live

[@monny772]

Too bad "Turn Blue" was a big Stinker.

[@mullenbeck]

Uhh, have you heard weight of love?

[@monny772]

One good song doesn't make an album good or absolve it of being a stinker. Weight of Love is a good song but it still has many of the same problems that every track on the album has, they all sound the same and the lyrics are shit.

[@mullenbeck]

Bully Matrix 2k Turn Blue doesnt sound similar to fever and then it sounds nothing like weight of love.

[@monny772]

Two or three songs sounding different than the whole album doesn't mean that every track on the album is original Mr. Mullenbeck.

[@mullenbeck]

ok then..... i personally think the album was good.