If asked, if pressed, I would like to put the Black Keys on the same basic level as AC/DC. Albeit, the level itself is sort of...tilted, and the Black Keys would be over on the down end, whereas AC/DC would be over on the top end of it. I guess some people might say that's unfair, to put them both on that same tilted level together. But that's not how I see it. I say it's fair.
When I say that, what I mean is that within their respective oeuvres, they both manage to keep all their albums sounding about the same. Album to album, pretty much the same. Which is a sweet trick if you can pull it off with a great sound and decent songs! And nobody else would claim otherwise, where these two greats are concerned - lest they get a crack across the mouth for that.
Which is a definite threat. Don't mess with me on this. That's right.
Now when I say "greats," I really should clarify, or to be more precise, contradict myself: AC/DC is "a great." The Black Keys...they may get there one day. Right now, they're a great band already, but not perhaps yet "a great."
So for any confusion I may have occasioned with my remarks on that score, glad we got that straightened out.
When I say that, what I mean is that within their respective oeuvres, they both manage to keep all their albums sounding about the same. Album to album, pretty much the same. Which is a sweet trick if you can pull it off with a great sound and decent songs! And nobody else would claim otherwise, where these two greats are concerned - lest they get a crack across the mouth for that.
Which is a definite threat. Don't mess with me on this. That's right.
Now when I say "greats," I really should clarify, or to be more precise, contradict myself: AC/DC is "a great." The Black Keys...they may get there one day. Right now, they're a great band already, but not perhaps yet "a great."
So for any confusion I may have occasioned with my remarks on that score, glad we got that straightened out.
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