The White Stripes have split.

Didn't she have some kind of 'mental breakdown' or something, they cancelled a whole tour or something because of mental exhaustion I think

Yeah to be honest I didn't really think they were still a band, I guess they've just made it 'official' (they'll be back together in a few years, they all are, bands are like this forum--no one ever leaves for good unless they die). So yeah, I'm not really surprised at this, Jack's been doing his own thing for so long now I thought they had split ages ago. Shame though.

Basically, that porno of her leaked on the net a week or so before their big arena tour for Icky Thump & then all of a sudden she went off sick with a mental illness never to return.

I think this proves that the porno is indeed 100% & she is too ashamed to show her face in public again because we've all seen her in all her glory.

Talk about Meg like that again and I'll cut you.

I'm bashing one out over that video now as I type this.

i wish that was her in that vid.

I Love and will miss meg.

But Genuinely gutted and knocked for six by this,im sure i read an article late last year where jack said theyd be working together maybe this year. Just a very special band like chrissie said. a vital act.a favourite of mine, and i'll miss them alot. Its definitely with Meg that all of Jacks best work gets done.

PO PO PO PO

simone knows the score.

loved them. complete awe when i saw em during the Icky Thump tour.. like someone mentioned, mad mad improvise songs, into songs, I forgot what album to what album, it was bloody rock'nr'rol at its finest.

so.. top ten stripes songs then?

I think they were one the top bands in the last decade that came out.

1. I'm finding it harder to be a gentleman
2. My doorbell
3. The denial twist
4. Black Math
5. I'm a martyr for my love for you
6. Death letter
7. Dead leaves and the dirty ground
8. I'm bound to pack it up
9. Seven nation army
10. I fought piranhas/let's build a home (live)

you gotta wait for the best of to come out before you can make that list.

1. We're Going to Be Friends
2. Ball and Buscuit
3. Hotel Yorba
4. Blue Orchid
5. Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine
6. Black Math
7. I Fought Piranhas
8. Hyponotize
9. Sister, Do You Know My Name
10. The Air Near My Fingers

The funny thing is that 'elephant' is one of my favourite albums by anyone ever...but there's not really any songs that stand out as my favourites of theirs. (Aside from Black Math. That's just massive.)

Black Math would be the background song for smashing a hotel room in my life biopic.

Been listening to yer Stripes most of the day, and got a bit sad FFS

Black Math is stunning, innit. I always thought it's the kind of rocking tune Liam could knock out the park

you're pretty good looking (for a girl) was the first song i ever heard by them and i still think its my favourite tbh. absolutely brilliant tune.

always been a big fan of jimmy the exploder too, proper rocking tune that and hotel yorba it goes without saying is superb.

il always remember how blown away i was by icky thump (the song) when it first came out too. i thought the white stripes were perhaps beginning to lose it before then but when that came out i couldnt stop playing it.

top top band

LET'S SHAKE HANDS

is another of their best blues rock numbers, always was a highlight if they played it