this song is crazy sick.. my favorite from the whole cd, and if you havent heard this cd, get it because its like one of my best purchases in a long time.
ack: "There's a button at the top of my navy peacoat, and it's the hardest button to button. I thought that was a great metaphor for the off man out in the family. It also comes from sayings of my father, like 'My uncle Harold had a 10 button vest but he could only fasten eight.'"
ack: "There's a button at the top of my navy peacoat, and it's the hardest button to button. I thought that was a great metaphor for the off man out in the family. It also comes from sayings of my father, like 'My uncle Harold had a 10 button vest but he could only fasten eight.'"
jack: "Yeah, that's true about that song. Sometimes that is how it happens. I will sit down at a piano and sometimes the first thing that comes out of my mouth is the title and the story at the...
jack: "Yeah, that's true about that song. Sometimes that is how it happens. I will sit down at a piano and sometimes the first thing that comes out of my mouth is the title and the story at the same time. It is an interesting way to write a song. I don't do it that way all the time."
jack: "This is sort of a child trying to figure out where his place is in a sort of dysfunctional family. He wants to get more attention, he's losing attention, there's a new baby in the family and a lot of different things. He's just trying to find his place in the family, I think. This is almost like a modern song for us in a sense. I don't know why, but it feels that. This was one of the most interesting ones to be recorded. When we were working on it, I liked working on this one."
jack: "It was really difficult and intricate you know, sort of complicated in the structure, like, all the different accents were hitting - we really weren't nailing them because we were sort of writing it on the spot. We didn't sit back at home and rehearse like, 'We're going to hit this four times - 'Da-na-na-na', or anything like that. We were kind of looking at each other in the studio and winging it, you know, going in and out of choruses and verses or whatever and trying to do that thing. So it's going to be funny when we go back and try to learn how to play that song again 'cause we haven't played it since we recorded it! So, we'll have to try to figure that out.
this song is crazy sick.. my favorite from the whole cd, and if you havent heard this cd, get it because its like one of my best purchases in a long time.
From WhiteStripes.net:
From WhiteStripes.net:
ack: "There's a button at the top of my navy peacoat, and it's the hardest button to button. I thought that was a great metaphor for the off man out in the family. It also comes from sayings of my father, like 'My uncle Harold had a 10 button vest but he could only fasten eight.'"
ack: "There's a button at the top of my navy peacoat, and it's the hardest button to button. I thought that was a great metaphor for the off man out in the family. It also comes from sayings of my father, like 'My uncle Harold had a 10 button vest but he could only fasten eight.'"
jack: "Yeah, that's true about that song. Sometimes that is how it happens. I will sit down at a piano and sometimes the first thing that comes out of my mouth is the title and the story at the...
jack: "Yeah, that's true about that song. Sometimes that is how it happens. I will sit down at a piano and sometimes the first thing that comes out of my mouth is the title and the story at the same time. It is an interesting way to write a song. I don't do it that way all the time."
jack: "This is sort of a child trying to figure out where his place is in a sort of dysfunctional family. He wants to get more attention, he's losing attention, there's a new baby in the family and a lot of different things. He's just trying to find his place in the family, I think. This is almost like a modern song for us in a sense. I don't know why, but it feels that. This was one of the most interesting ones to be recorded. When we were working on it, I liked working on this one."
jack: "It was really difficult and intricate you know, sort of complicated in the structure, like, all the different accents were hitting - we really weren't nailing them because we were sort of writing it on the spot. We didn't sit back at home and rehearse like, 'We're going to hit this four times - 'Da-na-na-na', or anything like that. We were kind of looking at each other in the studio and winging it, you know, going in and out of choruses and verses or whatever and trying to do that thing. So it's going to be funny when we go back and try to learn how to play that song again 'cause we haven't played it since we recorded it! So, we'll have to try to figure that out.