So why is The Dead Weather’s Dodge and Burn on this best 1,000 albums ever thing?
While The Dead Weather is a “supergroup” of sorts, including Jack White (The White Stripes, The Raconteurs), Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age), and “Little Jack” Lawrence (The Raconteurs), I’ve long considered it the oddest and most experimental of Jack White’s projects.
For those reasons, I find The Dead Weather to be far less accessible than The White Stripes and The Raconteurs on the whole. But once you let it, and Dodge and Burn, under your skin, it holds a dark, rocking, and compelling power.
“Three Dollar Hat” was my initial hook into the album. With an opening super dark and moody guitar riff and cowbell reminiscent of “I Cut Like a Buffalo” (by far my favorite Dead Weather track), it then veers into really weird territory, like Beck took some downers with Jack White (and “Three Dollar Hat” sounds like it could be a Beck song title, doesn’t it?) and they then proceeded to make a hip hop song. Then the guitars fire up and it’s a hellaciously dark and effective rocker. And it all works like some strange amalgam.
Jack White’s vocals on “Rough Detective” make it sound like a dark Raconteurs song, but it’s Mosshart’s vocals that really help take it next level, and right now it’s my favorite song on the album.
“I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)” is a fun (by Dead Weather standards) hard rocker, with a deliciously heavy Led Zeppelin-esque guitar riff. Something tells me Jimmy Paige would approve.
I also appreciate music videos like this one that are super simple while effectively enhancing the mood of the song.
Some stats & info about The Dead Weather – Dodge and Burn
- What kind of musical stylings does this album represent? Rock, Garage Rock, Hard Rock, Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Rock Music
- Rolling Stone’s greatest 500 albums ranking – not ranked!
- All Music’s rating – 4 out of 5 stars
- When was Dodge and Burn released? 2015
- My ranking, the one you’re reading right now – #930 out of 1,000
The Dead Weather’s Dodge and Burn on Spotify
A lyrical snippet from The Dead Weather’s Dodge and Burn that’s evocative of the album in some way, maybe
You want to trade your life for a three dollar hat?
What does the “best 1,000 albums ever” mean and why are you doing this?
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But here’s what it’s NOT: a definitive list of the Greatest Albums of All-Time. This is 100% my own personal super biased, incredibly subjective take on what my top 1,000 albums are, ranked in painstaking order over the course of doing research for nearly a year, Rob from High Fidelity style. Find out more about why I embarked on a best 1,000 albums ever project.