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Veröffentlichung Broken Boy Soldiers:
2006
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Broken Boy Soldiers is the debut studio album by American rock band the Raconteurs, released on May 15, 2006 in the United Kingdom and May 16, 2006 in the United States. The album was generally favored among critics and spawned the hit single "Steady, As She Goes". The album earned a nomination for Best Rock Album at the 49th Grammy Awards.
Recording history
The songs were written by Brendan Benson and Jack White. "Steady, As She Goes" was the first song the pair worked on, followed by "Broken Boy Soldier". After the completion of these two songs and their demos, they called in Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler to work on the songs. The album was recorded at Le Grande on 419 Grand Boulevard in Detroit, MI.
In an interview with Uncut magazine, White said that "Store Bought Bones" originated from an outtake of the White Stripes album, Get Behind Me Satan. In the same interview, Benson also said that "Call It a Day" and "Together" were both songs he was working on for his next solo album.
Benson said in an interview with Mojo magazine that the album feels like a demo because of how the band plays the songs live now. "Hands" features an outro heavily influenced by AC/DC's "Back in Black", "Call It a Day" has been sped up (found on the Zane Lowe EP), "Store Bought Bones" has been merged with B-side "The Bane Rendition", and many other changes.
The cover was photographed by Autumn de Wilde and designed by Patrick Keeler and Aleksey Shirokov.
Critical reception
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 75/100[1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
The A.V. Club | B[3] |
Entertainment Weekly | B−[4] |
Los Angeles Times | [5] |
Mojo | [6] |
NME | 6/10[7] |
Pitchfork | 7.3/10[8] |
Q | [9] |
Rolling Stone | [10] |
Spin | [11] |
Critics were generally favorable towards Broken Boy Soldiers. Rolling Stone said of the album "Expectations were sky-high, but the Raconteurs exceed them all."[10] People magazine gave the album three-and-a-half stars, making the album the Critic's Choice of the week; they commented "Broken Boy Soldiers incorporates just enough weirdness to show that he (White) hasn't completely changed his stripes."[12] More conservatively, Billboard remarked "No one is breaking any ground here, and White fanatics looking for a new White Stripes record should temper their expectations. But as far as side projects go, this is as good as it gets."[13]
Dan Raper of PopMatters described the group's sound in the album as "garage-tinged/power-pop/rock 'n' roll, the kind of straightforward verse-chorus-bridge songs that do well on commercial radio".[14] Rob Fitzpatrick of NME regarded it as "psychedelic pop-rock that was popular between 1965 and 1968".[7] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic commented that the album's songs "prove that the Raconteurs are nothing less than a first-rate power pop band".[2]
The album ranked No. 28 on Rolling Stone's year-end critic's list and No. 19 on Spin Magazine's year-end Top 40 albums. It entered the UK charts at #2 and managed to reach #7 in the U.S. As of 2009, the album has sold 522,000 copies in United States.[15] In December 2006, Britain's Mojo magazine made it their Album of the Year. The lead single "Steady, As She Goes" became the band's first Top 10 hit in the UK.
Track listing
All songs by Brendan Benson and Jack White.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Steady, As She Goes" | 3:35 |
2. | "Hands" | 4:01 |
3. | "Broken Boy Soldier" | 3:02 |
4. | "Intimate Secretary" | 3:30 |
5. | "Together" | 3:58 |
6. | "Level" | 2:21 |
7. | "Store Bought Bones" | 2:25 |
8. | "Yellow Sun" | 3:20 |
9. | "Call It a Day" | 3:36 |
10. | "Blue Veins" | 3:54 |
Total length: | 33:42 |
- Japanese edition
No. | Title | Length |
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11. | "The Bane Rendition" | 4:21 |
Total length: | 38:03 |
Personnel
- The Raconteurs
- Jack White – vocals, guitar, keyboards, production, mixing
- Brendan Benson – vocals, guitar, keyboards, production
- Jack Lawrence – bass guitar, backing vocals
- Patrick Keeler – drums
- Additional personnel
- Vlado Meller – mastering
- Patrick Hutchinson – additional engineering (track 3)
Charts
Weekly charts
| Year-end charts
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Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom (BPI)[40] | Gold | 100,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Release history
Region | Date | Label |
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Germany | May 12, 2006 | XL |
United Kingdom | May 15, 2006 | |
Spain | ||
United States | May 16, 2006 | Warner Bros. |
Canada | Warner Music Canada | |
France | Beggars | |
China | March 1, 2007 | Hal Leonard |
Mexico |
References
- ^ "Reviews for Broken Boy Soldiers by The Raconteurs". Metacritic. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Broken Boy Soldiers – The Raconteurs". AllMusic. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ^ Modell, Josh (May 17, 2006). "The Raconteurs: Broken Boy Soldiers". The A.V. Club. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ^ Tyrangiel, Josh (May 15, 2006). "Broken Boy Soldiers". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ^ Powers, Ann (May 16, 2006). "At boys' poker night, the art of raconteurs". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ^ "The Raconteurs: Broken Boy Soldiers". Mojo (150): 96. May 2006.
- ^ a b Fitzpatrick, Rob (May 15, 2006). "The Raconteurs: Broken Boy Soldiers". NME. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ^ Mitchum, Rob (May 14, 2006). "The Raconteurs: Broken Boy Soldiers". Pitchfork. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ^ "The Raconteurs: Broken Boy Soldiers". Q (239): 108. June 2006.
- ^ a b Sheffield, Rob (May 18, 2006). "Broken Boy Soldiers". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ^ Harris, John (June 2006). "Getting Loose". Spin. 22 (6): 77. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ^ Arnold, Chuck (2006-06-05), "The Raconteurs". People. 65 (22):41
- ^ B. G. (2006-05-20), "Broken Boy Soldiers". Billboard. 118 (20):33
- ^ Raper, Dan (12 May 2006). "Popmatters review". Popmatters.com. Retrieved 2012-06-10.
- ^ Wood, Mikael (1 August 2009). "Solo Show". Billboard. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
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Veröffentlichungen von The Raconteurs die im OTRS erhältlich sind/waren:
Broken Boy Soldiers ¦ Consolers Of The Lonely ¦ Live In Tulsa
The Raconteurs auf Wikipedia (oder andere Quellen):
The Raconteurs [ðəˌɹækɑːnˈtɝːz] ist eine Bluesrockband aus den USA. Auf dem australischen Markt heißt sie „The Saboteurs“, da dort schon eine Band namens „Raconteurs“ existierte.
Bandgeschichte
The Raconteurs wurde im Jahr 2005 gegründet und veröffentlichte Anfang Februar 2006 ihre erste Single Steady, As She Goes in limitierter Auflage auf 7″-Vinyl. Diese war in kürzester Zeit ausverkauft und wurde zu hohen Preisen im Internet versteigert.
Konzipiert war die Band als Nebenprojekt, da alle Mitglieder bereits in einer anderen, bekannteren Band spielen oder als Solokünstler aktiv sind: Jack White bei den White Stripes (bis 2011), Brendan Benson als Solokünstler sowie Jack Lawrence und Patrick Keeler bei den Greenhornes. Das erste Raconteurs-Album Broken Boy Soldiers erschien am 12. Mai 2006.
Die Musik der Band spiegelt Whites Liebe für Blues und Rock ’n’ Roll sowie Bensons Fähigkeit zum Indie-Rock-Songwriting wider. Die Texte handeln größtenteils von Liebe sowie biografischen Details. Der Bandname ist französisch (mit englischem Artikel) und bedeutet „die Erzähler“. Im April 2006 musste der Bandname für den australischen Markt auf The Saboteurs geändert werden, da es in diesem Land bereits eine Jazzband aus Queensland gab, die den Namen The Raconteurs benutzte. Die australische Band lehnte das finanzielle Angebot der Plattenfirma für einen Erwerb der Namensrechte ab und verlangte stattdessen eine höhere Summe. Dies lehnte wiederum die Plattenfirma ab, woraufhin es zur Namensänderung kam.[1]
Am 25. März 2008 erschien ihr zweites Album Consolers of the Lonely. Es bekam 2009 unter anderem eine Nominierung für den Grammy in der Kategorie 'Best Rock Album' und gewann einen Grammy in der Kategorie 'Best Engineered Non-Classical Album' für die Tontechnikerleistung.
Diskografie
Studioalben
Jahr | Titel | Höchstplatzierung, Gesamtwochen, AuszeichnungChartplatzierungenChartplatzierungen[2][3] (Jahr, Titel, Platzierungen, Wochen, Auszeichnungen, Anmerkungen) | Anmerkungen | ||||
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DE | AT | CH | UK | US | |||
2006 | Broken Boy Soldiers | DE28 (9 Wo.)DE | AT30 (8 Wo.)AT | CH9 (8 Wo.)CH | UK2 Gold (23 Wo.)UK | US7 (27 Wo.)US |
Erstveröffentlichung: 16. Mai 2006 |
2008 | Consolers of the Lonely | DE60 (3 Wo.)DE | AT38 (5 Wo.)AT | CH25 (8 Wo.)CH | UK8 Gold (16 Wo.)UK | US7 (19 Wo.)US |
Erstveröffentlichung: 25. März 2008 |
2019 | Help Us Stranger | DE14 (4 Wo.)DE | AT7 (3 Wo.)AT | CH6 (5 Wo.)CH | UK8 (2 Wo.)UK | US1 (4 Wo.)US |
Erstveröffentlichung: 21. Juni 2019 |
Weitere Veröffentlichungen
- 2012: Live at Montreux 2008
Singles
Jahr | Titel Album | Höchstplatzierung, Gesamtwochen, AuszeichnungChartplatzierungenChartplatzierungen[2][3] (Jahr, Titel, Album, Platzierungen, Wochen, Auszeichnungen, Anmerkungen) | Anmerkungen | ||||
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DE | AT | CH | UK | US | |||
2006 | Steady As She Goes Broken Boy Soldiers | — | — | — | UK4 Gold (19 Wo.)UK | US54 (20 Wo.)US |
Erstveröffentlichung: 24. April 2006 |
Hands Broken Boy Soldiers | — | — | — | UK29 (3 Wo.)UK | — |
Erstveröffentlichung: 31. Juli 2006 | |
Broken Boy Soldier Broken Boy Soldiers | — | — | — | UK22 (2 Wo.)UK | — |
Erstveröffentlichung: 23. Oktober 2006 |
Weitere Singles
- 2007: Level
- 2008: Salute Your Solution
- 2008: Many Shades of Black
- 2008: Old Enough
- 2008: Consoler of the Lonely
- 2018: Sunday Driver / Now That You're Gone
Siehe auch
Weblinks
Einzelnachweise
- ↑ The Saboteurs. In: discogs.com. Abgerufen am 28. Dezember 2017 (englisch).
- ↑ a b Chartquellen: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ a b Auszeichnungen: UK