10 Rock Bands EVERYONE Tried To Copy
9. The White Stripes
At the turn of the millennium, rock music was starting to get slightly neutered. While there were still some great bands still kicking around, the more "dangerous" acts of nu metal and pop punk just felt like cheap imitations of old rock and roll to appease the teenage demographic. Everyone may have been trying to sound modern, but the White Stripes found their groove by stripping everything back down.
As soon as you threw on a Stripes record, you were treated to some of the most feral rock and roll of the century, with buzzy guitars from Jack White and almost primitive drumming from Meg White. There may have been many acts making glittery pop rock, but this was the garage rock that made you remember why you fell in love with the genre in the first place.
It might not have been the most original idea, but a lot of bands that followed found their calling by pulling from the Stripes' playbook. Not long after the band's debut, other acts like the Strokes, the Hives, and even the Arctic Monkeys took the harsher elements of the Stripes and used them to make their own sound later down the line.
The White Stripes may get credit for the garage rock revival, but when you think about, isn't all good rock and roll supposed to be out of a garage?