...is that it's too darn short!

Broken Boy Soldiers is, by far, my top CD of 2006 so far. There isn't a bad note on this disk IMHO. It's just solid rock from start to finish.

I don't have any White Stripes CDs so I can't do a comparison for you. But I can say that nothing I ever heard by The White Stripes made me want to buy a CD. The first single off of this disk made me run out and buy it, and I wasn't disappointed. It's a bit of an ecclectic collection of sounds. There are songs on here that remind me of Sabbath, Bowie, Zappa, and even a blues track.

The ironic thing (IMO anyway) is that I hear so many other influences in this music and one of the lines in the title track is, "I'm done ripping myself off". I'm sure that some could/would argue that this CD rips off a lot of other people...better than ripping yourself off I guess.

The bottom line is that this is an excellent disk.

Anyone else listening to this one yet?