Artist.......: The White Stripes
Album........: White Blood Cells
Label........: V2
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVD (LPCM 2.0)
Rip.date.....: 2010-02-10
Str.date.....: 2002-11-05
Quality......: 204kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.whitestripes.com
track title time
1. Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground (Video Edit) 3:11
2. Fell In Love With A Girl (Video Edit) 1:55
3. We're Going To Be Friends (Video Edit) 2:26
4. Hotel Yorba (Video Edit) 2:12
5. Lafayette Blues 2:17
6. Hand Springs 2:58
Runtime 14:59
Size 21.99
Release Notes:
A minimalist rock duo from southwest Detroit, the White
Stripes formed on Bastille Day in 1997, aiming to create
simple, vigorous rock & roll music with little more than
Meg White's percussion and Jack White's guitar-and-vocal
attack. Meg's drumming was deliberate and straightforward,
while Jack's formidable guitar skills paid homage to
garage rock, blues, and punk. A former drummer for the
Detroit-based country outfit Goober & the Peas, he also
displayed an affinity for American folk music, and the
White Stripes took strength in the varied interests of its
two members. Moreover, the group bolstered its sound with
a controversial back-story (although the bandmates claimed
to be siblings, they were actually a married couple until
2000) and a unique color scheme, which saw their clothing
and cover art adhering to a red-and-white peppermint candy
motif.
Although the band emerged from Detroit's burgeoning rock
scene, the White Stripes quickly gained a national
following after touring alongside Pavement and
Sleater-Kinney. Such performances helped support the
band's self-titled debut album, released in 1999 and
dedicated to blues icon Son House. A sophomore effort
followed closely behind, as the self-recorded De Stijl
appeared in June 2000. However, it was the band's third
release -- 2001's White Blood Cells -- that established
the White Stripes as forerunners of the garage rock
revival. Recorded in Memphis by renowned producer Doug
Easley, White Blood Cells was a critical smash, launching
the band into the same circle as the Strokes and the
Hives. The White Stripes appeared on Late Night with David
Lettterman and the MTV Movie Awards program; meanwhile,
their music was profiled in such publications as Time, The
New Yorker, and Entertainment Weekly.
Faced with a swell in popularity, the musicians made the
tough decision to jump to a major label. White Blood Cells
was accordingly reissued by V2 Records in January 2002,
and the previous two records followed suit in June. The
White Stripes' profile continued to build as the music
video for "Fell in Love with a Girl" -- a clever piece of
Lego-animation directed by Michel Gondry -- was nominated
for four MTV Video Awards, including Breakthrough Video,
Best Special Effects in a Video, Best Editing in a Video,
and Best Video of the Year, the latter of which pitted the
band against the likes of Eminem and *NSYNC. While many
garage rock revivalists struggled to maintain popularity
as the decade progressed, the White Stripes proved to be
an enduring presence, with 2003's Elephant receiving
unanimous critical acclaim (and platinum sales in several
countries) upon its release.
The White Stripes returned in 2005 with Get Behind Me
Satan, a dizzyingly diverse album that spanned disco-metal
and light, marimba-driven pop. In keeping with the band's
feverish pace, the album had been written and recorded in
two weeks that spring. The Stripes supported its release
with a tour, during which they covered Tegan and Sara's
"Walking with a Ghost" and released the song as a single
at the end of 2005. That same year, Jack White and his new
wife, model/singer Karen Elson, moved to Nashville, TN.
White also formed the Raconteurs with Brendan Benson and
the Greenhornes' Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler, and
spent much of 2006 touring in support of the group's debut
album, Broken Boy Soldiers.
Jack White continued to juggle his responsibilities as he
performed with several bands, produced albums for other
artists, and made forays into cinema. The White Stripes
remained a vital commercial and critical presence,
however, and the Grammy-winning Icky Thump appeared in
2007. Recorded in three weeks at Nashville's Blackbird
Studio, the album included the first-ever Stripes songs
with bagpipes and mariachi horns. After issuing another
album with the Raconteurs, Jack White added yet another
band to his plate as he joined the Dead Weather.