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White Blood Cells | 
| Artist: The White Stripes
Label: Xl
Category: Music
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 2284
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 634904015121
EAN: 0634904015121
ASIN: B00005Q3ZU
Release Date: September 24, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground | | • | Hotel Yorba | | • | I'm Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman | | • | Fell In Love With A Girl | | • | Expecting | | • | Little Room | | • | The Union Forever | | • | The Same Boy You've Always Known | | • | We're Going To Be Friends | | • | Offend In Every Way | | • | I Think I Smell A Rat | | • | Aluminum | | • | I Can't Wait | | • | Now Mary | | • | I Can Learn | | • | This Protector |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 50
 Advancing the field February 18, 2003
Jonathan Waterlow
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
I'd not heard the White Stripes before buying this album on the recommendation of a friend, except on a couple of live TV shows, where their sound levels were set up terribly so you couldn't hear any vocals and far too much drums. I thought they were pants, basically.pThen I listened to "Hotel Yorba" and haven't been able to get the bloody thing out of my head for weeks. This is an album charged with energy and passion; each song is loaded with either deep emotion or just raw love of what they're doing. The songs range from the gentle ballad of "The Same Boy You've Always Known" to the energetically throbbing "I Think I Smell A Rat". And - what a bonus on the music scene as it stands today - the Stripes' lyrics actually have some thought and truth behind them; a novelty rather than the norm these days, sadly. As I've already said, "Hotel Yorba" is disturbingly catchy... but then so are almost all the other songs on this album, particularly the introductory "Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground" and "Fell In Love With a Girl".pAnd all this musical quality, which really does advance the rock 'n' roll genre, with 3 instruments in total. A guitar, a drumkit and a keyboard. Produced on the ragged edge - they do their thing, and that's that; quite often you can hear the odd word or "Can you get me the-..." in the background recorded in the track itself, before the song has even finished. "Little Room" only has drums and Jack's vocals, yet it's one of the highlights of the album, lasting all of a minute and a half. It says a lot about the quality of this album that it's so thoroughly engrossing and engaging with such slipshod production values and often tragically short songs - in total it's only about 40 minutes long. In fact, my one complaint about this rough and ready piece of musical excellence is that it's too damned short! If it wasn't for the invention of the "Repeat All" button this would be much more of a concern... as it is, you can leave this disc on repeat for as long as possible; believe me, it's worth every minute.
Truly fantastic record (and a female drummer!) September 14, 2001
Tom Black (tsx2000@nme.com) (england)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I heard Johm Peel once decribe the White Stripes as "the most interesting sound since punk", and this album certainly dosnt dissapoint. Between the two of them, Mary and Jack White have created a sound and a tempo that is almost unique to themselves, thanks largely to Jack's fantastic voice which alternates between a spitting passion, gravelly kittykat growl and breaking country twang (and sometimes all three at once!).pAlthough it cannot quite maintain its momentum over the last few tracks, the first 12 contain everything you could possibly wish for, from the anti-capitalist anger of "The Union Forever", to feelgood tracks like "Hotel Yorba" and "Fell In Love With a Girl", the gentle whistfulness of "Going to be Friends" (which would not have been out of place on a Kingsbury Manx album) and the unashamed rock theatre of "Smell a Rat".pAbove all this album is simply one of the most enjoyable and satisfying i have ever heard. If you have ever liked any song with drums, guitar and vocals in it then there will be something on this album you will enjoy.
Totally wild, totally original and totally brilliant! September 14, 2002
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
OK, so the White Stripes are old news, but having just seen them perform Dead leaves and the dirty ground on the Top of The Pops' 2000th show, I just had to come through, put the album on full blast and rave about these guys again.pFrom Detroit, Jack and Meg White (brother and sister) are...what to say? Amazing? Incredible? I think the one that sums them up the best is powerful. Ok, so the music is rough, Jack's voice breaks sometimes and Meg can be a little eratic in her drumming, but everytime i hear 'fell in love with a girl'(a funky song just 1 minute 40 secs long) I feel something explode inside me and a need to play it at least 6 times to feel fufilled! pEvery track on this album is perfection, the closest to a dud is 'i think we're going to be friends' but even then it serves as a break from Meg's frantic drumming and lets Jack's voice calm down. My favourite song, apart from 'fell in love with a girl' has to be 'i can't wait'. Its beautiful, the guitar riff at the beginning is melancholy and filled with longing, with Jack's voice practically whispering 'Who do you think you're messing with girl?' trying desperatly to sound defiant. then the drums kick in and it turns into a shouty, 'god i hate you but i can't leave you alone' song interspersed (sorry about bad spelling!)with tenderness.br brI can't possible say everything about this band that i want, everytime I hear them something wells up inside me and every time i listen to it, it sounds like the first time. pFeel no shame about buying this album a year after people raved about them, about jumping on the band wagon. Just buy it and feel better knowing that at least one band in the world has got it right.
Beginning to come into their own... March 1, 2002
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
How do I delineate this album? I'm not exactly sure. Perhaps, Led Zepplin amalgamated with The Ramones, mix in some blues and country, and then, once you've commingled these constituents, add in a generous dollop of agrestic, roughshod and rawness. pThe album still sounds, to my mind, unrefined (which says something about their previous two efforts). It's garage rock. In fact, its rock distilled down to its basic elements and delivered without the gimcrackery. Meg White is on drums, with Jack White providing vocals and guitar. On that note, Jack has a great voice. It is distinctive; harsh, screeching at times, but with a wonderful melodic pliancy (just when you feel it's going to skriegh off into dissonance, he reels it back into his own patented unwieldy version of in tune, and it really works). On track 6 this is demonstrated befittingly, with Jack's vocalizations paired only with percussion, for a gratifying bare bones effect. He is talented, but in the sense that a bare-knuckle fighter is talented. brThere's a welcoming diversity to the songs. Some more harmonious, a couple featuring an organ and piano for good measure, and some more venomous and vitriolic.pOverall, I like this album. Unquestionably better than the previous two, which could have been astronomical had they just had the edges smoothed over a shade. There's unrefined and there's unrefined, been recorded on a tape-recorder in your parent's basement, unrefined. In actuality, in terms of musical maturation and melodies, I preferred BOTH the earlier two, but when it boils down to it they were plainly not finished. pThis album is exceptional if you enjoy your rock'n'roll unadulterated and have not been entirely corrupted by the set-piece excuse for rock that is being churned out so oftentimes today.pBuy it.
Why didn't they get noticed sooner? November 16, 2001
22 out of 25 found this review helpful
As soon as I heard Hotel Yorba, which has only been released this week, I had to buy the album. It was on import at the time. From start to finish, it is pure magic! Hotel Yorba was a superb choice for a first British single release. It's fast aced, bouncy and makes you wanna slap your thigh and sing along! Throughout the album, I just keep beating along on the table to Meg's excellent drumming and percussion, while Jack's guitar and vocals are second to none. They stand along with any guitar rock and blues guitarists strums. His vocals have really come out in this record, whereas the other two, The White Stripes, and De Stijl(which I had to buy when I'd heard this, I wanted more!), the vocals were not as much his own style or as prominent. They really stand out on this album. The music is flowing aswell as being different, especially in the instrumentals. Look out for I'm finding it harder to be a Gentlemen, We're going to be friends, Aluminium, and I can't wait. And...I strongly advise you to get The White Stripes other albums, if you like this. I can see Jack(real name John) and Meg getting better and better and producing more brilliant records. We must remember, they're only 25 and 26! There's years of great, fun music to come! Get this.
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