PO5: the White Stripes

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In honor of the startlingly mediocre Elephant:

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 01:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Death Letter"
"Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"
"You're Pretty Good Looking (For A Girl)"
"The Same Boy You've Always Known"
"Sugar Never Tasted So Good"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 01:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

pff

i choose

"we're going to be friends"
"you're pretty good looking"
"the big three killed my baby"
"dead leaves and the dirty ground"
"jolene"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 01:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't care for list threads and generally don't contribute to them. But my 2 cents: "Elephant" is fine.

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 01:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

apple blossom
pretty good lookin'
hotel yorba
your southern can is mine
yes it's true we're in love

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 02:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

The only Stripes' song I've heard and enjoyed was "You're Pretty Good Looking." The rest have bored me endlessly, or I've found them outright irritating (awful vocals, awful drumming.)

― Ian Johnson (orion), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 02:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fell In Love With A Girl
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
We're Going To Be Friends
Seven Nation Army
Apple Blossom

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 02:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

holy shit, matthew's got my list

― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 02:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pretty much just take an arbitrary five off White Blood Cells.

― gazuga (gazuga), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 03:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like Elephant. It, you know, rocks. And it's funny, too.

Jimmy the Exploder
Hello Operator
The Union Forever
Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine
In the Cold, Cold Night

― Jesse Fox (Jesse Fox), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 04:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hello Operator
The Big Three Killed My Baby
Girl You Have No Faith In Medicine
Hotel Yorba
Hypnotize

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 04:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Elephant is awesome. My 5 are only from the past 2 albums though. Sorry, but there's my honest answer.

*Hotel Yorba
*Fell in Love with a Girl
*We are going to be Friends
*You've got her in your pocket
*Seven Nation Army

― Calum, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm not gonna make a list, but I must say that, although I hated it at first, nowadays one of my fav White Stripes songs is "I Think I Smell a Rat". So dirty and tweaked and paranoid.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

that one grew on me too, nick!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 13:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

1. "Fell In Love with a Girl"
2. "Let's Build a Home"
3. "Death Letter"
4. "Hello Operator"
5. "Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine"

....and a special mention to "Seven Nation Army"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 13:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

"In the Cold, Cold Night"
"You're Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)"
"The Same Boy You've Always Known"
"Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine"
"Sugar Never Tasted So Good"

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 14:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

"It's True We Love One Another"
"Offend In Every Way"
"Jimmy The Exploder"
"The Union Forever"
"This Protector"
I haven't heard De Stijl yet, save for "Jumble Jumble"

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 16:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Handsprings", the weird spoken-word one about losing your girl to another in a bowling alley. Thank you, kazaa!
"Fell In Love With A Girl"
"You're Pretty Good Looking"
"Lord, Send Me An Angel"
"Ball And Biscuit" off the new one. I love a good electric blues cliche.

― Hayden Nicholls (Pop the Weasel), Thursday, 3 April 2003 01:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

four years pass...

cannon
I fought pirahnas
dead leaves and the dirty ground
black math
catch hell blues

great old track by The Upholsterers (Jack and Brian Muldoon), called "Pain (Gimme Sympathy)," that I never heard before:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOzfs3ktao

― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 23 February 2008 09:13 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman
Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)
Sister, Do You Know My Name?
I'm Bound To Pack It Up
Ball and Biscuit

― ecuador_with_a_c, Saturday, 23 February 2008 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link

I really like the White Stripes but if I'm to be honest here it's "Pretty Good Lookin'" 5 times in a row for me.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 23 February 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link

Wow if this guy didn't like Elephant what must he have thought of Icky Thump?

― SecondBassman, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:50 (sixteen years ago) link

two years pass...

ball & biscuit
dead leaves
fell in love w/ a girl
hello operator
seven nation army

^^ absolutely a band where the best trax were chosen as singles

― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link

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