White Stripes Albums poll

LET'S HEAR THAT ICKY THUMP

White Blood Cells > De Stijl > Elephant > The White Stripes > Get Behind Me Satan > Icky Thump

CONNNQUUEEEEEEESSSSSSTTT!!!!

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De Stijl > White Blood Cells > Elephant > Icky Thump = The White Stripes > Get Behind Me Satan

Elephant > White Blood Cells > Icky Thump > Get Behind Me Satan > De Stijl ... The White Stripes (I haven't heard the latter)

De Stijl for me - I don't get the White Blood Cells love, that's the one I listen to the least. Its both their ugliest-looking and ugliest-sounding album.

altho I haven't heard the new one yet - vinyl was sold out at Amoeba on Saturday :(

White Blood Cells > Get Behind Me Satan > Elephant > De Stijl > Icky Thump > The White Stripes

de stijl.

De Stijl , 1st one i bought.

White Blood Cells. I'll be sad if Elephant wins.

De Stijl is the only one i dont own yet, and for some reason or another i'm sure it will win.

satan > die stihl > white blood cells > icky thump > white stripes > elephant

icky thump, de stijl, elephant, White Blood Cells, Satan, White Stripes

no love for s/t? I like it almost as much as De Stijl (prob. my favorite)

yeah the first two are pretty close in quality, sound is perhaps a bit more refined and developed on the second one.

elephant
de stijl
white blood cells
the first one
icky thump
get behind me satan

it's gotta be de stijl for me.

White Blood Cells just squeaks by De Stijl. The rest are all tied for second with the exception of Get Behind me Satan which is by far their worst.

make that tied for third

yeah the first two are pretty close in quality, sound is perhaps a bit more refined and developed on the second one.

Nah, songwriting is already improving on the second album.

White Blood Cells > Elephant > De Stijl > The White Stripes > Get Behind Me Satan > Icky Thump

I can hardly stand the new album.

Get Behind Me Satan >> White Blood Cells >> Icky Thump >> Elephant >> De Stijl >> White Stripes

Icky Thump has really grown on me over the past week ... I shouldn't have been so initially disappointed

ELEPHANT BY A LOT

I should give Icky Thump a third chance, I guess. I still it sags a lot in the middle, not even counting CONNNQUUEEEEEEESSSSSSTTT!!!!

Yeah i would. Give it more chances that is. I needed to. It's def a "grower". only problem it had was that 'Get Behind Me Satan' is one of the best rock albums of the 00's..

Top 5 reasons I voted for the first one.

1) Yeah monkey! Jimmy The Exploder = love at first sight
2) Cannon is my all-time favorite WS song.
3) Stop Breakin Down, The Big Three Killed My Baby, Sugar Never Tasted So Good,
Astro, Broken Bricks, Slicker Drips, Screwdriver, Little People.
4) I Fought Piranhas one of my favorite WS tracks, and one of my all-time favorite closers.
5) Cuties dedicated it to Son House. You know their heart is in the right place.

I have White Blood Cells and Icky Thump tied for second.
The other 3 I have tied for 3rd, but I love all 6. I'm most positive that 30 years from now
I'll be playing these as loud as New World Order housing will allow me to.

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I went with White Blood Cells.

So far (after spending a few days in my CD changer), Icky Thump is by far my least favorite, but I do like a couple tracks, so maybe it will grow on me.

4) I Fought Piranhas one of my favorite WS tracks, and one of my all-time favorite closers.

very much on the money

"Conquest" evokes Leslie Nielsen in Mexican drag – it's great!

White Blood Cells just squeaks by De Stijl. The rest are all tied for second with the exception of Get Behind me Satan which is by far their worst.

i wholeheartedly agree

Swap the WBC for DS and I agree.

I've been fearing this poll. Icky Thump is still a little close in time - what the heck, White Blood Cells.

I just find WBC to be too bloated, especially in the latter half.

Good record, but way too long, in retrospect.

fwiw:

White Blood Cells
De Stijl
Elephant
Get Behind Me Satan

don't know the debut or new album yet.

like I said before, I would be curious to hear any of the numerous WBC boosters on this thread elaborate on why they think its the best - I don't get it.

Tape Store: Why would you be upset if Elephant wins? That's almost their best album. No, wait...it is. It is their best album!

whichever one has black math is the best one, it's a doozy. too much of their stuff is deadly dull despite all the flailing and carrying on (not to mention the 'signifyin' like on that new single...shudder).

Which new single would that be, "Icky Thump" or "Rag and Bone"? (not sure if the latter's a single yet but if I recall correctly it's next)

'rag and bone' i'm pretty sure. listened to a Jack interview last week, seems like a decent guy.

"like I said before, I would be curious to hear any of the numerous WBC boosters on this thread elaborate on why they think its the best - I don't get it."

I like to put it on because the first 10 songs just flow for me. So I'll say the songs, I guess.

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 never really been able to love Elephant. Some great tracks - 7 Nation, Black Math, Hardest Button etc - but some filler too. That squirrel song is annoying and the cover of Just DOn't KNow What To With Myself, while suitably wracked sounding, beats Bacharach's gorgeous melody into pulp. Also that awful Kate Moss video spoiled it forever. To be fair, the band were reportedly unhappy with it.

WBS and DS are my faves for sure. I think WBS will always be my favourite as it was my first WS album and so refreshing to me at the time. I'd not been keeping up with new guitar bands and it reconnected me with that, as well as leading to my discovery of a rich underground and all the good things I'd missed.

First album rocks and Satan is really fun. After Elephant, which seemed self-consciously their world beating big album, this was where they got weird and fucked with the formula. Didn't always work, some of it was underdeveloped, but it was pretty great and sounded amazing live, especially Red Rain. Holy shit!

Still not heard Icky Thump. I suppose I'll get round to it, I guess I'm just not that desperate to hear them. But I'm sure there's much to enjoy, especially the bagpipes, heh heh.

I like to put it on because the first 10 songs just flow for me.

For me it's the last four. With the exception of "I'm Finding it Harder" and maybe a few others, these last few songs are what make the album for me. They flow so well that I kinda consider them one long song. I never listen to just one, always all four in a row.

"I Can't Wait"
"Now Mary"
"I Can Learn"
"This Protector"

What a way to end an album!!! Especially with "Aluminum" sort of setting them apart from the rest of it and adding a little bookend to the "Same Boy" -> "Rat" sequence... Quite possibly my favorite album of all time and certainly one that made a huge impression on me.

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Under Great White Northern Lights is the documentary film and upcoming first live album by The White Stripes. The film, directed by Emmett Malloy, documents the band's summer 2007 tour across Canada and contains live concert and off-stage footage. The album will be released on CD, as well as 180-gram vinyl LP. The documentary will be released on DVD and Blu-ray, alongside the album.

Track listing:

"Let's Shake Hands"
"Black Math"
"Little Ghost"
"Blue Orchid"
"The Union Forever"
"Ball and Biscuit"
"Icky Thump"
"I'm Slowly Turning Into You"
"Jolene" (Dolly Parton)
"300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues"
"We Are Going to Be Friends"
"I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
"Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn"
"Fell in Love with a Girl"
"When I Hear My Name"
"Seven Nation Army"

it comes out March 16, 2010 and the CD has leaked.

so are they really done for good or what?

man, i hope not

they'd been reliably releasing an album every summer every 2 years -- Elephant, 2003; Get Behind Me Satan, 2005; Icky Thump, 2007 -- in which case we would've been due last summer. and now it looks all we'll get this year is some crummy live album. doesn't look good

I don't believe for a minute they are done for good. As soon as people stop caring about Dead Weather or his side project of the month, he'll round up Meg for another surefire seller.

OTM

surefire seller, ok, but will it be any good? the last 2 albums have been :|

De Sttijl > Satan > Elephant > White Blood Cells> The White Stripes > Icky Thump >>>>>>>> The Dead Weather >>>>>>>>> Racontuers

I couldn't care less about most live albums but this is really good - suitably ragged and sweaty-sounding. The Union Forever sounds like someone having a nervous breakdown and Seven Nation Army has an amazing coda which sounds uncannily like Underworld's Rez.

they're such a great live band... for the longest time, my favourite stripes 'album' has been a CD i made myself of their first two Peel sessions, one recorded at Peel Acres itself, which are totally off the hook. 'when i hear my name', from july 2001, is just crazed - Jack's equipment goes totally awry after the first verse, but the way he wrenches back into the song, from feedback and chaos, reminds me of just how great this group is live. and there's a deranged medley of 'lookin at you/st james infirmary blues' from the peel acres session which just slays me every time i hear it, switching from home-made garage-rock hurtle to blood-splattered vaudeville in a flash.

raconteurs are pretty fiendish live, too - their cover of 'bang bang' from the 2006 tour is sublime.

their forum gig from 2001ish is amazing. tbh most of the bootlegs i had of the elephant tour were almost all brilliant. after that my interest in seeing them live declined a bit as i had to put up with tracks like doorbell.

ill prob buy this on vinyl tho.

but their albums are:
elephant>>WBC>>DS>>TWS>>icky thump/satan

satan's their best studio album imho, but we've had this debate before i think

^^ COSIGN

i might reinvestigate but im doubtful.

Icky Thump was robbed here, I think.

All of their albums seem to me worth owning/listening to. They were great.

they were.

really don't get why folks here are so stuck on White Blood Cells - is it a "first album I heard" kind of thing...? Cuz the albums on either side of it are way better imho.

i was a little down on white blood cells at the time of its release. it seemed to restate things that de stijl had done much more interestingly (despite the undeniably pop immediacy of "fell in love with a girl"), and i was still very much in love with the raw intensity of the debut. to my mind, elephant was the great leap forward, though it definitely dragged a bit here and there.

in the long run, i see WBC less as a weak sister to their other albums, and more as an intersection point where all their strengths as a band come together successfully. it's got enough sprawl and ambition to impress, but it never wears out its welcome. it's still got some of the scrappy punk exuberance of their early work (a quality they'd soon shed), but the songwriting is more distinctive and the production is much improved. it covers at least as much ground emotionally and musically as the albums that bookend it, but is more radio ready than de stijl and less ponderous than elephant.

for me they were a definite 'off the bus' after Elephant, even though Alice liked them enough to pester me for 'Icky Thump'

I wish I'd been here to do a write-in for "Redd Blood Cells." Best thing they ever did.

I had never really listened to anything after White Blood Cells until literally this last month and it was a real treat to discover that there is still so much great stuff there. There is a lot of music weirder than The White Stripes, but for such an apparently popular band they were weirder than I gave them credit for. Good weird.

get behind me satan is still my favourite, but they're all great, and de stijl will always have a soft spot in my heart because it was my first.

really don't get why folks here are so stuck on White Blood Cells - is it a "first album I heard" kind of thing...? Cuz the albums on either side of it are way better imho.

eh, i'm pretty familiar with all 3 and WBC is easily the strongest, though tbf Elephant is probably not far behind.

Meh I love the first two and GBMS but dislike WBC & Elephant