White Blood Cells

The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

White Blood Cells
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Artist: The White Stripes
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-07-03
Music Label: Sympathy For The Recording Industry
Soundtracks:
  1. Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
  2. Hotel Yorba
  3. I'm Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman
  4. Fell In Love With A Girl
  5. Expecting
  6. Little Room
  7. The Union Forever
  8. The Same Boy You've Always Known
  9. We're Going To Be Friends
  10. Offend In Every Way
  11. I Think I Smell A Rat
  12. Aluminum
  13. I Can't Wait
  14. Now Mary
  15. I Can Learn
  16. This Protector

Free Music Notes for White Blood Cells

Free Music Review: Real Rock
Hit: 5 Stars

The White Stripes have made an album that takes the best from classic rock,
punk and the blues and combines it to make a sound that is completely their
own. With only a guitar, a drum set and an occasional piano, the White
Stripes make a very dense and complex sound, which is amazing because there
are only two people in the band. Their music is sometimes classic rock, blues
and even country. They are something that you never hear any more, a rock
band, not a metal/grunge/alt./rap/pop band which is what rock as been divided
into. They don't pretend to sound smart, or meaningful, they just play music.

The first song, my favorite, is "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground." This song
is beautiful, with it's pounding guitars and simple, effective lyrics. This
is Jack White at the top of his game. The next song, "Hotel Yorba," is a country rock song with its own charm. The song after that, "I'm finding it
harder to be a Gentleman," is a loud/soft song with a piano that adds a lot
to the song. Jack White's lyrics are sung very clearly, and they are good, in
their simple way. The next song is the punk rock song "Fell in Love With
Girl." It starts off with a bang, Jack White's guitar. The entire song
continues at this frantic pace. The fifth song is "Expecting." It starts out
with pounding guitars, then slows to an almost complete stop, then explodes.
Next is "Little Room." It's beauty lies in it's simplicity, with lyrics that
express Jack White's view very clearly. All you hear is a steady drum beat
and his voice. The sixth song is the haunting "The Union Forever." It starts
off with an eerie guitar, then the haunting vocals of Jack White, then it
explodes, and stops. Halfway through the song Jack White just starts talking,
about some person. It is a very eerie song, but a very good. After the
haunting, almost dark "The Union Forever," there is the sweet "The Same Boy
you've always known." The next song, "We're Going to be Friends" is the worst
song on the album. It is very innocent, almost childish compared to the other
songs.

The tenth song is "Offend in Every Way" is what rock should be. A phrase that
you remember, powerful guitars, and strait-forward lyrics. The eleventh song
is the very different "I Think I Smell a Rat." With guitars pounding, Jack
White's singing, almost snarling, this song is something you won't forget
anytime soon. The next song, the instrumental, "Aluminum," it isn't that
good, but doesn't hurt the album. The thirteenth song, "I Can't Wait," is a
good song, but nothing amazing. The fourteenth song is "Now Mary," which
starts of with an acoustic guitar, then switches to an electric guitar, then
switches back. The entire song continues like that. The next song is "I Can't
Learn" is a catchy song, but nothing that separates it from the rest. The
last song, "This Protector," a beautiful soft song with a piano, and Meg
White singing with Jack White.

The White Stripes are what mainstream music isn't, real. White Blood Cells is
an amazing rock album, because it is what rock is supposed to be. Raw,
powerful,and emotional.

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The band's commercial break through, this 2001 album went gold, spinning off the Top 20 Modern Rock hits 'Fell In Love With A Girl' and 'Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground.'
Rock & roll is constantly splintering into multiple personalities. Big radio players layer thick slabs of studio shine on their albums, while back-to-the-basics rockers keep the sound so raw it rubs calluses on your ears. The White Stripes fall in the latter category. The duo strips down to the fundamentals of Meg White's simple drumbeat and Jack White's garagy guitar and pleading vocals. While the elements are sparse, the Detroit act create a noisy, hip-grinding batch of punk R&B, displayed again on White Blood Cells, the Stripes' third full-length. While it's hard to pick favorites from such talent, this band only gets better with time. White's vocals were sounding like a young Robert Plant on De Stijl--definitely not a bad thing--but on Cells, he's developed his own persona. He throws musical fits on "Fell in Love with a Girl," gets almost loungy on the piano number "This Protector," and keeps the blues vibe running on "Now Mary." The album is so rich with basic variations on a simple theme it's hard to believe such soulful energy comes from just two people. White Blood Cells is an amazing piece of work, a benchmark that ought to inspire new legions of garage rockers for years to come. --Jennifer Maerz

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