White Blood Cells |  | Artist: The White Stripes
Label: V2
Category: Music
Buy New: $84.99
Rating:  373 reviews
Sales Rank: 290964
Media: LP Record
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 638812712417
EAN: 0638812712417
ASIN: B00008XS1Q
Publication Date: 2002
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Condition: Factory Sealed LIMITED OUT OF PRINT high definition analog vinyl pressing. The nicest thing you can do for your stylus and your ears. The ultimate record -- the way music was meant to be heard. If you really understood that less then a 1000 titles have been pressed on vinyl over the last few years and that these pressings disappear so qiuckly from the market it will make your head spin. Do not second guess yourself on this masterpiece because once gone it's gone forever and will skyrocket in price on the collectors market.
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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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Amazon.com's Best of 2001
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
Album Description
This, the much anticipated third album by Detroit's critically acclaimed brother and sister duo, The White Stripes was recorded in early February this year at the legendary Easley Studio in Memphis, Tennessee and if The White Stripes were the Velvet Underground this would be their Loaded. It's becoming apparent that THE WHITE STRIPES ARE the great white hope and they have developed an enthusiastic following across the country and around the world. White Blood Cells has 15 original tracks performed by Jack and Meg White, no orchestras, session musicians or studio trickery has been employed. 2001 release.
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| Customer Reviews:
Before Elephant.... July 8, 2008
J. Hebert (Lafayette,LA)
there is White Blood Cells. Some of their best stuff is on the CD and is kind of the appetizer for Elephant. Every song seems like a story you can understand and the music seems to go with the words. Some of the best tracks are Offend in Every Way, Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground and I Think I Smell A Rat.
 White Stripes April 10, 2008
Daniel Martin
Some songs are good. With this band, you either like their style or you don't. Not much in between.
A bit long? Maybe, but they beat their way out of "the" band clique. 3 1/2 stars February 20, 2008
Boaty McGee
In a sea of ever evolving (and at the time of this albums release an increasing release of albums) "the" bands, it has been hard to try and find an album by an artist that was worth the time of day, holding onto the nuevo-garage band sound that makes up traditional rock and roll in an industry that has been plauged by corporate rnb, britney spears, the backstreet boys and hip hop with no credibility (crunk sound comes to mind). So far the crusade is a failure: while it's certainly been fun to have around, a garage rock revival hardly seems the way to revive an often stiflingly traditionalist genre.
That's not to say it isn't good music, of course. It's just hard to understand when "RAWK" became such a commodity that having it made one impervious to critical analysis, and VERY sudden interest in corporate america only added to the flames (maybe it was a pre-emo thing?). These bands (the Strokes, the Hives, the Vines, the Modey Lemon, etc.) are almost exclusively mundane in both form and skill. Thus they have left little to the imagination.
Which makes the White Stripes the best of this revival-era. Their forms are all traditional, and terms of style, they're seemingly much more varied than any of the competing brand bands.
White Blood Cells actually gets better when you listen to it over and over. The first time through, it's hard to see past "Fell in Love With a Girl". The most directly garage-rock moment on the album, it's also an early candidate for the single where the big budget video comes from. I may not have ever gotten around to the rest of the album were it not for "Little Room", a quirky, jazzy little number that prophetically rationalizes major-label jumping.
But the rest of the album deserves the attention: "Hotel Yorba" and "I'm Finding it Harder to Be a Gentleman" are almost as immediate, and "The Union Forever" and "The Same Boy You've Always Known" surprise with their subtlety and almost pure genius that is Jack and Meg. And things are tied together with a hidden sexual tension that might resonate between jack and meg, but thats not for me to comment.
Things aren't perfect, of course. The damn thing's too long, with it's 16 tracks, I couldnt but think there was an easy cut of a few tracks, shorter album maybe, but more effective with the overall picture. It gets to that point where you'd rather be listening to almost any other band to get past those moments where its dribble.
A classic white stripes album. Not their best, but certainly awesome in its own magnitude nevertheless.
AN ELEPHANT A LITTLE LOW ON IRON December 19, 2007
JON STRICKLAND (Smithfield, NC United States)
White Stripes' early attempt with White Blood Cells is a decent release that undermines their potential, which would come to surface in the followup, Elephant. At best, White Blood Cells highlights the work of a band trying to recreate a sound already put out by Foo Fighters, only to somewhat miss being in their element.
A serious effort to produce a masterpiece just did not seem to be there. The songs, individually, sounded good, especially with Jack White's energetic vocals. Compared with Elephant, however, White Blood Cells reflects a mere garage band type project. The instrumentation was there, but artistic direction seemed lacking. The creative humor and gothic pensiveness did not consistently blend together.
Don't get me wrong. This is a good CD, but I don't think that it will stick with very many for five years after the first listen. Elephant, on the other hand, has that magnetic appeal to it.
But hey! If White Blood Cells is what it took to lay the groundwork for outstanding future releases along the lines of another Elephant, then great!!
 White Blood Cells October 7, 2007
Tanya L. Huey (Grand Rapids, MI)
What more can I say- Meg & Jack rock! I love the eclectic sound and the dramatic sound they created. One of my top 10 CDs.
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