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Revision as of 22:45, 3 September 2006
Elephant is the fourth album released by Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. It was released in 2003.
Contents |
Track listing
- 1. "Seven Nation Army" - 3:51 (J. White)
- 2. "Black Math" - 3:03 (J. White)
- 3. "There's No Home For You Here" - 3:43 (J. White)
- 4. "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" - 2:46 (Burt Bacharach/Hal David)
- 5. "In The Cold, Cold Night" - 2:58 (J. White)
- 6. "I Want to Be the Boy to Warm Your Mother's Heart" - 3:20 (J. White)
- 7. "You've Got Her in Your Pocket" - 3:39 (J. White)
- 8. "Ball and Biscuit" - 7:19 (J. White)
- 9. "The Hardest Button to Button" - 3:32 (J. White)
- 10. "Little Acorns" - 4:09 (J. White/Mort Crim)
- 11. "Hypnotize" - 1:48 (J. White)
- 12. "The Air Near My Fingers" - 3:40 (J. White)
- 13. "Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine" - 3:17 (J. White)
- 14. "It's True That We Love One Another" - 2:42 (J. White)
Credits
- Jack White : guitar, vocals, piano, production, mixing
- Meg White : drums, percussion, vocals
- Mort Crim : commentary and inspiration on "Little Acorns"
- Holly Golightly : vocals on "It's True That We Love One Another"
- Liam Watson : production, mixing
- Recorded November 2001/April 2002 at Toe Rag Studios in Hackney, East London.
- Dedicated to "the death of the sweetheart".
Trivia
- Before Elephant was released, John Peel started playing the whole album many times on his radio show, until the band told him to stop. Jack later appeared on his radio show again, though, and the band also attended Peel's funeral.
Band Quotes
- Jack White : "There are approximately 3,103 reasons why we named it Elephant...I'd rather let people make up their own ideas about it. There's a lot of reasons, the main one being that it was one creature that represented both me and Meg, our personalities on stage and in real life-ourselves, the myth, and the ideas people have about elephants. It's anger and innocence and majesty and clumsiness, and things like that. It seemed to represent both of our characteristics as one creature." Jack: "The main reason we named the album Elephant is the idea of one creature representing both Meg's and my own personalities, whether on-stage or in real life: power, subtlety, anger, innocence, clumsiness, stability. Another reason was the way elephants relate to death. When a group of elephants come upon the dead remains of another elephant they both become very emotional and start trying the bury the bones, which directly relates to 'the death of the sweetheart.' It's no longer the quiet version of Elephant we planned, it's heavy duty. The elephant is a creature that represents both me and Meg's personalities. It was the two of us in one creature. Elephants are powerful and majestic, but also subtle and innocent, angry and clumsy. It just seemed like all these different characteristics were either one of us."
