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User:Tbboy13

2007-06-22T04:39:38Z

Tbboy13:

'''Tbboy13''' is an active member of Stripespedia and The Little Room.

I have been a [[Stripespedia:Admins|Stripespedia administrator]] since September 2006.

User talk:Isenttheletter656

2007-06-22T04:38:14Z

Tbboy13:

==Jimmy Jazz==
Is the man--[[User:Tbboy13|Tbboy13]] 00:38, 22 June 2007 (EDT)

You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told)

2007-06-22T02:13:51Z

Tbboy13: /* Lyrics */

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
1.
In some respects
I suspect you've got
A respectable side.

When pushed and pulled
And pressured,
You seldom run and hide.
But it's for someone else's benefit
Not for what you want to do.
And until I realize that you've realized
I'm gonna say these words to you:

Chorus
You don't know what love is
You just do as you're told.
Just as a child of ten might act
But you're far too old.
You're not hopeless,
Or helpless
Aand I hate to sound cold...
But you don't know what love is
You just do as you're told

2.
I can see your man can't help but win
Any problems that may arise
But in his mind there can be no sin
If you never criticize.
You just keep on repeating all those
Empty "I love you's"'s
Until you see that you deserve better
I'm gonna lay right into you.

Chorus
You don't know what love is
You just do as you're told.
Just as a child of ten might act
But you're far too old.
You're not hopeless,
Or helpless
And I hate to sound cold...
But you don't know what love is
You just do as you're told

You just do as your told
you do as your told
yeah</nowiki>

</pre>

You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told)

2007-06-22T02:12:31Z

Tbboy13:

==Lyrics==
<nowiki>
<pre>
1.
In some respects
I suspect you've got
A respectable side.

When pushed and pulled
And pressured,
You seldom run and hide.
But it's for someone else's benefit
Not for what you want to do.
And until I realize that you've realized
I'm gonna say these words to you:

Chorus
You don't know what love is
You just do as you're told.
Just as a child of ten might act
But you're far too old.
You're not hopeless,
Or helpless
Aand I hate to sound cold...
But you don't know what love is
You just do as you're told

2.
I can see your man can't help but win
Any problems that may arise
But in his mind there can be no sin
If you never criticize.
You just keep on repeating all those
Empty "I love you's"'s
Until you see that you deserve better
I'm gonna lay right into you.

Chorus
You don't know what love is
You just do as you're told.
Just as a child of ten might act
But you're far too old.
You're not hopeless,
Or helpless
And I hate to sound cold...
But you don't know what love is
You just do as you're told

You just do as your told
you do as your told
yeah</nowiki>

Icky Thump

2007-06-22T01:31:08Z

Tbboy13:

[[Image:IckyThump Cover.jpg|300px|right]]

'''Icky Thump''' is the sixth album released by Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. It was released on June 18 (UK and Europe only) and June 19, 2007.

==Track listing==
* 1. "[[Icky Thump (song)|Icky Thump]]"
* 2. "[[You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)]]"
* 3. "[[300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues]]"
* 4. "[[Conquest]]"
* 5. "[[Bone Broke]]"
* 6. "[[Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn]]"
* 7. "[[St. Andrew (This Battle Is in the Air)]]"
* 8. "[[Little Cream Soda]]"
* 9. "[[Rag and Bone]]"
* 10. "[[I'm Slowly Turning into You]]"
* 11. "[[A Martyr for My Love for You]]"
* 12. "[[Catch Hell Blues]]"
* 13. "[[Effect and Cause]]"

==Essay==
I saw an image of someone I once knew today and it made me write down my first
impressions. I don't normally tend to do that. Guess that makes me an impressionist;

Looks like there's a storm coming
Looks like somebody told you to smile
Looks like you're waiting there for someone
Looks like you'll be waiting there for a while
Guess you'd rather not think about it much
Guess you'd rather not think about much at all
Guess you know just what they like
Guess you don't know much at all
Feels like you're just passing the time---sometimes---
Feels like you never really were a friend of mine
Feels like ghosts do walk among us
And I guess, it looks, as if it feels
Like phantom pain from the bee that stung us

I do like impressions though. I once saw a man completely impersonate
another man who was not unlike himself if you thought about it. Which I did.
'Who would have thought' needs a question mark at the end of it, doesn't it?
A lot of those symbols at the end of things bother me, actually I can't be bothered.
They make a symbol in sheet music when the writer wants you to keep playing
till the cows come home, but I forget what it's called. I like that idea though.
Playing until someone 'decides' it's time to stop based on the feel of the room.
What's the longest it could go on? I imagine that every time I see that symbol.
What if there was a room that had just the right vibe in it, just the right amount
of energy to push, and inspire, and invigorate a conductor and her entire
orchestra, to hold that last note until...they couldn't even remember they
held it that long? When there's a world record for something, it's an
extreme thing. How big is the biggest of its kind? And how did it get to the point
where the conditions called for something so massive to be constructed?
It's baffling. Beautiful though. Icky thump.

III

==Credits==
* Jack White : guitar, vocals, production, synthesizer, organ
* Meg White : drums, percussion, vocals
* Regulo Aldama : trumpet
* Jim Drury : bagpipes
* Recorded February 2007 at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Tennessee.

==Trivia==
* Icky Thump will not feature marimba or piano. It will be the first Stripes album without any piano.
* The album has the most guitar solos Jack White has ever recorded to tape.
* The album marks the first time the band has performed with horns and bagpipes.
* The album marks the first time the band has recorded and mixed an album in a conventional recording studio.
* Icky thump was still, however, recorded to reel-to-reel, and mixed to tape in complete analog fashion.
* The album was recorded in three weeks, the longest the band have ever spent working on a record.
* Icky Thump contains the first spoken dialogue song to appear on one of their albums - "Rag and Bone".
* Icky Thump is the second longest album of the Stripes pantheon thus far, second to Elephant with more than 48 minutes in running time.
* The album’s title is a morphing of the phrase "Ecky thump" which is an exclamation of surprise or wonderment in northern England.
* The synthesizer used in the title track was also used on the song “Telstar” recorded by Joe Meek. It is a Univox synthesizer, one of the first analog synthesizers ever made.
* Jack White used the exact same guitars on Icky Thump that he has recorded with on every White Stripes album.
* “I’m Slowly Turning Into You” is possibly the first song to be written based on a video treatment. This was inspired by one which was given to the White Stripes by Michel Gondry which features Jack walking, followed by many other people. The people start off looking like Jack, and then slowly look more and more like Meg. At the end of the line of people is Meg.

== External links ==
* [http://www.whitestripes.com/news/news.html The official website featuring Icky Thump news]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icky_Thump Icky Thump at Wikipedia]

[[Category:White Stripes albums]]

User talk:Raygun Shaun

2007-06-16T03:20:28Z

Tbboy13: /* GBMS Essay */

If you have any questions or you want to leave me a comment, just leave it here along with your name. If you need any help or you want to ask me question, then please leave your question at [[User:Shaun the Ripper/Office and Help Desk|my office and help desk]] and I will answer it. Thanks! --[[User:Shaun the Ripper|Shaun the Ripper]] 21:07, 31 August 2006 (EDT)

==Hey!==
Random fact. The peppermint pattern in the logo is a peppermint-shaped stool at "Dylan's Candy Bar" in NYC - [[User:Tbboy13|Tbboy13]]

==How to add logo==
On this page: Image_logo_url put just the url for the logo that you want in the upper left corner of your wiki. And, just to be clear, on your new Little Room sig, that being 19 thing was sarcasm, right? --[[User:Tbboy13]]

==Yes I can==
And I did. --[[User:Tbboy13|Tbboy13]] 20:02, 4 September 2006 (EDT)

==We Need==
B-Sides pages --[[User:Tbboy13|Tbboy13]] 12:44, 12 September 2006 (EDT

==Great!==
What special privledges do I have? P.S. WTF is the blog? --[[User:Tbboy13|Tbboy13]] 14:57, 15 September 2006 (EDT)

==I dunno==
We have pretty much everything we need on editthis, It would take a long time to transfer from this to MediaWiki, and we would also have to pay for a domain name if we wanted anyone to see it. I think we're doing fine as is. Plus, we still have lots of work to do before we take a step like that.[[User:Tbboy13|Tbboy13]] 13:48, 20 September 2006 (EDT)

==Long time no edit==
Hey do you have an AIM screen name? Mine is Burnetts9508[[User:Tbboy13|Tbboy13]] 20:28, 24 September 2006 (EDT)

== Message from editthis.info admin ==

If you like you can nominate yourself for wiki of the month:
http://editthis.info/wiki/Nominations_for_next_wiki_of_the_month

If you would like to set up a domain name to point to your wiki:
http://www.constantsun.com/blog/2006/09/16/setting-a-domain-name-to-point-to-your-wiki/

==Idea==
to increase registration, why don't we close editing to Guests so they have to register? I know I can do thhis myself but I thought I'd run it by you first. 
P.S Added us to the links area of the white stripes article on wikipedia. That oughta increase some traffic. I just hope there stupid vandelizing bot doesn't remove it on accident. 
P.P.S. This is Tbboy13 I just forgot to login. I do it all the time. Maybe if we close of editing to guests, I'll remember to login more.

==GBMS Essay==
Needs to be added. I framed my album booklet, so I cant look at it.--[[User:Tbboy13|Tbboy13]] 22:39, 3 June 2007 (EDT)

==RE:RE==
I kinda got that message late. They probably won't put any links to us now that you got banned.--[[User:Tbboy13|Tbboy13]] 23:20, 15 June 2007 (EDT)

User talk:Raygun Shaun

2007-06-04T02:39:06Z

Tbboy13:

Icky Thump (song)

2007-05-04T16:35:28Z

Tbboy13:

'''Icky Thump''' is the first track on the upcoming Stripes album "''[[Icky Thump]]''". It has been described as "A stomping psychedelic opening" and "a thumping Latin cousin of 'Ball And Biscuit'".

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
1.
Iiiiiiiieeeeeee
Icky thump
Who'da thunk?
Sittin drunk on a wagon to Mexico?

Ahh well
What a chump
Well my head got a bump
When I hit it on the radio.

Redhead senorita
Looking dead
Came and said
"Need a bed?"
En Espanol

I said
"Gimme a drink a water,
I'm gonna 'sing around the collar'
And I don't need a microphone."

2.
Icky thump
With a lump in my throat
Grabbed my coat
And I was freaking
I was ready to go!

And I swear
Besides the hair
She had; one white eye,
One black (nk) stare
Lookin' up
Lyin' there

On the stand
Near her hand
Was a candy cane
Black rum, sugar cane,
Dry ice (and) something strange

LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA

3.
White Americans, what?
Nothing better to do?
Why don't you kick yourself out
You're an immigrant too?

Who's using who?
What should we do?
Well, you can't be a pimp
And a prostitute too.

Icky Thump
Handcuffed to a bunk
Robbed blind
Looked around
And there was nobody else

Left alone
I hit myself with a stone
Went home and learned how
To clean up after myself.
</nowiki></pre>

Icky Thump (song)

2007-05-04T16:35:00Z

Tbboy13: Added Lyrics

'''Icky Thump''' is the first track on the upcoming Stripes album "''[[Icky Thump]''". It has been described as "A stomping psychedelic opening" and "a thumping Latin cousin of 'Ball And Biscuit'".

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
1.
Iiiiiiiieeeeeee
Icky thump
Who'da thunk?
Sittin drunk on a wagon to Mexico?

Ahh well
What a chump
Well my head got a bump
When I hit it on the radio.

Redhead senorita
Looking dead
Came and said
"Need a bed?"
En Espanol

I said
"Gimme a drink a water,
I'm gonna 'sing around the collar'
And I don't need a microphone."

2.
Icky thump
With a lump in my throat
Grabbed my coat
And I was freaking
I was ready to go!

And I swear
Besides the hair
She had; one white eye,
One black (nk) stare
Lookin' up
Lyin' there

On the stand
Near her hand
Was a candy cane
Black rum, sugar cane,
Dry ice (and) something strange

LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA

3.
White Americans, what?
Nothing better to do?
Why don't you kick yourself out
You're an immigrant too?

Who's using who?
What should we do?
Well, you can't be a pimp
And a prostitute too.

Icky Thump
Handcuffed to a bunk
Robbed blind
Looked around
And there was nobody else

Left alone
I hit myself with a stone
Went home and learned how
To clean up after myself.
</nowiki></pre>

Suzy Lee

2007-01-03T20:42:40Z

Tbboy13: /* Lyrics */

==Facts==
*Johnny Walker of [[The Soledad Brothers]] plays 2nd slide guitar.

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
There's a story
I would like to tell
My problem is
It's one you know too well
It's one you know too well

Miss Suzy Lee
The one i'm speaking of
The question is
Is she the one i love ?
Is she the one i love ?

(all right)
Is she the one i love ?

She'll send me flowers
With her tears bored inside
And you know what i'd do
I would run and hide
I would run and hide

And the paper
On it was my name
With the question
Do you feel the same ?
Do you feel the same ?

To end this tale
The one i'm speaking of
I wish i have an answer (but i just don't know)
Is this really love ?
Is this really love ?
Is this really love ?</nowiki></pre>

A Boy's Best Friend

2006-12-21T20:16:00Z

Tbboy13: /* Band Quotes */

'''A Boy's Best Friend''' is a song by [[The White Stripes]] that can be heard on the band's second album, ''[[De Stijl]]''.

==Band Quotes==
Jack White : "There are songs on our albums that I really like that don't go over well live. They're slow...people don't respond to them. It's a shame that I can't play "A Boy's Best Friend" or "[[Sister, Do You Know My Name?]]" often because they stop the show in a bad way or something. I try to sneak them in once in awhile."

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
I just don't fit in this place
their thoughts cast me out of here
their home has run out of space
my mind's already out of here
won't you come along dear
won't you come along?

words that are spoke alone
phrases you will never hear
empty rooms and a telephone
that I will never use never fear
I am all alone dear
I am all alone

my dogs come sit next to me
a pack of dogs and cigarettes
my only friends speak no words to me
but they look at me and they don't forget
that a boy's best friend
is his mother or whatever has become his pet</nowiki></pre>

Aluminum

2006-12-21T20:13:54Z

Tbboy13: /* Quotes */

'''Aluminum''' is a song by [[The White Stripes]] from their third album ''[[White Blood Cells]]''.

==Quotes==
[[Jack White]] : "Aluminum is about the formation of aluminum in a factory. That is what the voices are trying to 'imitate'."

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
(instrumental except for Jack's voice repeatedly making an "aahhhh" noise.)</nowiki></pre>

Death Letter

2006-12-21T20:11:46Z

Tbboy13: /* Lyrics */

'''Death Letter''' is a song by [[The White Stripes]]. This is one of the band's many Son House covers.

==Song Meaning/Band Quotes On The Song==

==Trivia==
* Jack plays slide guitar on this song.

==Lyrics==
<pre><nowiki>
I got a letter this morning
what do you reckon it read?
it said the gal you love is dead
I got a letter this morning
what do you reckon it read?
said, hurry hurry
because the gal you love is dead

well I packed up my suitcase
I took off down the road
when I got there she was
laying on the cooling board
I packed up my suitcase
and I took off down the road
when I got there she was
laying on the cooling board
well

it looked like ten thousand people
standing around the burying ground
I didn't know I loved her
'till they began to let her down
looked like ten thousand
people standing on the burying ground
well didn't know that I loved her
'till they began to let her down

you know it's so hard to love
someone that don't love you
won't get satisfaction
don't care what you do
so hard to love
well someone that don't love you
don't look like satisfaction
well I don't care what you do
yeah

hush
thought I heard her call my name
well I got up this morning
the break of day
just hugging the pillows
she used to lay
got up this morning
believe the break of day
just hugging the pillows
where my baby used to lay
</nowiki>
</pre>

Jack the Ripper

2006-12-21T20:09:52Z

Tbboy13: /* Lyrics */

'''"Jack the Ripper"''' is a song by The White Stripes. It has not been released on any album or single, and it currently can only be heard live. It is usually performed after "[[Astro]]" in concert. The song is not an original - it is actually a cover of a song by Screaming Lord Sutch, the shock rock artist who was known for dressing like Jack the Ripper in his often horror-themed concerts.

[[Jack White]], during the [[Get Behind Me Satan]] era, was known for wearing a Jack the Ripper costume similar to Screaming Lord Sutch, while Meg wore large cabaret dresses, in concerts and photos.

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
walking down the street late at night
Jack the ripper! Jack the Ripper!
Mother's calling and supper's near
Jack the ripper! Jack the Ripper!
Hey get lonely I said it's only
???
Jack the ripper
the ripper
</nowiki></pre>

It's True That We Love One Another

2006-10-14T19:17:22Z

Tbboy13: /* Lyrics */

==Band Quotes==
[[Jack White]]:"It's supposed to be about ourselves, like the Mamas and the Papas' Creeque Alley. It was the first song I ever wrote, recorded and mixed in the same day. It forced me to work. On the next album I'll have a lot of people I respect write down a song topic and write a song about it. I'll be confined with having to come up with something."

[[Jack White]]:"I can't remember the first instances really, but we've been friends with [Holly Golightly & Thee Headcoats] for a while now. And every time we were in England we were always hanging out together or staying at Bruce's house or Holly's place or whatever. Just been really good friends. We went on tour together and we started playing bigger shows, and she warmed up for us and we love her albums. We probably met her through Sympathy For The Record Industry, their US label because her albums were on Sympathy. We wanted to do a recording together - we were thinking about doing a 45 together or something a while ago. We were in town in London, and we were going to go check out Toe-Rag and I called her and said, 'Do you wanna go work on a song 'cause we're gonna check Toe-Rag out, 'cause we've never been there before'. And she's like, 'Yeah'. So I wrote that song for us to sing, in the hotel room, and finished it in about a half an hour. And we went over to Holly's house and we rehearsed it with her, then we went to Toe-Rag and recorded it in a couple of takes and then we mixed it down. So it was the first time we did the whole process in one day like that, and it was like the first day at Toe-Rag too, to check the place out. It was so good because it was sort of like this folk song that used all three of our real names in the iconic sense. But just then making up this fake situation that Holly and I, we're in love, and that we were having a fight and Meg was breaking up the fight to get us all to be friends again. It was great because especially what Holly says at the end, was what she really actually said when we recorded. It was just on the take and it just seemed it was a great ending to the album, so I love this one."

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
All: Well it's true that we love one another

Holly: I love Jack White like a little brother

Jack: Well Holly I love you too but there's
Just so much that I don't know about you

Holly: Jack give me some money to pay my bills

Jack: All the dough I give you Holly
You been using on pain pills

Holly: Jack will you call me if you're able?

Jack: I got your phone number written
In the back of my bible

Holly: Jack I think your pulling my leg
And I think maybe I better ask Meg.
Meg do you think Jack really loves me?

Meg: You know, I don't care because
Jack really bugs me
Why don't you ask him now?

Holly: Well I would, but Meg
I really just don't know how

Meg: Just say 'Jack , do you adore me?'

Jack: Well I would Holly but love really bores me

Jack & Holly: Then I guess we should just be friends

Jack: I'm just kidding Holly
You know that I'll love you 'til the end

All: Well it's true that we love one another

Holly: I love Jack White like a little brother

Jack: Well Holly I love you too but there's
Just so much that I don't know about you

Jack: Holly give me some of your English lovin'

Holly: If I did that Jack I'd have one in the oven
Why don't you go off and love yourself

Jack: If I did that Holly there won't be anything
Left for anybody else

Holly: Jack it's too bad about the way you look

Jack: You know I gave that horse a carrot
So he'd break your foot

Meg: Will the two of you cut it out
And tell 'em what it's really all about

All: Well it's true that we love one another

Holly: I love Jack White like a little brother

Jack: Well Holly I love you too but there's
Just so much that I don't know about you</nowiki></pre>

Get Behind Me Satan

2006-10-14T19:13:10Z

Tbboy13: /* Credits */

[[Image:GBMS.jpg|right]]

'''Get Behind Me Satan''' is the fifth album released by Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. It was released in 2005. It is their most experimental album to date, though many people view it as their worst release to date, while some actually prefer its experimental style.

==Track listing==
All songs written by [[Jack White]].

* 1. "[[Blue Orchid]]" - 2:37
* 2. "[[The Nurse]]" - 3:47
* 3. "[[My Doorbell]]" - 4:01
* 4. "[[Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)]]" - 3:15
* 5. "[[Little Ghost]]" - 2:18
* 6. "[[The Denial Twist]]" - 2:35
* 7. "[[White Moon]]" - 4:01
* 8. "[[Instinct Blues]]" - 4:16
* 9. "[[Passive Manipulation]]" - 0:35
* 10. "[[Take, Take, Take]]" - 4:22
* 11. "[[As Ugly As I Seem]]" - 4:09
* 12. "[[Red Rain]]" - 3:52
* 13. "[[I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)]]" - 4:19

==Credits==
* [[Jack White]] : vocals, guitars, mandolin, marimba, piano, production
* [[Meg White]] : drums, percussion, timpani, chimes, bongos, bells
* Recorded February 2005 at Jack's Third Man Studios in Detroit, Michigan, and released on V2 Records on June 7, 2005.
* Mixed at Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee
* Dedicated to [[Suzy Lee]].

==Trivia==
* It was named after a quote from the Bible.
* It reached #3 on both the US and UK Charts.

==Band Quotes==

==External links==

[[Category:White Stripes albums]]

In the Cold, Cold Night

2006-10-14T19:10:30Z

Tbboy13: /* Band Quotes */

'''In The Cold, Cold Night''' is a song by [[The White Stripes]], and it can be heard on the band's fourth album, ''[[Elephant]]''.

==Band Quotes==
* [[Jack White]] :"I wrote that specifically for Meg. I wanted it [to] be half Mazzy Star and half Peggy Lee. I played it for her in my attic. Meg laughed, she liked it. That organ sound was from me lying down on the studio floor pressing the organ pedals. If you listen close you hear wood popping on the piano pedal. Toe Rag's scary to a lot of people. They don't want to be confined. But the limitations make you work."
* [[Meg White]] :"I've been singing more live, doing backups and we do that one Loretta Lynn cover (Rated X). So, when we went in to record the album, Jack had actually written a song for me, He was like 'It's kinda like Peggy Lee Fever-esque.' I was like, 'Are you kidding? You think I can sing that?' I like it, I guess."

==Facts==
* Meg sings lead vocals and cymbals on this song. Jack plays organ and guitar.
* On live versions of this song, Meg usually plays the organ while Jack plays the guitar.

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
I saw you standing in the corner
on the edge of a burning light
I saw you standing in the corner
come to me again
in the cold cold night
in the cold cold night
you make me feel a little older
like a full grown woman might
but when you're gone I grow colder
come to me again
in the cold cold night
in the cold cold night
I hear you walking by my front door
I hear the creaking of the kitchen floor
I don't care what other people say
I'm going to love you, anyway
come to me again
in the cold cold night
in the cold cold night
I can't stand it any longer
I need the fuel to make my fire bright
so don't fight it any longer
come to me again
in the cold cold night
in the cold cold night
and I know that you feel it too
when my skin turns into glue
you will know that it's warm inside
and you'll come run to me
in the cold cold night
in the cold cold night
in the cold cold night
in the cold cold night</nowiki></pre>

Seven Nation Army

2006-10-14T19:05:28Z

Tbboy13: /* Track Listing */

[[Image:SNAcover.jpg|right]]

'''Seven Nation Army''' is a song by The White Stripes. It can be heard on their fourth album, ''[[Elephant]]''. It was released as a single in April 2003.

==Track Listing==
===CD===
*1. "Seven Nation Army" - 3:52
*2. "[[Good to Me]]" [[Brendan Benson|(Brendan Benson)]] - 2:06
*3. "[[Black Jack Davey]]" - 5:06

===CD (Radio Promo)===
*1. "Seven Nation Army" - 3:52

===7"===
* 1. "[[Seven Nation Army]]" - 3:52
* 2. "[[Good to Me]]" [[Brendan Benson|(Brendan Benson)]] - 2:06

===7" (Promo)===
* 1. "Seven Nation Army" - 3:52
* 2. "[[In The Cold, Cold Night]]" - 2:58

==Band Quotes==
* [[Jack White]] :"I wrote that riff in a soundcheck in Australia at a show that we played down there. I was working on this phrase that I used to say when I was a kid. I used to call the Salvation Army 'Seven Nation Army' because I thought that's what the name was. So I was working around that and it just became a song about gossip. When I wrote that, I thought if I ever got asked to write the next James Bond theme, that would be the riff for it."
* [[Meg White]] :"Jack basically wrote (Seven Nation Army) around the idea of this guy who comes into town and all his friends are gossiping about him. It gets so bad, he wants to leave town and then he decides not to."
* [[Jack White]] :"that's not a bass at the start but my guitar with an octave pedal. The song's about gossip. It's about me, Meg and the people we're dating. The world constantly tries to dissect people, chew them up and spit them out. We get that all the time, people wanting our songs for commercials, wanting to know what the inside of Meg's bathroom looks like."
* [[Jack White]] :"It felt strong when we mixed the album down. It felt like it should be the first track on the album. It just felt like an opening, explosive thing. I thought it would be interesting to release that at first."

==Facts==
* The riff of Seven Nation Army has been used by tifosi of Italian national football team to celebrate the victory in Germany 2006 World Cup: "Cam-pio-ni del mon-do ! Cam-pio-ni del mon-do !".
* "Seven Nation Army" is widely acknowledged as being the band's best known and most infamous song.
* In March 2005, Q magazine placed "Seven Nation Army" at number 8 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.

==Covers==
* Audioslave has performed this live.
* Ryan Adams has performed this live.
* Metallica has performed this live.
* A Perfect Circle has performed this live.
* The Flaming Lips recorded a version of Seven Nation Army, dubbed "Harry Potter's and George W. Bush's Severed Head Army Mix". The lyrics to this version were evidently inspired by the Butthole Surfers song, "Moving To Florida".
* The track was sampled by the rapper, Apathy for his 12" single entitled It Takes A Seven Nation Army To Hold Us Back.

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
I'm gonna fight 'em off
a seven nation army couldn't hold me back
they're gonna rip it off
taking their time right behind my back
and I'm talking to myself at night
because I can't forget
back and forth through my mind
behind a cigarette
and the message coming from my eyes
says leave it alone

don't want to hear about it
every single one's got a story to tell
everyone knows about it
from the queen of england to the hounds of hell
and if I catch it coming back my way
I'm gonna serve it to you
and that ain't what you want to hear
but that's what I'll do
and the feeling coming from my bones
says find a home

I'm going to wichita
far from this opera for evermore
I'm gonna work the straw
make the sweat drip out of every pore
and I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding
right before the lord
all the words are gonna bleed from me
and I will think no more
and the stains coming from my blood
tell me go back home
</nowiki>
</pre>

==Video==
The music video for the song, directed by Alex and Martin, consists of one seemingly continuous shot through a tunnel of mirrored black, white and red triangles, each containing a picture of either Jack or Meg playing. During the video, when the song reaches a rockish point, lights flash. Images of walking skeleton soldiers (a reference to Ray Harryhausen's Jason and the Argonauts) also appear regularly. An elephant (to coincide for their album) appears once near the end. Despite the [[1964 JB Hutto Montgomery Airline|signature red Airline guitar]] depicted in the video, the song is almost exclusively played by a [[Kay Hollowbody]] guitar.

Seven Nation Army

2006-10-14T19:01:59Z

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'''Seven Nation Army''' is a song by The White Stripes. It can be heard on their fourth album, ''[[Elephant]]''. It was released as a single in April 2003.

==Track Listing==
===CD===
*1. "Seven Nation Army" - 3:52
*2. "Good to Me" [[Brendan Benson|(Brendan Benson)]] - 2:06
*3. "Black Jack Davey" - 5:06

===CD (Radio Promo)===
*1. "Seven Nation Army" - 3:52

===7"===
* 1. "Seven Nation Army" - 3:52
* 2. "Good to Me" [[Brendan Benson|(Brendan Benson)]] - 2:06

===7" (Promo)===
* 1. "Seven Nation Army" - 3:52
* 2. "In The Cold, Cold Night" - 2:58

==Band Quotes==
* [[Jack White]] :"I wrote that riff in a soundcheck in Australia at a show that we played down there. I was working on this phrase that I used to say when I was a kid. I used to call the Salvation Army 'Seven Nation Army' because I thought that's what the name was. So I was working around that and it just became a song about gossip. When I wrote that, I thought if I ever got asked to write the next James Bond theme, that would be the riff for it."
* [[Meg White]] :"Jack basically wrote (Seven Nation Army) around the idea of this guy who comes into town and all his friends are gossiping about him. It gets so bad, he wants to leave town and then he decides not to."
* [[Jack White]] :"that's not a bass at the start but my guitar with an octave pedal. The song's about gossip. It's about me, Meg and the people we're dating. The world constantly tries to dissect people, chew them up and spit them out. We get that all the time, people wanting our songs for commercials, wanting to know what the inside of Meg's bathroom looks like."
* [[Jack White]] :"It felt strong when we mixed the album down. It felt like it should be the first track on the album. It just felt like an opening, explosive thing. I thought it would be interesting to release that at first."

==Facts==
* The riff of Seven Nation Army has been used by tifosi of Italian national football team to celebrate the victory in Germany 2006 World Cup: "Cam-pio-ni del mon-do ! Cam-pio-ni del mon-do !".
* "Seven Nation Army" is widely acknowledged as being the band's best known and most infamous song.
* In March 2005, Q magazine placed "Seven Nation Army" at number 8 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.

==Covers==
* Audioslave has performed this live.
* Ryan Adams has performed this live.
* Metallica has performed this live.
* A Perfect Circle has performed this live.
* The Flaming Lips recorded a version of Seven Nation Army, dubbed "Harry Potter's and George W. Bush's Severed Head Army Mix". The lyrics to this version were evidently inspired by the Butthole Surfers song, "Moving To Florida".
* The track was sampled by the rapper, Apathy for his 12" single entitled It Takes A Seven Nation Army To Hold Us Back.

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
I'm gonna fight 'em off
a seven nation army couldn't hold me back
they're gonna rip it off
taking their time right behind my back
and I'm talking to myself at night
because I can't forget
back and forth through my mind
behind a cigarette
and the message coming from my eyes
says leave it alone

don't want to hear about it
every single one's got a story to tell
everyone knows about it
from the queen of england to the hounds of hell
and if I catch it coming back my way
I'm gonna serve it to you
and that ain't what you want to hear
but that's what I'll do
and the feeling coming from my bones
says find a home

I'm going to wichita
far from this opera for evermore
I'm gonna work the straw
make the sweat drip out of every pore
and I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding
right before the lord
all the words are gonna bleed from me
and I will think no more
and the stains coming from my blood
tell me go back home
</nowiki>
</pre>

==Video==
The music video for the song, directed by Alex and Martin, consists of one seemingly continuous shot through a tunnel of mirrored black, white and red triangles, each containing a picture of either Jack or Meg playing. During the video, when the song reaches a rockish point, lights flash. Images of walking skeleton soldiers (a reference to Ray Harryhausen's Jason and the Argonauts) also appear regularly. An elephant (to coincide for their album) appears once near the end. Despite the [[1964 JB Hutto Montgomery Airline|signature red Airline guitar]] depicted in the video, the song is almost exclusively played by a [[Kay Hollowbody]] guitar.

We're Going to Be Friends

2006-10-14T18:49:38Z

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'''We're Going to Be Friends''' is a song by The White Stripes. It can be heard on their third album, ''[[White Blood Cells]]''.

==Band Quotes==
* [[Jack White]]: "I didn't really have much of a great time in grade school, so I like writing about that. I write about it a lot - actually having friends in grade school and having a girlfriend or something back then when you really wanted it. Kids are just so cruel sometimes. It's nice to fantasize that they're not."

==Facts==
* This song became very popular when it played during the opening credits of the independent film "''Napoleon Dynamite''".

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
Fall is here, hear the yell
back to school, ring the bell
brand new shoes, walking blues
climb the fence, books and pens
I can tell that we're going to be friends

Walk with me, Suzy Lee
through the park and by the tree
we will rest upon the ground
and look at all the bugs we found
then safely walk to school
without a sound

Well here we are, no one else
we walked to school all by ourselves
there's dirt on our uniforms
from chasing all the ants and worms
we clean up and now its time to learn

Numbers, letters, learn to spell
nouns, and books, and show and tell
at playtime we will throw the ball
back to class, through the hall
teacher marks our height
against the wall

And we don't notice any time pass
we don't notice anything
we sit side by side in every class
teacher thinks that I sound funny
but she likes the way you sing

Tonight I'll dream while in my bed
when silly thoughts go through my head
about the bugs and alphabet
and when I wake tomorrow I'll bet
that you and I will walk together again
cause I can tell that we're going to be friends</nowiki></pre>

The Union Forever

2006-10-14T18:37:43Z

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'''"The Union Forever"''' is a song by [[The White Stripes]]. It can be heard on their third album, ''[[White Blood Cells]]''.
==Facts==
*The lyrics are taken from the movie "Citizen Kane"
*When singing the song live, he usually adds the line:
"And it's no trick to make a lotta money 
If all you want is to make a lotta money"

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
It can't be love
For there is no true love
It can't be love
For there is no true love

Shure I'm C.F.K.
But you gotta love me
The cost no man can say
But you gotta love me

Well I'm sorry but I'm not
interested in gold mines,
oil wells, shipping or real estate
What would I liked to have been?
Everything you hate

Cause it can't be love
For there is no true love
It can't be love
For there is no true love

There is a man
a certain man
and for the poor you may be sure
that he'll do all he can
who is this one?
[who's favorite son?]
just by his action has the traction
magnets on the run
who likes to smoke?
enjoys a joke?
and wouldn't get a bit
upset if he were really broke?
with wealth and fame
he's still the same
I'll bet you five you're not alive
If you don't now his name

You said the union forever
You said the union forever
You cried the union forever
But that was untrue girl
Cause it can't be love
For there is no true love
It can't be love
For there is no true love</nowiki></pre>

White Blood Cells

2006-10-14T18:32:35Z

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[[Image:WhiteBloodCells.jpg|right]]

'''White Blood Cells''' is the third album released by Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. It was released in 2001.

==Track listing==
* 1. "[[Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground]]" - 3:04 (White/White)
* 2. "[[Hotel Yorba]]" - 2:10 (White/White)
* 3. "[[I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman]]" - 2:54 (White/White)
* 4. "[[Fell In Love With a Girl]]" - 1:50 (White/White)
* 5. "[[Expecting]]" - 2:03 (White/White)
* 6. "[[Little Room]]" - 0:50 (White/White)
* 7. "[[The Union Forever]]" - 3:26 (White/White)
* 8. "[[Same Boy You've Always Known]]" - 3:09 (White/White)
* 9. "[[We're Going To Be Friends]]" - 2:22 (White/White)
* 10. "[[Offend In Every Way]]" - 3:06 (White/White)
* 11. "[[I Think I Smell a Rat]]" - 2:04 (White/White)
* 12. "[[Aluminum]]" - 2:19 (White/White)
* 13. "[[I Can't Wait]]" - 3:38 (White/White)
* 14. "[[Now Mary]]" - 1:47 (White/White)
* 15. "[[I Can Learn]]" - 3:31 (White/White)
* 16. "[[This Protector]]" - 2:10 (White/White)

==Essay==
Holding these truths to be judged forever-the mark, the string, the skin and the vibration all set and aiming to please. This sister with her hands, and this brother with his knees. The slide is in the pocket and this neighborhood is showing up more than that. Our friends aren't here to help, but maybe that's the best they could give. An old song is also best but sometimes too easy. "How else can we help you?", the brother said, and the sister replied "I don't know." The south is there and always will be. The north is home whether it's friendly or not. Something's going to let us know that these are the good days to remember, after children take up our time and take our place. But pride and happiness are always the same distance from our hands.

==Credits==
* [[Jack White]] : vocals, guitars, piano, production
* [[Meg White]] : drums, percussion, background vocals
* Stewart Sikes : additional mixing and engineering
* Pat Pantano : cover photography
* Recorded February 2001 at Easley-McCain Recording Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
* Released : Sympathy for the Record Industry, July 2001
* Dedicated to Loretta Lynn.

==Trivia==
* There are many interpretations on what the album cover picture means. The most obvious being that it shows the band getting almost attacked by a group of black-clad figures representing the paparazzi. Open the album and we see their true colors. Jack has said about the album cover : ""Is the attention good or bad? When you open the CD, it's a picture of us with these cameras. Wondering if it's good or bad...the shadow-people might be bacteria coming at us and Meg and I are the white blood cells. Or maybe it means white blood "sells" and the bacteria are media and music lovers...or maybe it means nothing at all."
* Jack has also said this about the picture on the back of the album : "Perhaps on the back cover Meg and I are blood cells...or perhaps she is on the dirty ground and I am in happiness...or perhaps I'm dragging her into a place she doesn't want to be or maybe she's pulling me out of it."

==Band Quotes==
* [[Jack White]] : (on WBC) "We said, NO blues, no slide, no guitar solos, no covers… We figured out all the no's, and everything else was fine."
* [[Jack White]] : "We tried to keep it as unorganized as possible, we rehearsed for a week and then went to a Memphis studio we'd heard about and recorded for three days. We tried to rush this as much as possible to make [the sound] really tense. And it seemed to work. There's no blues on the new record. We're taking a break from that. There's no slide work, bass, guitar solos, or cover songs. It's just me and Meg, guitar, drums and piano."
* [[Jack White]] : "It was cool because a lot of things had been sitting around for a long time, stuff I had written on piano that had been just sitting around not doing anything. And it was good to put them all together at once, put them all in the same box and see what happened. We keep getting put with this bringing-back-the-blues kind of statement as a label for the band, and I just wanted to break away from that because it's really hard to do that, being … where we're from, even though that's the music that we really love and that I'm really inspired by. Most of the songs that had been sitting around were these piano-written songs that were more 'songwriting' type songs. I wanted to make a whole album of that."
* [[Jack White]] : "We completely avoided the blues on White Blood Cells on purpose. The thinking was, "What can we do if we completely ignore what we love the most?" On White Blood Cells we were strict about other things as well. We decided to record the album in three days, take no guitar solos, avoid slide guitar, and banish covers."
* Stewart Sikes (engineer and co-mixer of WBC) : We just set up and they started going. Jack knew what he wanted. Meg didn't really think they should be recording -- she thought the songs were too new. Jack pretty much knows what he wants, has a really good idea what he's going for. Meg is pretty quiet. She sort of drank her bourbon and smoked a lot of cigarettes. I think Meg was a little nervous being in a big studio, bigger than what they were used to. The main thing I tried to do was make them comfortable so they could play well -- with Meg, making sure her part didn't totally suck. She was pretty self-conscious about it. They came for three days and did most of the songs, then came back for two days and then we mixed the thing the next day. Jack told me more than once not to make it sound too good. I knew what he was talking about from recording at their house to a 24-track studio. We didn't come close to using all those tracks. Basically he wanted it as raw as possible, but better than if it was recorded in somebody's living room. He steered me that way, and I ran with it. Are all of these songs new?"

==External links==

[[Category:White Stripes albums]]

White Blood Cells

2006-10-14T18:31:01Z

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[[Image:WhiteBloodCells.jpg|right]]

'''White Blood Cells''' is the third album released by Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. It was released in 2001.

==Track listing==
* 1. "[[Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground]]" - 3:04 (White/White)
* 2. "[[Hotel Yorba]]" - 2:10 (White/White)
* 3. "[[I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman]]" - 2:54 (White/White)
* 4. "[[Fell In Love With a Girl]]" - 1:50 (White/White)
* 5. "[[Expecting]]" - 2:03 (White/White)
* 6. "[[Little Room]]" - 0:50 (White/White)
* 7. "[[The Union Forever]]" - 3:26 (White/White)
* 8. "[[Same Boy You've Always Known]]" - 3:09 (White/White)
* 9. "[[We're Going To Be Friends]]" - 2:22 (White/White)
* 10. "[[Offend In Every Way]]" - 3:06 (White/White)
* 11. "[[I Think I Smell a Rat]]" - 2:04 (White/White)
* 12. "[[Aluminum]]" - 2:19 (White/White)
* 13. "[[I Can't Wait]]" - 3:38 (White/White)
* 14. "[[Now Mary]]" - 1:47 (White/White)
* 15. "[[I Can Learn]]" - 3:31 (White/White)
* 16. "[[This Protector]]" - 2:10 (White/White)

==Essay==
Holding these truths to be judged forever-the mark, the string, the skin and the vibration all set and aiming to please. This sister with her hands, and this brother with his knees. The slide is in the pocket and this neighborhood is showing up more than that. Our friends aren't here to help, but maybe that's the best they could give. An old song is also best but sometimes too easy. "How else can we help you?", the brother said, and the sister replied "I don't know." The south is there and always will be. The north is home whether it's friendly or not. Something's going to let us know that these are the good days to remember, after children take up our time and take our place. But pride and happiness are always the same distance from our hands.

==Credits==
* [[Jack White]] : vocals, guitars, piano, production
* Meg White : drums, percussion, background vocals
* Stewart Sikes : additional mixing and engineering
* Pat Pantano : cover photography
* Recorded February 2001 at Easley-McCain Recording Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
* Released : Sympathy for the Record Industry, July 2001
* Dedicated to Loretta Lynn.

==Trivia==
* There are many interpretations on what the album cover picture means. The most obvious being that it shows the band getting almost attacked by a group of black-clad figures representing the paparazzi. Open the album and we see their true colors. Jack has said about the album cover : ""Is the attention good or bad? When you open the CD, it's a picture of us with these cameras. Wondering if it's good or bad...the shadow-people might be bacteria coming at us and Meg and I are the white blood cells. Or maybe it means white blood "sells" and the bacteria are media and music lovers...or maybe it means nothing at all."
* Jack has also said this about the picture on the back of the album : "Perhaps on the back cover Meg and I are blood cells...or perhaps she is on the dirty ground and I am in happiness...or perhaps I'm dragging her into a place she doesn't want to be or maybe she's pulling me out of it."

==Band Quotes==
* [[Jack White]] : (on WBC) "We said, NO blues, no slide, no guitar solos, no covers… We figured out all the no's, and everything else was fine."
* [[Jack White]] : "We tried to keep it as unorganized as possible, we rehearsed for a week and then went to a Memphis studio we'd heard about and recorded for three days. We tried to rush this as much as possible to make [the sound] really tense. And it seemed to work. There's no blues on the new record. We're taking a break from that. There's no slide work, bass, guitar solos, or cover songs. It's just me and Meg, guitar, drums and piano."
* [[Jack White]] : "It was cool because a lot of things had been sitting around for a long time, stuff I had written on piano that had been just sitting around not doing anything. And it was good to put them all together at once, put them all in the same box and see what happened. We keep getting put with this bringing-back-the-blues kind of statement as a label for the band, and I just wanted to break away from that because it's really hard to do that, being … where we're from, even though that's the music that we really love and that I'm really inspired by. Most of the songs that had been sitting around were these piano-written songs that were more 'songwriting' type songs. I wanted to make a whole album of that."
* [[Jack White]] : "We completely avoided the blues on White Blood Cells on purpose. The thinking was, "What can we do if we completely ignore what we love the most?" On White Blood Cells we were strict about other things as well. We decided to record the album in three days, take no guitar solos, avoid slide guitar, and banish covers."
* Stewart Sikes (engineer and co-mixer of WBC) : We just set up and they started going. Jack knew what he wanted. Meg didn't really think they should be recording -- she thought the songs were too new. Jack pretty much knows what he wants, has a really good idea what he's going for. Meg is pretty quiet. She sort of drank her bourbon and smoked a lot of cigarettes. I think Meg was a little nervous being in a big studio, bigger than what they were used to. The main thing I tried to do was make them comfortable so they could play well -- with Meg, making sure her part didn't totally suck. She was pretty self-conscious about it. They came for three days and did most of the songs, then came back for two days and then we mixed the thing the next day. Jack told me more than once not to make it sound too good. I knew what he was talking about from recording at their house to a 24-track studio. We didn't come close to using all those tracks. Basically he wanted it as raw as possible, but better than if it was recorded in somebody's living room. He steered me that way, and I ran with it. Are all of these songs new?"

==External links==

[[Category:White Stripes albums]]

The White Stripes (album)

2006-10-14T18:29:29Z

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[[Image:StripesDebut.jpg|right]]

'''The White Stripes''' is the first album released by Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. It was released in 1999.

==Track listing==
* 1. "[[Jimmy the Exploder]]" - 2:29 (White/White)
* 2. "[[Stop Breaking Down]]" - 2:20 (Robert Johnson)
* 3. "[[The Big Three Killed My Baby]]" - 2:29 (White/White)
* 4. "[[Suzy Lee]]" - 3:21 (White/White)
* 5. "[[Sugar Never Tasted So Good]]" - 2:54 (White/White)
* 6. "[[Wasting My Time]]" - 2:13 (White/White)
* 7. "[[Cannon]]" - 2:30 (White/White)
* 8. "[[Astro]]" - 2:42 (White/White)
* 9. "[[Broken Bricks]]" - 1:51 (Stephen Gillis/Jack White)
* 10. "[[When I Hear My Name]]" - 1:54 (White/White)
* 11. "[[Do]]" - 3:05 (White/White)
* 12. "[[Screwdriver]]" - 3:14 (White/White)
* 13. "[[One More Cup of Coffee]]" - 3:13 (Bob Dylan)
* 14. "[[Little People]]" - 2:22 (White/White)
* 15. "[[Slicker Drips]]" - 1:30 (White/White)
* 16. "[[St. James Infirmary Blues]]" - 2:24 (Joe Primrose)
* 17. "[[I Fought Piranhas]]" - 3:07 (White/White)

==Essay==
you would play and have fun by yourself and then you saw other children playing and you climbed your fence and went to play with them and it was fun then your smiles became dependent on theirs and stories you heard of a monkey that only wants to see red so destroys things that are not red i dream of him exploding my motor so that i wont see red everytime i drive down the street my car starts breaking down on me and i write this down but nothings changed only i change or hope to change. sometimes its hard to tell if you are realy in love or blinded and maybe you should change yourself and stop wasting your time maybe one day it will be the end of the world with shrieks outside your door and it will be too late others do secret things in their space where they live or where they once worked their lives to boredom where a straw boss called their name out and they wished they were invisible and all of the coffee breaks in the world wont help you and social interaction will only fake you there is sometimes nothing that you can do so what are you supposed to think? when people call you, look at you, say they are coming over do you think that they are like little children trying to have fun until someone gets offended or someone talks bad about someone who isnt there or maybe you are happy until someone you love is in the hospital or is far away talking to people you dont know or on a boat under perfect darkened starry skies all alone you wish you could be there with them and you wish that two people could really be happy with each other it was easier when you were a child and everything that is happy and fun now is an attempt at recreating your backyard when you first saw others and dremt that with them you could be happier than you were alone

==Credits==
* [[Jack White]] : vocals, guitar, piano
* [[Meg White]] : drums, percussion
* [[Johnny Walker]] : second slide guitar on [[Suzy Lee|"Suzy Lee"]] and [[I Fought Piranhas|"I Fought Piranhas"]]
* Produced by [[Jack White]]
* Co-produced and engineered by [[Jim Diamond]]
* Recorded January '99 at Ghetto Recorders, Cass Corridor, Detroit
* [[Screwdriver|"Screwdriver"]], [[Sugar Never Tasted So Good|"Sugar Never Tasted So Good"]], [[St. James Infirmary Blues|"St. James Infirmary Blues"]], and [[Astro|"Astro"]] recorded at Third Man Studios, Southwest Detroit
* Cover by Ballistic
* Photography by [[Ko Melina Zydeko]]
* Peppermint photo by Heather White
* Dedicated to Son House
* The White Stripes would like to thank God, Family, Steve Shaw, Ikaboo, Roger Tape Ginger, Reedy Hoy How, Long Gone John, [[Johnny Walker]], Ko Melina Zydeko, [[Jim Diamond]], Andi and Patti, Heather White, [[Dan Miller]] for lending us recording equipment, [[Brian Muldoon]] for lending us his 18" tom, Stephen Gillis, and [[Ben Blackwell]]

==Trivia==
* The attic where Jack ended up recording a lot of the first White Stripes stuff -- that was all set up in his parents' house. [http://www.whitestripes.net/faq.php#selftitled]
* The song Screwdriver, the first song the White Stripes wrote as a band, was inspired by a red screwdriver sitting on a table.

==Band Quotes==
* [[Jack White]] : "Our first album is still my favorite because it sounds like Detroit to me."
* [[Jack White]] : " I don't think we'll top it. "Elephant" is a close second. I love "Elephant," but we're never gonna capture that Detroit rock n' roll like we did with the first one. It was good we got that out of the way. If we hadn't, I'd probably still be searching for that. Same with "Let's Shake Hands," the first 45, we'll never top that, but as long as it's there, I can move on."
* [[Jack White]] : "I still feel we've never topped our first album. It's the most raw, the most powerful, and the most Detroit-sounding record we've made. I went overboard with the rawness and the reverb though. That was the first time I produced a full album for us, and I definitely learned from the experience."
* [[Jack White]] : "The first LP's really angry, you know. This LP [[De Stijl|[De Stijl]]] we tried to get a little cleaner. Maybe we changed from anger to bitterness."
* [[Jack White]] : "People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook."

==External links==

[[Category:White Stripes albums]]

The White Stripes (album)

2006-10-14T18:26:20Z

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'''The White Stripes''' is the first album released by Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. It was released in 1999.

==Track listing==
* 1. "[[Jimmy the Exploder]]" - 2:29 (White/White)
* 2. "[[Stop Breaking Down]]" - 2:20 (Robert Johnson)
* 3. "[[The Big Three Killed My Baby]]" - 2:29 (White/White)
* 4. "[[Suzy Lee]]" - 3:21 (White/White)
* 5. "[[Sugar Never Tasted So Good]]" - 2:54 (White/White)
* 6. "[[Wasting My Time]]" - 2:13 (White/White)
* 7. "[[Cannon]]" - 2:30 (White/White)
* 8. "[[Astro]]" - 2:42 (White/White)
* 9. "[[Broken Bricks]]" - 1:51 (Stephen Gillis/Jack White)
* 10. "[[When I Hear My Name]]" - 1:54 (White/White)
* 11. "[[Do]]" - 3:05 (White/White)
* 12. "[[Screwdriver]]" - 3:14 (White/White)
* 13. "[[One More Cup of Coffee]]" - 3:13 (Bob Dylan)
* 14. "[[Little People]]" - 2:22 (White/White)
* 15. "[[Slicker Drips]]" - 1:30 (White/White)
* 16. "[[St. James Infirmary Blues]]" - 2:24 (Joe Primrose)
* 17. "[[I Fought Piranhas]]" - 3:07 (White/White)

==Essay==
you would play and have fun by yourself and then you saw other children playing and you climbed your fence and went to play with them and it was fun then your smiles became dependent on theirs and stories you heard of a monkey that only wants to see red so destroys things that are not red i dream of him exploding my motor so that i wont see red everytime i drive down the street my car starts breaking down on me and i write this down but nothings changed only i change or hope to change. sometimes its hard to tell if you are realy in love or blinded and maybe you should change yourself and stop wasting your time maybe one day it will be the end of the world with shrieks outside your door and it will be too late others do secret things in their space where they live or where they once worked their lives to boredom where a straw boss called their name out and they wished they were invisible and all of the coffee breaks in the world wont help you and social interaction will only fake you there is sometimes nothing that you can do so what are you supposed to think? when people call you, look at you, say they are coming over do you think that they are like little children trying to have fun until someone gets offended or someone talks bad about someone who isnt there or maybe you are happy until someone you love is in the hospital or is far away talking to people you dont know or on a boat under perfect darkened starry skies all alone you wish you could be there with them and you wish that two people could really be happy with each other it was easier when you were a child and everything that is happy and fun now is an attempt at recreating your backyard when you first saw others and dremt that with them you could be happier than you were alone

==Credits==
* [[Jack White]] : vocals, guitar, piano
* [[Meg White]] : drums, percussion
* [[Johnny Walker]] : second slide guitar on [[Suzy Lee|"Suzy Lee"]] and [[I Fought Piranhas|"I Fought Piranhas"]]
* Produced by [[Jack White]]
* Co-produced and engineered by [[Jim Diamond]]
* Recorded January '99 at Ghetto Recorders, Cass Corridor, Detroit
* [[Screwdriver|"Screwdriver"]], [[Sugar Never Tasted So Good|"Sugar Never Tasted So Good"]], [[St. James Infirmary Blues|"St. James Infirmary Blues"]], and [[Astro|"Astro"]] recorded at Third Man Studios, Southwest Detroit
* Cover by Ballistic
* Photography by [[Ko Melina Zydeko]]
* Peppermint photo by Heather White
* Dedicated to Son House
* The White Stripes would like to thank God, Family, Steve Shaw, Ikaboo, Roger Tape Ginger, Reedy Hoy How, Long Gone John, [[Johnny Walker]], Ko Melina Zydeko, [[Jim Diamond]], Andi and Patti, Heather White, [[Dan Miller]] for lending us recording equipment, [[Brian Muldoon]] for lending us his 18" tom, Stephen Gillis, and [[Ben Blackwell]]

==Trivia==
* The attic where Jack ended up recording a lot of the first White Stripes stuff -- that was all set up in his parents' house. [http://www.whitestripes.net/faq.php#selftitled]
* The song Screwdriver, the first song the White Stripes wrote as a band, was inspired by a red screwdriver sitting on a table.

==Band Quotes==
* [[Jack White]] : "Our first album is still my favorite because it sounds like Detroit to me."
* [[Jack White]] : " I don't think we'll top it. "Elephant" is a close second. I love "Elephant," but we're never gonna capture that Detroit rock n' roll like we did with the first one. It was good we got that out of the way. If we hadn't, I'd probably still be searching for that. Same with "Let's Shake Hands," the first 45, we'll never top that, but as long as it's there, I can move on."
* [[Jack White]] : "I still feel we've never topped our first album. It's the most raw, the most powerful, and the most Detroit-sounding record we've made. I went overboard with the rawness and the reverb though. That was the first time I produced a full album for us, and I definitely learned from the experience."
* [[Jack White]] : "The first LP's really angry, you know. This LP we tried to get a little cleaner. Maybe we changed from anger to bitterness."
* [[Jack White]] : "People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook."

==External links==

[[Category:White Stripes albums]]

Jolene Live Under Blackpool Lights

2006-10-11T21:52:21Z

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==Track==
#[[Jolene]] (Live)
#[[Black Math]] (Live)

My Doorbell

2006-10-11T19:15:11Z

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[[Image:MyDoorbell.jpg|thumb|right|The cover of the single features Meg playing timpani (like she does in [[Passive Manipulation]]) along with two other girls who can also be spotted in the My Doorbell video, as well as the liner notes of ''[[Get Behind Me Satan]]''.]]

'''"My Doorbell"''' is a song by The White Stripes. It can be heard on their fifth album, ''[[Get Behind Me Satan]]''. It was released as the second single from the album on September 3, 2005. The song is piano based, and has drawn soul/funk comparisons, and it is unlike any singles the band has released before.

== Track listing ==
=== CD ===
#"My Doorbell"
#"[[Screwdriver]]" (Live)
=== 7" ===
#"My Doorbell"
#"[[Same Boy You've Always Known]]" (Live)
=== 12" ===
#"My Doorbell"
#"[[Blue Orchid]]" (High Contrast Remix)

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
I'm thinkin' about my doorbell
When ya gonna ring it, when ya gonna ring it
Yeah, I'm thinkin' about my doorbell
When ya gonna ring it, when ya gonna ring it
Yeah, I'm thinkin' about my doorbell
When ya gonna ring it, when ya gonna ring it
yeah, I been thinkin' about my doorbell
Oh, well

Well with me and chipin' me and kisses?
Not the man in my life I know
And I been going to mystery misses
I respect the art of the show
Take back what you said little girl
And while you're at it take yourself back too
Woman whatcha gonna do now, whatcha gonna do about it

I'm thinkin' about my doorbell
When ya gonna ring it, when ya gonna ring it
Yeah, I'm thinkin' about my doorbell
When ya gonna ring it, when ya gonna ring it oh
I'm thinkin' about my doorbell
When ya gonna ring it, when ya gonna ring it
Yeah, I been thinkin' about my doorbell
Oh, yeah

You don't seem to come around
Point your finger and make a sound
You don't seem to come around
Not since I said you knocked it down?
Oh, well

Make a sound and I'll make you feel right
Right at home, yeah
Yeah, right at home, yeah
Nobody gotten away with it baby
But how come it's so easy to you
You know it's like me at times I can be careless
But your words seem so obtuse
But then again I know you feel guilty
And you tell me you want me again
But I don't need any of your pity
I got plenty of my own friends
They're all above me

And I've been thinkin' about my doorbell
When they gonna ring it, when they gonna ring it
Yeah, I've been thinkin' about the doorbell
When they gonna ring it, when they gonna ring it oh
I've been thinkin' about the doorbell
When they gonna ring it, when they gonna ring it
Yeah, I been thinkin' about the doorbell
Oh, well

They don't seem to come around
Push the finger and make a sound
They don't seem to come around
Maybe they they'll knock 'em down
Oh, well
Make a sound and I'll make you feel right
Right at home
Right at home

I'm thinkin' about my doorbell
When ya gonna ring it, when ya gonna ring it
I'm thinkin' about my doorbell
When ya gonna ring it, when ya gonna ring it
Yeah, I'm thinkin' about my doorbell
When ya gonna ring it, when ya gonna ring it
Yeah, I been thinkin' about my doorbell
And when you're gonna ring it, when you're gonna ring it
I'm thinkin' about my doorbell
When ya gonna ring it, when ya gonna ring it
Yeah, I'm thinkin' about my doorbell
Oh, oh well
</nowiki></pre>

==Video==
The music video for "My Doorbell" was directed by The Malloys, who have also directed videos for Def Leppard, The Shins, Blink 182, and Jack Johnson. It features Jack and Meg performing the song for a crowd of children. It later features Jack and Meg trying to leave after the performance, although the children are so excited over them that they run after them, leading Jack to roll up one kid's arm in the car window while other kids are pulling on Meg's dress, trying to get her attention. The video premiered on Nickelodeon on August 19, 2005, after an episode of ''Unfabulous'' which Jack and Meg made a guest appearance in.

==External Links==

Passive Manipulation

2006-09-25T18:34:40Z

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'''Passive Manipulation''' is a song by [[The White Stripes]]. It can be heard on their fifth album, ''[[Get Behind Me Satan]]''.

==Band Quotes==

==Facts==
* Meg sings lead vocals and plays timpani (or kettledrum) on this song. Jack plays piano.
* This is one of the few songs Meg sings lead vocals on, the others including "[[In The Cold, Cold Night]]", "[[Rated X]]", and "[[Who's A Big Baby?]]".

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
Women, listen to your mothers
Don't just succumb to the wishes of your brothers
Take a step back, take a look at one another
You need to know the difference...
between a father and a lover</nowiki></pre>

De Stijl

2006-09-25T18:28:55Z

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'''De Stijl''' is the second album released by Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. It was released in 2000.

==Track listing==
* 1. "[[You're Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)]]" - 1:49 (White/White)
* 2. "[[Hello Operator]]" - 2:36 (White/White)
* 3. "[[Little Bird]]" - 3:06 (White/White)
* 4. "[[Apple Blossom]]" - 2:13 (White/White)
* 5. "[[I'm Bound to Pack It Up]]" - 3:09 (White/White)
* 6. "[[Death Letter]]" - 4:29 (Son House)
* 7. "[[Sister, Do You Know My Name?]]" - 2:51 (White/White)
* 8. "[[Truth Doesn't Make a Noise]]" - 3:14 (White/White)
* 9. "[[A Boy's Best Friend]]" - 4:22 (White/White)
* 10. "[[Let's Build a Home]]" - 1:58 (White/White)
* 11. "[[Jumble, Jumble]]" - 1:53 (White/White)
* 12. "[[Why Can't You Be Nicer To Me]]" - 3:22 (White/White)
* 13. "[[Your Southern Can Is Mine]]" - 2:29 (Blind Willie McTell)

==Essay==
When ideas become too complicated, and the pursuit of perfection is misconstrued as a need for excess. When there is so much involved that individual components cannot be discerned. When it is hard to break the rules of excess, then new rules need to be established. It descends back to the beginning where the construction of things visual or aural is too uncomplicated to not be beautiful. But this is done i nthe knowledge that we can only become simple to a point and then there is nowhere else to go. There are definite natural things which cannot be broken down into lesser components. Even if the goal of achieving beauty from simplicity is aesthetically less exciting it may force the mind to acknowledge the simple components that make the complicated beautiful.

[[Category:White Stripes albums]]

The White Stripes (album)

2006-09-25T18:16:56Z

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'''The White Stripes''' is the first album released by Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. It was released in 1999.

==Track listing==
* 1. "[[Jimmy the Exploder]]" - 2:29 (White/White)
* 2. "[[Stop Breaking Down]]" - 2:20 (Robert Johnson)
* 3. "[[The Big Three Killed My Baby]]" - 2:29 (White/White)
* 4. "[[Suzy Lee]]" - 3:21 (White/White)
* 5. "[[Sugar Never Tasted So Good]]" - 2:54 (White/White)
* 6. "[[Wasting My Time]]" - 2:13 (White/White)
* 7. "[[Cannon]]" - 2:30 (White/White)
* 8. "[[Astro]]" - 2:42 (White/White)
* 9. "[[Broken Bricks]]" - 1:51 (Stephen Gillis/Jack White)
* 10. "[[When I Hear My Name]]" - 1:54 (White/White)
* 11. "[[Do]]" - 3:05 (White/White)
* 12. "[[Screwdriver]]" - 3:14 (White/White)
* 13. "[[One More Cup of Coffee]]" - 3:13 (Bob Dylan)
* 14. "[[Little People]]" - 2:22 (White/White)
* 15. "[[Slicker Drips]]" - 1:30 (White/White)
* 16. "[[St. James Infirmary Blues]]" - 2:24 (Joe Primrose)
* 17. "[[I Fought Piranhas]]" - 3:07 (White/White)

==Essay==
you would play and have fun by yourself and then you saw other children playing and you climbed your fence and went to play with them and it was fun then your smiles became dependent on theirs and stories you heard of a monkey that only wants to see red so destroys things that are not red i dream of him exploding my motor so that i wont see red everytime i drive down the street my car starts breaking down on me and i write this down but nothings changed only i change or hope to change. sometimes its hard to tell if you are realy in love or blinded and maybe you should change yourself and stop wasting your time maybe one day it will be the end of the world with shrieks outside your door and it will be too late others do secret things in their space where they live or where they once worked their lives to boredom where a straw boss called their name out and they wished they were invisible and all of the coffee breaks in the world wont help you and social interaction will only fake you there is sometimes nothing that you can do so what are you supposed to think? when people call you, look at you, say they are coming over do you think that they are like little children trying to have fun until someone gets offended or someone talks bad about someone who isnt there or maybe you are happy until someone you love is in the hospital or is far away talking to people you dont know or on a boat under perfect darkened starry skies all alone you wish you could be there with them and you wish that two people could really be happy with each other it was easier when you were a child and everything that is happy and fun now is an attempt at recreating your backyard when you first saw others and dremt that with them you could be happier than you were alone

==Credits==
* Jack White : vocals, guitars, production
* Meg White : drums, percussion
* Johnny Walker : slide guitar on "Suzy Lee" and "I Fought Piranhas"
* Jim Diamond : production, engineering
* Recorded January 1999 at Ghetto Recorders, Cass Corridor, Detroit and Ferdinand Street, and Southwest Detroit (including Jack's parents' attic).
* Dedicated to Son House.

==Trivia==
* The attic where Jack ended up recording a lot of the first White Stripes stuff -- that was all set up in his parents' house. [http://www.whitestripes.net/faq.php#selftitled]
* The song Screwdriver, the first song the White Stripes wrote as a band, was inspired by a red screwdriver sitting on a table.

==Band Quotes==
* [[Jack White]] : "Our first album is still my favorite because it sounds like Detroit to me."
* [[Jack White]] : " I don't think we'll top it. "Elephant" is a close second. I love "Elephant," but we're never gonna capture that Detroit rock n' roll like we did with the first one. It was good we got that out of the way. If we hadn't, I'd probably still be searching for that. Same with "Let's Shake Hands," the first 45, we'll never top that, but as long as it's there, I can move on."
* [[Jack White]] : "I still feel we've never topped our first album. It's the most raw, the most powerful, and the most Detroit-sounding record we've made. I went overboard with the rawness and the reverb though. That was the first time I produced a full album for us, and I definitely learned from the experience."
* [[Jack White]] : "The first LP's really angry, you know. This LP we tried to get a little cleaner. Maybe we changed from anger to bitterness."
* [[Jack White]] : "People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook."

==External links==

[[Category:White Stripes albums]]

The Number Three

2006-09-25T17:51:51Z

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[[Jack White|Jack]] is practically obsessed with the number three and all that it represents. Some things that have showed up with the number three include :

* [[Third Man Records]], Jack's record label that has been the label for the Stripes themselves, but also bands such as Whirlwind Heat and The Raconteurs.
* Third Man Films, the film production company for ''[[Under Blackpool Lights]]''.
* "III" can be seen on many of Jack's amplifiers onstages.
* Jack usually signs his name on autographs and other things as "Jack White III", or simply "III".
* He usually credits "The Third Man" for the art and design for the albums, however, Jack usually does all the art and design for the albums.
* In "[[Ball and Biscuit]]", Jack sings "It's quite possible that I'm your third man, girl...".
* The White Stripes' colour scheme consist in three colours: red, white and black.

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2006-09-25T00:28:49Z

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White Blood Cells

2006-09-24T00:00:36Z

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'''White Blood Cells''' is the third album released by Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. It was released in 2001.

==Track listing==
* 1. "[[Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground]]" - 3:04 (White/White)
* 2. "[[Hotel Yorba]]" - 2:10 (White/White)
* 3. "[[I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman]]" - 2:54 (White/White)
* 4. "[[Fell In Love With a Girl]]" - 1:50 (White/White)
* 5. "[[Expecting]]" - 2:03 (White/White)
* 6. "[[Little Room]]" - 0:50 (White/White)
* 7. "[[The Union Forever]]" - 3:26 (White/White)
* 8. "[[Same Boy You've Always Known]]" - 3:09 (White/White)
* 9. "[[We're Going To Be Friends]]" - 2:22 (White/White)
* 10. "[[Offend In Every Way]]" - 3:06 (White/White)
* 11. "[[I Think I Smell a Rat]]" - 2:04 (White/White)
* 12. "[[Aluminum]]" - 2:19 (White/White)
* 13. "[[I Can't Wait]]" - 3:38 (White/White)
* 14. "[[Now Mary]]" - 1:47 (White/White)
* 15. "[[I Can Learn]]" - 3:31 (White/White)
* 16. "[[This Protector]]" - 2:10 (White/White)

==Essay==
Holding these truths to be judged forever-the mark,

the string, the skin and the vibration all set and

aiming to please. This sister with her hands, and

this brother with his knees. The slide is in the

pocket and this neighborhood is showing up more than

that. Our friends aren't here to help, but maybe

that's the best they could give. An old song

is also best but sometimes too easy. "How else can

we help you?", the brother said, and the sister

replied "I don't know." The south is there and

always will be. The north is home whether it's

friendly or not. Something's going to let us know

that these are the good days to remember, after

children take up our time and take our place. But

pride and happiness are always the same distance

from our hands.-III

==Credits==
* Jack White : vocals, guitars, piano, production
* Meg White : drums, percussion, background vocals
* Stewart Sikes : additional mixing and engineering
* Pat Pantano : cover photography
* Recorded February 2001 at Easley-McCain Recording Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
* Released : Sympathy for the Record Industry, July 2001
* Dedicated to Loretta Lynn.

==Trivia==
* There are many interpretations on what the album cover picture means. The most obvious being that it shows the band getting almost attacked by a group of black-clad figures representing the paparazzi. Open the album and we see their true colors. Jack has said about the album cover : ""Is the attention good or bad? When you open the CD, it's a picture of us with these cameras. Wondering if it's good or bad...the shadow-people might be bacteria coming at us and Meg and I are the white blood cells. Or maybe it means white blood "sells" and the bacteria are media and music lovers...or maybe it means nothing at all."
* Jack has also said this about the picture on the back of the album : "Perhaps on the back cover Meg and I are blood cells...or perhaps she is on the dirty ground and I am in happiness...or perhaps I'm dragging her into a place she doesn't want to be or maybe she's pulling me out of it."

==Band Quotes==
* [[Jack White]] : (on WBC) "We said, NO blues, no slide, no guitar solos, no covers… We figured out all the no's, and everything else was fine."
* [[Jack White]] : "We tried to keep it as unorganized as possible, we rehearsed for a week and then went to a Memphis studio we'd heard about and recorded for three days. We tried to rush this as much as possible to make [the sound] really tense. And it seemed to work. There's no blues on the new record. We're taking a break from that. There's no slide work, bass, guitar solos, or cover songs. It's just me and Meg, guitar, drums and piano."
* [[Jack White]] : "It was cool because a lot of things had been sitting around for a long time, stuff I had written on piano that had been just sitting around not doing anything. And it was good to put them all together at once, put them all in the same box and see what happened. We keep getting put with this bringing-back-the-blues kind of statement as a label for the band, and I just wanted to break away from that because it's really hard to do that, being … where we're from, even though that's the music that we really love and that I'm really inspired by. Most of the songs that had been sitting around were these piano-written songs that were more 'songwriting' type songs. I wanted to make a whole album of that."
* [[Jack White]] : "We completely avoided the blues on White Blood Cells on purpose. The thinking was, "What can we do if we completely ignore what we love the most?" On White Blood Cells we were strict about other things as well. We decided to record the album in three days, take no guitar solos, avoid slide guitar, and banish covers."
* Stewart Sikes (engineer and co-mixer of WBC) : We just set up and they started going. Jack knew what he wanted. Meg didn't really think they should be recording -- she thought the songs were too new. Jack pretty much knows what he wants, has a really good idea what he's going for. Meg is pretty quiet. She sort of drank her bourbon and smoked a lot of cigarettes. I think Meg was a little nervous being in a big studio, bigger than what they were used to. The main thing I tried to do was make them comfortable so they could play well -- with Meg, making sure her part didn't totally suck. She was pretty self-conscious about it. They came for three days and did most of the songs, then came back for two days and then we mixed the thing the next day. Jack told me more than once not to make it sound too good. I knew what he was talking about from recording at their house to a 24-track studio. We didn't come close to using all those tracks. Basically he wanted it as raw as possible, but better than if it was recorded in somebody's living room. He steered me that way, and I ran with it. Are all of these songs new?"

==External links==

[[Category:White Stripes albums]]

Blue Orchid

2006-09-22T17:52:54Z

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[[Image:BlueOrchid.jpg|thumb|right|The cover for the Blue Orchid single features two people dressed up like Jack and Meg.]]

'''Blue Orchid''' is a song by [[The White Stripes]]. It is the first single released off of the album ''[[Get Behind Me Satan]]'' in 2005.

== Track Listing ==
===CD===
* 1. Blue Orchid
* 2. [[Who's A Big Baby?]]
* 3. [[You've Got Her in Your Pocket]] (live)

===7"===
* 1. Blue Orchid
* 2. [[The Nurse]]

== Chart Positions ==

* USA: #43
* UK: #9
* Canada: #1

== Facts ==
* It is believed by some that the song is in fact about Jason Stollsteimer from the Von Bondies, however White has done nothing to confirm or deny whether or not it is.
* In an NPR interview, Jack White referred to "Blue Orchid" as the song that saved the album. He has denied that the song relates to the ending of his relationship with Renée Zellweger.
* The recorded sound is produced by two guitars playing almost in unison, and each digitally combined with their own signal an octave lower. Live, the sound is produced by a bass-rich guitar tone, used in combination with a whammy pedal to create the heavily metallic sounding breaks of the song ("How dare you, how old are you now anyway" and "get behind me, get behind me now anyway".)
* A rumored parody entitled "Blue Organ" is said to have been recorded by American parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic for his 12th studio album Straight Outta Lynwood.

== Lyrics ==
<pre>
<nowiki>
You got a reaction
You got a reaction didn't you?
You took a white orchid
You took a white orchid turned it blue

Something better than nothing
Something better than nothing, it's giving up
You need to do something
Try keep the truth from showing up

How dare you
How old are you now, anyway?
How dare you
How old are you now, anyway?

How dare you
How old are you now, anyway?

You're given a flower
But I guess there's just no pleasing you
Your lips tastes sour
But you think that it's just me teasing you

You got a reaction
You got a reaction, didn't you?
You took a white orchid
You took a white orchid turned it blue

Get behind me
Get behind me now, anyway
Get behind me
Get behind me now, anyway

Get behind me
Get behind me now, anyway

You got a reaction
You got a reaction, didn't you?
You took a white orchid
You took a white orchid turned it blue
</nowiki></pre>

== Video ==
The video for "Blue Orchid" was on Yahoo!'s Top Twenty-Five Scariest Music Videos of all Time, charting at number 13. It features Karen Elson, a model whom would marry Jack White soon after the shoot. The video, which was directed by Floria Sigismondi, ends with a horse, its hooves raised in the air, about to stomp on Elson.

[[Category:White Stripes singles]]

Jack White

2006-09-22T15:12:46Z

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'''Jack White''' is the lead vocalist, guitarist, lyricist, songwriter, and pianist for [[The White Stripes]]. He is also the vocalist and guitarist for [[The Raconteurs]].

==Early Life/Childhood==
Jack was born '''John Anthony Gillis''' on July 9, 1975 in Detroit, Michigan. He was the youngest of ten siblings born to Gorman Gillis, who worked as the maintenance man for the Archdiocese of Detroit, and Teresa Bandyke, who worked as the Cardinal's secretary for the Archdiocese of Detroit. Jack, like his six brothers, later became an altar boy, which landed him a small role in the movie ''The Rosary Murders'', which was filmed in Southwest Detroit. When he was 5, he taught himself how to play the drums. When he was 15, he wanted something to play along with his drumming so he picked up the guitar. Within a few years he developed great guitar skills. At the time he also was an an apprentice in an upholstery shop. He was in a lot of small bands before The White Stripes. With his upholstery mentor and friend Brian Muldoon he started the band 'Two Part Resin' with Brian playing drums and Jack singing and playing guitar. One of the songs they recorded was 'Pain (Gimme Sympathy)'. The next band he was in (at the age of 18) was 'Goober and the Peas' (drums), with his good friend Dan Miller (who later started the band 'Blanche' with his wife Tracee Mae). One of the last bands Jack played in was 'The Go'. He had already started The White Stripes by then, and when The Go wanted to sign a record deal, he would have to sell the rights of The White Stripes to that record company . And Jack, who wanted to have complete control over the band, didn't want that and quit as guitarist with The Go.

== Upholstery ==
[[Image:JackMotorCityConcert.jpg|left]]
After high school, Jack tried college for a few months, but he quit soon after he'd noticed that the mentality there was the exact same as in high school.

At fifteen, Jack began a three-year upholstery apprenticeship with Brian Muldoon, a close family friend (Brian would later go on to be a photographer for many White Stripes' photography as well as being the drummer/keyboardist for [[The Muldoons]]). However, after working at various shops, Jack started a one-man upholstery business of his own, called 'Third Man Upholstery'. The slogan of Third Man Upholstery was 'Your Furniture's Not Dead', and the color scheme was yellow, white, black - including a yellow van, a yellow and black uniform, and a yellow clipboard. While Third Man Upholstery never lacked business, Jack claims that it was not profitable due to his complacency about money and his unprofessional business practices, such as making bills out in crayon and writing poetry inside the furniture.

== Music career ==
[[Image:JackMusika.jpg|right]]
Jack's initial professional music experience came in the early 1990s as a drummer for the Detroit cowpunk band Goober and the Peas (which featured Dan Miller, who would later become a member of [[Blanche]] and [[Two Star Tabernacle]], which featured Jack as a member). This led to various other stints with bands such as Jack White and the Bricks, The Upholsterers, and The Go. Also, Brian Muldoon (Jack's upholstery mentor, neighbor, and close friend) would sometimes play drums with Jack in late-night jam sessions.

Jack met [[Meg White]] in 1994, and they were married on September 19, 1996. Characteristically unorthodox, Jack took Meg's last name. In July 1997, the White Stripes made their infamous first live appearance at the Gold Dollar in Detroit. Jack and Meg would later divorce in 2000 (before becoming nationally famous), however, the band survived.

Starting out as an underground Detroit (and other circles) favorite, the Stripes' came to international attention when British DJ John Peel raved of the duo on his radio show in 2001. The buzz turned the band into a sensation in the UK, and the enthusiasm would later spread to the United States. Jack's rapid guitar playing and his ability at the guitar pedals led ''Rolling Stone'' magazine to name him the 17th greatest guitarist of all time.

The success and fame of the White Stripes opened up many new opportunities for Jack. In 2003, he played Renee Zellweger's love interest, Georgia, in the feature film ''Cold Mountain''. He also performed several songs for the film's T Bone Burnett-produced soundtrack in a traditional folk-like acoustic style. As a result, Jack and Zellweger began dating, but they broke up in 2004. Later in that same year, he and Meg performed in Jim Jarmusch's film ''Coffee and Cigarettes'', in a short titled 'Jack Shows Meg His Tesla Coil'.

[[Image:JackAndLoretta.jpg|thumb|left|Jack with Loretta Lynn at the Grammy Awards.]]
Jack later produced and performed on Loretta Lynn's 2004 album, ''Van Lear Rose''. Jack formed a band specifically for the album dubbed "the Do-Whaters", which consisted of bassist Jack Lawrence and drummer Patrick Keeler (two [[The Greenhornes|Greenhornes]] members who would later join Jack and [[Brendan Benson]] in [[The Raconteurs]]), as well as [[Blanche]] pedal steel player Dave Feeny and fiddler/bassist/banjo player Dirk Powell. Jack sings with her on the track "Portland, Oregon", which would win a Grammy for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. The entire album itself would earn five Grammy nominations, although it only won two Grammys, the aforementioned one and 'Best Country Album'.

Jack made a suprise appearance with Bob Dylan during Dylan's gig in Detroit on March 17, 2004 during the second encore, performing the White Stripes' song "[[Ball and Biscuit]]". White has referred to The Stooges' 1970 album Fun House as "the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made." As a result, he was invited by Rhino Records to contribute liner notes to the 2005 deluxe reissue of the album.

[[Image:JackRacsAcoustic.jpg|right]]
Jack is currently touring with his new project "[[The Raconteurs]]", which features solo pop rock singer [[Brendan Benson]], and [[Patrick Keeler]] and [[Jack Lawrence]] of [[The Greenhornes]]. He will also once again join Meg in an upcoming episode of ''The Simpsons'' titled "Jazzy and the Pussycats" in which the White Stripes meet Bart, who becomes a jazz drummer, making Lisa, a devoted jazz saxophone player, jealous.

==Personal life==
Jack is known for his eccentric behaviour and fascinations. He is pratically obsessed with the number three, and usually signs his name as "Jack White III", or simply "III". His record label is Third Man Records, and "III" can be found on many of the things Jack uses (see [[The Number Three]]). He is interested in taxidermy, an interest that sprung from his upholstery days. He collects stuffed animal heads, claiming that they make him think about life and judging things. His sporting interests include cricket, and he is featured on the cover of ''[[Elephant]]'' holding a cricket bat (Ironically, there is also a professional British cricketer named Jack White).

[[Image:Jackallred.jpg|left]]
The White Stripes, when on offical duty, dresses only in red, white, and black, which Jack believes are the three most powerful colors in the universe. While performing at the Hearst Greek Theatre, Jack cursed at the radio station Live 105 when a promotion balloon bearing the logo of the station bounced onstage causing him to stop in the middle of the song he was performing. But, arguably, the greatest topic of intrigue has been the actual relationship between Jack and Meg. Jack and Meg infamously present themselves as brother and sister, however, the ''Detroit Free Press'' famously produced copies of, not only their marriage license, but their divorce certificate, revealing that Jack and Meg were actually ex-husband-and-wife. Despite this, Jack and Meg continue to present themselves as siblings, although neither of them have adressed the truth offically, Jack has said, though, that siblings are "mated for life" and thus such relationships distract less from the music.

[[Image:JackPiano.jpg|right]]
White unexpectedly married model and singer Karen Elson (who had appeared in the video for "[[Blue Orchid]]") on June 1, 2005 in Manaus, Brazil, with manager Ian Montone as best man and Meg White as the maid of honor. On May 2, 2006, White and Elson had their first daughter, named Scarlett Teresa. She was born in Tennessee, where the couple have recently bought a new home. The baby's surname is offically White. In 2006, it was revealed by the Sunday Times Rich List that White and Elson had a joint fortune of at least £20 million GBP. This ranked them at seventh place in the list of entertainers aged under 30 who were born or live in the UK, ahead of celebrities including Orlando Bloom and Kate Winslet.

Like [[Meg White]], Jack reveals few details of his private life. He states that he does not consider it relevant to his art, saying "It's the same thing as asking Michelangelo, 'What kind of shoes do you wear?'...In the end, it doesn't really matter ... the only thing that's going to be left is our records and photos."

==Equipment==
===Guitars===
* 2 [[1964 JB Hutto Montgomery Airline]] electric guitars
* 1 [[Harmony Rocket]]
* 1 [[1970s Crestwood Astral II]]
** Primarily used for songs like Let's Build A Home, I Fought Piranhas and Goin' Back To Memphis and used throughout the recording of their self-titled debut. Most sites will list this guitar as a 1960's Domino Dawson but it has since been debunked. The headstock for the Domino Dawson is nothing like the one Jack plays.
* 1 1950s [[Kay Hollowbody]]
** Jack usually plays this with a slide.
* [[Gretsh Jet Firebird Double-Cut Guitar]]
** Jack plays this with the Raconteurs.
* [[Gibson J16OE]] Acoustic
** Jack plays this with the Raconteurs as well.
* Unknown acoustic
** Seen in the video for Hotel Yorba.
* Unknown electric hollowbody
** Seen in the video for We're Going to Be Friends.
* Doubleneck guitar
** Only seen once in a bootleg video, only used for [[Astro]]. This guitar has been confirmed to be a Danelectro.

===FX Pedals/Amps===
* [[Digitech Whammy Pedal|Digitech Whammy 4 pedal]] (for the rapid modulations in pitch for his solos)
* Vintage [[MXR Micro-Amp]] (For boosting the signal)
* [[Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi Distortion/Sustainer]] (for main distortion/fuzz)
* [[Electro-Harmonix Polyphonic Octave Generator]] (POG)
* 3 AnalogMan Mute Boxes (Placed around the stage, cutting the guitar signal)
* 1970s [[Fender Twin Reverb]]
* [[Silvertone amplifiers|2 100-Watt Sears Silvertone 6x10 combo amplifiers]]
* [[BOSS TU-2 Chromatic Tuner]]
* [[BOSS Compression Sustainer]] (Only used for a few shows; no longer used)
* [[Triple Tremelo]] amp
**This is an amplifier that can be found in the De Stijl artwork. It is not used much but it can be seen in the David Letterman performance and the Daily Show performance. Johnny Walker from the Soledad Brothers did all the wiring. Jack built it. It has three speakers, and the front one revolves with a peppermint swirl design.

===Strings===
* GHS strings (they were made in Detroit)

===Keyboards===
* Fender Rhodes bass keys
* Pump organ
**Jack : I just got this pump organ that I got shipped up here from Memphis. I found it in a thrift store down there. I've been playing on that a lot. I had to fix it. One of the pedals was broke, so I had to get in there and do some upholstery again! But now I can pump my organ just fine, thank you very much."

==Facts==
* Many White Stripes fans were saddened and shocked to hear that Jack White had been in a car accident on his 28th birthday. Jack was making a left turn when another car ran a red light and struck the side of Jack's car. Jack later said : "This 75 to 80 year old woman drove right out in the middle of the street, right in front of us. There was nothing I could do to get away from it. It was lucky that there was nobody seriously injured. The airbag hit my hands on the steering wheel. I didn't know about any injuries until I got out of the car and kind of looked around. It didn't hurt: it was more, 'That's not supposed to be bent like that.' It was bent in a really strange way. And it was shattered, from here to here [draws line along lower half of finger]. I immediately thought 'That's not going to be good, is it?'. It was a multiple fracture which means it didn't actually go through the skin but it shattered inside the finger. I can't write, I can't play piano, I can't play guitar, I can't do anything creative. I can't even tie my shoes. The airbag broke my finger when it deployed. Maybe I would have been better off without an airbag. But I wasn't too freaked out. I was OK with it. It was one of those things where your mind acclimates to whatever the situation is. It just sort of upset me that I had to stop touring and I couldn't write music or play guitar or piano." Ironically, as Jack has a fascination with the number three, doctors put three screws in Jack's finger during the operation to fix it. Jack has also said that doctors told him the finger may require more surgery.
* It is rumoured in 2003 that Jack was featured on Electric Six's hit song "Danger! High Voltage". Initially both he and the Electric Six denied this, and the vocal work was credited officially to the unknown John S O'Leary. However, the lead singer of Electric Six talked openly about Jack in a recent radio interview with Tim Shaw on Kerrang! 105.2, saying that he did in fact sing on the song as well as speculating on the amount of money he was paid ($60,000).
* In 2003, The Flaming Lips released the song "Thank You Jack White (For The Fiber-Optic Jesus That You Gave Me)" on their ''Fight Test'' EP.
* On December 13, 2003, Jack was involved in an altercation at the Magic Stick in Detroit with the Von Bondies' lead singer Jason Stollsteimer. Jack was charged with misdemeanor aggravated assault. He pleaded guilty, was fined $500 plus court costs, and was sentenced to take anger management courses.
* In April 2006, Jack recorded the song "Love is Truth" for a Coca-Cola commercial, which was apparently only played once in the UK, late at night on Channel 4, and was shown for a short time on the Coca-Cola website.
* In fiction, Jack fought comedian Jack Black on the popular MTV2 animated show ''Celebrity Deathmatch''. Jack won by buttoning Black's shirt too tight, causing his head to explode. Meg White appeared as well, smashing her bass drum over Black's head and drumming on it.

==Side Projects/Other Bands/Credits==
* Jack was briefly in a band called "The Walker-White Trio" with guitarist '''Johnny Walker''' of the '''[[Soledad Brothers]]''' and possibly '''Ben Swank''' (also of the Soledad Brothers).
* Jack briefly played lead guitar for a Detroit garage rock band, '''The Go''' in 1999 for 6th months, and is featured on the band's debut album, '''Whatcha Doin'''. He left soon after its release due to creative tension between himself and the lead singer, '''Bobby Harlow'''.
* Jack played guitar and sang alongside '''[[Blanche]]''''s frontman, '''Dan Miller''', in the short-lived country-punk band '''[[Two Star Tabernacle]]'''. They released one 45 and there is only one known live recording of this band, at Detroit's Gold Dollar on January 16, 2006.
* Jack formed a partnership with his former upholstery mentor Brian Muldoon known as The Upholsterers. Jack played guitar and sang, whilst Brian played drums and the duo released the semi-rare 7" Makers of High Grade Suites on Sympathy For The Recording Industry in 2000. The duo were originally known as 2-Part Resin.
* Jack drummed for '''Goober And The Peas''' during the mid-1990's.
* Jack worked with '''Loretta Lynn''' on the production of her most recent album, ''Van Lear Rose'', and was featured on the album as a guitarist, appeared in her music videos, and more.
* Jack is the co-guitarist and lead singer of [[The Raconteurs]], a rock band from Nashville, TN, alongside [[Brendan Benson]], [[Patrick Keeler]], and [[Jack Lawrence]]. They debuted with their radio single, ''Steady As She Goes'', and their first album, ''[[Broken Boy Soldiers]]'', had a number 9 spot on the Billboard charts when it was released on May 16, 2006. Jack seemed to have dropped the minimalistic aesthetic that he had developed in his time with The White Stripes, and is known to play a copper-plated Gretsch guitar when on stage, giving him the nickname "Copper Kid". The Raconteurs are supplying the soundtrack for the VMAs, occuring on August 31st, 2006.

==External Links==

[[Category:Drummers]]
[[Category:Singers]]
[[Category:Songwriters]]
[[Category:Keyboardists]]
[[Category:Guitarists]]

Stripespedia:To-Do List

2006-09-20T18:45:19Z

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Things to do :

* Make track lists for the singles
* Make articles for B-sides
* Make articles for many of the other bands beside the Stripes' mentioned on Stripespedia
* Make articles for the all the equipment and gear the band uses

There's No Home For You Here

2006-09-20T18:44:11Z

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'''There's No Home For You Here''' is a song by The White Stripes. It can be heard on their fourth album, ''[[Elephant]]''. They also released it as a single.

==Track Listing==
#[[There's No Home For You Here]]
#[[I Fought Piranhas]]/[[Let's Build a Home]](Live)

==Band Quotes==
* [[Jack White]]: "I think we went too far with that song, our idea was to see how far we could go with an eight-track recorder, and I think how far we went is too far."

* [[Jack White]]: "I just said, Let's just open this song up. I layered vocals over vocals, like 12 different voices of myself all up the scale, all done with splicing tapes. It's anti-everything we've ever done."

* [[Jack White]]: "Yeah, we still recorded it in one day, we still recorded it on an 8-track. We were restricting ourselves in that sense. But I don't know if it's something we could do live. I mean I love the idea that live and records are two separate things. I just don't know what I think about that song anymore. I mean, at the moment we did it and finished it, it was so explosive. It seemed like a gigantic explosion of a song. You know, I don't know!"

* [[Jack White]]: "That's a Digitech Whammy pedal that I think may have been accidentally set for two octaves - the 45th fret! IT was so ear piercing, I thought I'd leave it in there because it blew my mind [laughs].

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
There's no home for you here girl, go away
There's no home for you here

I'd like to think that all of this constant interaction
Is just the kind of make you drive yourself away
Each simple gesture done by me is counteracted
And leaves me standing here with nothing else to say

Completely baffled by a backward indication
That an inspired word will come across your tongue
Hands moving upward to propel the situation
Have simply halted
And now the conversation's done

There's no home for you here girl, go away
There's no home for you here

I'm only waiting for the proper time to tell you
That it's impossible to get along with you
It's hard to look you in the face when we are talking
So it helps to have a mirror in the room

I've not been really looking forward to the performance
But there's my cue and there's a question on your face
Fortunately I have come across an answer
Which is go away
And do not leave a trace

There's no home for you here girl, go away
There's no home for you here

Waking up for breakfast
Burning matches
Talking quietly
Breaking baubles
Throwing garbage
Drinking soda
Looking happy
Taking pictures
So completely stupid
Just go away

There's no home for you here girl, go away
There's no home for you here</nowiki></pre>

There's No Home For You Here

2006-09-20T18:43:45Z

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'''There's No Home For You Here''' is a song by The White Stripes. It can be heard on their fourth album, ''[[Elephant]]''. They also released it as a single.

==Track Listing==
#[[There's No Home For You Here]]
#[[I Fought Piranas]]/[[Let's Build a Home]](Live)

==Band Quotes==
* [[Jack White]]: "I think we went too far with that song, our idea was to see how far we could go with an eight-track recorder, and I think how far we went is too far."

* [[Jack White]]: "I just said, Let's just open this song up. I layered vocals over vocals, like 12 different voices of myself all up the scale, all done with splicing tapes. It's anti-everything we've ever done."

* [[Jack White]]: "Yeah, we still recorded it in one day, we still recorded it on an 8-track. We were restricting ourselves in that sense. But I don't know if it's something we could do live. I mean I love the idea that live and records are two separate things. I just don't know what I think about that song anymore. I mean, at the moment we did it and finished it, it was so explosive. It seemed like a gigantic explosion of a song. You know, I don't know!"

* [[Jack White]]: "That's a Digitech Whammy pedal that I think may have been accidentally set for two octaves - the 45th fret! IT was so ear piercing, I thought I'd leave it in there because it blew my mind [laughs].

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
There's no home for you here girl, go away
There's no home for you here

I'd like to think that all of this constant interaction
Is just the kind of make you drive yourself away
Each simple gesture done by me is counteracted
And leaves me standing here with nothing else to say

Completely baffled by a backward indication
That an inspired word will come across your tongue
Hands moving upward to propel the situation
Have simply halted
And now the conversation's done

There's no home for you here girl, go away
There's no home for you here

I'm only waiting for the proper time to tell you
That it's impossible to get along with you
It's hard to look you in the face when we are talking
So it helps to have a mirror in the room

I've not been really looking forward to the performance
But there's my cue and there's a question on your face
Fortunately I have come across an answer
Which is go away
And do not leave a trace

There's no home for you here girl, go away
There's no home for you here

Waking up for breakfast
Burning matches
Talking quietly
Breaking baubles
Throwing garbage
Drinking soda
Looking happy
Taking pictures
So completely stupid
Just go away

There's no home for you here girl, go away
There's no home for you here</nowiki></pre>

Same Boy You've Always Known

2006-09-20T18:40:36Z

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==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
You fell down of course
and then you got up of course
and you started over
forgot my name of course
then you started to remember
pretty tough to think about
the beginning of december
pretty tough to think about

You're looking down again
and then you look me over
we're laying down again
on a blanket in the clover
the same boy you've always known
well I guess I haven't grown
the same boy you've always known

Think of what the past did
it could 've lasted
so put it in your basket
I hope you know a strong man
who can lend you a hand
lowering my casket

I thought this is just today
and soon you'd been returning
the coldest blue ocean water
cannot stop my heart and mind
from burning
everyone who's in the know says
that's exactly how it goes
and if there's anything good about me
I'm the only one who knows</nowiki></pre>

White Blood Cells

2006-09-20T18:40:01Z

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[[Image:WhiteBloodCells.jpg|right]]

'''White Blood Cells''' is the third album released by Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. It was released in 2001.

==Track listing==
* 1. "[[Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground]]" - 3:04 (White/White)
* 2. "[[Hotel Yorba]]" - 2:10 (White/White)
* 3. "[[I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman]]" - 2:54 (White/White)
* 4. "[[Fell In Love With a Girl]]" - 1:50 (White/White)
* 5. "[[Expecting]]" - 2:03 (White/White)
* 6. "[[Little Room]]" - 0:50 (White/White)
* 7. "[[The Union Forever]]" - 3:26 (White/White)
* 8. "[[Same Boy You've Always Known]]" - 3:09 (White/White)
* 9. "[[We're Going To Be Friends]]" - 2:22 (White/White)
* 10. "[[Offend In Every Way]]" - 3:06 (White/White)
* 11. "[[I Think I Smell a Rat]]" - 2:04 (White/White)
* 12. "[[Aluminum]]" - 2:19 (White/White)
* 13. "[[I Can't Wait]]" - 3:38 (White/White)
* 14. "[[Now Mary]]" - 1:47 (White/White)
* 15. "[[I Can Learn]]" - 3:31 (White/White)
* 16. "[[This Protector]]" - 2:10 (White/White)

==Credits==
* Jack White : vocals, guitars, piano, production
* Meg White : drums, percussion, background vocals
* Stewart Sikes : additional mixing and engineering
* Pat Pantano : cover photography
* Recorded February 2001 at Easley-McCain Recording Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
* Released : Sympathy for the Record Industry, July 2001
* Dedicated to Loretta Lynn.

==Trivia==
* There are many interpretations on what the album cover picture means. The most obvious being that it shows the band getting almost attacked by a group of black-clad figures representing the paparazzi. Open the album and we see their true colors. Jack has said about the album cover : ""Is the attention good or bad? When you open the CD, it's a picture of us with these cameras. Wondering if it's good or bad...the shadow-people might be bacteria coming at us and Meg and I are the white blood cells. Or maybe it means white blood "sells" and the bacteria are media and music lovers...or maybe it means nothing at all."
* Jack has also said this about the picture on the back of the album : "Perhaps on the back cover Meg and I are blood cells...or perhaps she is on the dirty ground and I am in happiness...or perhaps I'm dragging her into a place she doesn't want to be or maybe she's pulling me out of it."

==Band Quotes==
* [[Jack White]] : (on WBC) "We said, NO blues, no slide, no guitar solos, no covers… We figured out all the no's, and everything else was fine."
* [[Jack White]] : "We tried to keep it as unorganized as possible, we rehearsed for a week and then went to a Memphis studio we'd heard about and recorded for three days. We tried to rush this as much as possible to make [the sound] really tense. And it seemed to work. There's no blues on the new record. We're taking a break from that. There's no slide work, bass, guitar solos, or cover songs. It's just me and Meg, guitar, drums and piano."
* [[Jack White]] : "It was cool because a lot of things had been sitting around for a long time, stuff I had written on piano that had been just sitting around not doing anything. And it was good to put them all together at once, put them all in the same box and see what happened. We keep getting put with this bringing-back-the-blues kind of statement as a label for the band, and I just wanted to break away from that because it's really hard to do that, being … where we're from, even though that's the music that we really love and that I'm really inspired by. Most of the songs that had been sitting around were these piano-written songs that were more 'songwriting' type songs. I wanted to make a whole album of that."
* [[Jack White]] : "We completely avoided the blues on White Blood Cells on purpose. The thinking was, "What can we do if we completely ignore what we love the most?" On White Blood Cells we were strict about other things as well. We decided to record the album in three days, take no guitar solos, avoid slide guitar, and banish covers."
* Stewart Sikes (engineer and co-mixer of WBC) : We just set up and they started going. Jack knew what he wanted. Meg didn't really think they should be recording -- she thought the songs were too new. Jack pretty much knows what he wants, has a really good idea what he's going for. Meg is pretty quiet. She sort of drank her bourbon and smoked a lot of cigarettes. I think Meg was a little nervous being in a big studio, bigger than what they were used to. The main thing I tried to do was make them comfortable so they could play well -- with Meg, making sure her part didn't totally suck. She was pretty self-conscious about it. They came for three days and did most of the songs, then came back for two days and then we mixed the thing the next day. Jack told me more than once not to make it sound too good. I knew what he was talking about from recording at their house to a 24-track studio. We didn't come close to using all those tracks. Basically he wanted it as raw as possible, but better than if it was recorded in somebody's living room. He steered me that way, and I ran with it. Are all of these songs new?"

==External links==

[[Category:White Stripes albums]]

Lafayette Blues

2006-09-20T18:36:28Z

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==Band Quotes==
[[Jack White]]:"This one is about streets your parents might used to live in, because I know most of ya are north of 8 mile now. And your parents might used to live in a street that they have no idea what the name of it was, and what it meant, and what is the history behind it. So welcome to it. Welcome to your family history and welcome to Mr. George Washington helping you out. Starting this country for ya, and now you have roads and potholes to complain about."

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
1,2,3,4]
[yeah]
Marantette,
Leverette,
Lannette,
Lafayette,
Livernois,
Labrosse,
Louis,
Metatal,
Rochelle,
Marcelle,
Riopelle,
Manistique,
and Armour,
[?]
ohh, ohh, hmmm
hey
Mercier,
Le May,
Tournier,
Salliote,
and Le Roy,
[?]
Montlieu,
Cadieux,
Neveaux Avenue En Detroit,
[?]
well i'm ready teddy
i'm ready, ready teddy
to rock n roll
;
ahh
Lamphere,
Belle Terre,
Marcelle,
Metetal,
Rouge,
Le Blanc</nowiki></pre>

Hand Springs

2006-09-20T18:34:00Z

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==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
I took my girl to go bowling downtown at the red door
after an argument I started
cause I thought she didn't like me anymore
I can't help it sometimes I feel pitiful
and of course she's so young and beautiful

I bought us two glasses of coke
that's her favorite and I wanted to make up for earlier
but I dropped her glass and it broke
so I just gave my glass to her

she laughed and so did I in our lane
and then she went to a vending machine
to buy a candy cane
but right next to that was a boy I knew
with a spring in his hand
playing a country pinball machine
called 'stand by your man'
I saw him talk to her
but I stayed in my lane
and played my game steady
and was thinking of a day
when I'd be too old to throw a ball this heavy

but I guess I'm young now
so it's easier to knock 'em all down
then I looked and saw her say to him
'you're really hittin' that ball around'
and he's lookin' at her the way I did
when I first met her
I could see in his face
white flowers
and cups of coffee
and love letters

I was sorry to interrupt their game
but I went and did it anyway
I dropped my red bowling ball
through the glass of his machine
I said 'are you quick enough to hit this ball, mr. clean?'
I was scared to lose her
so I couldn't help being mean

and that ended both of our games
I said I was sorry
but my girl left with him just the same
I thought how much I hate when love makes me act this way
I was bent over a broken pinball machine
in a bowling alley and I threw it all away

well isn't it all just a big game?</nowiki></pre>

Lord, Send Me an Angel

2006-09-20T18:32:02Z

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==Band Quotes==
[[Jack White]]:"Yeah, it's hard for me to sing like that, about how great I am. One line goes, 'All these Georgia women won't let Willie McTell rest', and I change it to, 'All these Detroit women won't let Mr. Jack White rest.' To me, it's a joke, 'cos everybody who knows me knows that women don't like me that much!" He laughs. "But I was toying with the idea that girls are attracted to cockiness, and bad, bad qualities in men. So I feel comfortable with that song, because it's true. Lying is the artistic way of telling the truth. I'm lying, saying, Look ate me, look at this (puts his arm around imaginary babe)… I'm just telling you the truth - in reverse."

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
good lord, good lord
send me an angel down
can't spare no angel
will spare you a teasin' brown
well that new way of loving
swear to god it must be best
for these detroit women won't let mr. jack white rest
there's a crowd on the corner
wonder what could it be
one thing but the womens is trying to get to me
I went down to the station
suitcase in my hand
all the women run cryin'
Mr. Jack, won't you be my man?
well there was three women
yellow, brown and black
take the mayor of detroit to pick which one I like
one of 'em hamtramak yellow
one of 'em detroit brown
but that southwest dark skin sure to turn my damper down
why, ticket agent ticket agent
where did my baby go
tell me what she looks like
I'll tell you what road she's on
well she's a long tall mama
a mile and a half from the ground
she's a tailor-man mama
and she ain't no hand me down
well I used to say
married women
sweetest women never born
you better change that thing
you better leave married women alone
take my advice let married women
boy let 'em be
cause their husband will grab ya
beat your ragged ass to cedar street
I got two women
you can't tell 'em apart
I got one in my bosom
and the other is in my heart
well that one in my bosom
she live in tennessee
well that one in my heart
she don't give a darn for me
I'm gonna tell you pretty mama
exactly who I am
when I walk in that front door
and hear that back door slam</nowiki></pre>

Ashtray Heart

2006-09-20T18:11:37Z

Tbboy13:

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
you used me for an ashtray heart
right from the start
case of the punks
I feel like a glass shrimp
make invalids out of supermen
call in a shrink
And pick you up
in a girdle
you used me like an ashtray heart
right from the start
case of the punks
another day, another way
somebody's had too much to think
open up another case of the punks
you hid behind the curtain
waited for me to go out
a man on a porcupine fence
each pillow is touted like a rock
the mother / father figure
somebody's had too much to think
send your mother home your navel
case of the punks
you picked me out like an ashtray heart
hid behind the curtain
waited for me to go out
used me like an ashtray heart
a man on a porcupine fence
hit me where the lover hangs out
while they crushed me out
you used me for an ashtray heart
look behind the curtain
you looked in the window when I went out
you used me like an ashtray heart
brush me off
while I was burning out</nowiki></pre>

China Pig

2006-09-20T18:09:21Z

Tbboy13:

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
I don't wanna kill
my china pig
I don't wanna kill
my china pig
man's gotta live
man's gotta eat
(gotta have shoes) for walkin'
on his feet
I don't wanna kill
my china pig
used to go to school
with a little red box
I used to have a dog with me
we'd walk for blocks
I don't wanna kill
my china pig
I don't wanna kill
my china pig</nowiki></pre>

Party of Special Things to Do

2006-09-20T18:08:11Z

Tbboy13:

==Tracks==
#Party of Special Things to Do
#[[China Pig]]
#[[Ashtray Heart]]

==Band Quotes (and a Releted Fact)==
Originally from the Schrader brothers' 1978 film Blue Collar, starring Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel as beat-down workers at one of Blake's "dark Satanic mills" - a Detroit auto plant.

[[Jack White]]:"I've heard the song from that movie, yeah. For the single we did China Pig from Trout Mask Replica as an acoustic blues song, and on Ashtray Heart and Party of Special Things To Do we used different recording techniques, going straight into the board, with fuzz guitar and bass. That was the first time we've ever done that. When a song feels like it needs something, I just wanna have it there."

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
when the stiff wind blows
the flag don't wiggle
in the party of special things to do
I met the ace of love
she took me to her plantation
for the love without separation
in the party of special things to do
it could happen to me
it could happen to you
I met the ace of love
she said I want you to go
to the party of special things to do
and when you're through
I'll be right here waiting for you
here take these sparks
so my distant cousins can get along with you
watch out for the mirror man
and elixir sue
when I got to the party of special things to do
it wasn't hard to find Elixir Sue
I met all the cards
the wild cards
the one-eye jill
the red queen
she turned her head
you know what I mean
she turned it back and said
"I got a brand new game I want to lay on you"
I met them all
at the party of special things to do
when I was done
I was far from through
I returned to the ace of love
now wouldn't you?
I met them all
the camel wore a nightie
the camel wore a nightie
at the party of special things to do
...elixir sue
it wasn't hard to find liquor at the do
I met all the cards
the wild cards
you know what I mean
then she turned it back and said
"I got a brand new game I think I want to lay on you"
I met elixir sue
at the party of special things to do
it's so special</nowiki></pre>

Red Death at 6:14

2006-09-20T18:03:34Z

Tbboy13:

==Band Quotes==
[[Meg White]]:"... for some reason, we never really started doing it [live]. We kinda did that for the Sympathetic Sounds Of Detroit compilation, and we may have played it once or twice. [pauses] I'm not really sure why we never did that one. I really like that one."

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
la la la la la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la
whoo!
what's that she said
what's that she said
what's that she said
with her fingers turning blue
and her face was turning red
whoo!
was that her dad
was that her dad
was that her dad
with the magic marker
writing little angel on her head

la la la la la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la la la la la

whoo!
she must be dead
well she must be dead
she must be dead
if the only sound I hear
are the devils by her bed

oh
oh well
[cough
cough]
whoo!
what's that she said
what's that she said
what's that she said
with her fingers turning blue
and her face was turning red
la la la la la la</nowiki></pre>

Jolene Live Under Blackpool Lights

2006-09-20T18:00:53Z

Tbboy13: /* Track */

==Track==
#Jolene (Live)
#Black Math (Live)

Jolene Live Under Blackpool Lights

2006-09-20T18:00:18Z

Tbboy13:

==Track==
1.Jolene (Live)
2.Black Math (Live)

Let's Shake Hands

2006-09-20T17:55:24Z

Tbboy13:

==Facts==
*The White Stripes' first single

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
yeah
oh
let's shake hands
oh
baby let's shake hands
well there's something here in the air
jump up and let me know when you're there
baby let's shake hands
oh
let's be friends
oh
baby let's be friends
I can't come up with a better plan
put your fingers in my hand
baby let's be friends
yeah

oh
say my name
oh
baby say my name
well you can do what you want to do
throw it in the garbage can
but just say my name
yeah
yeah</nowiki></pre>

Jolene

2006-09-20T17:53:08Z

Tbboy13:

==Band Quotes==
[[Jack White]]:"With Jolene by Dolly Parton, we've always loved country music. We wanted to do a country single with Dolly on one side and Loretta [Lynn] on the other. I first heard Dolly Parton a couple years ago, and couldn't believe what a good thing she had going at one point. Then I found out later that other bands had already covered that song."

[[Jack White]]:"When I heard it - I heard that it was Dolly Pardons first single and I thought that was ah - big - ah - I don't want to say ballsy - just a courageous song for her to release as her first song - its in a minor key it kind of has this evil overtone - it comes back to me liking Loretta Lynn so much with that finger pointing at men kinda song - just layin it down the line for someone like that your really hurting my feelings - pretty interesting "

[[Jack White]]:"Both me and Meg always loved that song. It's in a minor key and almost has an evil tone to it."

==Lyrics==
<pre>
<nowiki>
jolene jolene jolene jolene
I'm begging of you, please don't take my man
jolene jolene jolene jolene
please don't take him even though you can
your beauty is beyond compare
with flaming locks of auburn hair
with ivory skin
and eyes of emerald green
your smile is like a breath of spring
and your voice is soft like a summer rain
and I cannot compete with you jolene
and he talks about you in his sleep
and there is nothing I can do to keep
from crying when he calls your name, jolene
jolene jolene jolene jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
jolene jolene jolene jolene
please don't take him even though you can
well I could easily understand
how you could easily take my man
but you don't know what he means to me jolene
well you could have your choice of men
but I could never love again
he's the only one for me jolene
and I had to have this talk with you
my happiness depends on you
and whatever you decide to do jolene
jolene jolene jolene jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
jolene jolene jolene jolene
please don't take him even though you can</nowiki></pre>